Sudan’s president says his goal is to liberate South Sudan’s people from their government, as fears grow of an all-out war between the two countries.

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NEW DELHI — With its health-care system increasingly eclipsed by rivals, India has a plan to nearly double public spending on health over the next five years, with the goal of eventually making medical care free for all Indians. Read full article > >

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A new think tank launched in the District Monday with the goal of reducing the cost of health care through research and entrepreneurship. The West Health Policy Center is the latest project of Gary and Mary West, the two billionaire philanthropists behind the West Wireless Health Institute and the West Health Investment Fund, a pair of California-based organizations that develop and fund health technology products. Read full article > >

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Doormen acknowledge that there is still much more to be made in end-of-the-year tips on the East Side than on the West Side, and that getting to Park Avenue is often the goal.

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Big City: Did You Give the Doorman Enough?

Doormen acknowledge that there is still much more to be made in end-of-the-year tips on the East Side than on the West Side, and that getting to Park Avenue is often the goal.

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Big City: Did You Give the Doorman Enough?

Bahrain’s king asked for an investigation of the country’s protests and crackdown, a complicated task with the goal of promoting healing and charting a way forward.

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Bahrain Nervously Awaits Revolt Report’s Findings

Seeking to defuse a major diplomatic confrontation, President Obama said the only way to achieve the goal was for the Palestinians and Israelis to resume direct negotiations.

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Obama, at U.N., Explains Rationale for Opposing Palestinian Statehood Bid

DALLAS — George W. Bush has already surpassed his goal of raising more than $300 million to support his presidential library. The Dallas Morning News reports that financial statements the Bush Foundation filed with the federal government show that the former president collected $313 million in donations in 2009 and 2010 (http://dallasne.ws/r8e1OM). Read full article > >

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Sidney Lumet, the director of such film classics as 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, and Network, passed away Saturday morning in Manhattan at the age of 86 from lymphoma. “While the goal of all movies is to entertain,” Lumet once…

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Director Sidney Lumet Dies

At this rate, the GOP will reach their goal of $61 billion in cuts by the end of the year. House Republicans are working on another round of budget cuts to attach to a measure that would keep the federal government running for another three weeks. The…

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Incoming Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) ran as a tea party candidate, who claimed to be determined to change how business was done in Washington. Yet on Fox News Sunday this morning, Lee was asked by Chris Wallace why if his goal was to “drain the swamp” would he pick to have an energy lobbyist as his Chief of Staff? Lee responded that he wasn’t “scared” of lobbyists and that his lobbyist was “brilliant”: read more

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New Sen. Mike Lee Defends Hiring Energy Lobbyist as Chief of Staff

In the field of connectomics, the goal is to find how memories, personality traits and skills are stored.

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In Pursuit of a Mind Map, Slice by Slice

Finding a cure would be a win for individual health and the economy.

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Our new national goal: Defeating Alzheimer’s in 10 years

The Beatles were business-savvy, a new book says, offering this goal: “Baby, you’re a rich man.”

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DealBook: Business Lessons From the Beatles

For much of this year, the Obama administration touted its tougher-than-ever approach to immigration enforcement, culminating in a record number of deportations .

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