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Monday, March 5, 2012 Last Update: 10:12 PM ET

Obama Presses Netanyahu to Resist Strikes on Iran

At the White House, President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to little agreement on confronting Iran over its nuclear capabilities.

After Election, Putin Faces Challenges to Legitimacy

The campaign that resulted in Vladimir V. Putin’s victory was denounced as tilted in his favor, and thousands of protesters rallied in Moscow.

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Republican presidential candidates, Rick Santorum, left, and Mitt Romney, both held rallies in Ohio on Monday.
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Santorum Sticks to a Bare-Bones Style

On the eve of Super Tuesday, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are neck and neck in Ohio, but Mr. Santorum’s campaign still lacks the slickness of the other candidates’.

Romney and Santorum Vie for Blue-Collar Votes

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum made their final appeals to voters in Ohio and nine other states.

New iPad Signals Further Decline of PC

Analysts contend the torrid growth rates of the iPad make a changing of the guard a question of when, not if.

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Barnard and Columbia Rivalry Comes Into View

President Obama’s decision to give the commencement speech at Barnard and not Columbia, his alma mater, has unleashed nasty online exchanges.

A North Carolina Lifeline Built on Shifting Sands

Constant repairs to the road that links the islands of the Outer Banks has caused some to question the approach in the face of unrelenting erosion.

Chant, Chant, Chant for the Home Team

Nasty, boring, folkloric or funny, chants by soccer fans can create momentum, help build a rally for a goal, overwhelm an opponent or distract a referee.

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Ralph McQuarrie, Artist Who Helped Bring ‘Star Wars’ to Life, Dies at 82

Mr. McQuarrie transformed George Lucas’s rudimentary concepts and earliest scripts into lush, vivid images that became the visual core of the “Star Wars” saga.

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Philosophy by Another Name

It might have made sense in the age of Pythagoras, but the word "philosophy" no longer applies. We need a new one.

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Australia’s Changing View of the Dingo

Like the wolf in America, the dingo is a symbol that may mean one thing to hunters or sheep ranchers, and another to scientists and nature lovers.

 

Are Amateurs Able to Create a Mutant Virus?

Scientists are sharply divided over how easy it might be to make a virulent form of the bird flu virus.

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A Hidden Fee Is Set to Rise

An add-on rate known as the G-fee, or guarantee fee, will increase 10 basis points this spring.

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Hot Turbo Time Machine: Buick Races Back to ’70s

The Regal GS relies on German sport sedan virtues, rather than Detroit muscle, to shake Buick’s old-fogey blues.

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How to Practice the Reverse Peter Principle

Tracy Dolgin of the YES cable network says good leaders need to be doers and not just managers.

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