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[2]Defying The Mafia
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Joshua Hammer | Smithsonian | 20 September 2010
Organised public resistance to Sicily's Cosa Nostra now possible, even
successful. Confiscated Mafia assets used for social projects. Former home
of Toto Riina now journalists' society
[3]True History Of US Religious Tolerance
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Kenneth Davis | Smithsonian | 20 September 2010
Idea that America has always been a bastion of religious freedom is
reassuring, but at odds with the historical record. The real story is much
more awkward, embarrassing and bloody
[4]Blimey. What To Say To The Pope?
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Boris Johnson | Telegraph | 20 September 2010
Mayor of London wonders how best to welcome Pope Benedict: "Long time no See
... I felt like a woad-painted savage called upon to explain the religious
back-sliding of the tribe"
[5]Aggregators: Good Ones vs Looters
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Frédéric Filloux | Monday Note | 19 September 2010
Skip the first couple of paragraphs, cut straight to the analysis of the
Huffington Post, "smartest digital news machine ever, and mother of all news
internet impostures"
[6]In Praise Of Inflation
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James Surowiecki | New Yorker | 20 September 2010
Modestly higher inflation target could encourage consumption, growth. But
Fed reluctant. American public too, because they associate inflation
primarily with rising prices, social tensions
[7]Meat Eaters
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Jeff McMahan | NYT | 19 September 2010
Is it our moral duty to bring about the extinction of carnivorous species,
and their replacement with herbivorous ones? Animals suffer when they are
hunted and killed, even by other animals
[8]Rejoining The Apple Family
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Austin Seraphin | Behind The Curtain | 11 September 2010
Blind user buys Apple Mac, helped by one-armed sales-person. Mac's
accessibility, especially VoiceOver, rated way ahead of Windows's. Tribute
to Steve Jobs's perfectionism. Excellent writing
[9]Mad Scientists, Rad Spinoffs
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R.U. Sirius | H+ | 19 September 2010
Interview with Michael Belfiore, author of book about defence research
agency Darpa. Current projects include driverless cars, cyborg insects,
programmable matter which can assemble itself in a 3D printer
[10]Down With Fun
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Schumpeter | Economist | 16 September 2010
Contradiction of trying to introduce fun into the workplace, as a spur to
creativity. "As soon as fun becomes part of a corporate strategy it becomes
an empty shell, a tiresome imposition"
[11]Topic: Farming And Food
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Cruelty in farming. The joy of soy. Beware the coming crunches in farmland
and fertiliser. And why so much bad food? [12]Continue reading...
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[13]Today on FiveBooks: Millennium Development Goals
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