Newsletter 750
[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]Cocaine Cowboys Know Best Places To Bank
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6. http://b.rw/Nelvo8
Jonathan Weil | Bloomberg | 2 August 2012
HSBC helped drug cartels and terrorists launder money through America's
banking system, says Senate inquiry. Why not put it out of business?
Because it's "too big too fail". We let our laws and morals fail,
rather than our banks [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cocaine-cowboys-know-best-places-bank
[8]Double Jeopardy
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Owf5EI
Geoffrey Sant | Slate | 2 August 2012
In China the wealthy elite rule. So much so that when they find
themselves convicted of a crime, they'll send a double to do their jail
time for them. It's such a common practice they even have a phrase for
it ding zui [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/double-jeopardy
[10]White Correspondent’s Burden
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MCJZbq
Jina Moore | Boston Review | 2 August 2012
Africa has 54 countries and a billion people, but the only stories of
interest to the Western press involve famine, disease, poverty and
civil war. Rape and genocide score double points. The news is broken.
How to fix it? [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/white-correspondent’s-burden
[12]When Old Age And Addiction Collide
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MAOyTx
Jennifer Matesa | The Fix | 23 July 2012
They call it Pharmageddon: The latest health crisis to hit America. A
wave of baby boomers in their fifties and sixties turning to drugs to
cope with the stresses of ageing. Loneliness, depression, shame lead
them to a quick fix [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-old-age-and-addiction-collide
[14]Caught In The Middle
Links:
14. http://b.rw/RegsFz
Samantha Shapiro | ESPN | 1 August 2012
Six years ago, Santhi Soundarajan was thrown out of the Asian Games for
failing a gender test. It crushed her running career. Now she works as
a brick maker in her village in India. Is there a better way of dealing
with such cases? [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/caught-middle
[16]The Slave Who Circumnavigated The World
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16. http://b.rw/MARwrd
Josh Fruhlinger | Awl | 30 July 2012
Enrique of Malacca was captured in the Malay peninsula by Portuguese in
1519. Became personal slave to Ferdinand Magellan; accompanied him on
voyage around the world. Promised freedom, then double-crossed. But he
would take revenge [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/slave-who-circumnavigated-world
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Colin Thubron on Travel Writing
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-thubron-on-travel-writing
The much-travelled author Colin Thubron reflects on more than 40 years
of writing about other cultures, and shares his own favourite travel
reading with us [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-thubron-on-travel-writing
Featured Special Report
[20]Consciousness
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
What is it? Where did it come from? How can we learn more about it?
Here's a quick look at what we do and don't know about consciousness
[21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
Reader Recommendations
@BostonReview Robert Kuttner: The government has tools to help remedy
the #jobs crisis, so why isn't it doing anything? [22]t.co/FKfAAXb4
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/FKfAAXb4
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/what-does-it-all-mean-by-thomas-nagel
[26]What Does It All Mean? by Thomas Nagel
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/what-does-it-all-mean-by-thomas-nagel
[27]Nigel Warburton says: “ Nagel goes through all the major areas of
philosophy with a very light touch. The writing is almost Orwellian in
its simplicity and directness” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nigel-warburton-on-introductions-philosophy
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Best Ever Anti-Smoking Ad
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/best-ever-anti-smoking-ad
"Best ever" may be a bold claim, but this is undeniably a powerful
approach
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Leon Wieseltier, on Bruce Springsteen
Links:
31. http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/politics/105712/washington-diarist-saint-in-the-city-springsteen
"It is one of the duties of rock'n'roll to create nostalgia"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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