WASHINGTON — The trade deficit in the United States shrank in December to its narrowest in nearly three years, the Commerce Department said Friday, and the numbers suggested that the economy did much better in the fourth quarter than initially estimated. The country’s trade gap narrowed to $38.5 billion during the month, the department said. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected a deficit...
The New Old Age Blog: The Executor's Assistant
Label: HealthI’m serving as executor for my father’s estate, a role few of us are prepared for until we’re playing it, so I was grateful when the mail brought “The American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates” — the fourth edition of a handbook the A.B.A. began publishing in 1995.This is a legal universe, I’m learning, in which every step — even with a small, simple estate that owes no taxes and includes...
The New Old Age Blog: The Executor's Assistant
Label: LifestyleI’m serving as executor for my father’s estate, a role few of us are prepared for until we’re playing it, so I was grateful when the mail brought “The American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates” — the fourth edition of a handbook the A.B.A. began publishing in 1995.This is a legal universe, I’m learning, in which every step — even with a small, simple estate that owes no taxes and includes...
Gadgetwise Blog: Q.& A.: Saving Space and Shows on a TiVo
Label: TechnologyI have a bunch of TV programs recorded on my TiVo that I don’t want to erase, but I’m running tight on drive space. Can I copy these shows elsewhere, like to a DVD?If you have the TiVo Desktop software for your Windows PC or Mac and have your TiVo recorder connected to your home network, you should be able to transfer the recorded shows to your computer and burn them to DVDs there. Shows that have...
Currents: Freedom Has Its Own Constraints
Label: WorldNEW YORK — On the surface, all they have in common is their Sunday airtime, at least in the United States. One television show is about English aristocrats, crisp, proper, well-dressed even in bed. The other is about four young women, often lost and very often unclothed, in a setting quite different from Yorkshire: Brooklyn, New York. But “Downton Abbey” and “Girls,” both hugely popular,...
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07
DealBook: Ireland to Liquidate Anglo Irish Bank
Label: BusinessLONDON – The Irish government passed emergency legislation on Thursday to liquidate Anglo Irish Bank, one of the country’s largest financial institutions.The legislation, which was signed into law after an all-night parliamentary session, came after negotiations with the European Central Bank over swapping so-called promissory notes, which were used to bail out the Irish lender in 2009, for long-term...
Well: Think Like a Doctor: A Confused and Terrified Patient
Label: HealthThe Challenge: Can you solve the mystery of a middle-aged man recovering from a serious illness who suddenly becomes frightened and confused?Every month the Diagnosis column of The New York Times Magazine asks Well readers to sift through a difficult case and solve a diagnostic riddle. Below you will find a summary of a case involving a 55-year-old man well on his way to recovering from a series of...
Well: Think Like a Doctor: A Confused and Terrified Patient
Label: LifestyleThe Challenge: Can you solve the mystery of a middle-aged man recovering from a serious illness who suddenly becomes frightened and confused?Every month the Diagnosis column of The New York Times Magazine asks Well readers to sift through a difficult case and solve a diagnostic riddle. Below you will find a summary of a case involving a 55-year-old man well on his way to recovering from a series of...
I.H.T. Special: Social Media Firms Move to Capitalize on Popularity in Middle East
Label: TechnologySuhaib Salem/ReutersEgyptian protesters look at Facebook during a demonstration in Cairo on January 14. DUBAI — For its most recent advertising push, the Saudi Arabian telecommunications giant Mobily did not turn to the street or television to engage with customers. Mobily paid to promote itself on Twitter. The use of social media exploded during the Arab Spring as people turned to cyberspace...
I.H.T. Special: Social Media Firms Move to Capitalize on Popularity in Middle East
Label: WorldSuhaib Salem/ReutersEgyptian protesters look at Facebook during a demonstration in Cairo on January 14. DUBAI — For its most recent advertising push, the Saudi Arabian telecommunications giant Mobily did not turn to the street or television to engage with customers. Mobily paid to promote itself on Twitter. The use of social media exploded during the Arab Spring as people turned to cyberspace...
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