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Date: 25 November 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Kate Zernike, Anne Barnard and others.
Le 25 novembre 2014 était un mardi sous le signe astral du ♐. C'était le 328ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était Barack Obama.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 11 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le mardi 25 novembre 2025, il y a 184 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le mercredi 25 novembre 2026, dans 180 jours. Vous avez vécu 4 202 jours, soit environ 100 871 heures, ou environ 6 052 308 minutes, ou environ 363 138 480 secondes.
Date: 25 November 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Kate Zernike, Anne Barnard and others.
Date: 26 November 2014
By JESS MACY YU
Jess YU
Sprouts produced at a site on the southern outskirts of Beijing were treated with high levels of 6-benzyladenine, a plant hormone, to speed up the growth cycle and make them more attractive to buyers, The Beijing News reported.
Date: 25 November 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Following the events the day and evening after the release of the grand jury decision in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Mo.
Date: 26 November 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
More arrests were made overnight as protests also spread around the country. In an effort to quell violence in Ferguson, Missouri officials deployed additional National Guard troops.
Date: 26 November 2014
By RAVI SOMAIYA
Ravi SOMAIYA
First Look Media, news company started by Pierre M Omidyar, says it abandons plans to publish online magazine The Racket, and will lay off most of its staff; magazine was to be run by writer Matt Taibbi.
Date: 25 November 2014
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW
Didi TATLOW
Hundreds of millions of people who smoke in China may face much tougher rules in the future, as draft regulations banning smoking in all indoor public places have been unveiled.
Date: 25 November 2014
By MARK LANDLER
Mark LANDLER
News analysis; departure of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is not likely to signal a broader internal shake-up for Pres Obama's foreign policy team, core of which has remained intact; if anything, Hagel's resignation indicates that White House will keep a tight leash on foreign policy for remainder of Obama's presidency.
Date: 26 November 2014
By NIKITA STEWART
Nikita STEWART
Joint report by Mark G Peters, Department of Investigation commissioner, and Richard J Condon, special commissioner of investigation for city schools, finds Mayor Bill de Blasio’s aides violated state law and city regulations by holding closed-door meeting with members of Communications Workers of America in public school building, since such meetings must be nonexclusive; de Blasio says press should have been admitted to meeting and that mistake will not happen again.
Date: 26 November 2014
By RAVI SOMAIYA
Ravi SOMAIYA
New York Times names Kinsey Wilson to its masthead to expand mobile strategy and oversee creation of new digital products; Wilson is a former NPR executive and USA Today executive editor.
Date: 26 November 2014
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Thomas FRIEDMAN
Thomas L Friedman Op-Ed column offers reading recommendations on variety of topics that readers may be interested in talking about over Thanksgiving dinner; highlights issues like importance of preservation of environment in Iran, the world's growing population, and growing anti-Arab racism in Israel.