The Czech government still has some time to win its people over
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Czechs grateful to US, but many say hold the radar
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By Nicholas Kulish
THE NEW YORK TIMES
PRAGUE, Czech Republic
To understand just how divisive the proposed U.S. missile-defense radar system is here, talk to Josef Rihak. Better still, talk to both of them. Read More
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In 1977, he was convicted of second-degree murder after one of a turbulent decade's most celebrated trials
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Three decades a prisoner, at 89 he’s ready to confess
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By Sam Roberts
THE NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK
It could have been the perfect crime. A wealthy heart surgeon from Long Island injected his 48-year-old invalid wife, the mother of their six children, with a lethal dose of a painkiller. The death certificate recorded the cause as a stroke. Read More
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One of the most intriguing twists in O. J. Simpson's most recent brush with the law is that the items police say he went to retrieve actually are of little interest to most legitimate sports memorabilia collectors
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For troubled stars, a fickle memorabilia market
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By Steve Friess
THE NEW YORK TIMES
LAS VEGAS
As public and media attention refocused on the off-field life of O.J. Simpson, Kathleen McCarthy of Maple Springs, N.Y. thought it might be time to make some money off an autographed book about the football Hall of Famer that her father had found years ago. Read More
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A new wave of support for Anne Frank’s ailing tree
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By John Tagliabue
THE NEW YORK TIMES
AMSTERDAM
Sixty-two years after dying of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Anne Frank continues to haunt countless readers of her diary, with its youthful exuberance, dry humor and shattering hints of the violence that would sweep away her world. But fewer people know of the soaring chestnut tree that gave comfort to Anne while she and her family hid for more than two years during the German occupation. Read More
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"When science is politicized, it is worse than wrong," Senator Hillary Clinton said in the interview. "It is dangerous - dangerous for our democracy’’
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Clinton says she would shield science from politics
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By Patrick Healy
THE NEW YORK TIMES
In a stinging critique of Bush administration science policy, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York said Thursday that if she were elected president she would require agency directors to show they were protecting scientific research from "political pressure" and that she would lift federal limits on stem cell research. Read More
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What Sputnik meant to a kid studying science
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By Clyde Haberman
THE NEW YORK TIMES
If you were a teenager in the late 1950s, and made it into a brainy place like the Bronx High School of Science through merit or dumb luck, you might have paid more attention than most to an anniversary on Thursday. You might have remembered that 50 years ago, your world changed. Read More
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A declaration signed on Thursday by the two leaders contained projects that could build closer ties, experts said
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Korean summit results exceed low expectations
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By Norimitsu Onishi
THE NEW YORK TIMES
SEOUL, South Korea
Expectations for what could be achieved at the first summit between the two Koreas in seven years had been low. Worries that South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun, a lame duck criticized for being soft on the North, would give away too much had been high. Read More
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