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Coming home to a shipping container
Business, New York Times, Published on 07/10/2017
» Tim Steele stood outside a pair of orange shipping containers on a hillside about two hours northwest of New York. The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the corrugated walls, and beyond that an expansive living room, kitchen and small bathroom. Several tall windows looked out on the Catskill Mountains, a vista that stretched for miles.
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Vegas killer meticulously planned carnage
New York Times, Published on 03/10/2017
» From his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Stephen Paddock would have looked down upon a crowd of more than 20,000 people, surging to the final sets of a country music festival.
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Joshua Wong, 2 others jailed for Hong Kong pro-democracy protest
New York Times, Published on 18/08/2017
» HONG KONG - Three prominent young leaders of Hong Kong's democracy movement were sentenced Thursday to six to eight months in prison, a severe setback for the technically semi-autonomous Chinese city in its struggle for greater political freedom under Communist Party rule.
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US city airports' future may not involve flying
Business, New York Times, Published on 22/07/2017
» Coleman Young International Airport was once one of the busiest airports in the United States and a thriving piece of Detroit's economy. But like so much else in the city, it festered for decades after the action moved to the suburbs.
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Tesla first mass-market car hits production
New York Times, Published on 03/07/2017
» Tesla Motors' first mass-market car, the Model 3, will begin rolling off the line Friday, two weeks earlier than planned, Elon Musk, the company's chief executive, said late Sunday.
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Philippine leader, focused on drugs, ignored IS
New York Times, Published on 11/06/2017
» MANILA -- It was classic bravado from the Philippines’ tough-guy president, Rodrigo Duterte. The Maute Group, a militant Islamic band fighting government troops near the southern Philippines city of Marawi last year, had asked for a cease-fire.
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Noriega's death closes a chapter in history
New York Times, Published on 30/05/2017
» Manuel Antonio Noriega, the brash former dictator of Panama and sometime ally of the United States whose ties to drug trafficking led to his ouster in 1989 in the largest US military action since the Vietnam War, has died. He was 83.
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Ultranationalist Myanmar monks unrepentant
New York Times, Published on 28/05/2017
» HONG KONG — In the wake of vigilante attacks and brawls that have shaken Yangon, Myanmar’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, the country’s religious authorities are ramping up a crackdown on hard-line Buddhist monks who have played increasingly public roles as sectarian provocateurs.
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Iconic Harley-Davidson is building plant in Thailand
New York Times, Published on 24/05/2017
» HONG KONG - Iconic motorcycle builder Harley-Davidson, praised by US President Donald Trump as a pillar of American manufacturing and keeping jobs at home, is building a new plant in Thailand.
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New Amazon office building to include homeless shelter
New York Times, Published on 15/05/2017
» SEATTLE, Washington -- A year ago, when Amazon.com let a homeless shelter for families move into a former motel it owned, it was viewed as a nice but fleeting gesture.
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