NYT 11-27-13 Cover
NYT 11-27-13 Cover
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A Tel Aviv woman, 28, who found a lump in her breast. Cancer-causing gene mutations are common among many Jews in Israel.
Push to Test for Cancer Gene U.S. Sends Two B-52 Bombers
Sets Up a Dilemma in Israel Into Air Zone Claimed by China
By RONI CARYN RABIN
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON Defying
China, two long-range American
bombers flew through contested
airspace over the East China Sea,
days after the Chinese announced they were claiming the
right to police the sky above a
vast area that includes islands at
the center of a simmering dispute
with Japan.
Pentagon officials said Tuesday that the B-52s were on a routine training mission planned
long in advance of the Chinese
announcement on Saturday that
it was establishing an air defense identification zone over
the area. But the message was
clear.
A senior Pentagon official said
that the mission overnight Monday from Guam was a demonstration of long-established inter-
NEWS ANALYSIS
Karzais Bet:
U.S. Bluffing
By ROD NORDLAND
and ALISSA J. RUBIN
A Plea to Avoid
Crush of Users
At Health Site
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
and ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON
White
House officials, fearful that the
federal health care website may
again be overwhelmed this weekend, have urged their allies to
hold back enrollment efforts so
the insurance marketplace does
not collapse under a crush of new
users.
At the same time, administration officials said Tuesday that
they had decided not to inaugurate a big health care marketing
campaign planned for December
out of concern that it might drive
too many people to the still-fragile HealthCare.gov.
With a self-imposed deadline
for repairs to the website approaching on Saturday, the administration is trying to strike a
delicate balance. It is encouraging people to go or return to the
website but does not want to create too much demand. It boasts
that the website is vastly improved, but does not want to
raise expectations that it will
work for everyone.
We are definitely on track to
have a significantly different user
experience by the end of this
month, Kathleen Sebelius, the
secretary of health and human
services, said Tuesday. That
was our commitment.
Ms. Sebelius, who supervised
development of the troubled website, tried to rally state and local
elected officials in a conference
call organized by the White
House. I would urge you and
your folks on the ground to not
hesitate to recommend that peoContinued on Page A17
Pulling a More Diverse Group of Achievers Into the Advanced Placement Pool
By MOTOKO RICH
NATIONAL A13-17
ARTS C1-12
Reversal on Gynecologists
INTERNATIONAL A4-12
DINING D1-8
NEW YORK A19-23
SPORTSWEDNESDAY B11-16
Maureen Dowd
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