President Obama, after meeting with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, said Friday that the United States would be able to accelerate the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in coming months because of gains made by Afghan security forces.As the Times’s Mark Landler reported, Mr. Obama also made it clear that he contemplated leaving relatively few troops in Afghanistan after the NATO combat...
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Dealing With Duplicate Work on Dropbox
Labels: TechnologyWhat happens if two people work on the same file at the same time in a shared Dropbox folder? Does one copy of the file overwrite the other?If two people are editing the same file at the same time, Dropbox saves both versions of the file in the shared folder. The service does not merge the two different files, but adds the words “conflicted copy” to the file name of the second version so it is obvious...
Doctor and Patient: When the Doctor Returns to Doctoring
Labels: LifestyleSeveral years ago, a highly respected medical expert I had just met shared a little-known detail of his illustrious career: as a young doctor, he had stopped practicing medicine for a few years to homeschool his son.His revelation took me completely by surprise. Doctors rarely talked about taking time off for fear that colleagues would assume them incompetent or in possession of some serious personal...
Doctor and Patient: When the Doctor Returns to Doctoring
Labels: HealthSeveral years ago, a highly respected medical expert I had just met shared a little-known detail of his illustrious career: as a young doctor, he had stopped practicing medicine for a few years to homeschool his son.His revelation took me completely by surprise. Doctors rarely talked about taking time off for fear that colleagues would assume them incompetent or in possession of some serious personal...
France Near Deal to Simplify Labor Regulations
Labels: BusinessPARIS — French labor unions and business leaders appeared close to striking a deal Friday to make it easier to hire and fire employees in France’s notoriously rigid labor market. An accord would tame some of the most confounding rules in the 3,200-page labor code, as the country tries to increase its competitiveness and curb unemployment. After weeks of sparring among the five major labor...
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Blasts in Pakistan Kill at Least 88 and Raise Fears Over Elections
Labels: WorldWaheed Khan/European Pressphoto AgencyThe worst violence was concentrated in the southwestern city of Quetta, where two explosions killed at least 57 people and wounded more than 110, the police said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Bomb blasts in two Pakistani cities killed at least 88 people on Thursday and wounded more than 270, offering harrowing evidence of how the country’s myriad internal conflicts...
2 Years Into Its Turnaround, Nokia Shows Promise
Labels: TechnologyBERLIN — Nearly two years ago, Stephen Elop, fresh from a senior post at Microsoft, spoke of flaming ocean platforms and shark-infested waters to describe the competitive climate he inherited at Nokia, the erstwhile leader in mobile phones that was then teetering on the brink of irrelevance. Mr. Elop, an affable Canadian engineer, painted the bleak outlook as he prescribed a radical cure...
City Room: How Are You Warding Off the Flu?
Labels: LifestyleSure, you could go out and get a flu shot like everyone keeps telling you to do. It’s relatively cheap, and available just about everywhere.But the shot is not 100 percent effective. And it takes two weeks to kick in. Although influenza can be deadly, some have been making light of the virus’s symptoms.On the bright side, having the flu was a great start to my spring break diet.. eating nothing and...
City Room: How Are You Warding Off the Flu?
Labels: HealthSure, you could go out and get a flu shot like everyone keeps telling you to do. It’s relatively cheap, and available just about everywhere.But the shot is not 100 percent effective. And it takes two weeks to kick in. Although influenza can be deadly, some have been making light of the virus’s symptoms.On the bright side, having the flu was a great start to my spring break diet.. eating nothing and...
Sharp Words From European Minister for Countries in North
Labels: BusinessBRUSSELS — Jean-Claude Juncker, the departing leader of the group of ministers who oversee the euro currency, sharply criticized northern Europeans on Thursday for demanding austerity budgets from their southern neighbors. But in the same speech he seemed to endorse as his successor an official from the Netherlands, one of countries that has made the toughest demands for fiscal rigor...
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