Weekly newsletter 8
Best of the Week
[1]Sex Trafficking Of Americans: The Girls Next Door
Links:
1. http://b.rw/mNTG4b
Amy Fine Collins | Vanity Fair | 24 May 2011
Horrifying report. "A pound of heroin or an AK-47 can be retailed once, but
a young girl can be sold 10 to 15 times a day." And hundreds of thousands of
American girls are. The average starting age for prostitution? Just 13
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sex-trafficking-americans-girls-next-door
[3]Cowboys And Pit Crews
Links:
3. http://b.rw/jrqohI
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 26 May 2011
Inspiring commencement address delivered to Harvard medical students. Best
healthcare results in the US aren't obtained where care is most expensive
– but often where it's among least expensive. Here's why [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cowboys-and-pit-crews
[5]Yes, This Is Called The Dismal Science. Why Do You Ask?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/kcyWej
Bradley Delong | Grasping Reality | 21 May 2011
It's not a good time to be an economist. Delong starts with admission of
error: "How could I ever have been so stupid; how could I have missed so
much?" Continues with sharp, if grim, analysis of current macroeconomic
issues [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/yes-called-dismal-science-why-do-you-ask
[7]How To Spot A Psychopath
Links:
7. http://b.rw/jfYT4D
Jon Ronson | Guardian | 21 May 2011
Beautifully worked investigation of psychopathy, told in author's
characteristically appealing, faux-naive style. Centres around encounter
with patient who faked mental illness to avoid prison and got trapped in a
catch-22 [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-spot-psychopath
[9]Madoff's Curveball
Links:
9. http://b.rw/jVxvqZ
Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker | 23 May 2011
Gripping read on New York Mets owner, Fred Wilpon. Built a huge real estate
business. Then a baseball franchise which soared in value. Invested with
Madoff. Now he's lost $550m and the bankruptcy trustee wants more. Much more
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/madoffs-curveball
[11]Storm Over Syria
Links:
11. http://b.rw/j4DR9T
Malise Ruthven | NYRB | 20 May 2011
"How did Syria come to this pass? The regime’s ruthless attachment to power
lies in a complex web of tribal loyalties and networks of patronage
underpinned by a uniquely powerful religious bond." Excellent historical
backgrounder [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/storm-over-syria
[13]Nightmare On F Street
Links:
13. http://b.rw/lDpXn2
Mark Pulham | Crime Magazine | 23 May 2011
After a third body was discovered in the back garden, the police realised
they might have made a mistake in letting the white-haired landlady go off
for a coffee. Despite appearances, Dorothea Puente was a nine-time serial
killer [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nightmare-f-street
[15]El Mirador, The Lost City Of The Maya
Links:
15. http://b.rw/mNHMGV
Chip Brown | Smithsonian | 24 May 2011
Account of trip to ruins of once great Mayan city, abandoned for 2,000
years. Author's daredevil guide steals show. On comparisons to Indiana
Jones: "My life isn’t as boring. He always jumps out of the airplane before
it crashes" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/el-mirador-lost-city-maya
Featured Topic
[17]Espionage
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/topics/espionage
The irresistible subject - spies. Who are they? What do they really do? Are
today's spies that different from the heroes of the Cold War? Read on to
find out
Reader Recommendations
@[18]sophiemaynard musings on Lawrence of
Arabia: [19]b.rw/iDQCpK #[20]browsings
Links:
18. http://twitter.com/sophiemaynard
19. http://b.rw/iDQCpK
20. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Week
[21]The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Michael Davie (editor)
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/diaries-evelyn-waugh-by-michael-davie-editor
[22]Timothy Garton Ash says: "A lot of it is about the absolutely amazing
quantities that he drank. It’s also full of hugely politically incorrect and
almost self-parodic episodes"
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-garton-ash-on-history-present
Video of the Week
[23]People Of Walmart
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/videos/people-walmart
I'll take a dozen!
Quote of the Week
[24]John Hodgman, on parenting
Links:
24. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200701/apologia-my-second-child?page=2
"The only child, in a family without want, is the apex of Western
civilization"
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