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Abstract Capital

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

NPR: Vacation U.S.A. For Less Than $100 A Day

Mental Floss: Why Do Shells Sound Like the Ocean?

Economist: Maryland, Thanks Be to D.C. - The Benefits of Proximity to Big (and getting Bigger) Government

Economist: Underage drinking and deaths have prompted a movement for change

Slate: Why haven't there been more tall sprinters like Usain Bolt?

Slate: Watching Wildlife with White People in South Africa

NPR: Native American Activist Peltier Denied Parole

FP: Rethinking Realism in IR

CNN: Don't Ban Prostitution, Legalize, and Educate Men

FP: A Guide to the Coming Green Geopolitical Crises

Economist: Piracy & Private Enterprise - Splashing & Clashing in Murky Waters: Private security firms are increasingly involved in the fight against pirates. The allocation of tasks between them and navies needs some thought

TIME: Abercrombie & Fitch - World's Worst Recession Brand? (Umm yeah!)

Slate: Does Washington have anything just waiting to be named after Ted Kennedy?

Slate: What Happens in Congressional Offices when the Boss is Gone?

Slate: Why Corporate IT Should Unchain our Office Computers!

Salon: Even The New Republic now calls for a party purge of corporate-owned "Centrists"

FP: Who Is the New Head of UNESCO?

Slate: The Myth of the 500-Foot Home Run

New Yorker: New York City Teachers, the *Worst* Teachers, & the Teachers' Union - "The (Teachers') Union would Protect even a Dead Body in the Classroom"

CNN: ACLU (Red) Flags Facebook App. Privacy

CSMonitor: When the Internet Breaks, Who Ya Gonna Call?

CNN: Old-school portraits see resurgence on Facebook (What?!?)

Atlantic Food: Inside an Authentic Hawaiian Luau

FP: A Visual History of Communist Russia

FP: Summer Reading of Our Discontent - Global Escapism is Flourishing in the Era of the Great Recession

CSMonitor: Syria - Where War Hides History

Atlantic: Stanley H. Kaplan's Legacy

TIME: Q & A - Inside the College-Admissions Process

TIME: Reader's Digest Files for Bankruptcy

NPR: On This Day In 1968: Alaska Sen. Gruening, Tonkin Gulf and the *Original* Vietnam War Foe, Unseated

FP: What the World's Poorest can teach us about Money Management

Slate: Is 1,000 pages long for a piece of legislation?

TIME: Search Engine Rivals - Bing vs. Google

Atlantic Food Channel: Sugar - What I Didn't Say on the Colbert Report

Economist: Youth Unemployment - How it may have a lasting effect on young people

NPR: Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's New Editing Policy

TIME: Agroforestry - Farms & Forests: Trees Fight Back

Slate: Movie review - The Baader Meinhof Complex

TIME: India's Opposition Struggles with Past & Present

SI: Advance scouting in NBA gets hit as teams try to cut back

Atlantic: Recession Teaches More Than Hardship

TIME: Journey to North Korea, Part III - The NoKo Chocolate Factory

NPR: Officer Calley Apologizes For My Lai Massacre

Newsweek: Lonely Planet - Isolation Increases In US

TIME: Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Hawaii

Economist: A Very British Coup - The Turks and Caicos loses independence: Self-Government is suspended amid reports of serious corruption

CNN: Relax & Learn on the Yucatan Peninsula

CNN: Get locals' lei of the land in Oahu, Hawaii

CBS: Selective enforcement? NCAA failed to admonish Duke

FP: And if they gave a prize for ill-considered prizes... - Erroneous Nobel Peace Prizes

CNN: Freaky News About your Brain!

Newsweek: A Social History of the MP3

TIME: Will the Trabant, the "Trabi", East Germany's Clunker, Make a Comeback?

FP: Resource-Cursed Equatorial Guinea

TIME: Seattle Mayor Concedes Defeat in Primary

ESPN: Your Second-Favorite Team

Economist: Robert Novak, The "Prince of Darkness", Farewell to one of Washington's greatest insiders

Atlantic: It Wasn't the Securitization that Was Irresponsible

Economist: Venezuela's education “reforms” - Hugo Chávez seeks to catch them young: A hastily passed education law is part of the president's plan to take control of all aspects of Venezuelan society

NPR: American Nuns Question Vatican Scrutiny

TIME: The China-India Rivalry - Watching the Border

SI: Ranking all 32 NFL Teams' No. 2 Quarterbacks

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