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Friday, July 31, 2009
Good Weekend Reads
Economist: Sea of Troubles - The Recession is Buffeting the World of Shipping - with even rougher waters ahead

Economist: Rebalancing the World Economy - China: Can China Reduce its Trade Surplus by Consuming More?

Slate: How did "getting hit by a bus" come to mean "unexpected tragedy"?

Salon: How Cooking Makes you a Man

Salon: Asperger's - Hollywood's new black?

Atlantic: America's Moral Panic Over Obesity

Slate: Did Chief Justice Warren Burger and the Supreme Court create the Health-Care Mess?

Slate: Four Ways to Redesign Facebook

Economist: A rising vogue for shopping near home

Huffington Post: Lou Dobbs Slams "Tea-Bagging Queen Rachel Maddow," Refuses To Back Off Obama Birth Certificate Controversy (Audio)

Economist: Affirmative Action in Colombia - Black Colombians suffer "Structural Discrimination": Discussing Quotas

Atlantic: The State of Charity

Economist: Gurkhas in Nepal - Old soldiers fade away

NPR: Reimagining 'Fahrenheit 451' As A Graphic Novel

NPR: A Passion for Peaches

Washington Post: The Making of a Secret Service Agent

Slate: How Peru—a small, poor country—made the right economic moves.

Economist: Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google - Taking sides

Atlantic: It's Still Good to be a Banker

Aguanomics: The Economics of Water at Airports

TIME: Is Senator Hutchison Running for Governor of Texas?

Newsweek: In Defense of Adam Sandler, Actor

Economist: Democratic Centrists are Making the Weather

Economist: Let's Have a Party - A City that looks beyond the Recession: Mobile, AL

Economist: The Centre-Left - The Challenge of Turning Malcontents into (Sensible) Militants: In most of Europe Moderate Leftists are having a Bad Recession - but things look more promising for them elsewhere

New Republic: What Makes the Democratic Blue Dogs Blue?

New Republic: Dean vs. Huckabee - Who hosts a better Cable News Show?

Newsweek: Recalling the Upside of the Great Depression

Economist: Chile's stricken salmon farms - Dying assets

TIME: Census 2010 - Gearing up to be Counted
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
NPR: Starbucks Goes Into Stealth Mode

Atlantic: Smoot-Hawley Redux Watch - Don't Start a Trade War with China

NPR: Your Gains, Losses In Minimum Wage Hike

NPR: Cuba Marks Anniversary Of 1953 Communist Uprising

NPR: Are Dairy Farmers A Dying Breed?

NPR: Baseball's Graybeards? They Manage

NPR: Goodbye, Taco Bell Chihuahua

NPR: ABA Magazine Ranks TV's Top Legal Shows

Slate: The Department of Justice should take a hint from the Microsoft suit - Don't go after Google.

Atlantic: Mormons - The Most Conservative Religious Group In America

FP: The Top-10 International Political Economy Books

ESPN: Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane stays the course through backlash from Moneyball critics

Slate: Why are Music Magazines Dying?

TIME: Why Counting Money Can Make You Happier

Atlantic: My Internet Browser Crashed While I Was Writing This Article About Whether or Not Robots Were Evil, Which Makes the Answer to That Question Pretty Self-Evident!

Newsweek: Should Software Firms Be Liable for Malware?

New Yorker: Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice" - Book Review

Atlantic: East Coast Liberals want to Protect Public Lands, but they don't understand the West - Now a New Approach is Possible

FP: How does one become an Ayatollah?

Newsweek: India's Emerging Grand Strategy

New Yorker: For two thousand years, Judas Iscariot has been Christianity’s primary image of human evil. Now, however, there is an effort to rehabilitate him…

TIME: Mourning the Death of Handwriting
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Salon: Facebook & Twitter - Have we moved from Pop Culture to "Peep Culture?": How Facebook & Twitter encourage social networking voyeurism

Economist: World Trade - Unpredictable Tides

Slate: Why does the carbonation taste different in bottles and cans of soda?

Slate: Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five minutes

TIME: Mr. Six is back!

Slate: How do energy companies decide where to build nuclear power plants?

Economist: Spain & Britain in Gibraltar - Rocky Horror Show

Atlantic: Stop Mis-Using the Word "Hero"

Atlantic: Environmentalism Through the Eyes of the World's Poor

Atlantic: Is organ selling a moral quandary?

Economist: Responsibility to protect - An idea whose time has come — and gone?

Economist: Radio propaganda - Crackles of hatred

LA Times: At 65, Smokey Bear is still fighting fires

Newsweek: Why don't some Americans like Katherine Heigl?

Economist: Struggling French Socialists - Left behind

New Republic: The 'Pickup Basketball' Theory of the Taliban

Economist: Tourism in Michigan - The triumph of optimism

Slate: The director that taught Sacha Baron Cohen. And Ricky Gervais. And Stephen Colbert

Atlantic: The New Financial Capital Of the World - Everywhere

FP: Why is Netanyahu courting Christian Fundamentalists?

New Republic: Reading Einstein in Jerusalem

Economist: The race for governor in New Jersey

Atlantic: Republicans Can Do Financial Regulation Too

Economist: The rise of paganism in the U.K.

Slate: Doctors should be salaried
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
FP: Beach Books for IR Nerds

Double-X: Learning Hindi can make your Face Look Different

TIME: An Anthropologist's Take on What's Wrong with Wall St.

Slate: "I'll Miss Poland's Greatest Marxist Philosopher"

Slate: 400% APR, Is That Good? - Do People Take out Payday Loans because they're desperate -- or because they don't understand the terms?

Salon: I Actually was 16 & Pregnant - How MTV's Reality Series Gets it Right, And How it Encourages Working-Class Voyeurism

Newsweek: Will Facebook Still be Around in 5 Years?

Newsweek: Who Could Replace Pope Benedict?

Economist: The Search for Dark Matter - Ethereal yet weighty, 2 new ways to detect the elusive stuff of universes

Economist: Honour Killings in Syria - The law changes. Will attitudes?

TIME: Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense

FP: How Rappers Embraced Soft Power

Slate: Are Officers Required to Identify Themselves?
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Salon: Interview with Comedian Fred Willard (Video)

Atlantic: Why isn't Obama appointing young judges to the circuit courts?

TIME: Spain, Britain Decide Who Owns Gibraltar

TIME: Will China's Currency Replace the Dollar?

FP: Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

Money: Did DeRegulation & Free Markets cause the Recession?

Atlantic: Looking for a Job? Go to D.C.

Newsweek: CIA Kill Teams Modeled on Israeli Hit Squads

Newsweek: Will America go back to Nuclear Power?

Newsweek: Latin America's Intelligentsia Is Fleeing Chavez

Salon: Why We say Yes to Drugs

Atlantic: Obama, Cosbyism, and Black Nationalism

Atlantic: Why the Minimum Wage Increase Benefits Only Teenagers

Atlantic: How Much Does Central Bank Independence Matter?

Economist: A Capitalist Enclave in North Korea belies the country's increasing isolation

Atlantic: Jose Mengele, Paraguayan

Newsweek: Why is India such a popular target for terrorists?

Reason Op-Ed: The Myth of Financial Deregulation - Government action caused the economic crisis, not the free market

Atlantic: The Politics of the "New Normal"

TIME: The Neo-Nazis of Mongolia - Swastikas Against China

Atlantic: Where Unemployment is Worse than Expected

TIME: Is Business Journalism Dying?

FP: The Middle East's Most Powerful Spooks

New Republic: Meet the Sandinista who runs the U.N.

TIME: What do astronauts eat in space?

TIME: The Truth about Teen Girls

New Yorker: The Twilight of Expat Exceptionalism
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Slate: What happens to a judge who ignores binding precedent?

TIME: Q & A: The Hidden Side of the New York Police Department (NYPD)

FP: The Ghost of Che - the same old authoritarian revolution is back

Economist: Hate Crimes and Double-Jeopardy

Atlantic: What Does "Too Big to Fail" Mean Anymore?

Newsweek: Channeling Milton Friedman - The Legendary Economist is Gone, but his Co-Author isn't

NPR: Got a Runny Nose? Flush it Out! (Use a Neti Pot!)

TIME: Why Girls Have BFFs and Boys Hang Out in Packs

Salon: Rape in post-war Berlin

NPR: Students' view of intelligence can help grades

Slate: Wide Receivers on TV

CSMonitor: Wal-Mart takes the lead in green retailing. (Yes, that Wal-Mart.)

WSJ: Baseball research veers into left field

Atlantic: The Justice Department's Interest In Derivatives

TIME: Water wars - Judge rules against Atlanta

Atlantic: A Paradise-Haunted Land - Before Nazis escaped to Paraguay the country was a refuge for other bad ideas for civilization

Atlantic: Even the Recession can Create Winners - a New Orleans company helps businesses improve their cash flow & hires while others lay off

TIME: Nicaragua, where every day is Christmas
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Friday 6/17
Economist: Latinos and religion - Separated brothers

Economist: The rights of Arctic peoples - Not a barren country

Atlantic: The (New) Geography of Innovation in America

Atlantic: The Difficulty of Suing the Credit Rating Agencies

Economist: Online education - Raising Alabama

Slate: Do Animals Masturbate?

FP: Does India need Pakistan to deter China?

Economist: What went wrong with economics

Economist: German politicians and pipelines - Joschka Fischer v Gerhard Schröder

Newsweek: The Radical Left Versus Obama

Newsweek: Why ladies like vampire(s) (movies)

Op-Ed by Fmr. President Jimmy Carter: The Words of God do not Justify Cruelty to Women

Atlantic: How to Understand the Derivatives Market

Atlantic: End the Vice Presidency

Atlantic: What is the Man's Role in Abortion?

New Republic: What is the Man's Role in Abortion?

Atlantic: How to Kill a Lobster Humanely

Economist: Interview with Ron Paul (audio)
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
100 Incredible Lectures from the World's Top Scientists

Newsweek: The Link Between Beauty & Grades

CATO: Journalism - Changes, not an Upgrade, an Upheaval

Visual Economics: How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck

WSJ: If the Law Firm Hiring Process is Broken, Why Stick With It?

Popular Science: Why Does My Voice Sound Different When I Hear it On a Recording?

WSJ: Good Legal Question - Private Clubs that Aren't Private

WSJ: When 'Private' Clubs aren't Truly Private

COSMOS: A Documentary by Carl Sagan (watch your volume, the video begins playing automatically)

Carl Sagan: Sagan on God, the Universe, & Everything Else and Quantum Physics & the 4th Dimension

CNN: Governments try to reel in "ocean sprawl"

Slate: Can I have the last 4 digits of your Social? - Why using Social Security numbers for identification is risky and stupid

CSMonitor: Why do some soldiers commit violent crime? The Army is seeking answers

Slate: Who came up with the idea of electroshock therapy?

Slate: What are the rules for government-sponsored assassinations?

TIME: Macau's Big Score - All About Macau

WSJ: Blagojevich’s Back - Illinois Admissions Scandal Widens to the Law School

WSJ: Dean Removed - What's Going on at DePaul Law?
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Newsweek: Does the Outrage Over Zelaya Smack of Hypocrisy? - Latin American leaders outraged over the Honduras coup have stood silently by as the region's other populists trod upon democracy

Atlantic: New Orleans - All the Street's a Stage: New Orleans has a Way of Making You Feel like You're Tippling Even When You're Stone Sober

Atlantic: Weni, Wiki, Wiki - Our Correspondent Visits Seattle with only Wikipedia as his Guide

Atlantic: The $1.4 Trillion Question - The Chinese are Subsidizing the American Way of Life. Are We Playing Them for Suckers? Or are they playing us?

Atlantic: The Fruitful Lie - Trade agreements have always been greased by deception about who benefits. Now they're failing because leaders have come to believe their own lies

Atlantic: Signs of our Times - Neon Signs: Part Sculpture, Part Lighting, Part Billboard -- Have Gone from Marketing Tool to Tacky Trash to Folk Art

Atlantic: Bernard Lewis - I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go to Hell: Religions & the Meeting of Civilization

Atlantic: Capitalism: The Movie - Why Americans Don't Value Markets Enough - and Why That Matters

Atlantic: Cutting Taxes to Shrink Government Doesn't Work -- and that Spells Trouble for the Conservative Movement

Atlantic: Macau's Big Gamble - The Peninsula's Bid to become the Vegas of the Orient Depends on China's Willingness to Embrace Transparency & the Rule of Law

Atlantic: Legal (Supreme Court) Comparativism - What Would Zimbabwe Do?

Atlantic: I Agree with Me - When's the Last Time a Conservative Talk-Show Changed a Mind?

TIME: Google vs. Microsoft - What You Need to Know

Atlantic: The Confidentiality Fetish - The Problem with Attorney-Client Privilege

Atlantic: The Skeleton Coast - A Safari by Air over Namibia's Haunting Sands

Atlantic: Lofty Ambitions - Once upon a time, lofts were cheap spaces for struggling artists. Today they are phony and pricey, and that's just fine

Atlantic: Open for Business - A Post-Katrina visit to the Restaurants of New Orleans

Salon: The Joy of Sex, for Teens!

Atlantic: Baby Names - Not all Names were Created Equal

Atlantic: The Velvet Reformation - What is the Future with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Church?

Atlantic: Buffalo Shuffle - Can a Deal with Toronto Save an American football team and its Decaying Hometown?

Atlantic: Why Wall Street Always Blows It - How the Financial Industry got it so badly wrong, & why it always will: And why all of us are to blame

Atlantic: The Hardest Job in Football - Producing

Atlantic: A Beautiful Mind - Why the NFL Center Must be the Smartest Player on the Field

Atlantic: Passing Grades - Why We should be Scouting the NFL Scouts

Atlantic: Is Google making us Stupid?

Atlantic: The Forgotten Millions - Communism is the deadliest fantasy in human history (but does anyone care?)

Atlantic: The Toll of Incarceration on Neighborhoods (Example: New Orleans)

Atlantic: Feeling Entitled? - Personal Title Inflation & Deflation

Atlantic: Inconspicuous Consumption - A New Theory of the Leisure Class

Atlantic: The Case for Debt - Public Anxiety over "Excessive" Consumer Debt has a Long, and Misguided, History

Atlantic: The Rise of the Sardine - Will the Fish Transcend its Humble Reputation to become a chef's staple?

Atlantic: The Age of Innocence - When Girls leave home for college, it affects them far more deeply than it does boys -- and there's no way parents can protect them once they go

Atlantic: The Truth About Harvard - Hard Getting In, Easy to Get Out Without Learning Much Anything of Enduring Value

Atlantic: Bottoms Up - Ian Fleming saw past the confines of the Cold War

Atlantic: Superhero Worship - Once the province of Garbo and Astaire, movie glamour now comes from Superman, Spider Man, and Storm

Atlantic: Pompadour with a Monkey Wrench - Al Sharpton wants to be the leader of Black America. Problem is, that job no longer exists

Atlantic: Where the Brains Are - America's Educated Elite are Clustering in a few cities -- and leaving the rest of the country behind

Atlantic: The Great Depression - Atlantic Articles from the 1930s Reveal how Americans Reinvented Banking, Restructured the Economy, and Dealt with Challenges unsettlingly parallel to those of Today

Atlantic: Holiday Cheer - The World's Most Bibulous Countries

Atlantic: Search Terms that Sell

Atlantic: Of Rivals & Revivals - A History of France vs. Britain

Atlantic: Non-Native Sons - The globalization of soccer has distanced players from national fan bases -- Which is why the World Cup provokes such identity crises

Atlantic: A Historian for Our Time - Thucydides may have been the more trustworthy historian, but Herodotus would have been more fun to share a wineskin with - and is a better guide to the god-filled geopolitics of the current era

Atlantic: A Revolutionary Simpleton - A new account of Ezra Pound's early years reveals his volatile genius -- and prefigures the madness that would claim him

Atlantic: Lifting the Bamboo Curtain - As China & India vie for power and influence, Burma has become a strategic battleground, 4 Americans illuminate its current troubles and what the U.S. could do to shape its future

Atlantic: Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas - In strife-torn Nepal, some lessons about modern warfare from a British throwback

Atlantic: All Counter-Insurgency is Local

Atlantic: How to Grow a Gang - By Deporting Record #'s of Latino criminals, the U.S. may make its gang problem worse

Atlantic: Review - Religulous: Bill Maher's Spiritual Journey

Atlantic: Freedom's Curse - Why Washington's Crusade against Swearing on the Airwaves is F*cked Up

New Republic: Obsession with Inflation - Why we keep fighting the last economic war

Atlantic: Pornography - Good or bad idea?

Atlantic: Jack Welch - No Such Thing as a Work-Life Balance, Only Work-Life Choices

Atlantic: Be Nice to the Countries that Lend You Money - An Interview with a Chinese State Banker

Atlantic: Pipe Dreams - The Myth of Pure Drinking Water

Atlantic: Russia's Holy Warriors - Fervently Orthodox, anti-Islamic, and Proudly Militaristic, the Cossacks are on the Rise in Putin's New Russia

Atlantic: P.J. O'Rourke - Redheaded Eskimo: The Corporate Tax Bill -- An Explanation

Atlantic: Greed on Trial - The question before the jurors was not whether legal fees amounting to $7,700 an hour were "unreasonable." It was whether the lawyer-plaintiffs should get $1.3 billion more

Atlantic: The Show-Me Sheikh - The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, is peddling a new kind of radical Islam -- Traditionalism without the Extremism

Newsweek: Dumbledore's Army - Charity Changing the World: How Crazy are Potter Fans?

TIME: Can GM's New Camaro & Silverado Models Woo Back Buyers?

TIME: The Sexual Awakening of Hermione

Atlantic: More Nixon Tapes - A Selection of Transcribed Recordings

Atlantic: E.T. & God - Could Earthly Religions Survive the Discovery of Life Elsewhere in the Universe?

Atlantic: Scrutiny on the Bounty - Captain Bligh's Secret Logbook

Salon: It's Hot! It's Sexy! It's Marriage! Am I the Only One Who Loves Being Hitched These Days?

TIME: Bermuda Travel - Now Cheap, Easy, Close & Warm

TIME: The 50 Worst Cars of All-Time
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Atlantic: Can Catholics be Capitalists?

Economist: Statewatch - Florida: Sorrow in the Sunshine

FP: Jay-Z vs the Game - Lessons for the American Hegemony Debate

FP: How Central American Public Opinion Could End Democracy in the Region

CSMonitor: Sunflowers bring hope – and possible eco-benefits – to New Orleans

Newsweek: Whose Cop Shows Rule - L.A.'s or N.Y.'s?

Atlantic: The Role of the Law Schools in the Recovery from the Current Depression (Posner)

Slate: Who Checks to Ensure What is "New & Improved"?

Economist: Psychology - Why People Tend to Procrastinate When Asked to Think in the Abstract

New Republic: Beware, Vulnerable Moderate Democrats

UKTelegraph: Swearing Can Reduce the Feeling of Pain

Economist: Physics & Philosophy - The Good News is Reality Exists: The Bad is It's Stranger Than People Thought

Economist: Competitive Psychology - The Fewer there are, the Harder they Try

Economist: Travel & Creativity - Living Abroad Gives You a Creative Edge

Economist: The coup in Honduras - Lousy President, Terrible Precedent

CSMonitor: China's big move into Latin America

Slate: Can Stress Really Cause Hair to Fall Out?

Economist: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles - Overcoming the Technical Barriers to Computerized Cars will Help Win Psychological Acceptance

Economist: Russia's Messy Relationship with its Backyard Asian Neighbors

FindArticles: Why Animals Love to Play

CSMonitor: Unrest in Xinjiang - Where’s the Muslim outrage?

FP: Why isn't the Muslim world speaking up in defense of the Uighurs?

Double-X: Why the Vampire Craze is Bad for Women - Vampire Shows Glorify Chastity, Sexual Violence

Atlantic: Embrace Coverage & Questions Around Celebrity Turmoil - They're a Discourse on Important Questions

FP: What Makes a Targeting Legal or Illegal Under International Law?

FP: What Can Americans Learn from the British Empire?

Pew Research: The Political Composition of Scientists

Newsweek: Sell America and Buy India, Says George F. Will

WashPost: Liberal Policies Paving Way for Higher Taxes (George Will)

Economist: Henry Kissinger in 1973 - A Year to Remember (Book Review)
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Wilson Quarterly: E Pluribus Hispanic - Will the Hispanic US Look Pan-Hispanic or be A Smattering of Different Groups?

Wilson Quarterly: McCulture - Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?

Wilson Quarterly: What Makes Mr. Zhang Save? - Why are the Chinese such legendary savers? The answers shed light on why that habit is about to ­change.

New Republic: Selves - The New Cinematic Thing, Film About a Self

Wilson Quarterly: What Philosophy Has Made America Great? - Pragmatism

Wilson Quarterly: The Other Sixties - What Else Happened?

Big Money: A Stimulus Project That’s Not Creating Any Jobs - But does that really make it a failure?

New Republic: Honduras and Constitutional Democracy - Was it a Coup? Yes, according to the American Constitution, No, According to More Liberal Constitutions

New Republic: Supreme Court Archive

Wilson Quarterly: Citizen Canine - Why and What Happens When People Ascribe National Characteristics to Their Dogs

Wilson Quarterly: Are Video Games Evil?

Wilson Quarterly: The New Invisible Competitors - The Mystery of Competition

Wilson Quarterly: Strive We Must - How Competition Has Made the World Generally More Fair and More Rich

New Republic: Offense-Defense Nonsense - On Nuclear Issues Conservatives Are Still Stuck in the Cold War: Why?

Wilson Quarterly: The New Kindergarten - Why Universable Pre-K Isn't Advisable

Wilson Quarterly: Last Man Standing - It’s no cause for celebration, but the global financial crisis shows why the United States remains the indispensable nation.

Wilson Quarterly: Indian Ocean Nexus - The New Highway of Trade and Power

Wilson Quarterly: Magnifying American Power - Do International Relations Institutions Spread & Reinforce US Power?

Wilson Quarterly: The First Civil War - How the American Revolution Constituted It

Slate: How to Fix Microsoft Word's Spell-Checker

Wilson Quarterly: Demographics - The World's New Numbers

TIME: Fujifilm's New Project - 3D Film

Wilson Quarterly: No Double Beds for Boris - Contesting the Family Vacation in the Post-War Soviet Union

Wilson Quarterly: Breaking the Chinese Mold - About Chinese Political Attitudes

Wilson Quarterly: Contagious Crime

Wilson Quarterly: Only Words - Is the OED Going Out of Style?

Wilson Quarterly: Get Smart - Pouring more concrete will not by itself answer our infrastructure prayers. Look instead to the transformative power of information technology.

Salon: Clozapine may have saved schizophrenics

Wilson Quarterly: The Local Government Colossus - What Happens When State Governments Try to Merge Local Governments?

Slate: One of Rupert Murdoch's U.K. tabloids goes on a crime spree - Journalistic Payoffs?

Wilson Quarterly: In Praise of Trimming

Salon: Why America is Flunking Science

Wilson Quarterly: The Zen of Spellchecking

Wilson Quarterly: The Research Boomerang - What is the Relationship Between NIH Research and The $ the USFG Funds the NIH With?
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FP: The "Surge" in Iraq Failed: Get Used to It

Atlantic: The Quiet Coup - How the Finance Industry has Come to Assume Power

Salon: Peter Jackson's Alien-Apartheid Apocalypse

Atlantic: A New Status Anxiety has come to Afflict Hipdom

Newsweek: The Rich are Feeling "Luxury Shame"

NPR: Washington Cherries - For Dinner And Dessert

Economist: A special report on Texas - Lone Star rising

Economist: A special report on Texas - Tex-Mix

Economist: A special report on Texas - Work Hard & Be Nice

Economist: A special report on Texas - Beyond Oil

Economist: A special report on Texas - The Red & the Blue

Economist: A special report on Texas - The New Face of America

TIME: Can Community Colleges Save the U.S. Economy?

TIME: Can Gaming Slow Mental Decline in the Elderly?

FP: Don't Place Sanctions on Dictators, They Don't Work

TIME: No Charisma? Don't Worry, You Can Still Be a Leader

TIME: Does Poker Stand a Chance in Asia?

NPR: Can a Guy Admit He Likes Romance Novels?

CNN: Family roots lure many African-Americans back to South

CNN: More airlines embracing furry travelers
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Friday Update
TIME: The Broken Hopes of a Spanish Generation

Atlantic: The Success of Failure (P.J. O'Rourke, excellent)

Atlantic: The Gift-Card Economy - For Some People, Spending just Doesn't Come Naturally -- Especially in a Recession -- Behavioral Economists Have a Solution

CSMonitor: Urumqi Unrest - China's Savvier Media Policy: Taking a cue from Western PR tactics, Beijing moved away from trying to block coverage altogether - and was benefited by doing so

MSNBC: 8 Ways the Food Industry Tricks You to Overeat

Atlantic: Bankruptcy Helps the Undeserving - And That's the Way it Should Be

Atlantic: End the Corporate Income Tax

Slate: How Bruno is Good for Gays

CSMonitor: Spy satellite mystery, Part 2

NYT: Does Social Networking Breed Social Division?

Newsweek: Why Kenya's Political Violence Screwed Its Prostitution Sector

Newsweek: GOP Elites Fall Out of Love With Palin's Crowd

Newsweek: Pope Benedict and the Far-Right

Newsweek: Why the Vatican Likes Obama

Newsweek: Steve McNair, Sahel Kazemi, and the Sad Truths About Murder-Suicide

TIME: French Tourists - Still the World's Worst

Washington Post: Republicans to Fault Judicial Empathy in Sotomayor Hearings

Newsweek: Jobs - How Unemployment Is Straining Friendships

Atlantic: California vs. Texas for the Future of America (editorial)

CSMonitor: Ranks of atheists grow, get organized
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Thursday Update
Economist: California v. Texas - America's Future

Economist: Babies' names and the internet - Local Yokels

New Republic: Calvin & American Exceptionalism

Economist: A year at the Supreme Court - Fairness for firefighters

Economist: Faith, Economics, & Ecology - As the World Heats Up and Economic Dislocation Ravages the Poor, Religious Leaders Offer Up Their Diagnoses and Prescriptions

TIME: Why Are Southerners So Fat?

Slate: Is Cybersquatting against the Law?

CSMonitor: Why China's ethnic riots help the Communist Party

Slate: Why do Scandinavians write such great crime fiction?

Economist: Google v Microsoft - Clash of the Titans

Slate: Why Google kept Gmail in "beta" for so many years

Newsweek: What GM and Chrysler Can Learn From Hyundai

Slate: Can the kid who settled his child-abuse claim with Michael Jackson speak out about his case?

New Republic: From Muhammad to Marx - An Intellectual History of Iran's Green Revolution

Economist: Hollywood in the Recession - One-Dimensional

New Republic: Does Obama Have a Friend in the Vatican?

CSMonitor: Spiritual mother of Uighurs or terrorist?

Newsweek: Should Microsoft Worry About Google's Chrome?

Slate: Five reasons why Google's new Chrome operating system is a bad idea

Atlantic: Yes, Google Chrome Could Beat Microsoft Windows

Newsweek: Rumsfeld May Share McNamara's Fate

FP: Why Obama's realism in the Middle East is boosting authoritarian rule

CSMonitor: There's a Growing Cultural Gap Between Scientists and the Public

New Republic: Is it Time to Mourn the Death of the Gangster Film?

Atlantic: The Rental Market Stinks Too

Slate: More about NBC News' investigative infotainment series

Salon: Why "Brüno" is bad for the gays

Salon: History is Bunk After All

Slate: How does porn screenwriting work?

Atlantic: Civilize Homeland Security

TIME: After California - Which States Are in the Most Peril?

FP: G-8? G-whatever.

TIME: G-8 Opens to Growing Economies

TIME: Alcohol Laws

Salon: Miley Cyrus: Too young for "hooker boots"?

Salon: Fox News' Kilmeade: We "marry other species," Finns are "Pure"

Newsweek: Nate Silver on How to Destroy 5% of Global GDP (and Half the World)

Salon: The significance of McClatchy's act of journalism

Slate: Just how religious is Francis Collins, Obama's nominee for director of the NIH?

FP: Iran's dissenting clerics want to keep the Islamic republic together, not push democracy

Salon: The Losers Who Gave Us Sarah Palin

Atlantic: Sigh

New Republic: The One Legacy Robert McNamara Can be Proud Of

Newsweek: A Disturbing New Green Parenting Book

Economist: Climate Change Talks - Poor Countries Wrangle with Rich Ones About Who Can Burn What & When

Atlantic: Robert McNamara and the Dreams of Reason

FP: Lightning Joe Collins vs. Mogadishu Mike Steele (Round II)

FP: Why America's rock star president wasn't going to cut it in Russia

Economist: Green spending and stimulus - Curiously slow

CSMonitor: Italy's Obama? First black mayor is voice of right-wing party

Economist: The Invention Machine

Atlantic: Comfort Food with a Foreign Accent

Economist: America and Eastern Europe - Eastern Europe Watches Nervously as America Improves Relations with Russia

FP: How China Wins and Loses Xinjiang

Economist: Economics Lessons for Journalists - USA Today Can't Do Maths

Economist: Obama in Africa - Stop Blaming Colonialism for Present-Day Troubles

FP: Radical Islam's Critique of Al Qaeda

FP: Why Iran is Going the Way of the Soviet Union

NPR: Bleak Economy Squeezes Community Colleges

Economist: Prank Calls in America's Hotels

Newsweek: In Russia, Obama Brings Out His Inner Reagan

TIME: Welcome to OBamako - Africa Awaits Obama's Return

Slate: Was Obama right to give Putin the cold shoulder this week?
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Wednesday Update
TIME: What Happens When Parents Join Facebook

Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook. (Funny!)

Newsweek: Is Unconscious Plagiarism a Real Phenomenon?

TIME: Is Your Facebook Account a Gold Mine for Identity Thieves?

OpEd News: Howard Zinn - Untold Truths About the American Revolution

NPR: Perks Lure Commercial Real Estate Tenants

Slate: Whatever happened to the Segway?

NPR: Rare Guilty Pleas In Artifacts Sting

NPR: Do Corporate Boards Need More Teeth?

BHam Examiner: Planned Parenthood targets Baltimore's Black Community through Misleading Advertisements

TIME: Health-Care Reform: A Fight over Abortion Coverage?

TIME: Should Hedge Funds Face Harsher Regulation?

CSMonitor: Will much of New Orleans be underwater by 2100?

Salon: The Obama Justice System

CSMonitor: How the Honduras crisis boosts Venezuela's Chávez

FP: Uribe Falls to Earth

NPR: Artists Make Money By Forgoing Traditional Galleries

Salon: Freedom From Lobbyists
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Tuesday Update
Slate: How the Warsaw Pact Folded - Not with a Bang but a Gesture

Slate: Why are we so fascinated with horror movies about homicidal children?

Mother Jones: Where in the World Are the Federal Trade Commissioners?

Slate: How to Make an Ad for a Church

FP: Apocalypse Now - McNamara Warns on Nuclear War

Slate: Wonderfully absurd escapes from mortal danger in the original G.I. Joe cartoon

Double-X: Horror Movies as Parenting Manuals - The Case against Raising Perfect Kids

Newsweek: Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

Atlantic: Is the Age of Mega-Celebrity Over?

Atlantic: The Democratic Vs. The Meritocratic

Atlantic: Taking Fear off the Menu

FP: How Twitter Failed the Uighurs

Atlantic: How AIDS Changed America - How the Epidemic made the Omnipresence - and Humanity - of Gay Men more Obvious than Ever Before

Mother Jones: The Collapse of America's Imperial Car Industry

Mother Jones: The Patriot's Guide to Legalization

FP: What if MTV made a reality show of the G8?

Slate: The Ins and Outs of Government Salaries

Mother Jones: "We Bring Fear" - A Reporter Flees the Biggest Cartel of All: The Mexican Army

Atlantic: What Wall St. Should Learn from the NFL

Atlantic: In Defense of Decaf

CNN: Sci Fi Channel becomes Syfy; will viewers tune in or drop out?

Mother Jones: The Altered States of America

Mother Jones: This Is Your War on Drugs

Mother Jones: The Altered States of America
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Monday Update
NPR: How To Make The Perfect Burger

NPR: Love Words With Staying Power?

NPR: Pucker Up For Sour Cherries

FP: The Next Big Thing - Africa

Salon: What if the Uighurs were Christian rather than Muslim?

NPR: Chat While Reading: The Future Of Books?

NPR: Rhubarb: Reviving A Forgotten Crop

NPR: Pluots And Apriums - The Best Of Both Parents

Salon: All Sides Blame McNamara for Vietnam

FP: Central America is Headed for More Chaos

Economist: Chinese Aid to Africa: Spreading its Bets, and its Gold

Salon: Life is Out of Whack - It May Drive Ecologists Crazy to Talk about a Balance in Nature, but it's More Necessary than Ever

Economist: Unrest in China: Unrest on the Western Front

Slate: Reinstating Deposed President Manuel Zelaya would be a Disaster for Honduras

Economist: Extinct and Unmourned - A Database of Endangered Creatures Fails to List those Most at Risk

CSMonitor: Was There a Coup in Honduras? The Answer Divides a Nation

Slate: What Stuntmen think are the Best Stunt Films of All-Time

NPR: Zombies: Still Undead, And Suddenly Everywhere

NPR: 3-D Glasses Make A Comeback

NPR: In Europe, Irregular Produce Makes A Comeback

NPR: Cooking With Herbs

Salon: Is Palin Setting a Poor Example for Her Kids?

CSMonitor: Coup Drives Deep Divide in Honduras

CNN Money: Minimum wage increase slated for July 24

Double-X: The Romper Craze: Why Grown Women Dress Like Toddlers

NPR: Marijuana Vendors Lobby To Pay Higher Taxes

NPR: New Grads May Have Leg Up On Older Job Seekers

NPR: Korean School Preps Students For Ivy League

NPR: New Generation Of Iraqi Military Pilots Looks To Sky

NPR: An Enchanting Tour Through A World Of Idioms

Salon: What's happening in Xinjiang?

Newsweek: The Pleasures of Rereading

Economist: Captain Hudson’s Journey - Fair to Foul and Back Again

Newsweek: Gorbachev - Why U.S., Russia Grew Apart

Economist: Art - Happy Days for Some: The Art Market may have Simmered Down, but a Few Artists are Still in High Demand

Newsweek: The Riddle of Robert McNamara

NPR: Heavy Job Loss Prompts Stimulus Criticism

NPR: Is the Worst Over? Most Economists say Yes
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Happy 4th of July!
Happy Independence Day!

FP: The Least Free Places on Earth

Salon: How Does your City Garden Grow?

Slate: The Rise of Single-Topic Blogs

Atlantic: The Rating Game - The Spread of Internet Rankings and Reviews is Freeing Consumers to Focus on the Decisions that Matter

Economist: Limiting Migration: People Protectionism

Atlantic: Natural vs. Organic - The Battle Begins

Atlantic: North America's Other Election

Atlantic: Privatize the Seas?

Slate: Back to the Futurists: Italy's First Avante-Garde turns 100

Economist: Brazil's poor schools: Still a lot to Learn

FP: Curried Grenades in India?

Newsweek: Mexico Elections - The PRI Come Back
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Weekend Reading..
CSMonitor: A 'coup' in Honduras? Nonsense

Economist: The coup in Honduras: Defying the Outside World

New Republic: The Supreme Court Finally Gets Real on "Disparate Impact"

Reason: In Praise of Consumerism: When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. And sometimes even get happy

CSMonitor: Honduran coup tests waning US clout in Latin America

Newsweek: The Supremes Rule in the Firefighter Race Case

Slate: The damage done by the Supreme Court in the New Haven firefighters case

CSMonitor: How does Cap-and-Trade Work?

New Republic: Failed States, Dubious Rankings

Slate: FireFox 3.5 Reviewed

Economist: Welfare claims surge: Helping the needy

Slate: Why ban the tobacco industry when you can hijack it instead?

Economist: South Africa and football’s World Cup: On goal for 2010

TIME: The End of the Beginning - What will be the Legacy of the Green Revolution in Iran?

Slate: Is Michael Mann's Public Enemies Historically Accurate?

Economist: Brazil’s licensed thinker: A sage exits, maybe left

Economist: World food prices: Whatever happened to the food crisis?

FP: Why Don't Palestinians Care About Iran?

TIME: Minnesota Senator Al Franken: How His Vote Could Matter

Newsweek: How Prison Consultants Could Help Bernard Madoff

Newsweek: Microfinance: The Next Bubble?

TIME: What Cheap Stuff Really Costs Us

Economist: Greenland - Global Warming & Feeling Free

Salon: Debate over government-funded police protection heats up

Economist: A comedian in the Senate - Eight months later

New Yorker: Caveat Mortgagor

Salon: Marxism & the Un-American Way of Life - A Review

TIME: Recession Hits Summer Camp: Parents Seek Deals on Fees

CSMonitor: The Mystery of the Blind Spy Satellite

Economist: Germany's Chancellor: Merkel is the Message

Salon: Is your Music Cool?

Slate: Morocco makes Peace with its Past
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