I heard from transgendered senior citizens who lamented their decades living a lie. I got e-mails from confused parents who had their aha moment when they read Tyler’s story . And sure, I heard from the haters. The Internet troll employment benefits package apparently doesn’t offer vacation days, so they’re always there. Read full article > >

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Transgender at five: Tyler’s story leads to outpouring of other stories

Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the party Syriza, hopes to ride a tide of anti-austerity sentiment to break from four decades of ossified two-party government in Greece.

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In Greece, Leftist Party, Syriza, Upends Politics

MOUNT BEN-TAL, Golan Heights — Tourists who visit this old military observation point in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights gaze down on the lush flatlands of southern Syria, and they are told that they are looking at what has been Israel’s most serene frontier for four decades. Read full article > >

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Syrian conflict sends ripples across a long-calm frontier with Israel

He spent more than four decades as a news correspondent on “60 Minutes” and described himself as ‘nosy and insistent.” He died peacefully surrounded by family.

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Mike Wallace, veteran CBS journalist, dies at age 93

Virginia leads the nation in the percentage of marriages between blacks and whites, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows, barely four decades after state laws criminalizing interracial marriage were struck down by the Supreme Court. And one in five new married couples in the District crossed racial and ethnic lines. Read full article > >

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Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren’t among them. Read full article > >

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Fannie and Freddie don’t deserve blame for bubble

The Higgs particle is also known as the Higgs boson, or “ the God particle ,” a term that Leon Lederman used some years ago and which delighted journalists but surely offended photons and electrons throughout the universe. The Higgs is named after Peter Higgs, a theorist who four decades ago predicted its existence as part of the Standard Model of particle physics. No one’s ever found one. Discovering the Higgs is a central purpose of two very elaborate experiments being conducted at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. On Tuesday, the CERN scientists will announce their latest batch of results, and, as Scientific American has reported , rumors abound that they’ve homing in on the Higgs. More here from Nature . Read full article > >

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Higgs particle: Getting closer

TRIPOLI, Libya — French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron were given a heroes’ welcome Thursday as they visited Libya to celebrate the fall of Moammar Gaddafi and pledge continued support for the nation as it rebuilds after four decades of autocratic rule. They also vowed to help the victorious rebels in their hunt for Libya’s fugitive former leader. Read full article > >

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SAT reading scores for graduating high school seniors this year reached the lowest point in nearly four decades, reflecting a steady decline in performance in that subject on the college admissions test, the College Board reported Wednesday. In the Washington area, one of the nation’s leading producers of college-bound students, educators were scrambling to understand double-digit drops in test scores in Montgomery and Prince William counties and elsewhere. Read full article > >

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In 2004, at age 69, Stella Rimington published “ At Risk ,” the first in a series of espionage novels featuring MI5 operative Liz Carlyle. That book marked the start of a successful second career for this remarkable woman. The first began in 1968, when Rimington joined MI5, Britain’s internal security service. In the decades that followed, she served in every major branch of the organization — counterintelligence, counter-subversion, counterespionage — and in 1992 became its first female director general, a post she held until her retirement in 1996. That is a serious résumé. Read full article > >

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Stella Rimington’s ‘Rip Tide’: A perfunctory spy novel

Some people called Michael S. Hart a Don Quixote, always tilting at windmills. As it happens, Cervantes’s classic tale of the man of La Mancha is one of the more than 36,000 books in Project Gutenberg, a monumental free online library that Mr. Hart conceived of four decades ago, when the Internet was in its infancy and generations before the birth of iTunes and Wikipedia. Mr. Hart, 64, was found dead Sept. 6 at his home in Urbana, Ill. He had a heart attack, said his brother, Bennett Hart. Read full article > >

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Project Gutenberg creator Michael S. Hart dies at 64

A system that began so simply with Public School 1 in Lower Manhattan has over the decades become messy.

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Why New York School Numbers Don’t Quite Add up

Prince George’s County sheriff’s deputies pounded on the motel door at 3:30 a.m. Glenn Wilson Jr., 61, answered in a faded Disney T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops. Four decades ago, he didn’t show up for court after being charged with burglary. Since then, Wilson married twice, had three children and worked several jobs. Finally, deputies had their man. “I’m like, ‘Are you guys for real?’ ” Wilson said in an interview. “This was just amazing, after all these years.” Read full article > >

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Long-ago suspect caught up in Prince George’s effort to clear up warrant backlog

JERUSALEM — Militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets into Israel and Israeli aircraft carried out deadly strikes across the coastal territory Friday in a surge of cross-border violence a day after attackers killed eight people near Israel’s frontier with Egypt . The multiple attacks Thursday north of the Red Sea resort of Eilat were the deadliest such incident in Israel in three years and threatened to ignite a new round of hostilities across the Israel-Gaza border after months of relative calm. The killings of an Egyptian military officer and two policemen in border skirmishes after the attacks have also enraged Egyptians, putting strain on the decades-long relationship between Egypt and Israel. Read full article > >

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8 killed in strikes on Gaza after deadly raid in Israel

Syrian forces swept into the northern village of Jisr al-Shoughour, a town that has offered the stiffest challenge to four decades of Assad family rule.

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