Newsletter 716
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[6]The Medication Generation
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6. http://b.rw/ONGYJe
Katherine Sharpe | WSJ | 29 June 2012
It's a shocking thought, but plenty of young people in America today
have spent the majority of their lives on antidepressants. Often as a
result of misdiagnosis. What must it mean for their sense of identity,
emotional development? [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/medication-generation
[8]In Athens
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8. http://b.rw/MZLQsp
Richard Clogg | London Review Of Books | 26 June 2012
Commentators on the crisis in Greece routinely refer to the notion that
Europe owes the idea of democracy to ancient Greece. These classical
analogies have little resonance with present-day Greeks. But events of
WWII do [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/athens
[10]Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld
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10. http://b.rw/N1zDzJ
Anonymous | Telegraph | 29 June 2012
Straight onto the list of most thrilling obituaries ever. Fled Occupied
France in WWII; recruited by British special forces; led series of
daring sabotage missions; faced execution twice; engineered most
dramatic escapes imaginable [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/count-robert-de-la-rochefoucauld
[12]Something Wicked This Way Comes
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12. http://b.rw/MczTS4
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 28 June 2012
Supreme Court ruling won't end health care argument. Nothing will. It's
a "wicked problem". Tame problems, however hard, have a given form, an
eventual solution. Wicked problems mutate, metastatise. All solutions
are partial, flawed [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/something-wicked-way-comes
[14]My Life As A Bibliophile
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14. http://b.rw/N3SX3c
Julian Barnes | Guardian | 29 June 2012
"I bought with a kind of neediness. The dividing line between books I
liked, books I thought I would like, books I hoped I would like and
books I didn't like now but thought I might at some future date was
rarely distinct" [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-life-bibliophile
[16]Fear And Loathing 40 Years Later
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16. http://b.rw/QHNQGi
Matt Taibbi | Slate | 29 June 2012
Introduction to new edition of Hunter S. Thompson's campaign-trail
classic. Thompson "stared right into the flaming-hot sun of shameless
lies and cynical horseshit that is our politics, and he described
exactly what he saw" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fear-and-loathing-40-years-later
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Edward L Glaeser on Urban Economics
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-l-glaeser-on-urban-economics
The Harvard economist chooses books on the economics of cities, from
Chicago’s life story to how urban transport shaped New York [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-l-glaeser-on-urban-economics
Featured Special Report
[20]Great Obituaries
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Raise a glass to life's characters with our collection of writing about
eventful, unconventional lives. RIP [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Reader Recommendations
@rszbt An elegantly simple scheme: MT @FGoria: BRE-X: Inside The $6bn
Gold Fraud That Shocked The Mining Industry [22]t.co/52HARRnJ"
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/52HARRnJ
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/corner-by-david-simon-and-edward-burns
[26]The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/corner-by-david-simon-and-edward-burns
[27]Gavin Knight says: This book shows how the drug trade recruits
children. All the natural abilities and promise of these kids is just
taken and plugged into the drug trade [28]FiveBooks Archive
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/corner-by-david-simon-and-edward-burns
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Breaking Story
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/breaking-story
If you didn't know it was from The Onion, you'd be a full minute in
before you twigged [30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]John Banville, on fiction
Links:
31. http://totallydublin.ie/arts-culture/arts-culture-features/john-banville-interviewed
"Fiction is an X-ray of the self, whereas travel writing and memoir
are both marvelous masks"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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