Newsletter 607
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[5]Money Pol
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5. http://b.rw/wVoB3Z
Louis Menand | New Yorker | 12 March 2012
The key to understanding Mitt Romney is that he thinks like a
businessman. His basic unit of analysis is the firm, not the
individual. Firms should grow or die. At the individual level, the only
thing that counts is productivity [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/money-pol
[7]Don't Elevate Joseph Kony
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7. http://b.rw/wxCT2F
Alex de Waal | African Arguments | 11 March 2012
"In elevating Kony to a global celebrity, the embodiment of evil, and
advocating a military solution, the campaign isn't just simplifying, it
is irresponsibly naive. The 'let’s get the bad guy' script is a
problem, not a solution" [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dont-elevate-joseph-kony
[9]Will We Ever Restore Sight To The Blind?
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9. http://b.rw/zUiUTO
Ed Yong | Not Exactly Rocket Science | 12 March 2012
Maybe, in some cases. Chip implants in retinas are showing promising
results for those suffering from retinal diseases. Perfect 20/20 vision
isn't going to happen; colour vision looks unlikely; but seeing your
fiancée smile? Yes [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-we-ever-restore-sight-blind
[11]The Last Famine
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11. http://b.rw/zVJ1Zz
Paul Salopek | Foreign Policy | 2 March 2012
Writer takes long walk through Kenya, reflects on history of famine in
Horn of Africa. Its victims are mostly nomads, pastoralists. When they
disappear, through urbanisation, so at last will the stereotypical
African famine [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/last-famine
[13]Tartanry And Tyranny
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13. http://b.rw/z10B13
John Lloyd | FT | 9 March 2012
For a more nuanced view on Scottish independence, look away from
Scottish nationalists and Anglocentrics. Turn instead to John Lloyd,
who's half-Scottish, half-English and troubled by developments on both
sides of the border [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tartanry-and-tyranny
[15]Farewell To The Monkey House
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15. http://b.rw/An0Avp
Charles Siebert | NYT | 10 March 2012
Old primates house closes at Bronx Zoo. Used to be an uncomplicated
pleasure to stare at strange animals. Now we think the animals don't
like it, which makes us uneasy too. Giving them nicer habitats doesn't
make it right [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/farewell-monkey-house
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Rosamund Bartlett on Russian Short Stories
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rosamund-bartlett-on-russian-short-stories
In Russia, it’s often fallen to writers to challenge conventions and
speak the truth, says the translator and biographer. She makes a
personal selection of some of the most exhilarating Russian short
fiction [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rosamund-bartlett-on-russian-short-stories
Featured Special Report
[19]Parenting
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
What's the best way to bring up children? Indeed, is there a right way
at all? [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]pkedrosky: Evans-Pritchard: Global liquidity peak
spells trouble for late 2012 - [23]t.co/nV8OAiyL#[24]gfc2
#[25]browsings @[26]rszbt[27]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/pkedrosky
23. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9136903/Global-liquidity-peak-spells-trouble-for-late-2012.html
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/rszbt
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/british-writers-thirties-by-valentine-cunningham
[29]British Writers of the Thirties by Valentine Cunningham
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/british-writers-thirties-by-valentine-cunningham
[30]Alexandra Harris says: “This is a treasure trove book. It’s
enormous and probably best not to be read in one fell swoop – it’s a
wonderful dipping book” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Iran and the Bomb
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/iran-and-bomb
Up close with Iranian centrifuges and the nuclear crisis
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Susan Sontag, on victims
Links:
34. http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/on-the-genre-of-raising-awareness-about-someone-elses-suffering
"Photographs of victims of war are a species of rhetoric. They
reiterate. They simplify. They agitate. They create the illusion of
consensus"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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