April 2010
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Cities do it better
Edward L. Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard, explains:
An abundance of employers also enables young workers to find their life’s calling
While the costs of moving goods has declined steadily over time, the cost of moving people has not because time has gotten more valuable and you need time to travel. This explains why business services, which generally rely on face-to-face contact,...
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DJ MEHDI, Signatune (by ROMAIN-GAVRAS)
Go pimp or go home.
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Sacrosanct Holiday
The birthday for Kim Il-Sung in North Korea.
Kim Il-sung, memorialized in North Korea as the country’s “eternal president,” is revered as a demigod among the elite.
North Korea Seizes Part of Resort Operated With South - NYTimes.com
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Fatigue, the researchers argue, is less an objective event than a subjective...
– That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger - New York Times
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Rise and Fall of Frank Ma, Last Asian Godfather →
- NYTimes.com
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IMAGINE that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women, all of them heterosexual...
– Lexington: Sex and the single black woman | The Economist
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Japanese Log Riders: Raw Video // Current
Onbashira Maturi
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North Korea's personal shopper has tales to tell -... →
A personal shopper for a dictator.
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The History of the Honey Trap →
MI5 is worried about sex. In a 14-page document distributed last year to hundreds of British banks, businesses, and financial institutions, titled “The Threat from Chinese Espionage,” the famed British security service described a wide-ranging Chinese effort to blackmail Western businesspeople over sexual relationships. The document, as the London Times reported in January, explicitly...
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Hulu Confidential →
The secret history of TV as narrated by Alec Baldwin.
What a brilliant campaign.