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Economic Apartheid Kills (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Dec. 12, 2006 -- To be successful in overturning our elitist plutocratic system we should add economic apartheid to our semantic arsenal. Better than economic ...
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The Goldwater Moment (Mary Lyon)
Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust Dec. 11, 2006 -- Might the “G” in Oregon Republican Senator Smith’s monogram stand for “Goldwater”? After Gordon Smith’s cry-uncle confessional in the ...
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Shanghai experiences warmest autumn in 134 years (PTI)
BEIJING, Dec 10. (PTI) -- Shanghai, Chinas largest city and commercial hub, has been experiencing its warmest autumn in more than 134 years, the state media reported Saturday.
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Wretched Excess (James Kunstler)
James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation Dec. 11, 2006 -- Since the financial industry decoupled from the U.S. economy sometime in the past decade, it has been hard to tell, from a chicken-and-egg ...
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U.S. home lenders brace for bad news, legislation (Patrick Rucker)
By Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) Dec. 11 -- During the recent U.S. housing boom, mortgage lenders touted so-called exotic mortgages that allowed people to buy houses they could not otherwise ...
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Yes, You Can Surf in Cleveland, Before the Brown Water Freezes (Christopher Maag)
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG -- New York Times CLEVELAND, Dec. 9 — They surf in Cleveland because they must. They surf with two-inch icicles clinging to their wet suits, through stinging hail and ...
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Response to 'The Singularity Is Always Near' (Ray Kurzweil)
Ray Kurzweil -- KurzweilAI.net May 4, 2006 -- In The Singularity Is Always Near, an essay in The Technium, an online book in progress, author Kevin Kelly critiques arguments on exponential growth ...
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The Singularity Is Always Near (Kevin Kelly)
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium Feb. 15, 2006 -- There’s a visceral sense we are experiencing a singularity-like event with computers and the world wide web. But the current concept of a singularity is ...
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Felonious Monk: What's The Deal With The Dalai Lama? (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Dec. 10, 2006 -- Heres the scene: Im in my local health food store when my eyes are drawn to the cover of the latest issue of New York Yoga magazine. Smiling at me is ...
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Bread, Bread, Everywhere, Yet not a Morsel to Eat (Jason Miller)
By Jason Miller -- World News Trust Dec. 10, 2006 -- Pelted by a perpetual hail of electrons fired through a cathode ray tube, the pixels on my PC monitor feed me a generous intellectual bounty of ...
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Saudi, Gulf States to Study Using Nuclear Technology
By Andy Critchlow Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia and five other Gulf Arab monarchies, which pump a fifth of the worlds oil, will study using nuclear technology for power generation, Gulf Arab ...
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