Digital tools known as “bots” are accused of trying to buy hundreds of thousands of tickets a day, shutting out fans.

Concert Industry Struggles With ‘Bots’ That Siphon Off Tickets

The rivalry between two cloud computing upstarts echoes a bitterly fought battle between Oracle and PeopleSoft.

A Legacy Feud in Tech

An examination of nonprofit applicants revealed activities that tax experts and former Internal Revenue Service officials said would provide a basis for closer review.

Groups Targeted by I.R.S. Tested Rules on Politics

Republicans want the entire law repealed and most of them will not take part in even routine tweaks, and Democrats fear reopening a politically charged debate as midterm elections near.

Partisan Gridlock Thwarts Effort to Alter Health Law

With no national land registry in the country, competing claims abound and taxes remain unpaid in a system based on handwritten ledgers.

Who Owns This Land? In Greece, Who Knows?

Flash sales have taken hold in the book business, helping older books soar from the backlist to the best-seller list.

One-Day Deals Making E-Books Brief Best Sellers

The Astrodome was once the most important and influential stadium in America. But, in what would be a betrayal of Houston’s greatness and of dreamers everywhere, it may be torn down.

Dirty and Dated, but Irreplaceable

Consumers are driving a movement toward labeling food products made from genetically modified organisms, and food producers are responding.

Seeking Food Ingredients That Aren’t Gene-Altered

With 3 to 5 percent of Americans suffering from hoarding, local officials are trying to address the multidimensional aspects of the behavior and reduce its threat to others.

Task Forces Offer Hoarders a Way to Dig Out

LeBron James put distance between himself and Pacers forward Paul George as Miami handily won Game 3 to take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference finals.

Untested Pacers Act Their Age; James Merely Acts Like Himself

A Chinese conglomerate, Fosun International, is playing an unusually visible role in the proposed acquisition of Club Méditerranée, a famous European brand.

Buyout Offer Brings China Into the Orbit of Club Med

New viruses are emerging faster than ever. But better surveillance means they are being caught sooner, giving time to develop countermeasures like vaccines.

New Tools to Hunt New Viruses

As part of the new health care law, companies that offer high-end health care plans to their employees will face a 40 percent tax in 2018, and many are scaling back some benefits.

High-End Health Plans Scale Back to Avoid ‘Cadillac Tax’

A Supreme Court case on considering race as a factor in university admissions has reignited debate on African-Americans’ progress in sought-after professions.

Racial Diversity Efforts Ebb for Elite Careers, Analysis Finds

Ecologists are increasingly interested in the great wildlife diversity indoors, where they’ve found that buildings contain identifiable microbial signatures of their human inhabitants.

Mapping the Great Indoors

Urenco, the global leader in its field, wants to sell for reasons of geopolitics, economics and the notion of an energy source that could turn deadly.

Powerhouse of the Uranium Enrichment Industry Seeks an Exit

Conservators at the Museum of Modern Art have gained insights into how Jackson Pollock worked through a restoration of his “One: Number 31, 1950.”

A Pollock Restored, a Mystery Revealed

“Behind the Candelabra” explores Liberace’s personal life. Here a classical music critic explores his musicianship.

The Music Behind Liberace’s Capes, Jewels and Candelabra

A six-part series exploring the Brooklyn district attorney’s office has been challenged in court as a September primary for the job of district attorney approaches.

Never a Crime-Free Moment

Ray Monk’s “Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center” aspires to be more comprehensive than earlier volumes about that American physicist.

Rough-Edged Atomic Pioneer

This week’s releases include “Once I Was an Eagle,” by Laura Marling, and “Magnetic,” by the trumpeter Terence Blanchard.

New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant

Triple crown winners usually show a decline the following season, but Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera has been even more dominant.

A Rare Improvement After a Triple Crown

Quotation of the Day for Monday, May 27

The eye care company Bausch & Lomb agreed on Monday to sell itself to Valeant Pharmaceuticals International of Canada for about $8.7 billion, sidestepping the lengthier process of an initial public offering.

Eye Care Company Is Being Sold to Valeant

Recent developments in health and science news. This week: roaches’ endless adaptation, a potato famine culprit and a chance to shoot an asteroid.

3-D Help for Breathing, Vanishing Amphibians and More

Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri was an Indian politician. He was the oldest surviving member of the founding Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (born 1917)

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William Desmond Anthony Pertwee was an English actor and comedian. He is best remembered for playing Chief ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army and P.C. Wilson in You Rang, M'Lord?.

Bill Pertwee, English actor (born 1926)

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Abdoulaye Sékou Sow was a Malian politician who served as Prime Minister of Mali from 12 April 1993 to 4 February 1994 under President Alpha Oumar Konaré.

May 27, 2013

Headlines from May 27, 2013

Concert Industry Struggles With ‘Bots’ That Siphon Off Tickets

A Legacy Feud in Tech

Groups Targeted by I.R.S. Tested Rules on Politics

Partisan Gridlock Thwarts Effort to Alter Health Law

Who Owns This Land? In Greece, Who Knows?

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