WASHINGTON — Only the most affluent American households would pay higher income taxes this year under the terms of a deal that passed the Senate early Tuesday morning, but most households would face higher payroll taxes because the deal does not extend a two-year-old tax break. The legislation, which still must overcome resistance exhibited on Tuesday by House Republicans, would grant most...
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Rape Incites Women to Fight Culture in India
Label: WorldAndrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA candlelight gathering after the cremation on Sunday blocked a road in New Delhi, the city where the Dec. 16 rape occurred. NEW DELHI — Neha Kaul Mehra says she was only 7 years old the first time she was sexually harassed. She was walking to a dance class in an affluent neighborhood of New Delhi when a man confronted her and began openly...
Science Topics Find an Audience in Social Media
Label: TechnologyThe largest and most sophisticated rover landed safely on Mars and the world’s most famous Moon visitor died, but the space event that most captured the public’s imagination in 2012 involved a journey to Earth. On Oct. 14, YouTube counted 52 million streams of the Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic, record-breaking jump from a balloon 24 miles above the New Mexico desert. YouTube...
Well: Managing Diabetes, Then Told of Cancer
Label: LifestyleNine years ago, Brenda Gray, a former schoolteacher in North Carolina, discovered she had Type 2 diabetes.Since then, she has learned to manage the disease, diligently taking her medicine and keeping tabs on her blood sugar. But in September, she was told she had skin cancer, and her diabetes spun out of control.Ms. Gray started an aggressive course of treatment that included radiation therapy. But...
Well: Managing Diabetes, Then Told of Cancer
Label: HealthNine years ago, Brenda Gray, a former schoolteacher in North Carolina, discovered she had Type 2 diabetes.Since then, she has learned to manage the disease, diligently taking her medicine and keeping tabs on her blood sugar. But in September, she was told she had skin cancer, and her diabetes spun out of control.Ms. Gray started an aggressive course of treatment that included radiation therapy. But...
A Year of Market Gains, Despite Political Turmoil
Label: BusinessA year ago, some thought 2012 was destined to be the year that the euro zone — and maybe even the entire European Union — broke up. The banks that supported their governments, and that in turn depended on those same governments for bailouts if they went broke, were deemed to be particularly vulnerable to disaster. It did not happen, and while the euro zone countries hardly solved their...
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Cold-Weather Aid Trickles Into Afghan Camps
Label: World But camp leaders and Afghan government officials criticized the aid delivery as inadequate to protect residents from the weather and to prevent more deaths. Last winter, more than 100 children died of the cold in refugee camps around Kabul, with 26 dying in the Charahi Qambar camp alone. That is the same camp where the 3-year-old died on Friday; it was the first confirmed death because of...
YouTube Ban Lifted in Pakistan, for 3 Minutes
Label: TechnologyISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A ban on YouTube, which Pakistan imposed after an anti-Islam video caused riots in much of the Muslim world, was lifted Saturday, only to be reinstated — after three minutes — when it was discovered that blasphemous material was still available on the site. After months of criticism of the ban, the government decided to allow Pakistanis to have access to YouTube again,...
Well: Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain
Label: LifestyleAnyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests that we are clever today in part because a million years ago, we could outrun and outwalk most other mammals over long distances. Our brains were shaped and sharpened by movement, the idea goes, and we continue to require regular physical activity in order for...
Well: Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain
Label: HealthAnyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests that we are clever today in part because a million years ago, we could outrun and outwalk most other mammals over long distances. Our brains were shaped and sharpened by movement, the idea goes, and we continue to require regular physical activity in order for...
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