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Thursday, November 15, 2012

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Football players at Eagle Valley High School recently.
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Football players at Eagle Valley High School recently.

The story of Alex Jordan, a football-loving 9-year-old with leukemia, inspired people in the mountain town of Gypsum. Now people are left to ask why.

Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-Mail Inquiry

Frederick W. Humphries II, a counterterrorism agent, took the initial complaint from Jill Kelley about e-mails accusing her of inappropriate behavior toward David H. Petraeus.

Panetta Orders Review of Ethics Training for Military Officers

The move comes amid a scandal that has ensnared Gen. John R. Allen, the NATO commander in Afghanistan, although officials said Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta had planned the review before the scandal broke.

Postal Service Reports $15.9 Billion Loss

The loss, more than triple the deficit last year, includes a decline in revenue from mailing operations and accounting expenses related to the agency’s future retiree health benefits fund.

Duke, Northwestern to Offer Online Program

Semester Online, with 10 participating universities, will offer small, for-credit classes that will be open to outside students accepted to the program.

BP to Admit Crimes and Pay $4.5 Billion in Gulf Settlement

The British oil company said it would pay $4.5 billion in fines and other payments to the government and plead guilty to 14 criminal charges in connection with the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago.

Health Law Has States Feeling Tense Over Deadline

States have until Friday to tell the Obama administration whether they want to create their own health insurance exchange — a deadline Republican lawmakers had hoped would not come to pass.

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Obama Details Lines of Battle in Budget Plan, and on Libya

In his first news conference in eight months, President Obama signaled he would grapple with Republicans over tax rates and the handling of the attack on Americans in Benghazi.

Terrorist Attack on Power Grid Could Cause Broad Hardship, Report Says

Terrorists could black out large segments of the United States for weeks or months by attacking the power grid and damaging components, a National Academy of Sciences report found.

Financial Worries Pile on Long Before Graduation

New findings show that money troubles interfere with the academic performance of about one-third of all college students, who report finances as a major source of stress.

Alzheimer’s Tied to Mutation Harming Immune Response

A mutation to a gene, TREM2, is suspected of interfering with the brain’s ability to prevent the buildup of toxic shards of a protein that accumulate in plaques on the brain.

F.D.A. Chief Seeks Expanded Authority To Improve Safety of Drug Compounders

Pharmacy compounding has come under a spotlight in recent months, after a center produced pain medicine contaminated with fungus that caused a national meningitis outbreak.

New Infection, Not Relapse, Brings Back Lyme Symptoms, Study Says

Research comparing the genetic signatures of Lyme bacteria in people who had the disease more than once challenges the notion that it has a tendency to turn into a chronic illness.

Former Official Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Illinois Town of $53 Million

Rita A. Crundwell, former comptroller of Dixon, Ill., is said to have used the money to pay for a lavish life and a horse-breeding business.

Novel About Racial Injustice Wins National Book Award

Louise Erdrich won the fiction award for her novel “The Round House,” while other awards were given for nonfiction, poetry, young people’s literature and American letters.

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Interactive Feature: Faces of the Dead

Nearly nine years passed before American forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war in Afghanistan. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, after a troop surge in 2010.

Interactive Feature: Coming Out

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teenagers talk about their lives in this weeklong series.

Interactive Map: The Geography of Government Benefits

See the share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, veterans’ benefits and food stamps.

Interactive Map: Every City, Every Block

Browse data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.

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Military Law and the Petraeus Affair

A discussion about some of the legal issues surrounding the scandal involving David Petraeus, the former director of the C.I.A.

Uncounted Votes in Arizona Raise Controversy

The outcome of several races remained a mystery in Arizona as officials struggled to count a record number of early and provisional ballots.

This series examines the expectations, disappointments and challenges that shape the lives of Donna Dove, her customers and the city they know intimately, Elyria, Ohio.

The Deciders

Meet voters living in the most hotly contested states in the 2012 election.

From the Magazine

The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly

Ashlyn Blocker has a rare genetic condition that prevents her from feeling pain. But that doesn’t mean she can’t get hurt.

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Can American Diplomacy Ever Come Out of Its Bunker?

With the ever-rising need for security abroad, what can American diplomacy accomplish in the fragile nations that need it most?

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It’s the Economy

How Dead Is the Book Business?

The entire book industry may eventually become an arm of an infotainment giant. Is that a bad thing?

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