WORLD News Analysis By IAN JOHNSON and MICHAEL WINES North Korea's unending appetite for confrontation has complicated relations with China, its supposed patron. By MARK McDONALD To many residents of the South Korean capital, the North's violent attack on a distant, tiny island seemed largely contained and unthreatening. By JONATHAN HUTCHISON Authorities say a second explosion in a New Zealand coal mine would have killed any of the 29 miners who survived the first blast. U.S. By ERIK ECKHOLM Twenty-nine people were charged with drawing girls into prostitution over the last decade. By KATIE ZEZIMA The full-body scanner being used in many airports was developed 30 years ago, and right from the beginning there were those who did not care for it. By JAD MOUAWAD After fees, disappearing amenities, higher fares and full flights, fliers may find tougher security the last straw. POLITICS By JACKIE CALMES and MICHAEL D. SHEAR Interviews continue for candidates to replace Lawrence H. Summers as head of the National Economic Council. By HELENE COOPER "We're coming back. We're on the move," the president told autoworkers in Kokomo, Ind. By DAVID M. HALBFINGER Representative Charles B. Rangel distributed groceries in Harlem while awaiting a vote on ethics violations. BUSINESS DealBook By PETER LATTMAN and AZAM AHMED The subpoenas came a day after F.B.I. agents raided three hedge funds as part of an accelerating investigation into insider trading on Wall Street. By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF A federal jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in damages in its copyright infringement case. By SEWELL CHAN The Federal Reserve has debated setting a formal inflation target, as well as press briefings to explain its decision-making, minutes of recent meetings show. TECHNOLOGY By BENEDICT CAREY Patients can experience and work through social challenges without real-world consequences. By NATASHA SINGER A complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission says that QualityHealth and similar sites offer users medical information, but don't make it clear that personal data is used for drug marketing. By LAURIE J. FLYNN Revenue rose 8 percent, to $33.3 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $30.8 billion in the period a year ago. SPORTS By ALAN SCHWARZ Despite the N.F.L.'s threats to suspend players for helmet-to-helmet tackles, almost every head-on-head collision remains not just condoned but also part of football. By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT The agent Scott Boras told Yahoo Sports his company's loans to a Dominican prospect were within the rules set out by baseball's players union. By KATIE THOMAS As the N.C.A.A. investigates the recruitment of Cam Newton, Auburn's star quarterback, a central figure in the unfolding story is his father, Cecil Newton, and the Georgia church he runs. ARTS Opera Review By ANTHONY TOMMASINI The Metropolitan Opera has to be pleased, overall, with its new staging by the eminent English director Nicholas Hytner in his company debut. By PATRICK HEALY The creators of the delayed "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the most expensive show in Broadway history, say they can see it taking shape. But time is running out. Critic's Notebook By JON CARAMANICA Nicki Minaj's new album, "Pink Friday," disappoints, while with "Cannibal" Kesha threatens to become the most influential female rapper of the day, or at least the most popular. NEW YORK / REGION By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ and SHARON OTTERMAN New York State's education commissioner will reject Cathleen P. Black as head of city schools unless an official with education experience is her deputy. By FERNANDA SANTOS News Corporation is buying Wireless Generation, a Brooklyn education technology company that in part helps New York City evaluate its schools. By MICHAEL BARBARO Governor-elect Andrew M. Cuomo was listed in People's 50-and-over cohort of the sexiest men alive. DINING & WINE By OLIVER STRAND and JOE DiSTEFANO Increasingly, the ingredients that chefs are seeking out are not the ones everyone can order; they're the ones few have ever heard of. De Gustibus By FRANK BRUNI In these food-mad times, have the economically privileged among us gone too far in turning simple acts of nourishment into complicated rituals? Restaurant Review | Lincoln Ristorante By SAM SIFTON At Lincoln Center, Jonathan Benno and the Patina Group built a place in which one can eat well without really having a good time. But golly, is some of the food good. EDITORIALS Editorial The international community - above all China - has to quickly come up with a strategy for reeling in North Korea. Editorial Conservative attacks on the Obama administration for trying too hard to protect America from terrorists are a remarkable spectacle of contortion. Editorial If there is any hope of repealing the military's discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy, legislative action must begin immediately. Editorial Unless countries protect their existing populations of tigers and crack down on the international trade in tiger parts, the animals will go extinct. OP-ED Op-Ed Contributor By DAVID D. HALL Nathaniel Hawthorne's portrait of progressive Pilgrims was unfair and inaccurate. Op-Ed Columnist By MAUREEN DOWD The Great Game is now about conning the Americans who have come to help. Op-Ed Columnist By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN What does texting have to do with the unemployment rate? The connection is surprising. Op-Ed Contributor By GEORGE LARDNER Jr. Why has the president been so unwilling to use his pardon power? ON THIS DAY On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy. |
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