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Tentative Deal Reached to Preserve Cut in Payroll Tax

Republicans and Democrats both claimed a measure of victory as the tax reduction was extended without spending cuts to pay for it.

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Economic Growth Gives Lift to Obama in New Poll

President Obama’s approval rating reached the 50 percent mark, while Republican voters expressed a desire for more alternatives in their race, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

With Edge, U.S. Greets China’s Heir Apparent

China’s vice president, Xi Jinping, was met in the U.S. with blunt criticism from Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who declared that the United States and China could cooperate “only if the game is fair.”

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Syria Resumes Shelling, Rejecting U.N. Rebuke

Syria’s military resumed what one activist called the “brutal shelling” in Homs.

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The Knicks' Jeremy Lin drove to the basket against the Raptors in Toronto on Tuesday. Lin sank the game-winner with .05 seconds to play.
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Knicks 90, Raptors 87

At the Buzzer, It’s All Lin

Another chapter in the legend of Jeremy Lin was written with a game-winning 3-pointer against the Raptors that brought the Knicks to a 6-game winning streak.

Hip Implant Rejected by F.D.A. Was Sold Abroad

Johnson & Johnson recalled the artificial hip in 2010 after data showed a disturbingly high failure rate.

Out of Office, but Not Out of Things to Say

Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, has retained influence as a lawyer and newspaper columnist.

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Portugal’s Debt Efforts May Be Warning for Greece

Despite meeting terms for bailout money, Portugal is going deeper into debt because its economy is shrinking.

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Affluent, Born Abroad and Choosing Public Schools

A large majority of wealthy foreign-born New Yorkers are sending their children to public schools in the city.

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Seth Casteel's photos of goofy, gangly and bug-eyed pups - teeth bared in dogged pursuit of plastic ball or some phantom prey - are quickly gaining the Internet's stamp of approval.

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Let’s Move, She Said — and We Have

Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity has prompted legislation and begun to change how food companies do business.

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Mahler Is O.K., but Gustavo, He’s Amazing

The conductor Gustavo Dudamel of the Los Angeles Philharmonic brings that orchestra to Venezuela, his native country.

 

A Colossus in Clay Speaks a Generation’s Message

Adrián Villar Rojas’s work is among the showstoppers at the New Museum’s Triennial.

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Loan Terms Made to Order

More borrowers are opting for fixed-rate loans with terms other than the standard 30 or 15 years, especially when it comes to refinancings.

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The British Are Coming

Richard Hammond, the boyish third of the cast of the BBC’s car-obsessed “Top Gear,” is bringing a new show to America.

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You Can’t Find the Future in the Archives

Harry West of Continuum, an innovation design consulting firm, says the pictures in your office lobby may tell the world about the business you were in, but not about the business you can become.

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