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Commentary originally published in al-Hayat (London). Some interesting speculation on the makeup of Obama's cabinet.
in list: Good election postmortems 2008
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A thought-provoking piece on the deeper (and darker) meaning of America's unwavering support for Israel.
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Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity.
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Thoughts on the broader meaning of the U.S. financial meltdown.
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About high-quality sarongs.
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This is linguist and historian Peter Austin's personal top-ten list of endangered languages around the world -- kind of an idiosyncratic little column, but interesting.
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Transcript of a recent interview between conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck and "The Last Jihad" author Joel Rosenberg about the current Russian-Georgian conflict and the prophecies of Ezekiel 38 and 39.
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Sort of like Brightkite, looks kind of cool.
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Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio travelled around the world and documented, in writing and photos, the diets of 24 families in different locations. For some reason the first one on the list here, showing a family in a refugee camp in Chad, didn't clip.
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This is an interesting, straightforward, clear-eyed article, if not as subtle as the title makes it sound. (It doesn't really mean "middle class," it means "people who aren't living at a subsistence level.")
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The "Jo'anna" in the title is Johannesburg.
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In remote Chilean villages where fresh water is often scarce and contaminated, a simple new technology -- mesh sheets strung between posts -- captures condensation from coastal fog, providing an abundant and reliable source of cheap drinking water.
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Inspiring, but also provocative and fascinating. Havel basically insists that some kind of religiousness is all that can "save" us now, though he doesn't really say how or what.
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I've wondered for a long time when someone would make this point publicly: "development" of the developing world is ecologically unsupportable. He calls the promise of development "a cruel hoax."
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