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Best of the Week
[5]A Very Important Speech About Social Media
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5. http://b.rw/mVbkI9
Admiral Gary Roughead | Damn I Wish I'd Thought Of That | 15 August 2011
Transcript of remarkable speech given by US chief of naval operations on
importance of social media. Rare insights from a most unexpected source.
Something for everyone involved in business to read, consider, learn from
[6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/very-important-speech-about-social-media
[7]How the World Failed Haiti
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7. http://b.rw/o4dAEL
Janet Reitman | Rolling Stone | 4 August 2011
Western aid was meant to restore Haiti after last year's earthquake. But
seems to have made things worse. Country still deep in rubble, wracked by
cholera. Money wasted on gimcrack projects dreamt up by policy wonks and
celebrities [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-world-failed-haiti
[9]Stop Coddling The Super-Rich
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9. http://b.rw/nf4Fjn
Warren Buffett | NYT | 14 August 2011
America's second-richest man attacks fiscal perversity. "While the poor and
middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle
to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax
breaks" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/stop-coddling-super-rich
[11]One Man Against Tyranny
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11. http://b.rw/olbHvM
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 18 August 2011
Gripping story of painstaking, one-man plot to kill Hitler. The would-be
assassin: An unassuming carpenter from southern Germany, whose skill,
patience and determination were such that Hitler refused to believe he'd
acted alone [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/one-man-against-tyranny
[13]Machisma: Brazil's Girl Power
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13. http://b.rw/pUV3ka
Cythia Gorney | National Geographic | 16 August 2011
In two generations Brazil's fertility rate has plummeted. Families used to
be size of football teams. Now, rich or poor, it's two children at most. One
reason: Unregulated pharmacies. Another: The influence of TV soap-operas
[14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/machisma-brazils-girl-power
[15]The Prettiest Boy in the World
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15. http://b.rw/nYclC5
Alex Morris | New York | 14 August 2011
Andrej Pejic was an aspiring model whose androgyny made it difficult for him
to find an agent. Then French _Vogue_ dressed him as a woman for a shoot.
Now he works both sides of the runway, to startling effect [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/prettiest-boy-world
[17]The Body On Somerton Beach
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17. http://b.rw/pUIFHU
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 12 August 2011
An unidentifiable man in a city suit, dead on a beach. A secret code hidden
in a fragment of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rare poisons so dangerous
their names couldn't be mentioned in court. A most curious cold case
[18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/body-somerton-beach
[19]Diner For Schmucks
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19. http://b.rw/nfiwL9
Alan Richman | GQ | 16 August 2011
Veteran restaurant reviewer takes friends out to fashionable New York diner.
Service is slow, it's a bit hot and cramped. Disappointing, yes. Disastrous,
no. But that was before an email from the owner arrived the next day
[20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/diner-schmucks
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Harold Bloom on Literary Criticism
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/harold-bloom-on-literary-criticism
The distinguished literary critic gives us his trenchant views on American
education and politics today, and tells us about five great works of
literary scholarship that have influenced him [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/harold-bloom-on-literary-criticism
Featured Topic
[23]Republican Contenders
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/topics/republican-contenders
Romney, Bachmann or Perry? AN Other? Read our selection of background and
analysis articles on the Republicans hoping to be their party's choice to
challenge President Obama [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/topics/republican-contenders
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Infographic: How Much Does Each Piece of Apple's iPhone Cost? -
The Atlantic: [25]t.co/tQfuOqq _#gfc2_ [26]#browsings [27]More like this
Links:
25. http://t.co/tQfuOqq
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-rich-rise-and-fall-greatest-texas-oil-fortunes-by-bryan-burrough
[29]The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan
Burrough
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-rich-rise-and-fall-greatest-texas-oil-fortunes-by-bryan-burrough
[30]Attica Locke says:_ “There’s no way to understand the culture and
politics of Texas without talking about oil. The oil industry fuelled the
rise of Texas” _[31]FiveBooks Archive
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30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/attica-locke-on-texas
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Industrial Revolutions
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/industrial-revolutions
Short film with some truly remarkable bike tricks
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Nassim Nicholas Taleb, on respect
Links:
34. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm
"Respect those who make a living lying down or standing up, never those
who do so sitting down"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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