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Business Day
Public-Private Partnerships Could Be a Lifeline for Cities
Municipalities can gain much needed cash and operating efficiency by contracting with private equity investors to run a public service or utility. The investors make a large up-front payment and receive a concession to operate the service.
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Opinion
How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality
In its recent, unanimous decision that human genes cannot be patented, the Supreme Court gave a rare victory to the cause of economic fairness.
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World
India Declares 5,748 Missing in Himalayan Floods
A month after the Himalayan floods, Indian officials declare 5,748 persons missing.
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U.S.
Anti-Citizenship Protesters Issue Warning to House
About 2,000 opponents of a Senate immigration bill that would create a path to citizenship held a “March for Jobs” in Washington in a bid to draw blacks to the cause.
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Business Day
A Social Entrepreneur Transforms a Nonprofit Into a Profit-Making Enterprise
Saul Garlick responds to reader comments about a case study that looked at ThinkImpact, an organization he founded.
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World
Nations Buying as Hackers Sell Flaws in Computer Code
Governments pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn about and exploit weaknesses in the computer systems of foreign adversaries.
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Crosswords/Games
Nadejda Dyakevich's Magic Double Hexagon
You may have heard of Magic Squares, in which every row, column and diagonal sums to the same number. How about a Magic Double Hexagon?
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Business Day
Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
Using video surveillance, and signals from shoppers’ cellphones and apps, retailers are tracking customers’ behavior and moods.
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U.S.
City in Iowa Rebuilds From Flooding but Remains Vulnerable
Five years after record flooding drowned Cedar Rapids, the city is rebuilding on its river banks, but some say that investment should stay out of flood-prone areas.
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Health
Cholesterol Levels Are Leveling Off
Average cholesterol levels in Americans have stopped falling since 2008, a study finds, raising concerns about an increase in heart disease and the effectiveness of statins.
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Technology
Twitter Yields to Pressure in Hate Case in France
Twitter has agreed to identify several users who posted anti-Semitic comments on its service, and whom French authorities are seeking to prosecute for violating that country’s anti-hate laws.
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Health
Really? Babies Conceived in the Spring Are More Likely to Be Premature
A recent study may be the largest to demonstrate a persuasive connection between the season of conception and at least one important outcome: preterm birth.
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Business Day
Bankers Are Balking at a Proposed Rule on Capital
Several regulators want to raise the percent of capital that big banks must have on hand to cover losses. But get ready for an onslaught of industry lobbying against the plan.
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Your Money
Rules for Reverse Mortgages May Become More Restrictive
The Federal Housing Administration wants to require borrowers to undergo a financial assessment, and it may also factor in their credit scores.
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U.S.
California: Board Restricts Fire Rings
Southern California air quality regulators voted to establish buffer zones, to keep fire rings — and the harmful particulate matter that rises from them — away from beachfront homes.
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Business Day
Pain on the Reservation
Legislation specifically exempted many programs that benefit low-income Americans, but virtually none aiding American Indians were included.
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Automobiles
Chrysler’s Solution for Jeep Recall Runs Into Resistance
Questions are being raised over Chrysler’s response to a recall of the Jeep Liberty and Grand Cherokee because of a rear-impact fire hazard. The company plans to install a trailer hitch, but safety experts say that won’t solve the problem.
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Your Money
Squeezing the Most Out of 401(k)’s, for Now
There are clearly some issues with the current retirement system and while we need to think of a better one, there are ways to make the most of it."BISMARCK INVENTS RETIREMENT
In 1883, Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck of Germany had a problem. Marxists were threatening to take control of Europe. To help his countrymen resist their blandishments, Bismarck announced that he would pay a pension to any nonworking German over age 65. Bismarck was no dummy. Hardly anyone lived to be 65 at the time, given that penicillin would not be available for another half century. Bismarck not only co-opted the Marxists, but set the arbitrary world standard for the exact year at which old age begins and established the precedent that government should pay people for growing old."
FDR instituted Social Security which placed the burden on the working population.
The G.O.P. wants to shift the burden to the retired.
A solution is labor unions.
Pay labor the wage it earns and the Social Security tax becomes trivial.
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