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Expand the Use of Food Stamps? - Room for Debate
Should restrictions on using the benefits at fast food restaurants be loosened?No.I see no reason to make the fast food empires bigger. -
Shanghai Subway Accident Injures Hundreds
Corruption is not good practice.
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Basel III Capital Rules Are Pro-American, but Anti-Banker - Room for Debate
Basel III may slightly reduce the wealth of bank shareholders and bank executives. But it helps American banks, and their customers, and the American economy.This is just a pasty on the problem of bank stability. -
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Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft
“Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft - http://nyti.ms/oexBvs”The fuller article:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20compute.html?ref=us"A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free."
The crime was to do it anonymously.The act was not criminal but the security violation was.Guards are fussy. They have only their rules.
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Aaron Swartz's Web Activism May Cost Him Dearly
Aaron Swartz, an agitator for free access to information on the Internet, has been charged with illegally downloading more than four million ...
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The Sizzle Factor for a Restless Climate
“The Sizzle Factor for a Restless Climate - http://nyti.ms/oRdMgm”This we know. I would not see the end of our civilization. I do not think we will be allowed to freeze people in the dark or to drown everything less than twenty feet above mean high tide. This means we will build nuclear power plants.Such plants must be safe and operable under disaster conditions.The engineering and political design must start now or sooner.
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Mouhcine
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In Misurata, Qaddafi’s Soldiers Receive Respect, if Not Honors
“In Misurata, #Qaddafi’s Soldiers Receive Respect, if Not Honors - http://nyti.ms/jy8nTU”
It is a civil war.
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Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft
“Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft - http://nyti.ms/oexBvs”a charge of security violation.
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The Sizzle Factor for a Restless Climate
“The Sizzle Factor for a Restless Climate - http://nyti.ms/oRdMgm”
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=global%20warming&st=cse
Erin Aigner, Jonathan Corum, Vu Nguyen/The New York TimesArctic Melt Unnerves the Experts
Scientists are unnerved by this summer?s massive polar ice melt, its implications and their ability to predict it.- The Big Melt: Articles | Video | Interactive Graphic: Sea Ice in Retreat ?
- http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/series/thebigmelt/index.html
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Young People Will Pay, but Are Choosy - Room for Debate
People 25 to 34 are the most willing to buy online media like movies and games. Second to them are 18-to-24-year-olds.
Artists and Song Rights
A reader responds to an article on copyright law and artists’ rights.August 29, 2011MORE ON COPYRIGHTS AND: AUDIO RECORDINGS AND DOWNLOADS, MUSIC
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Banking Rules Are in the Interest of Americans - Room for Debate
The real need for capital requirements arises from the social costs that a banking crisis can impose.Agreed.Jamie Dimon can see that more required capital means fewer smaller fees for his bank. He will not make his bonus that way.
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In Misurata, Qaddafi’s Soldiers Receive Respect, if Not Honors
“In Misurata, #Qaddafi’s Soldiers Receive Respect, if Not Honors - http://nyti.ms/jy8nTU”it is a civil warhttp://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?date_select=full&query=libya&type=nyt&x=15&y=12
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Times Topics: Libya
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Libyan Fighters Renew Attack on Qaddafi's Hometown
5 days ago ... As the battle went on, the daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi became the latest family member to broadcast a recorded taunt of the ...
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Man Is Held in a Plan to Bomb Washington
Padded cell time. A danger to himself and to others.
Provocateurs are not our way.
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Getting Tough on Immigrants to Turn a Profit
Farming out detention is one of those really bad ideas.
Mercenary guards work cheap and nasty.
Lebanon Begins to Address Abuse of Domestic Workers
If it is not slavery it is too near it for my comfort.
I hear stories of this kind of treatment locally when the victimizers are prosecuted.-
Failure Seen in Putin's Latest Move
I am going to have to put more thought toward Russia.
Putin cannot hold the operation of a large and diverse state in his head.
He must delegate. Those semi-independent fifes will be his destruction.
All of them will have the succession and usurpation problems he has.
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Germany Approves Expansion of Euro Bailout Fund
It is still too little and too late.
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Turkey's Elephant in the Room: Religious Freedom
Turkey is certainly an object lesson in the separation of church and state.
I wonder if there is anything beyond the concept of such a separation that we can contribute to the present situation.
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An Overlooked Way to Create Jobs
Trade is not overlooked. There are two problems.
Much of that trade deficit is oil. The countries with oil to sell would prefer gold but they will take dollars.
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What Would It Take to Save Europe?
More than they have and a very unlikely change of attitude.
Greece is dead. Funeral arrangements are under discussion.
Italy is in a death spiral. Their debt is rising and their G.D.P. is falling.
Portugal seems to be next.
Krugman has been over and over this.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/origins-of-the-euro-crisis/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/eurovillains/
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Stop the Conspiracy Theories, Al Qaeda Tells Iranian Leader
Iran is not allowed to steal credit from
Al Qaeda even if it slanders the U.S.
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