03.21.10

The Dragon Tattoo

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Published on Sunday, March 21, 2010 by the New York Times
Obama, Lehman and ‘The Dragon Tattoo’
by Frank Rich

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/21-1

THE same week that Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, a Swedish crime novel titled “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” was published in America. The book didn’t receive a ton of hype, not least because the author, a journalist named Stieg Larsson, was unavailable for interviews; he had died in 2004 of a heart attack at the age of 50. The mixed Times review appeared in the back pages of the Sunday Book Review. Many more readers were riveted instead by the Lehman article on that morning’s front page: “A Wall Street Goliath Teeters Amid Fears of a Widening Crisis.”

Women in poor countries

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Scientists report that women living in countries with worse rates of disease and ill health are far likelier to plump for “masculine”-looking men than “feminine”-looking rivals

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iGFoyxkcWCUDYBuIKigBqXol5yog

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/03/macho_men_preferred_by_women_i.html

Pepefish: sexual selection, before and after

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Males show sexual selection before and after copulation

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100317/full/news.2010.127.html

Evolution of the dog

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A discovery strengthens the link between the first animal to enter human society and the subsequent invention of agriculture about 10,000 years ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/science/18dogs.html

Obama’s populism

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http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=55C4E453-18FE-70B2-A8D5EA0F20FACF3C

Politico.com March 13, 2010

*Obama’s reluctant populism irks left*
By Carol E. Lee
Sometimes in the fight for health reform or tighter rules on Wall Street,
President Barack Obama unleashes his podium-pounding, “Yes, we can” side.

Anti-Venezuela election campaign

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/mar/18/venezuela-election

The Guardian 18 March 2010
The anti-Venezuela election campaign
Venezuela’s election is not until September, but the international campaign
to delegitimise the government has already begun

The Case Against Corporate Speech

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by Ralph Nader and Robert Weismann
The Wall Street Journal (February 11 2010)
nader.org (February 16 2010)
Last month, by a vote of five to four, the US Supreme Court gave carte
blanche to the world’s largest corporations to spend unlimited sums of
money to support or oppose candidates for elected office. Big Business
domination of Washington and state capitals will now intensify.

http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2172-The-Case-Against-Corporate-Speech.html

03.20.10

Silent Spring Has Sprung

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Published on Saturday, March 20, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
Silent Spring Has Sprung
by Randall Amster

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/20

Seasons change, yet some things remain the same. Nearly half a century ago, Rachel Carson debuted the first serial installment of what would eventually become one of the landmark works of the 20th century, Silent Spring. In that book, Carson famously argued that the pesticide DDT was responsible for negative impacts on the environment, animals, and humans alike, despite disinformation spread by industry and government officials about its purported safety and utility in agribusiness. Silent Spring is often credited with starting the modern environmental movement, yet today we are facing equivalent challenges and similar campaigns to conceal the potential dangers of toxic chemicals in our midst.

Empire

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By Samir Amin
A reading of the CIA’s latest report on “the world in 2025″ supplies
hardly any information that an ordinary observer of the global economy
and politics would not have known. On the other hand, it allows us to
better know the way the ruling class of the United States thinks and
to identify the limits of that thinking.

Full article:

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-decline-of-the-american-empire-remains-a-movie-for-the-cia-by-samir-amin

Early dads helped with child care

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Active fathers may have been a key factor in why our early ancestors were able to have many children, a study suggests

http://news.discovery.com/human/fathers-human-evolution.html

Lasting love

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With half of all first marriages ending in divorce, how can we build lasting relationships? A Scientific American event explores the science of love

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=science-of-love

Madison avenue brain scan

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In the battle for our money and loyalty, companies wanting to sell us products have turned their attention to something right under our noses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/default.stm

Blair’s secret deal

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259030/Tony-Blairs-secret-dealings-South-Korean-oil-firm-UI-Energy-Corp.html

Daily Mail 19th March 2010
Blair’s fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM’s deals are revealed as
his earnings since 2007 reach £20million*
By Jason Groves
Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative
deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq.

Democrats

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/main/article/5710/

What’s the Matter with Democrats?
By David Sirota March 19, 2010

Ever since Thomas Frank published his book What’s the Matter With Kansas? Democrats have sought a political strategy to match the GOP’s. The health care bill proves they’ve found one.

Avatar the prequel

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by Michael T Klare
TomDispatch.com (February 24 2010)
The anticipation may be building, but we’ll all have to wait for the 82nd
Academy Awards on March 7th to find out just how many Oscars the global
box-office smash Avatar will receive. That 3-D sci-fi spectacle, directed
by James Cameron, has garnered nine nominations, including ones for Best
Picture and Best Director, and it’s already overtaken Titanic, another
Cameron global blockbuster, as the top money-maker in movie history. But
there’s an even bigger question absorbing Avatar’s millions of fans: What
will Cameron, who has already indicated that he’s planning to write a
novel based on Avatar, do for a screen encore? As it happens, I have a
suggestion: skip the sequels on faraway Pandora’s sister worlds, and do
the prequel.

http://www.countercurrents.org/klare240210.htm

Nader/Kucinich

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March 19, 2010 by Democracy Now!
Dennis Kucinich and Ralph Nader: A Discussion on Healthcare, Politics and Reform

03.19.10

Losing PR wars

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Why scientists are losing the PR wars

http://www.newsweek.com/id/235084

Clotting genes

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Scientists in Edinburgh have identified key genes which could help shed light on the causes of deep vein thrombosis and some types of stroke

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8574891.stm

Selflessness

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It is not so much that cheats don’t prosper, but that prosperity does not cheat

http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15717188

Hobbit ancestors

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Ancestors of a hobbit-like species of humans may have colonized the Indonesian island of Flores as far back as a million years ago, much earlier than thought, according to a new study published Thursday

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100317/sc_nm/us_indonesia_hobbits_ancestors

Persister cells

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Persister cells baffle, intrigue researchers

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/03/15/researchers_trying_to_outwit_undead_germs_that_may_cause_chronic_infections/

Irish famine as genocide

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18156

Global Research
March 16, 2010

*The Great Irish Famine Was Genocide*

By Prof. Francis Boyle

Some controversy has surrounded the use of the word “genocide” with regard
to the Great Irish Famine of 160 years ago. But this controversy has its
source in an apparent misunderstanding of the meaning of genocide. No, the
British government did not inflict on the Irish the abject horrors of the
Nazi Holocaust. But the definition of “genocide” reaches beyond such ghastly
behavior to encompass other reprehensible acts designed to destroy a people.

As demonstrated by the following legal analysis, the Famine was genocide
within the meaning of both United States and International law.

A grim future for advanced economies?

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-grim-future-for-advanced-economies/article1501249/

Globe
and Mail
Mar. 15, 2010 A grim future for advanced economies?

Nouriel Roubini

London —

The Great Recession of 2008-2009 was triggered by excessive debt
accumulation and leverage on the part of households, financial institutions
and even the corporate sector in many advanced economies. While there is
much talk about deleveraging as the crisis wanes, the reality is that
private-sector debt ratios have stabilized at very high levels.

Selling torture equipment

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EU Selling Torture Equipment

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/18-0

Do we value each life?

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Donna Smith | It’s Really Quite Simple: Do We Value Each Life in America?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/18-0

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