Newsletter 417 Corrected

30 Aug 2011 • 3 min read

[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

[5]New York: Where We Are Now
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pPlHaY

Peter Kaplan | New York | 27 August 2011

Prepare for many essays about 9/11, 10 years on. This one a high-class
front-runner. "The late nineties in New York City was a period when nothing
seemed to go wrong, and New Yorkers went right to, and through, the looking
glass" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-york-where-we-are-now

[7]Better, Faster, Stronger
Links:
7. http://b.rw/pUMrwK

Rebecca Mead | New Yorker | 29 August 2011

Rollicking profile of Timothy Ferriss, 33-year-old American self-help guru,
author of "The 4-Hour Workweek" and "The 4-Hour Body". Self-experimenter,
admirer of Seneca. "Every generation gets the self-help guru that it
deserves" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/better-faster-stronger

[9]Euro’s Appeal Masks Gathering Storm In Europe
Links:
9. http://b.rw/n07VaU

Simon Johnson | Bloomberg | 29 August 2011

How euro's status as reserve currency masks liquidity issues. "Europe must
choose between systematically restructuring debts or issuing a great deal of
money, increasing the moral hazard and possibly creating significant
inflation" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/euro’s-appeal-masks-gathering-storm-europe

[11]Is Homeland Security Spending Paying Off?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qjMuVn

Kim Murphy | LA Times | 28 August 2011

Not by this account. It's a cross between a crapshoot and a $75bn
pork-barrel. A tiny lake in Nevada gets a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar.
LA police use nine-tonne armoured vehicle to guard DreamWorks. Terrorists
caught: None [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/homeland-security-spending-paying

[13]Henry Ford, Innovation, And That 'Faster Horse' Quote
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nykPAN

Patrick Vlaskovits | HBR | 29 August 2011

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster
horses." Whether or not he uttered these famous words, one thing is certain:
His unwillingness to test his vision against reality proved catastrophic for
Ford [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/henry-ford-innovation-and-faster-horse-quote

[15]Pregnant In Putin's Russia
Links:
15. http://b.rw/quaj6S

Natalia Antonova | Foreign Policy | 26 August 2011

Soviet-era hospital care notoriously slipshod. Under Yeltsin it got worse.
Has it improved under Putin? Newly-arrived foreign journalist finds herself
pregnant and broke. No choice but to give the system a try—and here's her
story [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/pregnant-putins-russia

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Helen Castor on Queens and Power
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/helen-castor-on-queens-and-power

Women’s historical role in politics wasn’t always as limited as we might
assume. The historian tells us about powerful women in British history and
how they were constrained or conspired against [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/helen-castor-on-queens-and-power

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