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Off the Record? Not Certain in Chat App SEPARATISTS DEFY KIEV AND PUTIN ON REFERENDUM

What happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet.

That truth was laid bare on Thursday, when Snapchat, the popular mobile messaging service, agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that messages sent through the company’s app did not disappear as easily as promised.

Snapchat has built its service on a pitch that has always seemed almost too good to be true: people can send any photo or video to friends and have it vanish without a trace.

But the commission charged that there were several easy ways to save messages from the service.

The company’s early popularity and hype led to a multibillion-dollar buyout offer last year from Facebook. But the settlement announced on Thursday set a different tone, one that could extend to other start-ups that promise security, privacy and anonymity as an antidote to Facebook and Twitter.

“The Internet is forever and people don’t realize that,” said

Nico Sell, a security expert and one of the founders of a rival mobile app called Wickr.

The settlement is the latest revelation that much of what is shared over the web and through mobile devices is at risk for interception or eventual retrieval, even if the hardware and software companies that transmit them promise otherwise.

The settlement between the F.T.C. and Snapchat also raised another notion: that some technology companies may be misleading users about how their information is stored and shared.

Under the terms of the settlement, Snapchat will be prohibited from misrepresenting how it maintains the privacy and confidentiality of user information. The company will also be required to start a wide-ranging privacy program, a sort of probation, and will be independently monitored for 20 years.

In its complaint against Snapchat, the commission said the app’s messages could be saved in several ways, contrary to what the company has said. Users

can save a message by using a third-party app, the agency said, or employ simple workarounds that allow users to take a screen shot of messages.

The complaint also said Snapchat transmitted users’ location information and collected sensitive data like address book contacts, despite its saying that it did not collect such information. The commission said the lax policies did not secure a feature called “Find Friends” that allowed security researchers to compile a database of 4.6 million user names and phone numbers during a recent security breach.

“One thing we want to make clear,” said Chris Olsen, the assistant director of the F.T.C’s division of privacy and identity protection. “If you make promises about privacy, you must honor those promises or otherwise risk F.T.C. enforcement.”

Snapchat posted a statement on its blog. “While we were focused on building, some things didn’t get the attention they could have,” the company wrote.

JENNA WORTHAM

Deadly Illness in Nicaragua Baffles Experts CHICHIGALPA, Nicaragua — During the harvest season, when exhausted workers spend seven days a week cutting sugar cane, the signs of illness could be hard to spot at first.

It was in the off-season, out on the baseball field, that some residents noticed a change.

Base-stealers were lethargic.

In the evening, outfielders were burning up as if standing under the scorching sun of the day.

Across Central America, a painful disease that affects the kidneys has killed at least 20,000 people over the past decade. But the illness, often called Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown causes, or CKDu, is so poorly understood that it still does not have a universally agreed upon name.

Theories vary drastically, citing a combination of possible factors, including heat stress, chronic dehydration, pesticides, painkillers, sugar consumption

and even volcanic ash. But there is a rare point of consensus: Nicaragua’s sugar cane heartland has been one of the hardest hit places.

The Nicaraguan government, the country’s sugar mills, even the World Bank, which has poured tens of millions of dollars into the sugar industry here, all say that until the mystery of the disease is solved, there is little they can do to prevent it. After years of inconclusive research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping in to help with some of the most ambitious studies of the illness yet.

But the sick former sugar cane workers here have little faith that more studies will bring improvements anytime soon. The fact that the research will be funded entirely by the sugar industry is only fueling the distrust.

“I don’t think anybody has clean hands,” said Kristen Genovese, a lawyer who helped sick

workers file a complaint against the World Bank’s lending arm in 2008 for loaning $55 million to the sugar mill here without looking into the disease or the possibility that it might be connected to the industry.

Before each harvest, workers must now take a blood or urine tests to measure kidney function to determine whether they will be allowed to return to the fields. In preparation, some ingest concoctions of fresh tamarind juice and linseed oil, avoid the sun and force themselves to rest. Others pray.

The complete dependence on the industry, whatever the risks may be, is stark. Glassy-eyed men are convinced that something in the water or the fields made them sick. Yet they are desperate to return to work, borrowing their wives’ and sisters’ identity numbers in a furtive attempt to stay employed.

HEATHER MURPHY

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine vowed on Thursday to press ahead with a referendum seeking autonomy, a risky move that seemed to defy their political patron, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

A day after Putin scrambled the political landscape by suggesting the vote be put off, militant leaders in Donetsk, Lugansk and Slovyansk said they would go ahead on Sunday. Ukrainian officials expressed suspicions, accusing him of trying to replay events preceding Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Although the ability of separatists to stage a legitimate ballot is highly in doubt, the possibility that Russia would use the vote as a pretext for another territorial grab had officials in Kiev lambasting the referendum as illegal. “The Ukrainian state has never planned any referendum,” the head of Ukraine’s National Security Council, Andriy Parubiy, said in Kiev. “This is political fraud.”

However the process plays out on Sunday, the prospect of resolving the Ukrainian crisis will hinge more on the reactions in Moscow, Kiev and the West than on the results.

Ukrainian officials said Putin’s remarks were intended to continue destabilizing the country with an eye toward disrupting the far more consequential presidential elections scheduled for May 25.

But some analysts said Putin was hedging against the inability of insurgents to pull off a successful ballot measure. “They control dozens of buildings, but not the entire territory, and don’t have the administrative capacity to organize a vote,” said Michael McFaul, who until earlier this year served as the United States ambassador in Russia.

In another gesture of reconciliation, Ukraine’s acting president, Oleksander Turchinov, and prime minister, Arseny Yatseniuk, in a statement offered amnesty to any insurgents who did not have “blood on their hands.” C. J. CHIVERS and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

INTERNATIONAL

Tensions Escalate In a Sea Dispute BEIJING — China’s escalating dispute with Vietnam over disputed waters in the South China Sea sent new shudders through Asia on Thursday, as China demanded the withdrawal of Vietnamese ships near a giant Chinese drilling rig and acknowledged its own naval vessels had blasted the Vietnamese flotilla with water cannons in recent days.

China punctuated its increasingly muscular stance toward a growing number of Asian neighbors who fear they are vulnerable to bullying by China. The latest back-and-forth in the dispute — the most serious in the South China Sea in years — sent Vietnam’s stock market plunging on Thursday and elicited concern from a top American diplomat who was visiting Hanoi.

Political and economic historians said the China-Vietnam tensions signaled a hardening position by the Chinese over what they regard as their “core interest” in claiming sovereignty over a vastly widened swath of coastal waters that stretch from the Philippines and Indonesia north to Japan. In Chinese parlance, “core interest” means there is no room for compromise.

“I find it quite alarming, because it was not so many years ago that there was a relatively tranquil relationship between China and its neighbors,” said Orville Schell, a China scholar who is the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York.

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Report Describes Atrocities in South Sudan War BENTIU, South Sudan — Two weeks after the massacre here, the stench of corpses clung to the walls of the Kaile-Bali mosque.

Bloodstains marked the ground, and torn pages from the Quran were strewn all over.

“If you saw what happened here, you would cry for the rest of your life,” said Ahmad Bushara alDai, 60, a Sudanese merchant who witnessed the attack by rebel forces last month. “The first wave of soldiers took our money and cellphones; the second found nothing, so they started shooting,” he said. “The machine guns did not stop, and the mosque was flowing with blood.”

On Thursday, United Nations investigators issued a report describing horrors committed by both sides in the civil war in South Sudan. Security forces went from house to house killing men belonging to certain ethnic groups, it said. Civilians have been killed seeking shelter in U.N. bases.

Combatants from both sides have raped and assaulted women.

In the report the United Nations documents crimes against humanity, including arbitrary killings and attacks on churches, hospitals and international aid facilities. “Civilians were not only caught up in the violence, they were directly targeted, often along ethnic lines,” it said.

The report is likely to boost calls for sanctions, a step the United States began this week with a freezing of assets and travel bans on two people, one on each side of the conflict.

But the report also underscores the difficulties facing the U.N. mis-

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Thousands of people have been killed in the civil war in South Sudan. A woman grieving for her 4-year-old daughter. sion here. From the start, it has tried to support the fledgling nation. Now that the government is a party to a gruesome conflict, the Security Council is considering a change to its mandate so that it functions in a neutral capacity, with the goal of protecting civilians.

Civil war has engulfed South Sudan since December, when clashes erupted between soldiers loyal to President Salva Kiir and those loyal to his former vice president, Riek Machar. The conflict soon took on an ethnic dimension between South Sudan’s two largest groups, the Dinka and the Nuer. Kiir is a Dinka, while Machar is a Nuer.

Thousands of people have been killed, more than one million people have been displaced, and the United Nations has warned that

famine threatens much of the country.

The peacekeeping mission’s report, based on interviews with more than 900 victims and witnesses, said that “from the very outset of the violence, gross violations of human rights and serious violations of humanitarian law have occurred on a massive scale.” But the recent scale of violence, especially here in Bentiu, made one United Nations official call it a “game changer.”

“I never thought the day would come when people would flee to Darfur,” said Toby Lanzer, the United Nations official in charge of coordinating the relief effort in South Sudan.

ISMA’IL KUSHKUSH and SOMINI SENGUPTA

In Brief U.N. Eyes Tracking of Planes

Blast in Syria Levels Hotel

N. Korean Rant Insults Obama

Frustrated by the failure to find any trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after the 250-ton jet disappeared nine weeks ago, the United Nations’ civil aviation arm will meet in Montreal on Monday to discuss ways to keep track of planes flying over the open sea. “We can’t let this happen again,” said Anthony Concil, a spokesman for the International Air Transport Association. After the last time searchers struggled to find an airliner — the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean five years ago — the agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization, mandated the phase-in of longer-lasting batteries for the “pingers” on data recorders. The Boeing 777 used on Flight 370 did not have the new batteries.

(NYT)

A deal to evacuate insurgents from the Old City of Homs in central Syria hit a snag on Thursday when rebels in Aleppo Province refused to allow all of a humanitarian convoy to enter two villages they had blockaded, as called for under a pact between the government and rebels, opposition activists and a pro-government TV channel reported. The problems came as insurgents in the northern city of Aleppo set off a huge explosion that leveled the historic Carlton Hotel, where government troops had been billeted. The Islamic Front, the insurgent coalition that claimed responsibility for the blast, controls territory where the convoys were blocked from entering the villages of Nubol and Zahra.

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Just weeks after President Obama, at a summit meeting with South Korea’s president, warned North Korea of harsher sanctions if it continued pursuing nuclear weapons, the North’s state-run news agency posted a racist rant against Obama. The Korean Central News Agency said a steel mill worker had made the racial slurs. But in the North’s totalitarian society, no ordinary citizen quoted in state media says anything that deviates from the official line. Pyongyang’s rhetoric turned markedly fouler after Obama and President Park Geun-hye met. On April 27, a North Korean government agency called Park a “dirty prostitute” in thrall to the “pimp” Obama.

(NYT)

NATIONAL

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014

Compromise on Gay Scouts Pleases No One SEATTLE — Pascal Tessier is a 17-year-old Eagle Scout in suburban Maryland who says scouting made him who he is today, with its lessons about morality, leadership and responsibility. And those strengths, this openly gay high school senior said, are what compel and equip him to fight back now against Scout policies on gays that he believes are wrong.

The Boy Scouts’ national board voted a year ago to allow openly gay youths to participate in scouting, while continuing to exclude gay leaders age 18 and over.

The awkwardness of the compromise — don’t-ask-don’t-tell silence on the one hand, and a supposedly welcoming embrace on the other, with an 18th birthday dividing the two — has emboldened and angered gay Scouts like Pascal to step forward.

Conservative critics have been no less vehement. Rob Schwarzwalder, a senior vice president at the Family Research Council, said: “How can two boys both

pledge to be ‘morally straight’ when they operate out of two different moral perspectives concerning human sexuality?”

The partial ban is also proving legally problematic with two distinct classes of members treated differently. In California, for example, state judges could be barred from involvement with the Boy Scouts under a proposed change of the rules on judicial ethics,which bar participation in groups practicing “invidious discrimination” but currently exempts “nonprofit youth organizations,” like the Scouts.

In Louisville, Ky., the county attorney, in an opinion last month, said the city could no longer make contributions to the Boy Scouts because the group violated the city’s antidiscrimination policy.

And of major corporations and foundations, from Alcoa to Intel, that dropped funding for the Scouts last year under pressure from gay advocacy groups, none have reopened their wallets under

the new policy, a Human Rights Campaign spokesman said.

A spokesman for the Boy Scouts, Deron Smith, said the organization had no count of how many churches or other organizations opposed to gay membership may have left after last year’s vote, or of how many gays might have joined. Nationally, he said, the Scouts lost 6 percent of their total membership in 2013, falling to about 2.5 million youth members and 960,000 adult members. The Scouts lost 4 percent of their membership in 2012, before the vote.

But the new approach since last year’s vote, with what amounts to essentially a code of silence about homosexuality, with little to no guidance in training materials on how to incorporate gay scouts into a troop or discourage bullying of a gay scout, is also now failing to protect boys, said Pascal’s mother, Tracie Felker.

“If you connect the dots, it’s still saying that being gay is unacceptable,” she said. KIRK JOHNSON

Patient’s Cells Deployed to Attack Aggressive Cancer Doctors have taken an important step toward a long-sought goal: harnessing a person’s own immune system to fight cancer.

An article published Thursday in the journal Science describes the treatment of a 43-year-old woman with an advanced and deadly type of cancer that had spread from her bile duct to her liver and lungs, despite chemotherapy.

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute sequenced the genome of her cancer and identified cells from her immune system that attacked a specific mutation in the malignant cells. Then they grew those immune cells in

the laboratory and infused billions of them into her bloodstream.

The tumors began “melting away,” said Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg, the senior author of the article and chief of the surgery branch at the cancer institute.

The woman is not cured: Her tumors are shrinking, but not gone.

And an experiment on one patient cannot determine whether a new treatment works. But the report is noteworthy because it describes an approach that may also be applied to common tumors — like those in the digestive tract, ovaries, pancreas, lungs and breasts — that cause more than 80 percent of the 580,000 cancer deaths in the

United States every year.

Rosenberg’s patient, Melinda Bachini, 45, a paramedic in Billings, Mont., said that without the cell treatment, “honest, I don’t know that I would be here.”

Rosenberg agreed, saying that in April 2012, when Bachini received the first immune treatment, her life expectancy was probably a matter of months.

Other researchers said the treatment used by Rosenberg’s team, known as adoptive cell therapy, had promise for these common cancers. But they also cautioned that the report was early and based on just one patient.

DENISE GRADY

Pick to Replace Health Secretary Draws Senators’ Praise WASHINGTON — Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Obama’s nominee to replace Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of health and human services, charmed senators at a confirmation hearing on Thursday.

And she even picked up a couple of Republican endorsements.

“Regardless of my objections to the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services needs competent lead-

ership,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. “I believe Ms. Burwell has the qualifications to run Health and Human Services.”

Burwell, 48, has been Obama’s budget director for the last year.

Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, a point man for Republicans on health care, said he voted for her to be director of the Office of Management and Budget in April 2013.

Without making a commitment to vote for her this time, he said,

“She’s a capable individual.”

The nominee clearly benefited from the contrast with Sebelius, whose relations with Republican lawmakers ranged typically from strained to nonexistent.

McCain said Burwell had assured him that “she will work with members of Congress, as she has as director of O.M.B., and be more responsive to its members than her predecessor.”

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In Brief House Votes to Start Benghazi Investigation House Republicans on Thursday rammed through a measure opening a new investigation of the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, vowing to dig deeper in a search for truth. Democrats declared it merely a political ploy to raise campaign cash and motivate voters. A divided House voted 232 to 186 to establish the panel that Speaker John A. Boehner insisted would answer questions that linger almost 20 months after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission. Seven Democrats broke ranks and joined Republicans in support of the inquiry. The investigation will examine the entirety of the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

(AP)

Veterans Affairs Chief Faces Panel Subpoena A House committee voted on Thursday to subpoena the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, and other top department officials, stepping up scrutiny of the agency amid allegations that secret waiting lists were used to cover up long delays for doctors appointments.

The subpoena from the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs covers all emails and other correspondence related to the “destruction or disappearance of an alternate or interim wait-list” at the department’s Phoenix medical center.

In a statement on Thursday, the Department of Veterans Affairs said it would “review and respond to the subpoena.” (NYT)

Execution Put on Hold Oklahoma on Thursday delayed the execution of Charles F. Warner by six months, to allow time for a review of lethal injection procedures that was started after a bungled execution last week left a prisoner writhing in pain before he died of heart failure. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued the stay after the attorney general’s office said it would not object. The execution of Warner, who was convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-month-old girl, is now scheduled for Nov. 13.

(NYT)

BUSINESS

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014

THE MARKETS

At Odds, Advertising Giants Call Off Merger deal had begun. The companies had not yet begun to share client contracts with one another, and relations between teams intended to integrate remained frosty.

Omnicom grew through acquisitions and came to dominate Madison Avenue with a family of agencies including BBDO, TBWA and DDB. Publicis, which is based in Paris and led by Maurice Lévy, owns Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi, among other agencies.

At the time the deal was announced, the companies agreed that both men would be co-chief executives to start and that after 30 months, Wren, who is 60, would become sole chief executive while Lévy, 71, would become nonexecutive chairman. But both Wren and Lévy are strong-willed, and people close to the deal said

that their personalities clashed.

One significant unresolved issue was which company would be acquiring the other one. After much persuasion, Publicis was prepared to allow Omicom to be the acquirer, according to people briefed on the matter. But Publicis then balked at the notion that Omnicom’s management would retain control of both the chief executive and chief financial officer roles. Omicom was pressing to have its finance chief, Randall J. Weisenburger, keep his role.

That would have made the deal essentially an Omnicom acquisition of Publicis. In addition, Publicis executives contended that their company had the stronger financial model, and was better positioned to integrate the merged corporation’s finances.

DAVID GELLES

Apple Said to Be in Talks to Buy Rising Music Brand Apple is in discussions to buy Beats Electronics, the company behind the popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, for $3.2 billion, according to people briefed on the talks, in what would be the biggest acquisition in Apple’s history.

The deal would also include the new Beats Music streaming service and could signal an effort by Apple to transform its approach to music over a decade after it introduced the iTunes download store.

A deal has not been consummated, and the negotiations could still fall apart, according to these people, who were not authorized to speak about it publicly. But if it is completed, the sale could be announced as early as next week, these people said. Apple

and Beats declined to comment.

For Apple, the deal could point to a headlong move into the frontier of streaming music, where companies like Spotify and Pandora have taken the lead. It also gives Apple ownership over new categories of physical products to sell in its stores.

Apple has recently struggled in developing new products. It has been working hard to develop a smartwatch, but problems like poor battery life have plagued that project, according to multiple people briefed on the company’s plans, who asked not to be named. And for years, rumors abound that the company has worked on a smarter, Internet-connected television set to

become a stronger player in the living room. But that product hasn’t been released either.

At over $3 billion, the Beats acquisition would be the biggest ever for Apple. In Beats, Apple would be acquiring a company with a hot brand. Founded by the rapper Dr. Dre and the music executive Jimmy Iovine, the company first began to sell its headphones in 2008 as an alternative to the earbuds that Apple included free with its iPod players, and even at prices of up to $450 apiece, they quickly became fashion statements.

Sales of Beats products, which also include speakers and other audio items, have been estimated at more than $1.5 billion. (NYT)

Red-Hot Web in China Richly Rewards Foreign Investors SHENZHEN, China — It is one of the best investments of the digital age.

In June 2001, a South African media company called Naspers paid $34 million to acquire a big stake in a struggling Chinese start-up. Today that start-up, Tencent, is an Internet colossus worth nearly $120 billion. And Naspers is $40 billion richer because of its well-timed bet.

Yahoo and Japan’s SoftBank could score a total of $75 billion on their shares in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. The ven-

ture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson owned nearly a third of Baidu, the Chinese Internet search engine, when it went public in 2005; its shares rose 354 percent on its first day of trading.

The I.P.O. this year of an Alibaba rival, JD.com, will rain profit on a host of foreign investors, like the American investment firm Tiger Global, DST of Russia and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia.

“It’s really the law of big numbers,” said Stuart Schonberger, a partner at CDH Investments,

a private equity firm focused on China. “With China, when it goes right, it’s just amazing.”

Foreign investments in China’s Internet sector have been so large and lucrative that some analysts worry that China could further tighten its existing restrictions as a way to ensure its control over one of the most dynamic and sensitive parts of the economy, as it has with banking, telecommunications and aviation.

But so far, the Chinese government has shown no overt concern.

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The ad giants Omnicom Group and Publicis Groupe called off their $35 billion merger on Thursday, bringing a premature end to a deal that would have created the largest advertising company.

A mix of clashing personalities, disagreements about how the companies would be integrated and complications over legal and tax issues derailed the deal nine months after it was announced.

The collapse is a huge setback for both companies. When the merger was announced last summer, it was billed as an opportunity to create an international powerhouse with the capabilities to serve large and small clients alike with a mix of digital and traditional agencies.

For Omnicom and Publicis, little progress had been made nearly a year after work on the

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BUSINESS

Recalled Used Cars Roam Roads as Bills Stall David Clayton was driving 70 miles an hour in his Ram 1500 pickup truck last October when he learned the hard way that it had a serious safety problem.

The rear axle locked up, causing him to nearly lose control before wrestling the truck to the side of the highway.

Chrysler knew about the axle defect and had ordered a recall of the pickup before Clayton bought it used last July from a dealer in Visalia, Calif. But the dealer never had the axle repaired — and was not required to do so.

The United States does not have a law requiring the repair of used vehicles — including rental cars — that have been recalled for safety issues before they are rented or sold back to the public.

Auto dealers and many manufacturers oppose efforts to require recalled used and rental cars to be immediately repaired.

Dealers contend that not all recalls require immediate attention, though regulators say recalls, by definition, involve pressing safety concerns. And auto manufacturers want protection from rental car companies that might sue over lost business while recalled cars are out of service.

But without a law, safety advocates and regulators say, consumers must take the rental car company’s or dealer’s word that

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the repairs were made, and have limited ability to seek redress without that assurance.

“It should be a slam dunk,” David J. Friedman, acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said of required repairs. “To me, it is hard to oppose ensuring that people who buy a car, whether it is new or used, or whether you are renting a vehicle, can have the confidence that it is safe.”

In the first four months of the year, 11.3 million vehicles were recalled in the United States. There are almost two million rental vehicles on the road, according to Auto Rental News, a trade publication, though it is not known how many of those have been recalled.

Safety advocates are pushing for change on two fronts in Washington. In the Transporta-

Dealers say that not all recalls require immediate attention.

David Clayton and his dog in his Ram 1500, which had an axle defect that wasn’t repaired.

tion Department’s budget plan, repair provisions would require car dealers and rental agencies to idle vehicles under recall until they are repaired.

A bill in the Senate would apply only to rental cars. Introduced in 2011, it was largely a reaction to the death of two sisters, Raechel and Jacqueline Houck, who were killed in a recalled but unrepaired rental car in 2004.

It could become part of a bigger piece of legislation.

“It’s just a question of how long it will take and how many people have to be killed or injured before it happens,” said Rosemary Shahan, the president of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, an advocacy group pushing for legislation mandating repairs.

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Barclays Seeks to Dismantle Its Global Empire LONDON — After decades of building a global investment bank, Barclays is sounding a retreat.

The British bank on Thursday announced plans to take an ax to its investment banking business by slashing half of its capital and more than a quarter of its work force, or 7,000 jobs.

Instead, Barclays will focus on four core areas: retail and corporate banking, primarily in Britain; credit cards; banking in Africa; and, to a lesser extent, investment banking.

Weaker businesses — including the trading of physical commodities outside of precious metals and some European branch networks outside of Britain — will be placed in an internal “bad bank” to be sold or run off.

“This is a bold simplification of Barclays,” the bank’s chief executive, Antony P. Jenkins, said.

The overhaul represents a turn-

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around from the empire-building ambitions of Robert E. Diamond Jr., the bank’s previous chief executive. Diamond, a former bond trader at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston, built a global banking franchise after joining Barclays in 1996, culminating in the 2008 acquisition of the bulk of Lehman Brothers’ investment banking operations.

But in the last few years, embarrassing regulatory investigations and penalties, combined with capital shortfalls and lackluster returns, have cast a cloud over what was once the swashbuckling and money-minting side of the bank and led to the 2012 ouster of Diamond after just 18 months as chief executive.

Today, Barclays faces tougher requirements about the funds it must hold, less flexibility on how much the bank can borrow and the prospect of rising interest

rates. As a result, the bank will leave a number of businesses, particularly in fixed-income activities: the trading of bonds, derivatives and commodities.

Other banks have faced pressure from regulators to get out of riskier businesses and wall off their retail operations to better navigate any future financial crisis. Switzerland’s biggest bank, UBS, began a sharp retrenchment of its investment banking business two years ago.

Barclays will also accelerate its cost-cutting effort. The bank plans to eliminate 14,000 positions this year and 19,000 in total over the next three years.

“The investment banking industry for all intents and purposes has disappeared,” James P. Gorman, Morgan Stanley’s chief executive, said at a conference this week. JENNY ANDERSON and CHAD BRAY

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Ford Motor Co., up 35 cents to $15.81.

The automaker said that it will buy back about $1.8 billion worth of its shares to offset a possible dilution of its stock.

Molycorp Inc., down 84 cents to $3.71.

The rare-earth miner’s first-quarter results fall well short of expectations as losses widened and revenue fell.

Finish Line Inc., up 28 cents to $28.24.

A partnership between the shoe retailer and Macy’s is generating sales to women and propelling the stock to a record high.

The Wendy’s Co., down 3 cents to $8.30.

The hamburger chain saw profits spike on lower costs and lower interest expenses, as well as an uptick in sales.

Tesla Motors Inc., down $22.76 to $178.59. Free cash flow will be in negative territory as the electric car maker spends heavily to ramp up production.

SolarCity Corp., up $5.89 to $53.60. The solar company had a big quarter and analysts are upgrading its shares as it moves into the residential power sector.

Keurig Green Mountain Inc., up $11.98 to $104.19. Shares are up almost 40 percent this year, and spiked again after the single-serve coffee maker reported roaring sales.

(AP)

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Windsurfers Make Room for the Art Crowd

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A Turkish town populated mostly by retirees and known for its prime windsurfing conditions was, without employment opportunities for its young, headed for desertion and disrepair five years ago.

But this spot on the Aegean has recently seen a revival as children from Turkey’s big cities who vacationed there in the 1980s grew up and returned to stay.

Coined the new Bodrum for its resemblance to the beachside city that has attracted foreign tourists for decades, Alacati has been attracting Turkey’s intellectuals and artists to the Cesme peninsula for years.

And now a new set of stylish city dwellers is setting up businesses in the town center. They have converted crumbling stone houses into home decoration shops, boutique hotels, art galleries and restaurants with courtyards.

One boutique-cum-art gallery in the heart of town is Bazen (Hacimemis Mahallesi 2012 Sokak No. 12; 90-232-716-0180: facebook.com/BazenAlacati). Banu Maga, 43, an artist from Istanbul, opened the shop last summer and describes it as the dream project she has had since she was a child. Maga used to come to the area to windsurf with her parents for many years before deciding to rent one of the stone houses in Alacati’s back streets. Bazen showcases her father’s art and her own ceramic creations, none of which are for sale, amid silver jewelry and silk caftans — sourced from Maga’s designer friends and local suppliers — that are.

More unusual businesses have surfaced nearby, like the atmospheric gallery Eskiden (Hacimemis Mahallesi 2012 Sokak No. 18; 90-532-311-1576; eskidenalacati.com/tr). Started four years ago by Oktay Durna, 47, a former television and radio presenter from Ankara, the gallery sells Roman ceramics and glassware that are 150 to 400 years old. Like many recent arrivals, he came to windsurf but found the meshing of old and new Turkish culture so magical that he moved here in 2006. “Alacati is the place where time melts into its ageless buildings and into its unique atmosphere,” Durna said.

At every turn, a winding alley leads to a courtyard-restaurant like Asma Yapragi (Tokoglu Mahallesi 1005 Sokak No. 50; 90-232-716-0178; facebook. com/asmayapragi), furnished with recycled furniture and shaded by trees adorned with lanterns.

RATES Standard rooms start at 115 euros, about $156.

BASICS The fashionable Hamburg-based 25hours hotel chain opened this 10-story, 149-room property in January in a modernist 1950s building called Bikini-Haus.

LOCATION In affluent Charlottenburg, next to the Berlin Zoo and just west of historic Tiergarten park, a 520-acre expanse of greenery that was the hunting ground of kings in the 16th century, this hotel is close to many tourist attractions. A Berlin underground station is less than five minutes away on foot, and major bus routes run in front of the hotel.

THE ROOM Black and hunter green floor tiles covering nearly half the room gave it an austere feel at first, though that was offset by sage-green walls and plush bedding. Floor-to-ceiling win-

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Alacati, Turkey, once known for its sea and wind conditions, now has contemporary restaurants and intimate hotels.

The hotels, too, are homey. Beyevi (Yeni Mecidiye Mahallesi Kemalpasa Caddesi No. 126; 90-232-7168085; beyevi.com.tr/eng/) has only seven rooms (and an outdoor pool) and laid-back service. For something a little more bohemian, Nars Alacati (Alacati Koy Meydani No. 43/A; 90-232-716-0900; narsalacati.com/english) exudes hunting-lodge charm with distressed leather furniture accented by colorful woven throws that give it an Amazonian tribal edge.

The village’s mellow but chic vibe also manifests itself in Alacati’s more contemporary establishments like Su’dan (Hacimemis Mahallesi Mithatpasa Caddesi No. 22; 90-232-716-0737; facebook.com/pages/ Sudan-Cafe-Sudan-Palas). In this bar, old copies of National Geographic hold up the reclaimed shelving.

A terrace restaurant not to miss is Eflatun (Hacimemis Mahallesi 2012 Sokak No. 9; 90-232-716-6858; facebook.com/eflatunalacati) for Nalan Kocaoglu’s home cooking. Kocaoglu, 50, had owned two restaurants in her native Istanbul, but after visiting Alacati on vacation she sold them and relocated here.

“I didn’t come here for the windsurfing,” she said, “but I instantly fell in love with the village, the people and its atmosphere.” ROOKSANA HOSSENALLY

In a ‘Frozen’ Age, a Flurry of Bookings to Norway Whether because of Disney’s animated Oscar-winner “Frozen” or interest in climatologically threatened polar bears, travel to Norway has increased this year.

The airport at Oslo reported a 57 percent jump in American arrivals from New York in the first quarter alone. And the prospect of summer, with warmer weather and family vacations, promises more arrivals.

Several United States-based tour operators have reported growth in bookings ranging from 20 percent to 34 percent. The demand led California-based Wilderness Travel to increase its

Norway trips to five this year from one, with over 90 percent of spaces already sold.

The Disney tour company Adventures by Disney, seeking to capitalize on the film, introduced an eight-day Norway trip with seven departures this summer and fall.

The trips begin in Bergen, purportedly the model for Arendelle, the setting for “Frozen,” and visit stave churches, fjords and folk dancers, also sources of inspiration for the filmmakers. Next summer, Disney Cruise Line will begin seven-, nine- and 11-night sailings around the Norwegian coast.

In June, Natural Habitat Adventures will run a new small-shipbased Iceland-to-Norway trip focused on seeing polar bears and other Arctic species. Ted Martens, marketing and sustainability director for the Boulder, Colo.-based company, said Arctic programs in general had experienced substantial growth apart from the movie’s popularity.

“I think people are realizing there are some incredible experiences to be had near the poles,” he said, “and they don’t need to go all the way to Antarctica to see glaciers, icebergs and unique wildlife.”

ELAINE GLUSAC

BERLIN 25Hours Hotel Bikini

25HOURS HOTEL BIKINI BERLIN

dows overlooking the zoo offered views of swans and fauna.

THE BATHROOM Tiled in black, the toilet cubicle and roomy shower could have felt like dungeons if not for the soft backlighting. The sleek black Grohe rain shower and showerhead were adjusted by handles outfitted with buttons that were a bit perplexing. A call to the receptionist solved the mystery (sort of ).

When asked what the buttons did, she cheerily said, “Nothing!”

AMENITIES You can not only rent a bike but also borrow a mini Cooper for free, which is impressive.

(Wi-Fi is complimentary, too.) A rooftop terrace, the Monkey Bar and Neni Berlin restaurant have 360 views of Tiergarten and the city’s ornate historic buildings and high rises.

BREAKFAST The hotel does not offer room service, which meant the only in-house option for breakfast was an 18-euro meal at Neni Berlin, its Middle Eastern rooftop restaurant.

BOTTOM LINE A fashionable, comfortable and modern experience with sweeping views of old Berlin. CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN

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Like Their Eccentric Collector, a Club’s Exotic Birds Have Left “They disappeared; I don’t know where they went,” James, 67, said. He said that when he was compelled to leave the club in 2011, he left behind as many as 100 birds.

No one could say what became of the birds.

The club’s lawyer at the time, Roland G. Riopelle, said that when he came to inspect the club after James’s departure, “there were no birds anywhere.”

Some of James’s birds — or birds that looked like his — played a role in his departure. On a cold day in March 2011, in the midst of the conflict, dozens of baby finches were found dead outside the club. Suspicion fell on James, who some people believed had released them into the cold.

Not long ago, the National Arts Club was home to dozens of birds, including lovebirds, finches, a Quaker parrot and a raven. They had been acquired by the club’s eccentric president, O. Aldon James Jr., who also collected other animals in the more than century-old club on Gramercy Park in New York.

Today, a sign hangs in the entrance of the club: “No Pets Allowed in the Clubhouse.” On the landing where wire bird cages once stood stands a row of well-dusted busts and a sculpture of two fighting lions.

After a bitter dispute with club officials and an investigation by the state attorney general over misused funds, James is gone, and so are the birds. Where did all the birds go?

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The episode heaped more unflattering attention on the organization, and soon after, he was forced into what he called a “leave of absence” as president. He never returned.

James was known locally as “the Bird Man.” His collection at the club began with two doves bought for a Valentine’s Day Red Ball. A Hua Mei songbird also lived in the club. As did a raven, named Reverend for his white collar. And there were the finches and prolific lovebirds. “When they’d get off their perches and fly, it was like an Impressionist painting of color,” James said.

Some club members’ memories of the birds were less poetic. “They were noisy. They smelled,” a member who would give only a first name, Jim, said.

As James’s relationship with the club began to fray, he gave birds away to members.

Several lovebirds went to the Park Avenue home of a longtime board member, Marguerite Jossel. The Quaker parrot, Martina, was taken home by the club’s concierge, Miguel Serrano, who says he now lives alone with the bird in Midtown.

It was Serrano who finally provided some inkling of what happened to the birds that were left behind. First of all, Serrano said, there were not 100. “There was like, maybe, 25 left,” he said. “They gave them to a pet shop.”

He said they were mostly finches.

Dianne Bernhard, who had succeeded James as president for a spell, said, “There was a time when the birds were a happy addition, but then, it became too many.” When James left, she said, perhaps 50 remained.

“The birds went to different homes. Some were taken back to pet stores.”

On Wednesday, when he learned the fate of the birds, James said, “I wouldn’t have wanted the birds to be there under those circumstances. But I imagine the transition was traumatic for them.

“We were both — we both had to leave our tree.”

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EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

Center Ring at the Republican Circus The hottest competition in Washington this week is among House Republicans vying for a seat on the Benghazi kangaroo court. Half of the House has asked to “serve” on the committee.

They won’t pass a serious jobs bill, or raise the minimum wage, but House Republicans think they can earn their pay for the rest of the year by exposing nonexistent malfeasance on the part of the Obama administration. On Thursday, they voted to create a committee to conduct an investigation of the 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The day before, they voted to hold in contempt Lois Lerner, the former Internal Revenue Service official whom they would love to blame for the administration’s crackdown on conservative groups, if only they could prove there was a crackdown, which they can’t, because there wasn’t.

Both actions stem from the same impulse: a need to rouse the most fervent anti-Obama wing of the party and keep it angry enough to deliver its donations and votes to Republicans in the November elections.

Their hope is to show the administration is corrupt and untrustworthy, and if Hillary Rodham Clinton also gets roughed up in the process, so much the better.

Four Americans died in Benghazi, and their deaths have been crassly used by Republicans as a political cudgel. They have failed to provide proof for any number of conspiracy theories about the administration’s failures, including the ludicrous charge from Rep. Darrell Issa that Clinton, then the secretary of state, told the Pentagon to “stand down” and not help de-

fend the American compound.

In fact, investigations by two congressional committees found that there was never any kind of “stand-down order” or request. But Issa and others keep repeating it because, for their purposes, the facts don’t matter.

Now Republicans are frothing about a newly released email message showing that the White House wanted Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations at the time, to go on television in 2012 and make the case that the attack was not a failure of administration policy. The message should have been turned over earlier because all it shows is a routine attempt to spin the news in the most favorable way to the White House. Though it is not the slightest evidence of a cover-up, it has become the foundation for the committee’s existence.

Democrats who are now debating whether to participate in the committee shouldn’t hesitate to skip it. Their presence would only lend legitimacy to a farce.

Similarly, the Justice Department should not press Lerner’s contempt citation before a grand jury. She invoked her Fifth Amendment rights at a hearing last year and refused to testify, but Republicans claim, without foundation, that she waived those rights by first proclaiming her innocence. Her refusal, they said, was contemptuous of Congress.

Little nuisances like constitutional rights or basic facts can’t be allowed to stand in the way when House Republicans need to whip up their party’s fury.

How to Fix the Mortgage Market In the credit bubble of the last decade, the housing market essentially became a tool of the financial system. To sate the banks’ demand for mortgage-related securities, many loans were made not on the basis of sound lending standards but on the unsound premise that house prices would rise forever — a practice that led to the bust and to the bailouts of Wall Street and of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A bipartisan bill that the Senate Banking Committee is expected to vote on soon seeks to rejuvenate the housing finance market while guarding against the excesses of the past. The Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2014 aims to ensure broad and steady access to sustainable and affordable mortgages, in part by providing an explicit government guarantee to attract investment in 30-year fixed-rate mortgages and other loans. It also seeks to protect taxpayers from future bailouts partly by requiring those who package and sell mortgage loans to hold capital to absorb losses.

At its most basic, the bill would end Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but would continue federal support for mortgages through a new entity, the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation.

However, the Senate bill is fatally marred by two provisions. One, named the “investor immunity” provision, is ostensibly aimed at protecting mortgage investors from legal liability for transgressions by lenders, guarantors or other participants in the mortgage process.

But it is so broadly worded that it could shield most mortgage-market participants from liability for a broad range of transgressions, including violations of the federal Truth in Lending Act and of new laws requiring lenders to verify a borrower’s ability to repay and to treat delinquent borrowers fairly.

Another section of the bill is ostensibly aimed at preventing the government from meddling in the decisions of mortgage-market participants as to which loans to include in various mortgage securities. In practice, however, a lack of supervision is an invitation to lending discrimination on racial, geographic and other grounds because lenders may tend to make loans that are easiest to sell to investors, that is, loans in high-priced communities, rather than loans that reach all communities.

Both of those provisions need to be struck from the bill before it is worthy of a “yes” vote by banking committee members.

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The Real Africa In 2005, Binyavanga Wainaina published a brilliantly sarcastic essay in Granta called “How to Write About Africa,” advising people on how to sound spiritual and compassionate while writing a book about the continent.

“Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title,” Wainaina advised.

“Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these.”

There’s been something similarly distorted to some of the social media reactions to the Boko Haram atrocities over the past week.

It’s great that the kidnappings and the massacres are arousing the world’s indignation. But sometimes the implication of the conversation has been this: Africa is this dark and lawless place where monstrous things are bound to happen. Those poor people need our help.

But this is more or less the opposite of the truth. The main story in Africa is an impressive surge of growth, urbanization and modernization, which has sparked panic in a few people who don’t like these things.

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are growing at a phenomenal clip. Nigeria’s economy grew by 6.7 percent in 2012. Mozambique’s grew by 7.4 percent, Ghana’s by 7.9 percent.

In 2011, roughly 60 million African households earned at least $3,000 a year. By next year, more than 100 million households will make that much.

The bulk of this new wealth is because of economic reforms, increased productivity, increased urbanization and the fact that, in many countries, political systems are becoming marginally less dysfunctional.

Africa has become the test case of 21st-century modernity. It is the place where the pace of modernization is fast, and where the forces that resist modernization are mounting a daring reaction.

We are seeing three distinct clashes. The first is the clash over pluralism. Africa has seen an explosion of cellphone usage. It’s seen a rapid expansion of urbanization. In 1980, only 28 percent of Africans lived in cities, but today 40 percent do.

The second is a clash over human development. Over the past decade, secondary school enrollment in Africa has increased by 50 percent. This contributes to an increasing value on intellectual openness, as people seek liberty to furnish their own minds.

The third is the clash over governance.

Roughly 80 percent of Africa’s workers labor in the informal sector. That’s because the formal governmental and regulatory structures are biased toward the connected and the rich. Many Africans are trying to replace old practices with competent governance.

Africa faces in acute forms the same problems that afflict pretty much every region. Most important: Individual and social creativity is zooming ahead. Governing institutions are failing to perform the basic, elementary tasks.

by MCSN Jenna Kaliszewski

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he aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) conducted an underway replenishment (UNREP) May 8, taking on 600,000 gallons of fuel.

The ship’s crew conducted the UNREP to ensure TR will be stocked with enough fuel to conduct flight operations while underway.

“The ship can hold 3.2 million gallons of fuel,” said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (fueling) 1st Class Damon St. Ann, the leading petty officer of the below decks fuel operations. “We currently have more than two million gallons aboard.”

Aviation boatswain’s mates (fueling) check the quality of the fuel before begining the fast-paced onload.

“We check the new fuel for color, water content and quality,” said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (fueling) 1st Class Chris Blair, the leading petty officer of flight deck fuel operations.

“If the first sample isn’t what we want, I switch tanks to bring on more fuel until we receive a sample that’s good,” said St. Ann. Once a good sample is received, they begin filling TR’s tanks.

TR has 187 fuel tanks. Six tanks on both the forward and aft ends of the ship remain empty at all times to prevent the pressure from becoming too high, said St. Ann. The crew prepared for this replenishment days ahead of time by consolidating its tanks, leaving as many tanks empty as they could, said St. Ann. “Our main end goal is getting clean, clear, and bright fuel up to the flight deck so [flight] operations can continue,” said Blair.

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