THE NEW YORK TIMES

Lower Manhattan: Rising from the ashes

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A decade after the September 11 attacks enveloped Lower Manhattan in a thick gray dust of pulverized buildings and human remains, the surrounding area has become a trendy neighbourhood with a booming population.

One Sperm Donor: Too Many Children

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With the number of children born through artificial insemination increasing, many young people are discovering that they have several or even dozens of half-siblings around the world. The New York Times has reported the case of one sperm donor who fathered 150 children.
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AT&T, T-Mobile: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

AT&T's embarrassing debacle of pursing a merger with T-Mobile USA and posturing like federal regulatory approval was a given is public evidence of what others have quietly mused behind the scenes for some time -- that the telecommunications company is facing big internal problems.
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Tech Wrap: AT&T Preps Plan to Salvage T-Mobile Deal

AT&T was expected to soon present a two-track plan that allows the company to try to find a settlement before the government lawsuit to block its planned $39 billion acquisition of smaller rival T-Mobile USA reaches the court. Details of AT&T’s proposed settlement were not available, but it is expected to include pledges to maintain T-Mobile’s relatively cheap mobile subscription plans, and asset sales.
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U.S. Postal Service Nearing Default; Agency Pleading to Congress for Help

If Congress doesn't deal with problems facing the United States Postal Service when legislators return Sept. 6 from recess America's mail institution will likely default on a $5.5 billion payment due at the end of this month and likely have to shut down this winter, the postmaster general said.
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Kindle Direct Publishing: Secrets to Success (John Locke Story)

Self-published author John Locke, who built a large audience selling digital books and became the second independent writer to sell one million books through Kindle, has a few lessons to teach you, if you want to try and follow in his bestselling footsteps by tackling Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.
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John Locke Author: Secrets to Self-Publishing Success

Self-pubilshed author John Locke, who built a large audience selling digital books and become the second independent writer to sell one million books through Kindle has a few lessons to teach you, if you want to try and follow in his footsteps.
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Documents Show Links Between CIA, Libya Spy Unit

Documents found in Tripoli detail close ties between the CIA and Libya's intelligence service and suggest the United States sent terrorism suspects for questioning in Libya despite that country's reputation for torture, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Wikileaks Iraq: U.S. Troops May Have Executed Civilians

One of the diplomatic cables recently released by Wikileaks offers new evidence that American troops massacred 10 handcuffed Iraqi civilians and destroyed the evidence with an airstrike -- charges that the U.S. military has categorically denied.

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