Seeking Unity, Obama Feels Pull of Racial Divide

Seeded on Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:28 AM EST (The New York Times)

Barack Obama had hoped to be above racial tensions, but his campaign has been pulled into the thick of them from early on.

us, race, politics, civil-rights, blacks, barack-obama, al-sharpton, nytimes, endorsements, john-lewis

Michelle, Maria, Caroline and Oprah on the Hustings in California

Seeded on Mon Feb 4, 2008 7:07 AM EST (The New York Times)

Four extraordinary women put on the best campaign rally I've seen in 20 years of covering presidential politics.

oprah-winfrey, opinion, nytimes, presidential-election-of-2008, michelle-obama, caroline-kennedy-schlossberg

The Caucus: Oprah's Back

Seeded on Fri Feb 1, 2008 9:27 PM EST (The New York Times)

On Sunday, Oprah Winfrey is returning to the presidential campaign trail to headline a California event for Senator Barack Obama.

barack-obama, oprah-winfrey, nytimes

Germany Confronts Holocaust Legacy Anew

Seeded on Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:22 AM EST (The New York Times)

Wednesday is the 75th anniversary of the day Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in Germany, and the occasion has prompted yet a new round of soul-searching.

germany, europe, world, nytimes, nazi-policies-toward-jews-and-minorities

In the Fatosphere, Big Is in, or at Least Accepted

Seeded on Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:13 AM EST (The New York Times)

Rebels in a get-thin world are blogging away at the mainstream.

health, obesity, weight, nytimes, diet-and-nutrition, medicine-and-health, blogs-and-blogging-internet

Overseas Investors Buy Aggressively in U.S.

Seeded on Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:24 PM EST (The New York Times)

Foreign investors are buying at a record pace, taking advantage of American duress and a weak dollar.

business, nytimes, foreign-investments, economic-conditions-and-trends, united-states-economy, international-trade-and-world-market, recession-and-depression, sovereign-wealth-funds

Google Offers a Map for Its Philanthropy

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:15 AM EST (The New York Times)

Google will spend up to $175 million in its first round of grants and investments over the next three years, officials said.

technology, google-inc, philanthropy, nytimes

Antidepressant Studies Unpublished

Seeded on Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:13 AM EST (The New York Times)

The makers of some antidepressants never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, a new study suggests.

health, research, nytimes, new-england-journal-of-medicine, antidepressants, medicine-and-health, depression-mental, drugs-pharmaceuticals, tests-and-testing

Congestion and Other Terminal Illnesses

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:57 PM EST (The New York Times)

These days, the competition is intense for the title of "worst airport."

travel, europe, airports, nytimes, travel-and-vacations, airlines-and-airplanes

Applications to Colleges Are Breaking Records

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:41 PM EST (The New York Times)

With numbers of college applications reaching new heights this year, promising another season of high rejection rates and dashed hopes for many more students.

education, harvard-university, princeton-university, nytimes, education-and-schools, colleges-and-universities, university-of-virginia, admissions-standards

Facebook asked to remove \'\'Scrabulous\'\'

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:51 AM EST (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) - The makers of word game Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove its popular online version \'\'Scrabulous,\'\' which they say infringes their copyright. The U.S. and Canada rights to Scrabble are owned by Hasbro,, the world\'s...

reuters, world-news

A Library Exhibition Not for the Children's Room

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:13 AM EST (The New York Times)

"Hell at the Library, Eros in Secret," which opened at the National Library in Paris last month, offers a peek at its secret archive of erotic art.

art, design, arts, nytimes, libraries-and-librarians, paris-france

From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year

Seeded on Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:47 PM EST (The New York Times)

Markus Frind's site, Plenty of Fish, is angling for visitors, not Web design awards.

business, entrepreneurship, nytimes, computers-and-the-internet, dating-social, plenty-of-fish, markus-frind

A Bookworm's Holiday

Seeded on Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:33 PM EST (The New York Times)

A bleak winter weekend is a great time to haunt the city's libraries, when they seem to serve almost as much as museums and performance halls as repositories of the written word.

travel, new-york-city, nytimes, travel-and-vacations, libraries-and-librarians

Same Old Electronics Show, With Some Intriguing New Ideas

Seeded on Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:34 AM EST (The New York Times)

This year's Consumer Electronics Show looked and felt much the same as last year's.

technology, electronics, cameras, international-consumer-electronics-show, nytimes, computers-and-the-internet, personaltech

The City Doesn't Drop the Ball

Seeded on Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:00 PM EST (The New York Times)

As a visitor, you can't waste away a New York day in bed. With no "open New Year's Day" symbol in guidebooks, Citysearch or the Zagat Survey, here are a few suggestions.

travel, new-york-city, nytimes, travel-and-vacations

The Hangover That Lasts

Seeded on Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:51 PM EST (The New York Times)

The more we have binged on alcohol — and the younger we have started to binge — the more we experience significant, though often subtle, effects on the brain and cognition.

brain, opinion, nytimes, alcohol-abuse

Threat in Maine, the Whitest State, Shakes Local N.A.A.C.P.

Seeded on Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:44 AM EST (The New York Times)

The N.A.A.C.P. chapter for northern Maine began to hold its meetings at police stations after a man from a nearby town threatened to shoot "any and all black persons" attending the group's meetings.

us, race, blacks, maine, nytimes, threats-and-threatening-messages

A Celebration of the New Year Ushers in a Bit of Japan

Seeded on Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:40 AM EST (The New York Times)

In Japan, New Year celebrations are not complete without osechi-ryori, traditional foods that are invested with symbolism.

japan, new-year, dining, nytimes, cooking-and-cookbooks

Late Library Books Can Take Toll on Credit Scores

Seeded on Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:30 AM EST (The New York Times)

The Queens Library system often flexes its muscles in collecting overdue books and late fees.

credit, nytimes, queens-nyc, nyregion, libraries-and-librarians, queens-borough-public-library

Little Love Among Matchmakers

Seeded on Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:56 PM EST (The New York Times)

The online dating service Chemistry.com plans to unleash a new advertising campaign that seeks to depict its competitor, eHarmony.com, as out of touch with mainstream American values.

media, business, iac-interactivecorp, nytimes, eharmony-com, match-com, computers-and-the-internet, advertising-and-marketing, dating-social, chemistry-com