WASHINGTON — As President Obama considers how quickly to withdraw the remaining 68,000 American troops in Afghanistan and turn over the war to Afghan security forces, a bleak new Pentagon report has found that only one of the Afghan National Army’s 23 brigades is able to operate independently without air or other military support from the United States and NATO partners. The report, released...
Browser Wars Flare Again, This Time for Phones and Tablets
Labels: TechnologyKimihiro Hoshino/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSundar Pichai of Google, which is hoping that its mobile Chrome browser can continue Chrome’s personal-computer success. SAN FRANCISCO — When Google took a video camera to Times Square in 2009 and asked passers-by what a browser is, most of the answers were hilariously incorrect, from “a search engine” to “broadband” to “Yahoo.” But even...
Global Update: Hand-Held Device Locates Hot Spots of Lead Contamination
Labels: LifestyleUsing a hand-held scanner to map hot spots where the soil is full of lead could protect children in mining towns against brain damage, scientists at Columbia University concluded in a new study. Touched to the ground, the device, an X-ray fluorescence scanner, can measure the soil’s lead content in less than a minute, said Alexander van Geen, a geochemist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty...
Global Update: Hand-Held Device Locates Hot Spots of Lead Contamination
Labels: HealthUsing a hand-held scanner to map hot spots where the soil is full of lead could protect children in mining towns against brain damage, scientists at Columbia University concluded in a new study. Touched to the ground, the device, an X-ray fluorescence scanner, can measure the soil’s lead content in less than a minute, said Alexander van Geen, a geochemist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty...
Economic Scene: Behind Tax Loopholes, Some Worthy Goals
Labels: BusinessIf there is one idea that everybody seems to agree on while peering over the fiscal cliff, it is that we should close the loopholes that riddle the tax code. It is offered as a painless way to raise money, like fixing a leak or ending some unfair privilege. But there is a problem with this consensus. Many of the things the government promotes with loopholes are truly valuable to lots...
Dec
10
Changing of the Guard: Signals of a More Open Economy in China
Labels: WorldCarlos Barria/ReutersIn November, Xi Jinping made his official debut as party chief at the 18th party congress, which military officers attended. BEIJING — In a strong signal of support for greater market-oriented economic policies, Xi Jinping, the new head of the Communist Party, made a visit over the weekend to the special economic zone of Shenzhen in south China, which has stood as a symbol of...
Many Mobile Apps for Children Fall Short on Disclosure to Parents, F.T.C. Report Says
Labels: TechnologyHundreds of mobile apps for children fail to provide parents with basic information on the kinds of sensitive information the apps collect and share about their children, said a new federal report Monday. Only 20 percent of children’s applications found on portable computers and smartphones provided disclosures about their data collection practices, according to a staff report from the Federal...
Mind: A Compromise on Defining and Diagnosing Mental Disorders
Labels: LifestyleThey plotted a revolution, fell to debating among themselves, and in the end overturned very little except their own expectations. But the effort itself was a valuable guide for anyone who has received a psychiatric diagnosis, or anyone who might get one. This month, the American Psychiatric Association announced that its board of trustees had approved the fifth edition of the association’s...
Mind: A Compromise on Defining and Diagnosing Mental Disorders
Labels: HealthThey plotted a revolution, fell to debating among themselves, and in the end overturned very little except their own expectations. But the effort itself was a valuable guide for anyone who has received a psychiatric diagnosis, or anyone who might get one. This month, the American Psychiatric Association announced that its board of trustees had approved the fifth edition of the association’s...
Dec
09
Fear of Fighting Haunts Once-Tranquil Damascus
Labels: WorldMuzaffar Salman/ReutersA portrait of President Bashar al-Assad outside the venue of a charity concert by the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra in Damascus on Nov. 21. DAMASCUS, Syria — Business has been terrible for Abu Tareq, a taxi driver, so last week, without telling his wife, he agreed to drive a man to the Damascus airport for 10 times the usual rate. But, he said later, he will not be doing...
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