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TOP NEWS A Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone, left, and an Apple iPhone 4.   Jury Awards $1 Billion to Apple in Samsung Patent Case By NICK WINGFIELD The jury found that Samsung infringed upon a series of Apple patents on mobile devices, in a closely watched court case that could have broad implications for the industry. South Korean Court Penalizes Apple and Samsung                                        Gunman Dies After Killing at Empire State Building By JAMES BARRON A man fatally shot his former co-worker and was then shot and killed by the police in gunfire that injured nine other people outside the Empire State Building, the police said. Video: Police Footage of Gunman's Death (Graphic Content) Long Before Carnage, an Office Grudge Festered By MICHAEL WILSON, DAVID M. HALBFINGER and SHARON OTTERMAN An animosity between the two men at the center of a fatal shooting outside the Empire State Building on Friday evolved over years in the workplace. • NYTimes.com Home Page » QUOTATION OF THE DAY "I saw him pull a gun out from his jacket, and I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, he's going to shoot him' - and I wanted to turn and push Steve out of the way. But it was too late." IRENE TIMAN, on the shooting of Steven Ercolino, a salesman, near the Empire State Building.

Travel Slide Show: In Idaho, Two Basque Stories While Boise is home to thousands of people of Basque descent, there are very few Basques left on the state's sheep ranges. Related Article Opinion Op-Ed Contributor Men, Who Needs Them? By GREG HAMPIKIAN Women are both necessary and sufficient for reproduction; men are neither.

WORLD Torrent of Syrian Refugees Strains Aid Effort and Region By RICK GLADSTONE and DAMIEN CAVE Many refugees are housed in schools, which will soon open, and camps that are not prepared for winter.   Anders Behring Breivik  in an Oslo courtroom on Friday. He won his effort to be declared sane, and avoid a mental hospital                                  Norway Mass Killer Gets the Maximum: 21 Years By MARK LEWIS and SARAH LYALL Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted to killing 77 people, many of them children, will live in a three-cell suite. The relative leniency of his sentence is no anomaly. IHT Rendezvous: The Breivik Verdict and Europe's Far Right Times Topic: Anders Behring Breivik       " --- The relative leniency of the sentence imposed on Mr. Breivik, the worst criminal modern Scandinavia has known, is no anomaly. Rather, it is consistent with Norway’s general approach to criminal justice. Like the rest of Europe — and in contrast with much of the United States, whose criminal justice system is considered by many Europeans to be cruelly punitive — Norway no longer has the death penalty and considers prison more a means for rehabilitation than retribution. Even some parents who lost children in the attack appeared to be satisfied with the verdict, seeing it as fair punishment that would allow the country, perhaps, to move past its trauma. ---"     2 U.S. Employees Wounded in Ambush on Mexican Road By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD Two Americans were shot and wounded on Friday when the United States Embassy vehicle they were driving was ambushed by a caravan of cars that included Mexican police. • More World News » U.S. Capitol Dome Is Imperiled by 1,300 Cracks and Partisan Rift By JENNIFER STEINHAUER The Capitol dome needs a comprehensive rehabilitation, but the House has declined to appropriate the $61 million required for repairs. A Run on Bug Spray Amid Fears of West Nile Virus By MANNY FERNANDEZ With at least 10 deaths, Dallas County is the epicenter of the mosquito-borne illness that has spread throughout Texas and other parts of the country. Well: Q. and A. on West Nile Virus Invitation to Cardinal Shows G.O.P.'s Catholic Push By LAURIE GOODSTEIN The Republicans are sensing an opportunity to cut into the advantage that President Obama had among Catholic voters in 2008. • More U.S. News » POLITICS The Long Run Mitt Romney was hospitalized after a deadly  car crash in France in 1968 when he was 21 and a Mormon missionary.                                  Romney in Crisis: Two Dark Spots in Fortunate Life By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG A 1968 car crash in France and the 1998 diagnosis of Ann Romney's multiple sclerosis offer clues into Mitt Romney's character, and how he reacts to challenges. Romney, in His Home State, Raises Birth Certificate Issue By ASHLEY PARKER and TRIP GABRIEL In his remarks, Paul D. Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate, seemed to emphasize cultural differences with President Obama. G.O.P. Convention Will Include Video Tribute to Paul By MICHAEL D. SHEAR The Romney campaign courted delegates for Ron Paul even as it tried to make sure that such an insurgency does not arise in future campaigns. • More Political News » BUSINESS Cash Moves by HSBC in Inquiry By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Federal authorities said the bank was suspected of laundering money for Mexican drug cartels and moving cash for Saudi Arabian banks with ties to terrorists. Common Sense Tax Credits Shed Light on Romney By JAMES B. STEWART Some experts are looking at a corner of the tax code involving foreign tax credits, and pointing to intriguing clues buried in the returns Mitt Romney has released. Document: How Romney Applied Foreign Tax Credits Employing Dietitians Pays Off for Supermarkets By STEPHANIE STROM As nutrition is becoming more important to customers, the grocery business is finding dietitians indispensable for fending off competition from specialty markets. • More Business News » TECHNOLOGY A Verdict That Alters an Industry By BRIAN X. CHEN and LISA ALCALAY KLUG Companies that make smartphones will have to be cautious in how they design products to avoid being accused of imitating Apple. Bits Blog: Responses to the Trial Bits Blog Responses to the Trial By BRIAN X. CHEN Early reactions evaluate the landmark trial between Apple and Samsung: How enormous a win is this? And what could it mean for the tech industry overall? She's 14, Going on 140 Characters By NICOLE LaPORTE Maude Apatow has famous parents, but she is making a name for herself, a Twitter post and an essay at a time. Dad Hasn't Just Been Sitting Around • More Technology News » SPORTS Witnesses Made Case Against Armstrong Potent By JULIET MACUR The United States Anti-Doping Agency said it had more than 10 witnesses - including some of Lance Armstrong's former teammates and allies - who agreed to testify. Graphic: Top Tour de France Finishers Tainted by Doping Slide Show Interactive Timeline: Lance Armstrong's Career Sports of The Times                                  Armstrong, Best of His Time, Now With an Asterisk By GEORGE VECSEY Lance Armstrong now belongs to the pantheon of stars who clog up the record books with their asterisks and their defaults and their suspensions. Armstrong Drops Fight Against Doping Charges Questions and Answers on the Armstrong Doping Case Lance Armstrong's Statement | Times Topic: Lance Armstrong Full Count A Slump Can't Get in the Way By DAVID WALDSTEIN For all the injury and indignity that come with squatting behind the plate, what the catcher does with a bat in hand is how he is measured - in the eyes of fans, and in the checkbooks of owners. Part 1: One Hard Way to Play Ball Part 2: The Mind Games Within the Game • More Sports News » ARTS                                  Resort Towns Face a Last Picture Show By ERIC HYNES As Hollywood goes digital and stops using film, seasonal theaters are threatened by the costs of the new technology required. Slide Show: Out of Frame To Trip the Volynska Polka, Respectfully in the Catskills By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ To whom do Ukrainian parents turn to train their children in the dances of their home nation? The son of Puerto Ricans, it turns out, at a retreat in the Catskills. Met Opera to Preserve Rush Tickets By DANIEL J. WAKIN A year after the death of Agnes Varis, who financed the Met's rush ticket program, the opera has found a way to continue it. • More Arts News » NEW YORK / REGION Lawmaker Is Censured Over Sexual Harassment By DANNY HAKIM Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, the Brooklyn Democratic leader and power broker, was stripped of his committee chairmanship, but several Democratic officeholders also called for his resignation. Decision by 2 Officers to Open Fire in Busy Midtown Leaves Bystanders Wounded By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and WENDY RUDERMAN Investigators believe at least 7 of 16 bullets fired by two officers during Friday's shooting struck the gunman, but the rest may have injured bystanders. Once Again, Landmark Is Backdrop to Violence By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and DAVID W. DUNLAP Since a 1997 shooting on the Empire State Building's observation deck, the Police Department has increased security measures in and around the building. • More New York / Region News » TRAVEL Frugal Traveler Blog Scandinavia on $125 a Day By SETH KUGEL How to be frugal in a region where a fast-food meal for one goes for $23? Six lessons learned the hard way. Post a Comment   " - - - Not that you shouldn’t go. Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland (which is not included in all definitions of Scandinavia, but will be here) have much to offer, especially during the summer: fjords, fishing, wide-open spaces for hiking and camping, not to mention clean and culture-rich cities, dramatic evidence of a Viking past and — in Lapland — the richness of the indigenous Sami present. There are also festivals galore to celebrate the almost (and in some places actual) nonstop daylight. All this in a region where everything seems to work efficiently and nearly everyone speaks solid English - - - " Explorer Far, Maybe Too Far, Into the Yukon By ALEX HUTCHINSON On a canoe trip near the Arctic Circle, capsizing in swift current, backpaddling to avoid a bear and seeing what the world looks like more than 100 miles from the nearest road. Journeys In Kentucky, Fried Chicken History By WILLIAM GRIMES At the Colonel Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum, a pressure cooker named Bertha, a barrel with 11 herbs and spices and a shrine to the birthplace of a fast-food empire. • More Travel News » EDITORIALS Editorial Dump It on the States Even though the states can barely meet their core responsibilities now, Mitt Romney wants to increase their burdens by unloading several federal duties. Editorial President Morsi and His Critics By crushing dissent, Egypt's new leader, Mohamed Morsi, is repeating the errors of his ousted predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. Editorial For Judgeships in New York City Here are our recommendations in four Democratic judicial contests in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. • More Opinion » OP-ED Op-Ed Columnist Starving the Future By CHARLES M. BLOW If you compare investments made in education by the United States with initiatives in China and India, Americans have reason to be afraid, very afraid. Columnist Page Op-Ed Columnist Arms and the Duck By GAIL COLLINS The gun lobby fairy tale resurfaces. News flash: It's only in the movies that people are good shots during a violent encounter. Columnist Page Op-Ed Contributors How Hate Gets Counted By SIMRAN JEET SINGH and PRABHJOT SINGH Not all anti-Sikh acts are cases of "mistaken identity," with Muslims the target. • More Opinion » ON THIS DAY On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. • See This Front Page • Buy This Front Page