The German reluctance to underwrite struggling economies like Greece’s is based on its own experience of pouring $2 trillion into the former East Germany, to little immediate effect.

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German Reunion Pains Inform Attitude Toward Greece

It will cover 2.8 million square feet and have its own power plant inside its massive, gleaming circular design.

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Meet Apple’s next ‘spaceship’ campus

The end for Kobe Bryant and the Lakers came against an Oklahoma City team that was younger, deeper and ready for its own moment in the Western Conference spotlight.

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Game 5: Thunder 106, Lakers 90: Thunder Race Past Lakers and Into Conference Finals

A private equity firm has bought a UK college with its own degree-awarding powers for almost £200m.

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Private equity buys law college

JPMorgan Chase illegally allowed Lehman Brothers , the investment bank whose 2008 bankruptcy brought the financial system to the brink of collapse , to count customers’ money as its own, according to federal regulators. Read full article > >

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Regulators: JPMorgan illegally let Lehman Bros. count customers’ funds as its own

Top officials with the Food and Drug Administration contend the agency’s decisions should be divorced from politics and based solely on its own assessments of the science.

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Political Science: White House and F.D.A. at Odds on Regulatory Issues

Just as its shares started selling to the public for the first time, BATS Global Markets, one of the nation’s newest and largest electronic exchanges, halted trading on its own stock after a series of technical errors in its system.

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DealBook: A Fast-Paced Stock Exchange Trips Over Itself

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon says the Arab League plans to revive its mission to Syria and accuses Damascus of stepping up “war on its own people”.

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Arab Syria mission ‘may resume’

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. Read full article > >

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FDA workers sue agency over monitoring personal e-mails

Microsoft cheers the demise of its browser while Google appears to have broken its own rules to promote its browser.

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Microsoft celebrates death of IE6

The UK’s financial regulator will criticise its own role in a report into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland, the BBC learns.

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FSA ‘to admit to bank failings’

The Greenbelt Native Plant Center on Staten Island safeguards local species of plants, and Ed Toth is its own Johnny Appleseed.

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New York City Native Plant Center’s Seed Is for the Future

Purchased thousands of copies of its own paper.

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WSJ Fudged Circulation Numbers

At his presser today, Obama was asked by a reporter whether his new jobs tour has devolved into little more than a Truman-style political campaign against a “do nothing Congress.” In response, he essentially called on the media to take a stand on whether the GOP is really offering any real jobs plan of its own: Read full article > >

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Obama to media: Stop pretending the GOP has a real jobs plan

Search firm Google eyes Facebook and Twitter as its own social network is opened up for anyone to join.

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Google+ opens service to everyone