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Wines of The Times A Neighborhood Prowl Through the City of Chianti
Tasting the other Chiantis besides Classico.


Youre the Boss Blog How Does an Owner Who Stepped Away Reassert Control?
Bibby Gignilliat, founder of a company that offers cooking classes as team-building events, wants to re-engage with the business to meet her long-term goals.


Chat Chow Lots of Dim Sum Feeds a Starry Career
Chris Cannon has had a long career in fine dining, and its genesis was at a simple dim sum parlor in Chinatown.


How to be Parisian a cheat sheet
Paris can be intimidating -- don't worry, says a writer who lived there for almost 20 years. Follow a few rules (actually 11) and you'll fit in.


U.S. health secretary on the hot-seat over healthcare website
Oct. 30 - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologizes for problems with the Affordable Care Act website during a hearing on Capitol Hill. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).


Revenue Slides at Martha Stewart Living, Partly From Curbing Ties to J.C. Penney
The company, which has hired Daniel W. Dienst as its next chief executive, had losses in broadcasting and publishing, where advertising revenue fell when it cut back its relationship with J. C. Penney.


Off the Menu King Cole Bar Salon Opening
The bar is set to reopen with its restored Maxfield Parrish mural and a new menu at its adjoining restaurant, the Salon; and more restaurant openings.


Studies in monkeys may be next step in search for HIV cure
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A powerful infusion of HIV-fighting antibodies beat back a potent form of the virus in monkeys and kept it at bay for weeks, U.S. government scientists and a team led by Harvard University found, offering a potential next step in the battle against human HIV.


White House Memo Where the Buck Stops, Some See a Bystander
President Obama has been under fire for his seeming detachment from significant matters, like the rollout of the health insurance website and secret spying on allied heads of state.


Sports Briefing | Soccer Tottenham Maintains Perfect Europa Record
Tottenham, the tournament favorite, ground out a 2-0 win at F.C. Sheriff of Moldova to stay undefeated in the Europa League.


Music Review Jessica Rivera, Kelly OConnor and Robert Spano at Zankel
The soprano Jessica Rivera and the mezzo Kelley OConnor recital at Zankel Hall, accompanied by Robert Spano at the piano, made for a fragrant, appetizing blend of sounds.


Vatican's 'culture minister' tweets Lou Reed song
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's 71-year-old culture minister, paid his own tribute on Monday to the late rocker Lou Reed, tweeting one of his best-known songs before clarifying he was not condoning any reference to drugs some have seen in the song.


Twitter's 'anti-Facebook' IPO tactics win over some investors
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Institutional investors who met with Twitter Inc this week say they are optimistic about its initial public offering and see little sign of the irrational exuberance that...


Youre the Boss Blog Today in Small Business Drywall Contractors
Fastest-growing small businesses. The sharing economy. Why the wedding business is booming in New Jersey.


Global Soccer In One Night, Soccer's Beauty and Ugliness on Full Display
The beauty of the strikers. The hatred of the mob. The incompatibility of a game that wants to be, and by now ought to be, beyond racial prejudice.


Sports Briefing | College Football Irishs Golson Explains His Ban
Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson said poor judgment on a test was the reason he was suspended for the fall semester.


ArtsBeat Popcast Morrissey on Morrissey
Jessica Winter of Slate and The Timess Ben Ratliff discuss the new Morrissey memoir, Autobiography.


India Ink 45 Killed in Fiery Bus Crash in South India
Initial reports suggest that negligent driving caused the accident in Mahbubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.


Sports Briefing | Golf Pettersen Keeps Lead in Sunrise Championship
Suzann Pettersen struggled with three early bogeys but recovered for a one-over-par 73 to maintain a four-shot lead after the third round of the Sunrise Championship in Taiwan.


Sports Briefing | Soccer FIFA Looks at Racism Claims
Jeffrey Webb, the head of FIFAs antiracism task force, will meet with Manchester City midfielder Yaya Tour on Sunday.


Strategies Riding Out the Political Storm
Investment strategists say its likely that long-term investors who stick to a well-thought-out plan can ride out awkward periods like the current conflict in Washington with few ill effects.


World's 15 top rivers for travelers
They irrigate our farms, they're an important means of transport, they're a source of eco-friendly power. But rivers are often best for their amazing travel experiences.


Facebook smashes analyst targets but executive comments spook Street
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc posted strong growth in its mobile advertising business on Wednesday but rattled investors after saying that it did not plan to boost the frequency of ads shown to users.


Trichet Europe's new challenge
CNN's Nina Dos Santos asks the former president of ECB, Jean-Claude Trichet, where he thinks Europe's recovery stands.


Solar charity takes aim at Africa's kerosene lamps
Sept. 24 - Non-profit groups aiming to replace Africa's deadly kerosene lamps with safe, solar alternatives say their campaign is gaining momentum. The award-winning Solaraid project says the dangerous lamps could be eliminated from the continent by 2020. Jim Drury has more.


Googly for Guinness - new record for most googly eye glasses
October 28 - Children set a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing googly eye glasses.Sharon Reich reports.


Seeking dark matter, a mile below Earth
A mile down in an old gold mine in South Dakota, physicists in a state-of-the-art lab are searching for their version of gold -- the elusive "dark matter."


Dream Chaser space taxi debuts in California skies
Oct. 29 - A privately owned prototype space plane aces its debut test flight in California but runs into landing problems on the runway. Nathan Frandino reports.


Sports Briefing | Tennis Li to Face Kvitova in Semifinals
Li Na reached the semifinals of the WTA Championships in Istanbul with a victory over Victoria Azarenka, who was wincing in pain from a back injury.


Barrick Chile mine workers set to strike, say would delay project
* Workers poised to strike after rejecting contract proposal


The Learning Network Blog Test Yourself | Math, Oct. 30, 2013
Can you interpret a graph to find the period of greatest change for the price of Google stock?


Leve des Conflits Extended
Dancers performed the work by the French choreographer Boris Charmatz, in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art.


Well Quit Smoking? Its Probably Monday
Researchers monitored Google search queries from 2008 to 2012 in English, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Almost every week, queries about smoking cessation peaked on Mondays.


UPDATE 1-White House faces tough sell in Congress on delay of Iran sanctions
WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Top Obama administration officials have been pushing U.S. lawmakers hard to hold off on new sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, but some key lawmakers said on...


The weirdest things recently found on Mars
Mars is a crazy place. In recent years we've discovered some of the strangest things on the Red Planet ice spiders, Swiss cheese terrain, and perfectly spiral-shaped lava tubes.


U.S. Publisher Said to Have Acquired Morrissey Autobiography
People involved in the negotiations said an imprint of Penguin Random House would release the singers memoirs, already a success in his native Britain.


Op-Ed Columnist A Bold Bid for Better Schools
One Western states proposed school overhaul has created a model patch of common ground. Will voters go for it?


Bombs blasts in Russia's volatile North Caucasus kill two
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Bomb blasts in shops in Russia's volatile North Caucasus province of Dagestan killed two people and injured 15 others on Wednesday, Itar-Tass quoted the Emergencies Ministry as saying.


Worries grow for Brazil
Brazil's preparations for the 2014 World Cup suffered a setback Wednesday after a judge halted construction work at a tournament venue.


Well Everyday Jet Lag
How sleeping against type can affect your health.


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