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Top News Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN After calling for an ambulance more than 35 times, a family in Sierra Leone, where Ebola has hit harder than in neighboring countries, waited for three days for help to arrive.  Sierra Leone to Eclipse Liberia in Ebola Cases Using Doctors With Troubled Pasts to Market a Painkiller By KATIE THOMAS Five of the 20 physicians who received the most money from Insys, maker of Subsys, a powerful painkiller, recently faced legal or disciplinary action. On Holiday, Ferguson Seeks to Salve Wounds By JACK HEALY and ALAN BLINDER Residents painted art on boarded-up shops, a pastor of a destroyed church visited another worship space and the National Guard stood at the ready to secure the streets in the area.  Officer Defused Eruptions as Crowds Grew Volatile For more top news, go to NYTimes.com »

Editors' Picks WORLD On Ukraine Front Line, Sniper Fire and Shelling Leave Cease-Fire in Tatters By ANDREW E. KRAMER The Ukrainian military says it has recorded 3,412 rebel cease-fire violations, while separatists accuse Ukraine of shelling the eastern city of Donetsk. OPINION | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Remember the Sand Creek Massacre By NED BLACKHAWK The 1864 murder of 200 innocent Indians is still largely forgotten.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY "This appears to be the business plan. It appears to be, you do whatever you have to do, and you know that eventually you will pay fines, but you will pay the fines and still make a lot more." ERIC G. CAMPBELL, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, on conflicts of interest between doctors and the drug industry.

Today's Videos  VIDEO: Anatomy of a Scene | 'Imitation Game' Morten Tyldum narrates a sequence from "The Imitation Game," featuring Benedict Cumberbatch.  VIDEO: The Power of Language in Ferguson Protesters talked about the meaning behind the words on signs and T-shirts as demonstrations over the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson continued Tuesday evening.  VIDEO: 36 Hours in Santa Fe No matter what the season, food, culture and nature buffs will find ample reason to linger in and around Santa Fe.  Related Article For more video, go to NYTimes.com/Video »

World A Son Seeks Art Looted by the East Germans By TOM MASHBERG Between 1973 and 1989, the East German police seized more than 200,000 objects in hundreds of raids, according to experts and archives, and some are reclaiming the art.  Swiss Unveil Art Amassed by Dealer in Nazi Era Panel Details Plan to Give Scotland More Powers By STEPHEN CASTLE Under new recommendations, the Scottish Parliament would set income tax rates and brackets, and the region would get a larger share of welfare spending and revenue from sales taxes. TIJUANA JOURNAL As Mexican Border Town Tries to Move On, Some Are Stuck in Limbo By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD Tijuana is promoting itself as a city on the rise, shaking off years of drug violence and declining tourism. But it remains a way station for the downtrodden heading for America or kicked out of it. For more world news, go to NYTimes.com/World »

U.S. THIS LAND Restoring Lost Names, Recapturing Lost Dignity By DAN BARRY An obscure gravedigger has come to represent the 55,000 other people buried on the grounds of old psychiatric hospitals across New York State - many of them identified only by numbers. Activists Help Pay for Patients' Travel to Shrinking Number of Abortion Clinics By JACKIE CALMES A Texas woman has founded Fund Texas Choice, to help finance lodging and transportation when nearby facilities are shut down. Urban Farmers Trade Goods and Stories at 'Crop Swaps' By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN The swaps, which operate on the barter system, allow people to diversify their pantries while bolstering their relationships with others in their communities. For more U.S. news, go to NYTimes.com/US »

Politics In Arizona, a Textbook Fuels a Broader Dispute Over Sex Education By RICK ROJAS The board in Gilbert, Ariz., said two pages in a biology textbook that discuss sexually transmitted diseases and contraception violated a state law passed in 2012. Liberal Treasury Nominee's Wall St. Prowess May Be a Vulnerability By JONATHAN WEISMAN Senate confirmation of Antonio Weiss as an under secretary of the Treasury could be hindered by corporate mergers he was involved in as an executive at Lazard. For more political news, go to NYTimes.com/Politics »

Business Early Shoppers Queue Up, and Analysts See Some Stellar Deals By HIROKO TABUCHI Eager to make up for what has been a year of lackluster sales, retailers are offering eye-popping discounts that could increase traffic but also eat away at thinning profit margins. DEALBOOK British Hedge Fund Titan Ordered to Pay Ex-Wife $531 Million in Divorce Case By JENNY ANDERSON The divorce award between Chris Hohn and Jamie Cooper-Hohn underscores the immense wealth Mr. Hohn has accumulated at the helm of the Children's Investment Fund. DEALBOOK U.S.-Backed Mortgages Put to Test in an Innovative Lawsuit By PETER EAVIS U.S. Bank, a division of U.S. Bancorp, is being accused of failing to engage with borrowers who missed payments. For more business news, go to NYTimes.com/Business »

Technology THE UPSHOT Under Pressure From Uber, Taxi Medallion Prices are Plummeting By JOSH BARRO Market data suggests that the taxi business, which has undergone little change over many decades, is in the midst of a revolution. Japan to Ask Automakers to Recall Vehicles With Faulty Takata Airbags By JONATHAN SOBLE An order from the Transportation Ministry on driver's-side airbags would lead to the recall of an additional 200,000 vehicles in Japan, the transportation minister said. E.U. Parliament Passes Measure to Break Up Google in Symbolic Vote By JAMES KANTER While the vote poses no immediate threat to the company, it symbolizes the growing resentment in Europe toward the American technology titan.  Bits Blog: European Legislator Urging the Breakup of Google Has Ties to a Law Firm For more technology news, go to NYTimes.com/Technology »

Sports EAGLES 33, COWBOYS 10 Eagles Come Out Strong Against Cowboys and Take Division Lead By TOM SPOUSTA Mark Sanchez, who was 20 of 29 passing for 217 yards, led Philadelphia in a rout of N.F.C. East rival Dallas. Best at Everything? It's Closer to True By ZACH SCHONBRUN M.I.T.'s football team, which has long been an afterthought at a university known for its academics, is 10-0 and in the second round of the N.C.A.A. Division III playoffs. Fordham Finds Key to Success, and Drills It Home By TOM PEDULLA The ninth-ranked Rams take a 10-2 record and hopes for a championship run into their playoff opener against No. 25 Sacred Heart on Saturday. For more sports news, go to