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Neither pain nor politics fazes Iran negotiator

WASHINGTON

Thai protests turn deadly with rival shootings

BANGKOK

No. 3 at State Dept. used channels both public and private in securing deal
BY DAVID E. SANGER

Prime minister remains firm as demonstrators target government sites

BY THOMAS FULLER

On her way to brief highly skeptical members of Congress about the deal she was still negotiating in secretive talks with the Iranians, Wendy Sherman, the State Departments No. 3 official and its lead negotiator with Tehran, fell and ruptured a tendon in her finger. She packed it in ice, went to a secure room, and continued her briefing on uranium enrichment levels and current intelligence about the intentions of Americas longtime adversary. Only then did she head to the emergency room. The story quickly whipped through the White House. She is both extraordinarily focused and extraordinarily tenacious, said Antony J. Blinken, the deputy national security adviser, who has coordinated the Iran strategy. Shes not the kind to pay attention to pain. That focus over the past two years helped prepare the ground for talks with Iran that gained momentum, both in public and through a secret channel, once Hassan Rouhani was elected Irans president last summer. But now Ms. Shermans tenacity and toughness will be tested by two different challenges. She must persuade Congress not to go ahead with imposing further sanctions that could imperil the preliminary deal reached in Geneva last month. And over the next six months, she must coax the Iranians to actually dismantle a multibillion-dollar nuclear infrastructure that so far it has agreed only to freeze in place. Many strategists were behind the drive that could become the Obama administrations signature achievement in foreign policy, or end in failure. William Burns, the deputy secretary of state, ran a secret negotiating channel with the Iranians in Oman that Ms. Sherman occasionally joined; Secretary of State
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A demonstrator throwing back a tear gas canister during clashes with the police in Bangkok on Sunday. Protesters oppose the influence of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Latest German model: Apprenticeships

GREER, S.C.

BY NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

For Joerg Klisch, hiring the first 60 workers to build heavy engines at his companys new factory in South Carolina was easy. Finding the next 60 was not so simple. It seemed like we had sucked up everybody who knew about diesel engines, said Mr. Klisch, vice president for North American operations of Tognum America. It wasnt working as

we had planned. So Mr. Klisch did what he would have done back home in Germany: He set out to train them himself. Working with five local high schools and a career center in Aiken County, S.C. and a curriculum nearly identical to the one at the companys headquarters in Friedrichshafen Tognum now has nine juniors and seniors enrolled in its apprenticeship program. Inspired by a partnership between schools and industry that is seen as a key to Germanys advanced industrial

Companies bring their age-old method of training to their South Carolina factories.
capability and relatively low unemployment rate, projects like the one at Tognum are practically unheard-of in the United States. But experts in government and academia, along with those inside companies like BMW, which has its only American factory in South Carolina, say

apprenticeships are a desperately needed option for younger workers who want decent-paying jobs, or increasingly, any job at all. And without more programs like the one at Tognum, they maintain, the nascent recovery in American manufacturing will run out of steam for lack of qualified workers. South Carolina offers a fantastic model for what we can do nationally, said Ben Olinsky, co-author of a forthcoming report by the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington reWORKERS, PAGE 17

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Thailands week of antigovernment demonstrations entered a dangerous and volatile phase on Sunday after shootings involving rival political camps left at least four people dead and 53 wounded. Many areas of Bangkok, the sprawling metropolis that is a major hub of commerce and travel in Southeast Asia, remained unaffected by the demonstrations. But the shootings and the increasingly provocative moves by protesters spread fears that unrest could move beyond the pockets of the capital where protests and violence have raged. As protesters traveled through the city by motorcycle and on foot Sunday, vowing to shut down additional government buildings, Bangkoks largest shopping malls, which normally teem with visitors on weekends, hastily announced that they were closing their doors for the day. Nearly 3,000 soldiers began arriving in the capital to shore up key government buildings. Protesters are pursuing the quixotic goal of ridding the country of the influence of Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire tycoon and former prime minister whose political party has captured the allegiance of voters in the countryside, winning every election since 2001. The protesters say they are frustrated with the dominance of Mr. Thaksin and are disillusioned with the current democratic system. They have proposed an alternative to the countrys democracy, an ill-defined peoples council made up of representatives from many professions. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who is Mr. Thaksins youngest sister, repeatedly said over the weekend that she

Giving pets (and their owners) some comfort at the end

More U.S. veterinarians offering hospice care to ease the pain of death
BY MATT RICHTEL

Sea rescue

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An Italian Coast Guard vessel preparing to transfer Syrian refugees. As the civil war in Syria rages on, more are risking sea voyages to Europe. PAGE 10
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More and more, cats and dogs get the human treatment. There are pet spas, pet therapists, pet clothes. And as it goes in life, so it now goes in the twilight. The latest phenomenon: pet hospice. Around the United States, a growing number of veterinarians are offering hospice care, and marketing it as a way to give cats and dogs and their owners a less anxious, more comfortable passing. The approach, in the spirit of the human variety, entails ceasing aggressive

medical treatment and giving pain and even anti-anxiety drugs. Unlike in hospice care for humans, euthanasia is an option and in fact, is a big part of this end-of-life turn. When its time, the vet performs it in the living room, bedroom or wherever the family feels comfortable. Thats a big part of the job, the vets say, relieving pet owner guilt, giving them an emotional bridge to a pets death, and letting them grieve at home rather than in a clinic or animal shelter. The intimacy carries a premium, sometimes costing 25 percent or more than euthanasia in a clinic. Vets, and their customers, say it can be worth it. Theyre in their own environment, not only the pet but the owners, said Dr. Mary Gardner, co-founder of Lap of Love, a company based in Florida that is
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one of the leaders in a small but growing market. Theyre allowed to have other animals present, other cats or dogs present, other children, added Dr. Gardner, who refers to a pets owner as its mom or dad, and has since relocated her own practice to Los Angeles.

It was more for me than him, one dog-owner said.

Ive been to some homes where they had barbecues for that dog, and invited me and the neighbors, and the dog was the man of the hour. Lap of Loves business has blossomed since 2010 from two providers to more than 68 vet partners in 18 states. The International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care, a group started

in 2009, now has 200 members, mostly vets, but also several family therapists, lawyers and an animal sanctuary in Northern California that takes in and provides holistic healing and hospice for terminally ill and elderly pets. There is a formal end-of-life movement, a formal hospice movement, said Dr. Eden Myers, a veterinarian in Kentucky who runs JustVetData.com, which tracks industry trends. Of the providers who do this, she said: Theyre everywhere. Dr. Amir Shanan, a vet in Chicago who started the International Association for Animal Hospice, described the movement as growing, but still not mainstream; veterinary schools are only now embracing the idea. There are skeptics out there, he said. But 20 years ago,
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The United States is considering letting passengers use their phones while flying, and a lot of people are not happy. But silencing phones could mean losing a newly gained freedom. BUSINESS, 20 Ivor Rose and Rita Starr were swindled in a mortgage scam, and the firm that insured the loans wont settle, Gretchen Morgenson writes. BUSINESS, 19

Five years after remarks by Bill Clinton about Barack Obama alienated black voters, the former first family is setting out to ensure that there is no replay of such trouble in 2016. nytimes.com/politics

Defrauded, but liable for millions

Irritation over White House photos

News photographers are annoyed that the official White House photographer, once one of their own, is getting access that they are not. nytimes.com/politics In a Catholic home for unwed mothers, a girl named Philomena Lee gave her son away at the nuns insistence. Now 80, she is the subject of a film thats set off a firestorm in Ireland. nytimes.com/europe Computer software that monitors facial expressions is already being tested by companies to evaluate ads, movie trailers and television shows. But for some, this type of technology raises an Orwellian specter. nytimes.com/technology Astronomers are marveling at the death and apparent resurrection of ISON, a comet that recently dove close to the sun. nytimes.com/science

Modest growth forecast for 2014

A forced adoption, a lifelong quest

With major economic releases looming, economists are optimistic that the global economy will improve slightly, Andy Bruce writes. BUSINESS, 19

Young adults born after 1980 are often more altruistic than they are given credit for, write Emily Esfahani Smith and Jennifer L. Aaker. OPINION, 8
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Never mind that rugby-loving Wales has a low profile in soccer: There is no country on earth that would refuse Ryan Giggs, Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey right now, writes Rob Hughes. SPORTS, 11

Good time to be Welsh

Tradition Fusee Tourbillon

The cost of silence on planes

An 85-year-old American veteran detained in North Korea is accused of war crimes and is shown in a video reading an apology. WORLD NEWS, 4

North Korea airs confession video

Tarun Tejpal, a journalist revered by liberals, was arrested in connection with the alleged assault of a young employee at his magazine. WORLD NEWS, 6

Indian editor held in sexual assault

Eyes on 2016, Clintons mend fences

Comet, presumed dead, comes alive

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