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Matt Slan looks at a dinosaur book with his son, Lucas, 3, on Black Friday at the Collected Works Bookstore while his daughter, Charlie, 10, peeks from around the corner. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
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Scores of Santa Feans gathered on the Plaza on Friday evening to kick off the holiday season with the city’s annual tree lighting celebration. The event included musical entertainment, refreshments, and a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus, who made a grand entrance on the Santa Fe Fire Department’s 1934 La France fire engine.
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LEFT: Christine Tesar of Santa Fe takes a photo of her daughter, Nicole, 6, with Santa after the lighting. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO THE NEW MEXICAN
Russian health care reforms would leave thousands of doctors jobless Shocked by mass protests, Putin asks Moscow government to reconsider overhaul By Nataliya Vasilyeva The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Dr. Semyon Galperin spent a decade in medical research in Russia and as much time in the United States, working at top hospitals and research companies. Despite his expertise, Galperin was recently given a stark ultimatum from the Moscow hospital where he works: Leave or stay
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Putin who faced down a wave of political protests launched in 2011 and is now struggling with a faltering economy. The doctors’ rebellion started early this month, when thousands took to the streets to protest the layoffs and hospital closures. Last time a similar protest happened in 2005, Putin became so alarmed that within a week he overturned the scrapping of social benefits for millions of pensioners and the disabled, and in fact doubled pensions instead. Aware of the potential fallout of this protest, Putin last week asked the Moscow government to recon-
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on as a lowly hospital attendant. Galperin’s job is being eliminated as part of a sweeping reform in which at least 28 Moscow hospitals are to be Dr. Semyon closed and up Galperin to 10,000 medical staff fired, an overhaul that officials say is needed to modernize a decrepit Soviet-era health system. On Sunday, thousands of doctors and their patients are set to march against the reform as part of the first mass social protest in Russia in nearly a decade — a threat to President Vladimir
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Pleasant weather and bargains draw crowds to downtown stores
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BLACK FRIDAY
On a Black Friday that appeared less frenzied than usual across the nation, an optimistic current seemed to move through Santa Fe’s commercial centers as locals and tourists alike flocked to stores throughout the city. Santa Fe’s Black Friday shopping surge was especially noticeable downtown, where a combination of warm weather and the prospect of bargains drew crowds throughout the morning hours. Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., was buzzing with dozens of customers flipping through children’s books and eyeing the staff-recommended offerings at the counter. Dorothy Massey, who owns the downtown store, said she anticipates that this holiday season will be a profitable one. “Things can only get better from here,” said Massey, who, like other brick-and-mortar booksellers, has had to deal with stiff online competition. “People are increasingly basing decisions on quality rather than cutthroat pricing.” Texans Joe and Rhonda Feather, who said they visit Santa Fe annually, also were browsing at Collected Works, following breakfast at Tia Sophia’s. The duo said they have favorite stores in Santa Fe that they always visit, including Collected Works and the LewAllen Galleries.
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ALBUQUERQUE — The Obama administration took steps this week to cut levels of smog-forming pollution linked to asthma and other respiratory problems, but meeting the stricter emissions limits is expected to cost industries billions of dollars. Utilities that run coal-fired power plants in the Southwest, oil and gas operations throughout New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, and other businesses could feel the pinch. If counties run afoul of the proposed ozone regulations, virtually any industry could be targeted and forced to shut down some of their operations, said Wally Drangmeister, with the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association. That could affect the tax revenue states get from oil and gas, as well as other industries. “I won’t go as far as saying this is shutting down all economic growth in the U.S., but it has the potential to really impact many, many things way above and beyond what virtually anybody thinks would be a reasonable path forward for environment
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U.S. gains powerful edge as oil price drops U.S. drivers, economy see boon as some OPEC nations see hardship By Clifford Krauss The New York Times
HOUSTON — Since the economically crippling oil embargo of 1973, every American president has pledged to seek and achieve “energy independence.” That elusive goal may finally have arrived, at least for the foreseeable future, with the failure of Saudi Arabia and its 11 oil cartel partners in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to agree to a production cut that would put a brake on plummeting crude prices. On Friday, the benchmark American price for crude oil continued the free fall that began Thursday to close at $66.15, its lowest price in more than four years. The inability or unwillingness of OPEC to act showed that the cartel is no longer the dominating producer whose decisions can determine
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