الاثنين، 14 فبراير 2011

Afternoon Update: Obama Budget Reflects a Cut-and-Invest Agenda

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Obama Budget Reflects a Cut-and-Invest Agenda

By JACKIE CALMES

The 2012 budget, which projects an annual deficit of more than $1 trillion, cuts some spending to free up funds for initiatives meant to improve competitiveness.

Aid Cuts Have Texas Schools Scrambling to Find Cash

By JAMES C. McKINLEY

Superintendents are bracing for the largest cuts to public education since World War II.

Moncler Grenoble Show Takes Over Grand Central

By GUY TREBAY

The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal becomes the scene of an elaborately organized showing on Sunday evening.

Egypt's Ruling Generals Meet With Opposition

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ANTHONY SHADID

The Egyptian military moved to clear the last protesters from Tahrir Square on Monday, news reports said, as the armed forces consolidated their control over what it has called a democratic transition.

Iranian Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters

By ALAN COWELL

Hundreds of black-clad riot police officers deployed in key locations in central Tehran on Monday to thwart an opposition march in solidarity with the uprising in Egypt.

Multimedia

Video: TimesCast

Unrest reignites across the Middle East; Egypt's military proposes reforms; and when will the tourists return to the pyramids?

Opinion

Room For Debate

The 'Two or More Races' Dilemma

Opponents of the Education Department's new mixed-race categories say they are discriminatory. Are they?

BUSINESS

Signs of Trouble as G-20 Ministers Prepare to Meet

By LIZ ALDERMAN

Volatile capital flows, exchange rate pressures and rapidly growing foreign-exchange reserves have been gathering new momentum in emerging markets, threatening a new financial crisis.

Drumming Up More Internet Addresses

By LAURIE J. FLYNN

When Vint Cerf decided in 1977 to allocate 4.3 billion addresses for the Internet, it seemed like plenty. Now they're almost all used up.

Itineraries

After a Year of Disruptions, Seeing Value in Travel Insurance

By JOE SHARKEY

The snowstorms, ash clouds and civil unrest over the last year has caused more people to buy travel insurance.

Smarter Than You Think

A Fight to Win the Future: Computers vs. Humans

By JOHN MARKOFF

As it becomes possible to design computers that dispense with humans, the impact could be significant.

G.M. Workers to Get $189 Million in Profit Sharing

By NICK BUNKLEY

General Motors said the payments, worth "upwards of $4,000" for hourly workers, were the largest profit-sharing checks in the automaker's history.

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