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Chinese youth are optimistic, but rarely politically involved - “Westerners are not going to find allies among the vast majority of young Chinese on key issues like Tibet, Darfur and the environment for some time.”
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Dave Marash on TV news’s abyssmal coverage of international news - especially relavent in the context of last night’s shameful excuse for a debate on ABC. TOTH:jbracken
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Adam Kushner from Newsweek links internet filtering efforts with speculation about surveillance and the panopticon effect.
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A great example, from an Iraqi blog, of banal blogposting turning into bridgeblogging, offered as a support of Cute Cat Theory
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Gorgeous map of piracy incidents off the coast of Somalia. Anyone surprised to discover that piracy decreased sharply during the year the UIC had control of Mogadishu and the surrounding coast? How’s that war on terror going anyway?
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Easterlin’s paradox - that increased income may not increase happiness - is coming under attack by a new analysis which sees strong correlation between national happiness and average income.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Strangely making the Cute Cats literal, the Pentagon story on NYT just got knocked off the most read/emailed list by an article about the Pope and cats.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/us/nationalspecial2/21cats.html?em&ex=1208923200&en=b2a50895f7155ab2&ei=5087%0A