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World-Widen A gunman fatally shot asoldier in Ottawa before be-ing killed inside Parliament,in an incident that shut downthe Canadian capital. A1, A10n Iraq’s Kurdish authoritiesapproved the deployment of150 soldiers to relieve fellowKurds fighting Islamic State inthe Syrian city of Kobani. A10n Four ex-Blackwater guardswere found guilty in the2007 shooting deaths of 14Iraqi civilians in Baghdad. A3n U.S. authorities will beginmonitoring travelers arrivingfrom Ebola-stricken countriesfor symptoms next week. A6n Social Security announceda 1.7% annual cost-of-livingadjustment for 2015, matchinga rise in consumer prices. A2n The FBI is revamping itswhistleblower rules to makeit easier for employees to re-port agency misconduct. A3n Ex-security chief Zhoulikely faces expulsion fromChina’s Communist Party amidan anticorruption push. A12nA Palestinian drove into pe-destrians in Jerusalem, killingan infant, in what Israeli offi-cials called a terrorist act. A13n U.K. government advisersmeet Thursday with techfirms for talks on combatingextremist content online. A13n Thousands of protestersleft Pakistan’s capital after aMuslim cleric ended an anti-government sit-in. A12nAcademic fraud at a Univer-sity of North Carolina depart-ment frequented by athleteswas blamed on lax oversight.A4

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An air-bag recall is turn-ing into a new safety crisis

for the auto industry. Takata isbeing investigated to seewhether the supplier misledU.S. regulators about safety. A1n J.P. Morgan was warnedof potential problems in itshiring practices in China overa year before the programcame under U.S. scrutiny. C1n P&G shook up its seniormanagement ranks, namingnew leaders for key businessesand narrowing the field of po-tential CEO successors. B1n Luxottica named a P&Gveteran as co-CEO amid tur-moil over the return of the Ital-ian eyewear firm’s founder. B1n Blue-chip companies, in-cluding AT&T, IBM, Coke andGE, have been posting poorgrowth quarter after quarter. A1n AT&T cut its revenue out-look, citing fewer-than-ex-pected sign-ups for its no-contract wireless plan. B4n The Dow finished down153.49 at 16461.32, snapping athree-day rally. The S&P 500and Nasdaq also declined. C6nAmazon, Best Buy, Gap andother retailers are boosting theamount online shoppers mustspend to get free shipping. B1n Discriminatory pricing bye-commerce sites is morewidespread than had beenthought, a study found. B1n The SEC rejected a Black-Rock proposal for a new ETFthat would have kept its hold-ings hidden from investors. C1n Total’s board named theFrench energy firm’s refiningand chemicals head as CEO. B3

Business&Finance

A suddenly expanded recall ofair bags is turning into a newsafety crisis for the auto indus-try and intensifying scrutiny ofU.S. regulators’ ability to overseeauto makers and their suppliers.

The Manhattan U.S. attorney’soffice is investigating whetherair bag supplier Takata Corp.made misleading statementsabout the safety of its air bagsto U.S. regulators, people famil-iar with the matter said. Theprobe is at a preliminary stageand could end without anycharges filed.

Regulators this week nearlydoubled their estimate of thenumber of U.S. vehicles affected,to 7.8 million, and said the figurecould be revised again. Themostly older cars are equippedwith air bags that could explodewith too much force during acollision, spraying drivers andpassengers with shrapnel, regu-lators have said.

The National Highway TrafficSafety Administration onWednesday issued a bulletinwarning of defects in Takata airbags. Some auto makers are re-placing air bags. At least two,Ford Motor Co. and Fiat ChryslerAutomobiles NV, said their vehi-cles on the agency’s list aren’tsubject to a formal recall. A web-site the federal agency set up inAugust to help consumers deter-mine if their cars were at riskhas suffered crashes.

The expansion of repairs firstPleaseturntothenextpage

By Jeff Bennett,Christopher M.

Matthewsand Christina Rogers

Air BagSafetyMeasuresProbed

A man fatally shot a soldier atCanada’s National War Memorialbefore being killed inside thecountry’s Parliament building, ina terror attack that shut downthe capital city and stands tochange the way Canada protectsitself.

Armed officers combed Can-ada’s Parliament building andsurrounding areas for potentialother shooters for much of theday, forcing Ottawa’s core into alockdown mode into the evening,when police said there was nofurther threat to public safetythere.

Prime Minister StephenHarper, speaking from an undis-closed location, said in a tele-

vised address “in the days tocome we will learn more aboutthe terrorist and any accompliceshe may have had.”

The attack on what he termed“a sacred place” served as a“grim reminder that Canada isnot immune to the attacks thathappened around the world.”

The killer was identified byU.S. authorities as Michael Ze-haf-Bibeau, who they said wasborn Michael Joseph Hall butchanged his name as part of a

conversion to Islam. Officialsdidn’t offer a motive.

Earlier in the day, lawmakershuddled in Parliament offices forhours, with some still underlockdown at nightfall. Studentswere required to stay in theirschool buildings in the usuallyquiet city, and Royal CanadianMounted Police officers warnedresidents to stay off roofs andaway from windows.

The shooting occurred as Can-ada was already on heightenedalert after two soldiers were runover on Monday in Quebec by aCanadian man whom authoritieswere investigating for terrorlinks.

It also happened just a day af-

ter Ottawa dispatched warplanesto the U.S.-led campaign againstIslamic State militants, a movethat the country’s main intelli-gence agency had earlier warnedwould increase the threat of ter-ror attacks in Canada.

The shooting in Canada ampli-fied unease around Western capi-tals over their citizens’ vulnera-bility at home during a time ofheightened alerts over potentialterror attacks.

President Barack Obama saidWednesday the attack under-scored the importance to the U.S.“to recognize that when it comes

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By Paul Vieira in Ottawaand Alistair MacDonald

and Ben Dummettin Toronto

Terror Hits Canadian CapitalGunman Kills Soldier Before Being Shot Dead Inside Parliament Building

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Blue ChipsHave NewReasonsTo Be Blue

In a letter to a friend, the manager of a Floridaurology practice worried in 2010 that her companywould attract federal scrutiny for its frequent use ofan expensive bladder-cancer test.

The manager’s concern involved a program at21st Century Oncology Holdings Inc.—a nationalchain of cancer practices—that gives its urologistsa financial incentive to order the test from a central

BY JOHN CARREYROU AND JANET ADAMY

MEDICARE UNMASKED

Doctor ‘Self-Referral’Thrives on Legal Loophole

The approach was time-testedand hard to beat: Put your moneyin blue chips, decades-old compa-nies that could be counted on toperform through thick and thin.

Now, the market’s stalwarts areshowing their age. Steady has be-come stagnant as companies onceconsidered among the market’smost reliable post poor growth,quarter after woeful quarter.

The list of stumbling stars isremarkable: AT&T Inc., which onWednesday lowered its revenueforecast; Coca-Cola Co., whichposted flat sales; InternationalBusiness Machines Corp., whichthrew out its profit forecast; andGeneral Electric Co., whichhasn’t seen its stock climb above$30 a share since the financial

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By Theo Francis,Mike Esterl

and Joann S. Lublin

NEW YORK—William D. Mc-Cracken eyed his target on thefar side of a security checkpointoutside New York Police Depart-ment headquarters. Metal detec-tors ringed the fortress-likebuilding, andthe police of-ficer on guardwas wary.

Mr. Mc-Cracken’s in-t e n t i o n sweren’t nefari-ous. All hewanted was tosnap a photograph of the cor-nerstone, dated 1973, at One Po-lice Plaza in lower Manhattan.The cop barred him from the re-stricted area, then borrowed Mr.McCracken’s camera and tookthe photo himself.

For the past six years, the 39-year-old real-estate lawyer has

been combing both sides of ev-ery street in Manhattan in aquest to document the dated, in-scribed rocks that serve as birthcertificates for buildings. Byfoot and on bike, often accompa-nied by his Labradoodle namedMartin, Mr. McCracken has

amassed anonline archiveof the island’s1,100-plus sur-viving corner-stones.

“I’m 90%sure I have90% of them,”he says. “And

I’m 100% sure I don’t have 100%of them.” His wife, Amy, usuallysleeps in when he rises at 6 a.m.to find new cornerstones. “He’smission-driven,” she says. “Itcan be a grind.”

Mr. McCracken’s search hasgotten tougher as the venerable

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BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

No Building Is Left UnturnedIn One Man’s Search for Cornerstones

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Six-Year Tally by Foot and Bike Tops 1,100;New Ones Are as Rare as a Flying Buttress

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in-house lab. A federal law since the 1990s has pro-hibited “self-referral,” in which doctors can profitfrom Medicare-reimbursed procedures they order.But 21st Century Oncology and many physiciangroups around the country have found ways to do itanyway, exploiting an exception to the law in waysits writers didn’t anticipate.

The manager attached an email from a 21st Cen-tury Oncology executive who touted an increase inthe number of tests ordered through the central lab,and encouraged doctors in her office to direct busi-ness to the lab and share in the revenue. The surgein orders for the bladder-cancer test was so sharp,she wrote to her friend, that it would “surely bring

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Detainee Returns From North Korea

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Bystanders and soldiers try to aid a soldier who was killed by a gunman at Canada’s National War Memorial in Ottawa on Wednesday.

REUNITED: Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man freed by North Korea followingabout six months in detention after he was arrested on a group tour,greets his son after landing near Dayton early Wednesday morning.

Part of a series examining how payments are madein the roughly $600 billion Medicare system.

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