BERLIN — In the early years of the Obama administration, the United States developed an elaborate plan for a cyberattack on Iran in case the diplomatic effort to limit its nuclear program failed and led to a military conflict, according to a coming documentary film and interviews with military and intelligence officials involved in the effort. The plan, code-named Nitro Zeus, was devised to disabl
Johnston Gate at Harvard University. A group suing Harvard says a trove of newly released documents show that admissions officials discriminated against Asian-American applicants.Credit...Hadley Green for The New York Times Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” accord
A friend of mine once had a curious experience with a job interview. Excited about the possible position, she arrived five minutes early and was immediately ushered into the interview by the receptionist. Following an amicable discussion with a panel of interviewers, she was offered the job. Afterward, one of the interviewers remarked how impressed she was that my friend could be so composed after
After a world record-setting short program performance, Yuzuru Hanyu, a teenager from Japan, fell twice in his free skate but still prevailed. Hanyu fell on the quadruple salchow. Composite image by The New York Times Yuzuru Hanyu Total score: 280.09 Hanyu became the first skater to break 100 points in a short program after receiving high marks for all his jumps, including a quadruple toe loop. Bu
A protester was removed by security officers after Japan’s lower house of Parliament passed a national secrets act on Tuesday.Credit...Toru Hanai/Reuters TOKYO — Brushing past angry street protests and apocalyptic editorials in leading newspapers, Japan’s conservative prime minister, Shinzo Abe, appears set to achieve one of the first items on his legislative agenda to roll back his nation’s postw
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades. The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the
Research done by Emmanuel Saez, left, and Thomas Piketty has shown that inequality among the middle class and the rich is nearly as acute as it was before the Great Depression.Credit...Don Feria/Getty Images for The MacArthur Foundation Awards, left; Paris School of Economics WASHINGTON — High earners who are worried that this year’s Tax Day will be the last one before their rates rise have more t
From Valley Girls to the Kardashians, young women have long been mocked for the way they talk. Whether it be uptalk (pronouncing statements as if they were questions? Like this?), creating slang words like “bitchin’ ” and “ridic,” or the incessant use of “like” as a conversation filler, vocal trends associated with young women are often seen as markers of immaturity or even stupidity. Right? But l
The Chugoku Electric nuclear power plant in Kashima. A third reactor is currently under construction.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times KASHIMA, Japan — When the Shimane nuclear plant was first proposed here more than 40 years ago, this rural port town put up such fierce resistance that the plant’s would-be operator, Chugoku Electric, almost scrapped the project. Angry fishermen vowed to de
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Nothing is more rapidly globalized than nuclear fear. The partial meltdown of reactors in Fukushima, Japan, has created overwhelming fear in people living nearby, considerable fear in people living in the rest of Japan, and a certain amount of fear in people throughout Asia and even in Europe and the United States. Nor can this fear be simply dismissed as hysteria. It ca
These are critical days in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The survival of its hard-won democracy, its aspirations to join NATO and the European Union and the once-glowing international reputation of its president, Mikheil Saakashvili, are all suddenly on the line. Mr. Saakashvili is largely to blame for this abrupt crisis. On Wednesday, he betrayed the spirit of the pro-democracy “Rose Rev
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