More factories that make the material used in solar panels have opened, and the global demand for them has fallen.

More Sun for Less: Solar Panels Drop in Price

From the time his brain cancer was diagnosed 15 months ago, Senator Kennedy spoke of having a “good ending for myself.”

After Diagnosis, Determined to Make a ‘Good Ending’

The American cash-for-clunkers program turned out to be a boon for Asian automakers, taking in 45 percent of sales, versus 40 percent for Detroit automakers.

Toyota Tops List of Cash-for-Clunkers Winners

Some say the Governmental Accounting Standards Board should make public pension numbers more straightforward; others say its existing rules are sound.

An Overhaul or a Tweak for Pensions

Getting “good hair” often means transforming one’s tightly coiled roots; but it is also more freighted, for many African-American women and some men, than simply a choice about grooming.

Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics

A rogue program, known as Conficker, has confounded the efforts of security experts to trace its origins and purpose.

Defying Experts, Rogue Computer Code Still Lurks

With two fashion labels, and no formal training, the Olsens have exceeded expectations and outshined some better-known designers.

Good Things Do Come in Pairs

Society may not prize manual labor, but that may be where the jobs are.

Deskbound, Romancing the Brick

Boeing said it would record a pretax charge of $2.5 billion in the third quarter because of the plane’s delays.

Boeing, Behind Schedule, Plans Dreamliner Flight

The ceremony between R. Allen Stanford and Leroy King, the chief regulator of his Antigua bank, promoted a scheme to hide a multibillion-dollar fraud, according to court papers.

‘Blood Oath’ Sealed Stanford Deal, Court Is Told

Lorrie Moore’s new novel, about a Midwestern college student who hires on as a nanny for a brainy couple, brandishes its big material about war and racism in a resolutely insouciant key.

Eyes Wide Open

The better-than-expected performance caused Dell’s stock price to surge nearly 7 percent during the final minutes of trading.

Dell Beats Forecasts, Then Surges

Lone Afghan boys are making their way across Europe, seeking a future that is not possible in their own country.

Afghan Youths Seek a New Life in Europe

A decade ago, there was a federal surplus, and taxes were cut. Now there’s a growing deficit. Guess what happens next?

It’s Hard to Worry About a Deficit 10 Years Out

“Big Fan” is a spasmodically funny and bleak film about the love that speaks its name.

Giants Die-Hard Takes One for the Team

By week 2 of the New York International Fringe Festival the menu of more than 200 shows shrinks to a few hits everyone’s talking about.

Send in Rude Clowns and Various Oddballs

“True Blood” has become an allegory for nearly every strain of tension in American life as the series, a hit for HBO, charges along under the spell of its own unmodulated id.

Necks Overflowing With Rivers of Metaphor

When Senator Edward M. Kennedy learned he had brain cancer last year, he became one of the millions whose fate was not much changed by the cancer war.

Weighing Hope and Reality in Kennedy’s Cancer Battle

The quintessential California hot rod canonized by the Beach Boys was the realized dream of a Detroit teenager.

Surfers Met Rodders, and a Genre Was Born

MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch InBev are no longer in a price war, and that has meant higher prices for beer drinkers.

Rising Beer Prices Hint at Oligopoly

An article on Aug. 14 about a poll that showed a narrowing of the presidential election race in Afghanistan misstated the favorable ratings for President Hamid Karzai and for Abdullah Abdullah, the candidate for the largest opposition bloc. At the time of the poll, Mr. Karzai held a favorable rating of 81 percent, not 64 percent, and Mr. Abdullah had a favorable rating of 71 percent, not 48 percent. The 64 and 48 figures reflected the percentage point differences between each man’s favorable and unfavorable ratings. (The outcome of the election is still not known.).

Corrections

A mother does some soul-searching and hopes for better weather in a return trip to Nantucket.

My Time Traveler’s Journey

An article in some editions on Tuesday about the arrest of a Manhattan man on murder charges in the shooting death of an off-duty bouncer at a downtown bar, Forbidden City, misidentified the bar’s neighborhood. It is in the East Village, not the Lower East Side.

An article on Saturday about the strain that the recession is placing on the city’s nonprofit social service agencies referred incorrectly to an annual fund-raising event for the Henry Street Settlement that lost its sponsor, Lehman Brothers. The event is an art show, not an auction.

A listing in the Long Island Calendar in some editions last Sunday about the Gateway Playhouse production of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” misidentified the location of the performances. It is being presented through Sept. 12 at the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts, not at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport.

Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a Soviet and Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems.

Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author and poet (born 1913)

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Myanmar has been embroiled in armed conflict since 1948, when the country, then known as Burma, gained independence from the United Kingdom. The conflict has largely been ethnic-based, with ethnic armed organisations fighting Myanmar's armed forces, the Tatmadaw, for self-determination. Despite numerous ceasefires and the creation of autonomous self-administered zones in 2008, armed groups continue to call for independence, increased autonomy, or the federalisation of Myanmar. It is the world's longest ongoing civil war, spanning almost eight decades.

Internal conflict in Myanmar: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.

August 27, 2009

Headlines from August 27, 2009

More Sun for Less: Solar Panels Drop in Price

After Diagnosis, Determined to Make a ‘Good Ending’

Toyota Tops List of Cash-for-Clunkers Winners

An Overhaul or a Tweak for Pensions

Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics

Billboard 200

Twang

Hot August Night/NYC: Live From Madison Square Garden

The E.N.D.

Hot Mess

Only By The Night

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for August 27, 2009