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[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]Top 10 Lessons Of The Iraq War
Links:
5. http://b.rw/GCdjiO
Stephen Walt | Foreign Policy | 20 March 2012
Concise, punchy, cut-out-and-keep guide. Read it now; even better,
bring it out again when talk next surfaces that invading and trying to
remake a foreign country would be a good idea. It very rarely is
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/top-10-lessons-iraq-war
[7]Age Of Double Standards
Links:
7. http://b.rw/GA545z
Robert Kuttner | American Prospect | 19 March 2012
American corporations declare bankruptcy without shame, wipe away
debts, recapitalise, resume business. Whereas bankrupt individuals lose
everything, including homes. Why? Because banks and corporations have
political power [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/age-double-standards
[9]Should Science Pull The Trigger On Antiviral Drugs—That Can Blast The
Common Cold?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/GCJk5V
Carl Zimmer | Wired | 20 March 2012
Inside the hunt for a Penicillin equivalent for viruses. "We might be
able to eradicate any type of virus we want. Someday we might even be
faced with a question that today sounds absurd: Are there viruses that
need protecting?" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/should-science-pull-trigger-antiviral-drugs—-can-blast-common-cold
[11]Britain's Politicians Lose The Power Of Speech
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11. http://b.rw/GGVcTA
Peter Hoskin | Telegraph | 20 March 2012
Best political speech of the century is still the valedictory given six
years ago by Tony Blair. And even that was memorable mainly for a
single joke. Modern fashion demands simplicity, banality, brevity, a
few soundbites [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/britains-politicians-lose-power-speech
[13]Is Boeing’s 737 An Airplane Prone To Problems?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xrWIOd
Clive Irving | Newsweek | 19 March 2012
The 737 is the workhorse of many fleets. One takes off or lands every
2.5 seconds. It's been partially redesigned over the years, but the
fuselage has remained substantially the same. And flying has changed a
lot since the sixties [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/boeing’s-737-airplane-prone-problems
[15]A Robot Stole My Pulitzer!
Links:
15. http://b.rw/FQDzXx
Evgeny Morozov | Slate | 19 March 2012
"Producing and tweaking stories on the spot, customized to suit the
interests and intellectual habits of just one particular reader, is
exactly what automated journalism allows—and why it's worth worrying
about" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/robot-stole-my-pulitzer
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Juliet Schor on Consumption and the Environment
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-schor-on-consumption-and-environment
The author of True Wealth suggests how we can rethink our patterns of
consumption and approach our relationship with nature in a new, less
damaging, way [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-schor-on-consumption-and-environment
Featured Special Report
[19]Mitt Romney
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Slowly, he's clawing his way to the Republican nomination. But what
makes the man who would be president tick? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Reader Recommendations
@[21]rszbt China spends $200m for new over-the-top AU headquarters. RT
@[22]NiuB The Chinese-African Union - FP Slide Show[23]t.co/goopTZ7T
[24]#browsings [25]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/rszbt
22. http://twitter.com/NiuB
23. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/19/african_union_addis_ababa
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/move-your-shadow-south-africa-black-and-white-by-joseph-lelyveld
[27]Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/move-your-shadow-south-africa-black-and-white-by-joseph-lelyveld
[28]John Carlin says: "In this you get both the sense of the
macro-madness of apartheid with a deeply close-up view of what it was
like to live as a black person then" [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Flying Like A Bird
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/flying-bird
With the help of an Android phone, some video game controllers, and
home-made wings Jarno Smeets can fly like a bird. Here he is in action.
Extraordinary
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]John Kay, on Keynes
Links:
32. http://www.johnkay.com/2012/03/21/building-can-help-britain-balance-the-books-and-boost-jobs
"Keynes famously advocated reducing unemployment by employing people
to dig holes and fill them in again: today it would be enough to
employ them to fill the potholes that are already there"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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