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Design Notebook House Haunters
For designers who specialize in haunted houses, its high season. What scares them is how little time there is to furnish the home of your nightmares.


German confidence in U.S. 'shaken'
Germany's interior minister says U.S. spies "broke German law on German soil" if they monitored Chancellor Merkel's phone.


8 States Teaming Up to Support Electric Cars
California, New York and six other states said they would work jointly to adopt a range of measures to make it easier to own an electric car.


Contractors Describe Limited Testing of Insurance Web Site
Democrats and Republicans were united in expressing anger and dismay over failures with the Oct. 1 opening of the online health insurance exchange.


U.S. ski team's big expectations
Christina Macfarlane explores the team's prospects at the Winter World Cup as top skiers return.


3D printing enters metal age
3D printers are revolutionizing the way we make things using plastic, well now their being developed to print in metal.


Currents | Events Eating in a Most Peculiar Way
The conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll will introduce her Ground Control chair at a dinner party in Houston.


Whats on Friday
Television highlights.


Dance Review Boris Charmatzs Leve des Conflits Extended at MoMA
In Leve des Conflits Extended (Suspension of Conflicts Extended), 24 dancers are cycling through a sequence, whose core concept is mathematical.


Living With Cancer Brains on Chemo
Forgetfulness, trouble concentrating and word loss are common manifestations of the condition known as chemo brain. For many cancer patients (and the people who love them), this can be a mystifying experience, writes Susan Gubar.


ArtsBeat Lincoln Center to Expand Discount Ticket Sales
The box office at the David Rubenstein Atrium will sell discount tickets to a weeks worth of events at New York City Center, the 92nd Street Y, Merkin Concert Hall and Miller Theater.


China cabinet lowers administrative barriers for starting new firms
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has eliminated some registered capital requirements for establishing new companies, the government said on Sunday, in a move to support long-term growth by cutting red tape and supporting small businesses.


Tribal beauty Vanishing way of life
As teenagers, the women of the Ethiopian Mursi tribe pierce their lower lips and put a clay plate in it. They are one of the last tribes in the world who still practice this tradition and the new generation, influenced by the outside world, might decide to abandon it.


iPhone's fingerprint sensor works for dogs
You'll have to be doggedly clever to unlock Mike Linden's new iPhone 5S.


Inside the Walls of Fez
Relying on instinct, hospitality and a bit of technology, the author discovers the rewards of exploring the Moroccan citys medina without a guide.


Price Career is dream come true
The pro golfer on becoming the International Captain at the 2013 Presidents Cup and trying to beat the American's winning streak.


Obama says U.S. and Pakistan have strong "people to people" connections
Oct. 23 - President Barack Obama says he hopes that strong "people to people connections" between Americans and Pakistanis will be reflected in their two governments, despite occasional "tensions". Rough Cut (no reporter narration).


"Bad Grandpa" stronger than "Gravity" in weekend box office sales
Oct. 27 - "Bad Grandpa" - a spinoff from the "Jackass" movies - kicks space thriller "Gravity" from the top spot at the box office with $32 million in ticket sales. Gavino Garay reports.


Syrian man in Tom Hanks-like limbo at Dubai airport
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Syrian man has been stranded at Dubai airport for 16 days in a case with echoes of the Tom Hanks film "The Terminal".


Syria submits plan to destroy its chemical weapons - OPCW
BEIRUT, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Syria has submitted a declaration of its chemical weapons programme and a plan to eliminate them to the world's chemical weapons watchdog, the organisation said on Sunday, meeting the first major deadline of the destruction plan.


Overnighter My West Coast Marthas Vineyard
The Point Reyes area, north of San Francisco, strikes the author as similar to the Massachusetts island only better.


Plundering Science, Bone by Bone
Fossil poachers have become a major problem for paleontologists, wreaking havoc on the sites of dinosaur remains.


Letters Revising Obamacare
A reader responds to Obamacare, Retooled (Economic View, Oct. 20).


Guthrie, Cabrera-Bello Tied for Lead in Shanghai
Luke Guthrie stumbled at the end of the third round Saturday and wound up tied for the lead with Rafa Cabrera-Bello in the BMW Masters.


The origami kayak
Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, is believed to date back as far as the 17th century. Traditionally done with a single sheet of paper, its elegant principles have come to influence package design, mathematics and -- more recently -- an unusual new folding kayak.


T Magazine On View | Sophie Calle Mounts an Exhibition of Missing Art
Last Seen, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a meditation on the theft from that institution of 13 works more than two decades ago.


White House says 'Obamacare' website will be fixed by end of November
Oct 25 (Reuters) - The White House official brought in to fix the U.S. government website created to enable Americans to buy insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law said on Friday that healthcare.gov will be working smoothly for most users by the end of November.


Israel dismisses reports Iran halting higher-grade enrichment
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Saturday dismissed as "irrelevant" reports that Iran had halted its most sensitive uranium enrichment activity, and said Tehran's nuclear program must be dismantled.


Man Group ends run of client exits with $700 million net inflow
LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge fund firm Man Group ended two years of client withdrawals with a surprise inflow of new money in the third quarter, helped by strong performance from its stock-picking GLG...


Week 8 Matchup Jets (4-3) at Bengals (5-2)
No receiver in the A.F.C. has had more passes thrown his way (78) than A.J. Green, whom the Jets consider the best in the conference.


In Response to Storm, New York Will Create a Gas Reserve
The pilot program, which will cost $10 million, was started to prevent shortages like the one that affected the region during Hurricane Sandy last year.


Advertising Winning Sports Fans Hearts by Giving Them Somewhere to Go
Procter Gamble is transporting trailers with about 20 restrooms stocked with the companys Charmin toilet paper to N.F.L. stadiums for pregame revelers to use.


Ruling Lets Times Co. Complete Globe Sale
The completion of the sale to John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox, had been held up by a lawsuit involving the Worcester, Mass., paper.


QA With iOS 7 Upgrade, Podcasts Move to an Apple App
Questions about Apples new Podcasts app, and how Google is able to read your mind.


Paul McCartney can't slow down
Paul McCartney has never dwelled in yesterday, even if he remembers it quite well. At 71, he's just released his 24th post-Beatles album, "New," and is generating music at a pace that puts artists a quarter of his age to shame. And in a remarkably candid cover story by Rolling Stone contributing editor Jonah Weiner (on newsstands Friday October 25) McCartney discusses the drive that keeps him creating fresh music as well as the memories of his Beatles bandmates that continue to shape his life today.


Ryder Cup 2014 David vs. Goliath?
If it were a heavyweight boxing contest it would probably be ruled a mismatch -- the journeyman's champion up against one of golf's greatest legends. The 2014 Ryder Cup captaincy clash is a classic story waiting to happen.


Argentina urges U.S. court to not lift stay in bondholder case
NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Argentina urged a U.S. appeals court on Friday not to lift a hold on an order requiring it to pay $1.33 billion to bondholders who are suing for repayment following the...


Saudi women break driving ban, defying warnings - campaigners
RIYADH, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A few women filmed themselves driving in Saudi cities on Saturday, defying government warnings of arrest and prosecution to take part in a campaign against men-only road rules, activists said.


RPT-Key U.S. official faces grilling over how Obamacare website became fiasco
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Two months before the troubled Oct. 1 launch of Obamacare exchanges, a key administration official overseeing the program assured a congressional oversight panel that work was on track to roll out a tested website that would make it easy for Americans to enroll in affordable health insurance coverage.


BoE's Tucker warns of risks from non-banks
LONDON (Reuters) - Securities regulators in Britain and elsewhere need to do a better job of regulating hedge funds and so-called shadow banks, Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker said in an...


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