How to Buy a Gun in 16 Countries (Published 2018)
By AUDREY CARLSEN and SAHIL CHINOY UPDATED Aug. 6, 2019 Many Americans can buy a gun in less than an hour. In some countries, the process takes months. Here are the basic steps for how most people buy a gun in 16 of them. Many countries have exceptions for specialized professions, and local laws vary. United States 1Pass an instant background check that considers criminal convictions, domestic vio
A Big Safety Net and Strong Job Market Can Coexist. Just Ask Scandinavia. (Published 2014)
In Oslo, Camilla Grimsland Os and her husband, Hakon Os, at breakfast with their children, Ivar, 3, and Tellman, 6 months. Norway provides some of the most generous social welfare programs in the world, making it easier to balance work and family life. Credit...Brian Cliff Olguin for The New York Times
The Business Tycoons of Airbnb (Published 2014)
Two years ago, when the monthly rent on his two-bedroom apartment rose to $5,000 from $2,800, a 35-year-old real estate agent in Lower Manhattan had a quick fix. Rather than move, or take on some random Craigslist subletter, he listed the smaller bedroom on Airbnb, the vacation-rental website. Eventually he was charging $175 a night for short-term stays. It earned him enough to cover the astronomi
Opinion | How Math Got Its ‘Nobel’ (Published 2014)
ON Wednesday in Seoul, the International Congress of Mathematicians will announce the winners of the Fields Medal. First awarded in Oslo in 1936, the medal is given every four years to two to four mathematicians. It is considered the “Nobel Prize” of mathematics (even the organizers of the congress call it that), filling a gap left by Alfred Nobel, who did not include mathematics among the prizes
Opinion | A Plea for Caution From Russia (Published 2013)
MOSCOW — RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal
Chicago Sees Pension Crisis Drawing Near (Published 2013)
Unions remain angry at the mayor, who was at the helm during the teachers’ strike in 2012.Credit...M. Spencer Green/Associated Press CHICAGO — Corporations are moving in, and housing prices are looking better across the region. There has been a slight uptick in population. But a crushing problem lurks beneath the signs of economic recovery in Chicago: one of the most poorly funded pension systems
Opinion | The Limits on Nationalism in Japan (Published 2013)
HANOVER, N.H. — THE landslide victory of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in elections Sunday for the upper house of Japan’s Parliament immediately raised a question: Will it embolden Mr. Abe toward increasing nationalism that might further alienate Japan from some of its neighbors? Mr. Abe’s party seeks to revise Japan’s Constitution to allow a full-fledged military, and he pu
The 45 Places to Go in 2012 (Published 2012)
Koh Rong Island, Cambodia.Credit...Justin Mott for The New York Times 1. Panama Go for the canal. Stay for everything else. It’s been 12 years since Panama regained control of its canal, and the country’s economy is booming. Cranes stalk the skyline of the capital, Panama City, where high-rises sprout one after the next and immigrants arrive daily from around the world. Among those who have landed
The 41 Places to Go in 2011 (Published 2011)
From the beaches of Mexico to the wilds of Kurdistan, the places on this year’s list take you to the end of the world and back. 1. Santiago, Chile Undaunted by an earthquake, a city embraces modern culture. Less than a year after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake wreaked havoc in Chile, its capital, Santiago, has largely recovered, the economy continues to grow, and tourism is in an upswing. Though the
The 31 Places to Go in 2010 (Published 2010)
1. Sri Lanka For a quarter century, Sri Lanka seems to have been plagued by misfortune, including a brutal civil war between the Sinhalese-dominated government and a separatist Tamil group. But the conflict finally ended last May, ushering in a more peaceful era for this teardrop-shaped island off India’s coast, rich in natural beauty and cultural splendors. The island, with a population of just 2
In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme (Published 2013)
It was a brazen bank heist, but a 21st-century version in which the criminals never wore ski masks, threatened a teller or set foot in a vault. In two precision operations that involved people in more than two dozen countries acting in close coordination and with surgical precision, thieves stole $45 million from thousands of A.T.M.'s in a matter of hours. In New York City alone, the thieves respo
Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss (Published 2011)
Mountain View, Calif. IN early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important to the future of Google Inc. than its next search algorithm or app. They wanted to build better bosses. So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and no
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Does the F.B.I. Need Apple to Hack Into iPhones?There are tools to crack into the phones at the center of a new dispute over encryption. But the F.BI. says it still needs Apple’s aid. By Jack Nicas This Week in Tech: What on Earth Is a Quantum Computer?The question isn’t so easy to answer. Also, Google’s founders stepped away just as their company enters a turbulent adulthood. By Cade Metz
Opinion | The Myth of Japan’s Failure (Published 2012)
Tokyo DESPITE some small signs of optimism about the United States economy, unemployment is still high, and the country seems stalled. Time and again, Americans are told to look to Japan as a warning of what the country might become if the right path is not followed, although there is intense disagreement about what that path might be. Here, for instance, is how the CNN analyst David Gergen has de
Billions Lost by Olympus May Be Tied to Criminals (Published 2011)
An advertisement for Olympus in Tokyo. Japanese officials said at least $4.9 billion in Olympus funds were missing.Credit...Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News Editors’ Note, Aug. 3, 2021: This article, relying on statements made in a police memo, includes errors. It refers incorrectly to payments being probed by Japanese police. While some of the payments identified in the police memo were made by Nob
In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks (Published 2011)
University students took part in the Mynabi Job Expo, a job fair hosted by Minichi Communications in Tokyo in January.Credit...Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News TOKYO � Kenichi Horie was a promising auto engineer, exactly the sort of youthful talent Japan needs to maintain its edge over hungry Korean and Chinese rivals. As a worker in his early 30s at a major carmaker, Mr. Horie won praise for his de
To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test (Published 2011)
Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques. The research, published online Thursday in the journal Science, found that students who read a passage, then took a test asking them to recall what they had read, retained about 50 percent more o
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What if the Candidates Pandered to Economists? (Published 2008)
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