The Walt Disney Company, with the help of Steve Jobs, intends to alter its approach to the shopping mall.

Disney’s Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores

The pollutants that coal plants are scrubbing from their smokestacks are finding their way into water instead.

Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways

Major companies like General Electric and Bank of America, and smaller ones, too, have begun campaigns proclaiming that America’s future is bright.

In New Campaigns, Spots Take On a Rosier Hue

A proposed tax on high-cost health insurance plans has touched off a fierce clash between the Senate and the House over how to pay for a health care overhaul.

Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health Plans

The bigger question about Wall Street bonuses is whether the enormous sums of money are proper and whether the executives have the right incentives.

Don’t Fail, or Reward Success

Millions of state-issued vehicle registration and inspection stickers are coming unglued from windshields.

New York’s Car Registration Stickers Don’t Stick

The first debate of the general election will offer the possibility of unscripted exchanges in what has been a passionless campaign.

Mayoral Foes Look to Hone Debate Skills

Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine said her vote to move health care legislation to the floor was no guarantee that she would support a final measure.

Republican’s Vote Lifts a Health Bill, but Hurdles Remain

The Supreme Court will consider throwing out the convictions of the former Enron chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling for his role in the collapse of the energy giant.

Court to Hear Ex-Enron Chief Appeal

Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, long discouraged from informing on one another, are turning to law enforcement to deal with child molesters.

Orthodox Jews Rely More on Sex Abuse Prosecution

Aided by demand for low-cost goods in the recession and a government that staunchly supports exports, China’s grip on world trade has strengthened.

In Recession, China Solidifies Its Lead in Global Trade

Cake Wrecks, the popular blog and new book of the same name, celebrates the folly of professional confections gone horribly, horribly wrong.

When the Icing on the Cake Spells Disaster

The federal pay czar is trying to persuade the insurance giant A.I.G. to reduce a coming payment worth $198 million but is running into legal hurdles.

U.S. Pay Czar Tries Again to Trim A.I.G. Bonuses

“Alaska State Troopers,” a new reality series beginning Wednesday night on the National Geographic Channel, takes the “Cops” formula to the 49th state.

Where Moose and the Inebriated Roam

Deaf actors and deaf theater groups have begun to protest a stage adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.”

Hearing Man in Deaf Role Stirs Protests in New York

Nearly two dozen institutions have received grants from the Leon Levy Foundation to identify, preserve and digitize their archival collections.

Foundation Helps Archives to Go Online

Ralph Stanley, 82, is one of the last, and surely the purest, of the traditional country musicians and only just got around to writing his autobiography.

Old-Timer, Still Telling Mountain Tales

One bite of the crispy lamb ribs served at DBGB ended all snark: Daniel Boulud has opened a very good restaurant.

Now I Wanna Serve Some Sausage

Pete Dexter returns with an autobiographical novel, “Spooner,” a cradle-to-grave yarn about a well-meaning but wayward soul and his saintly stepfather.

Write What You Know: Reflections of a Wayward Soul

There is pretty much no science behind the cool-down advice.

Is the Exercise Cool-Down Really Necessary?

Through hundreds of descriptions of pasta styles, the Italian food historian Oretta Zanini De Vita’s “Encyclopedia of Pasta” places pasta in its social and historical context.

So You Think You Know Pasta

An article on Oct. 2 about fossils of a new human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, described incorrectly the contribution of C. Owen Lovejoy, an anatomist at Kent State University, to the 11 reports on the fossils published that day in the journal Science. Dr. Lovejoy was the lead author of five of the journal reports, not two. 

Corrections

The “This Week” listing in the Calendar on Monday referred incorrectly in some copies to Games 1 and 2 of the American League Championship Series, on Friday and Saturday. The Yankees will be home, not away.

An entry in the classical listings on Friday misidentified the work that the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir is scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall on Thursday. It is “The Seasons” by Haydn  not “The Creation” by Haydn, which the group is scheduled to perform on Saturday.

Stephen Roger Barnett was an American law professor and legal scholar who campaigned against the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 and the effects its antitrust exemptions had on newspaper consolidation. He also criticized the California Supreme Court for practices that hid information from the public.

October 13, 2009

Headlines from October 13, 2009

Disney’s Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores

Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways

In New Campaigns, Spots Take On a Rosier Hue

Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health Plans

Don’t Fail, or Reward Success

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The Blueprint 3

Life Starts Now

I Look To You

The Time Of Our Lives (EP)

Notable Deaths

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