Newsletter 616
[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]Jungleland
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5. http://b.rw/GFBttZ
Nathaniel Rich | NYT | 21 March 2012
New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward was slated to become "green space"
post-Katrina. But some residents wanted to return. So the result,
generously put, is laissez-faire. Population down by three-quarters;
flora and fauna running riot [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jungleland
[7]Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' Law
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7. http://b.rw/GFNvRV
Garrett Epps | American Prospect | 21 March 2012
Legal background to the Trayvon Martin case. New laws in Florida and
other American states make it easy to plead self-defence for almost any
act of violence. And when the victim is dead, that plea is hard to
contradict [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/floridas-stand-your-ground-law
[9]French Hopeful Hollande Says He's Nothing To Fear
Links:
9. http://b.rw/GG70bR
Brian Love | Reuters | 21 March 2012
Francois Hollande might have expected to continue spending Friday
nights sleeping in his constituency office in rural Correze. But
presumed Socialist presidential candidate DSK self-destructed. Hollande
now has Sarkozy on the run [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/french-hopeful-hollande-says-hes-nothing-fear
[11]Are Walmart's Chinese Factories As Bad As Apple's?
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11. http://b.rw/GFL8OJ
Andy Kroll | Mother Jones | 21 March 2012
Walmart wants to go green: So change the corporate culture. But then
there are all Walmart's overseas suppliers. And all the suppliers'
sub-contractors. By the time you reach southern China, the message is a
lot fainter [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-walmarts-chinese-factories-bad-apples
[13]Operation Midnight Climax
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13. http://b.rw/GB3lur
Troy Hooper | SF Weekly | 14 March 2012
"It's been over 50 years, but Wayne Ritchie says he can still remember
how it felt to be dosed with acid." So begins the chilling story of
MK-ULTRA, a covert CIA operation used to test the effects of LSD on
unsuspecting Americans [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/operation-midnight-climax
[15]Who Makes Money On Wall Street?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/GBVB9W
James Altucher | Altucher Confidential | 19 March 2012
"I came up with an ultra-perfect top-secret method for beating the
stock market. I saw it right there on the screen after 30 straight
hours of computer programming. My heart was beating fast. I was
sweating when I went to sleep" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-makes-money-wall-street
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Monty Don on Favourite Gardening Books
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17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books
The presenter of the popular BBC series Gardener’s World shares his
favourite reads on gardening from childhood to today, and tells us that
we’re all bacteria when it comes to working with nature [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books
Featured Special Report
[19]Healthcare in America
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's
what's at stake [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
Reader Recommendations
@[21]sw_read RT @[22]jaltucher #[23]browsings A thought that must have
crossed your mind at least once- How to disappear and never be
found [24]t.co/xJuHHmKB
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21. http://twitter.com/sw_read
22. http://twitter.com/jaltucher
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
24. http://t.co/xJuHHmKB
[25]More like this
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/mandela-by-anthony-sampson
[27]Mandela by Anthony Sampson
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/mandela-by-anthony-sampson
[28]John Carlin says: “If I have to go to a desert island and take one
Mandela book with me it would be Sampson’s. He has the credibility of
knowing Mandela as well as any biographer could be expected to”
[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]The Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/six-habits-highly-empathic-people
Take a leaf out of Orwell's book with the extreme sport of experiential
empathy
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Charles Nevin, on patios
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32. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/charles-nevin/charles-nevin-the-secret-of-happiness-patios-2121772.html
In 2004, archaeologists in Fife admitted that the stone slabs they
thought were evidence of early Viking settlements were the remains
of a patio built in 1939
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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