Researchers are studying ancient rock formations in search of clues from records of past climate change to help predict sea level rises from global warming.

How High Could the Tide Go?

Many influential people will gather this week at the World Economic Forum to make predictions, and some of them will be right, and some wrong.

Prophecies Made in Davos Don’t Always Come True

Federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online.

Even if It Enrages Your Boss, Social Net Speech Is Protected

The Bank of Japan set an ambitious 2 percent inflation target and pledged to ease monetary policy but there are doubts about just how much of an effect the moves will have.

Japan’s Bond-Buying Plan Quickly Meets Criticism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is likely to serve a third term, but voters gave a surprising second place to a centrist party founded by a celebrity who emphasized kitchen-table issues.

Tepid Vote for Netanyahu in Israel Is Seen as Rebuke

The Bolshoi Ballet has made Galina Stepanenko, a former principal dancer, its acting artistic director. She takes over for Sergei Filin, who after suffering an acid attack, said that he regretted not accepting protection.

At Bolshoi, Regrets and a New Appointment

Documents from a California court case show that a Johnson & Johnson analysis estimated that a subsidiary’s hip implant would fail within five years in nearly 40 percent of patients.

Maker Aware of 40% Failure in Hip Implant

The Scottish novelist Ali Smith’s slim new book, “Artful,” is equal parts ghost story and academic treatise: a set of lectures by a dead writer placed, like the filling of a dumpling, inside a love story.

Love and Lectures, Living on From the Grave

Kirsten, an American Girl doll with a $110 price tag, is one of the most well-loved and sought-after items at a library branch in the East Village.

A Doll’s Magic, Free to Renew

While Google’s most lucrative business, search on desktop computers, is slowing, the search giant has not yet figured out how to make equivalent profits on mobile devices.

Google Still in a Struggle With Mobile

Some of the most amusing and captivating writing in the city is being produced in the service of selling (or not selling) cheese.

In the Dairy Case, Ripe Prose

Robert Wilson is directing a new chamber opera based on the life of the outsider artist Clementine Hunter, a black woman born in the 19th century.

The Field Hand Who Was an Artist From Midnight to 6

“Nova: Rise of the Drones,” Wednesday night on PBS, focuses more on the technology than on the politics or military ethics of these remotely piloted planes.

Questioning Its Marvels and Morals

Everyone agrees that federal spending must be drastically cut. But there is an alternative: raising more money from all taxpayers, including the middle class.

A Tax Bite Tailored to Help All

A new column highlights the week’s developments in health and science news and glances at what’s ahead. This week: fecal transplants, a new flying frog and not-so-private genomes.

Strange Transplants, Genomes Made Public and More

Corrections appearing in print on January 22, 2013.

Corrections: January 22, 2013

Quotation of the day for Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013.

Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013

The dining home of the media elite is adding variety in the form of small plates as it tries to attract new faces.

A Longtime Power Spot Eyes a Wider Audience

Celgene’s drug Abraxane prolonged the lives of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer by almost two months in a clinical trial, but the gains were not as big as expected.

Drug Is Shown to Help Pancreatic Cancer Cases 

A Russian-language adaptation of Tolstoy’s “Family Happiness,” with layers serious and silly, is playing at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

When a Lust for Life Is Consummated

A report from the International Labor Organization predicted jobless levels to rise to 202 million worldwide this year, and said that government budget-balancing was hurting employment.

U.N. Agency Warns of Rising Unemployment

For a project to teach math concepts, people used 48,912 business cards to build the Mosely Snowflake Sponge, now on display at the University of Southern California.

Many Hands Make Fractals Tactile

Free access to computers and the Internet is now nearly as important to library patrons as borrowing books, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.

Survey Finds Rising Reliance on Libraries as a Gateway to the Web

Even though revenue rose and customers increased, the phone company reported a loss of $4.22 billion, more than double the loss a year ago.

Storm and Pension Costs Leave Verizon With Bigger Quarterly Loss

Researchers going through the collection at the University of Manchester library identified some 350 engraved plates by the Romantic poet and artist.

Hundreds of Lost William Blake Engravings Discovered

Robert Bonnaud was a French anti-colonialist historian and professor of history at the Paris Diderot University.

Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (born 1929)

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Hinton Mitchem was a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 9th District from 1979 to January 1987 and then again from June 1987 to January 2011.

January 22, 2013

Headlines from January 22, 2013

How High Could the Tide Go?

Prophecies Made in Davos Don’t Always Come True

Even if It Enrages Your Boss, Social Net Speech Is Protected

Japan’s Bond-Buying Plan Quickly Meets Criticism

Tepid Vote for Netanyahu in Israel Is Seen as Rebuke

Billboard 200

Les Miserables

Babel

Red

The World From The Side Of The Moon

Take Me Home

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 22, 2013