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The World of 100 (Toby Ng Design)If the world were a village of 100 people
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Brain Food: Hungry Planet (Brain Pickings)What $347.98 and $1.23 have in common, or why we should be embarrassed to even worry about “the recession.” © Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com from the book "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats"
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The secret of self-control (The New Yorker)Most of the children were like Craig. They struggled to resist the treat and held out for an average of less than three minutes. “A few kids ate the marshmallow right away,”
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An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | MagazineThis isn’t a religious dispute, like the debate over creationism and intelligent design. It’s a challenge to traditional science that crosses party, class, and religious lines. It is partly a reaction to Big Pharma’s blunders and PR missteps, from Vioxx to illegal marketing ploys, which have ...
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Republican Gomorrah: The Shattered GOP, Taken Over by Authoritarian Radicals, Is Incapable of Compromise | Politics | AlterNetMax Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, argues the right is incapable of anything but scorched-earth politics, and are trying to delegitimize the Obama presidency - R.J. Rushdoony was a survivor of the Armenian genocide, who came to this country and became a theologian. He's the ...
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Nobel jury strongly defends Obama decision - White House- msnbc.comMembers of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature. "We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the ...
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The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writingToday's kids don't just write for grades anymore. They write to shake the world. Moreover, they are writing more than any previous generation, ever, in history. They navigate in a bewildering new arena where writers and their audiences have merged. These are among the startling findings in the ...
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2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist - Yahoo! NewsApolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they ...
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Oil Crisis was a Peak into the Future: Former CIBC Chief Economist predicts end of globalization, promotes local food | The DominionJeff Rubin doesn't fit the typical profile of an interview subject for The Dominion. For more than a decade, he was Chief Economist at CIBC World Markets, one of Canada's largest investment banks. Rubin recently broke ranks with the financial crowd to publish his book, Why Your World is About to ...
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Most Politicians and the Insurance Industry Already LOVE "Socialized Insurance"From the 10/1/2009 Countdown transcript - The Republicans who oppose health care reform and the conservative Democrats who oppose a public option have deeply principled, philosophical objections to the concept of government insurance—except when insurance companies benefit from it. When the ...
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