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Friday, December 11, 2009

TIME: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell

Reason: French Wine and the Fable of Free-Trade Britain

Slate: The New York Times Magazine delivers a journalistic cliché in its Joe Biden feature

Slate: How Do They Measure Snowfall?

Slate: Meet the producer behind Jon and Kate, Table for 12, and 18 Kids and Counting.

Slate: Joan Biskupic's Excellent Biography of J. Scalia

Economist: The Commonwealth - An ever-expanding club of (mostly) ex-British colonies needs to develop sharper edges or else shut up shop

Slate: The search for the best yogurt on the market

Atlantic: New Orleans Celebrates a Sandwich

Atlantic: Defining Israeli Cuisine

Economist: A Special Report on the Art Market

Slate: Can buying organic produce and natural shampoo turn you into a heartless jerk?

Slate: What's on the other side of Siberia? The Jewish Autonomous Region

Economist: Fighting Poverty in Emerging Economies - Lessons from Brazil, China and India

Atlantic: Did Christianity cause the Crash?

Economist: Anglo-Catholicism?

Slate: The Religions of the Justices?

Slate: How can we communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations.

Slate: Deglobalization: The surprisingly steep decline in world trade

Slate: China is a Communist country, but I have yet to meet an actual Communist.

Intl Socialist: China Today - Socialist or Capitalist?

Slate: The NFL Network's RedZone channel reveals the future of fandom.

Slate: The Princess and the Frog: A princess movie that ever so gently undermines the whole princess thing.

Slate: How do movie blurbs work?

New Yorker: Why Banks Stay Big

Economist: Venezuela's anti-capitalist cars - Wheels of revolution: An example of socialist production principles — but not a good one

Newsweek: (Niall Ferguson on) How Economic Weakness is the Main US Threat

Newsweek: (Zakaria) Can America Still Innovate

Economist: A World of Hits - Ever-increasing choice was supposed to mean the end of the blockbuster. It has had the opposite effect.

Economist: Fertility & Living Standards

Economist: The psychology of warranties - Protection racket: If extended guarantees are overpriced, why are they so popular?

World Affairs: (McWhorter) The Universality of English

Slate: Why is Congress always Meddling in Sports?

Slate: How buttoned-up shirts are (TV) costuming shorthand for "special."

FP: The Annual FP Top 100 Global Thinkers

Economist: Barack Obama's foreign policy - The quiet American

Economist: Weights of the average American turkey and human male

ESPN: Jim Caldwell is the Indianapolis Colts Invisible Man

Slate: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

Slate: If Tiger Woods really was stuck, should Elin Nordegren have busted open the car window to get him out?

Economist: The Texas governor's race - White v right

Newsweek: How Obama is like Reagan

Economist: Improving US Education - Standards

Economist: Iran and Latin America - Ayatollahs in the backyard

TIME: Reburying Albert Camus - A Political Ploy by Sarkozy?

ESPN: NFL brief in American Needle antitrust case: cold and compelling

ESPN: The Jacksonville Jaguars are fighting to survive

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