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July 24, 2010
Stopping Blood Diamonds Won't Fix Congo
Africa - Blood diamond - Geology - Earth Sciences - Rocks and Minerals
Rape By Deception, Ctd
A reader writes:
The two cases from Israeli law discussed in this Haaretz article look like this: A man said he was a neurosurgeon. Woman slept with him based on that. He wasn't. Conviction. A man said he was a housing ministry official and would help them get better apartments. He wasn't, and he didn't. Conviction. Both men were Israeli Jews.I'd say that lying about your job is basically on par with lying about your race or religion. While I don't doubt that there was a race/religion...
The View From Your Window Contest
You have until noon on Tuesday to
guess it. Country first, then city and/or state. If no one guesses the
exact location, proximity counts. Be sure to email entries to
VFYWcontest@theatlantic.com. Winner gets a free The
View From Your Window book, courtesy of Blurb. Have at it.
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VFYW Superfans
A reader writes:
Just thought I'd share a little story about the View From Your Window contest I thought you'd enjoy. My friends and I have turned it into a league similar to a fantasy baseball - a Fantasy VFYW league of sorts. We ran it as a four week season starting with the week you posted a Honolulu window view. Each week, we have to guess the location and we've kept track of who is the cumulative closest or farthest. The trash talking has been intense!
What prompted me to write was...
The Suicide Rate
Brendan Koerner delivers the sad news:
Despite all we've learned about human psychology over the past several decades, we seem unable to make much of a dent in America's overall suicide rate, which has remained remarkably stable over the past half-century. In fact, the rate of suicide attempts seems to have gone up over that time period; the rate of successful attempts has most likely held steady due to advances in emergency-room medicine. (Sparsely populated states such as Montana often have...
July 23, 2010
The Weekly Wrap
Today on the Dish, we capped off a week of controversies. In NYC mosque coverage, Noah Millman defended Muslim Americans, readers pounced on Newt, and another reinforced the absurdity of the whole situation. Limbaugh let his racist flag fly and FNC was close behind. Journo-scandal updates here and here. Commentary on the Israel rape scandal here, here, and especially here.
In Palin coverage, she whined about the press asking her questions, Cillizza noted a big challenge in New Hampshire, and ...
How Freeways Kill Communities
Timothy Lee bemoans the urban planning decisions made in St. Louis, and elsewhere:
Carving up St. Louis with freeways didn't just undermine individualneighborhoods, it permanently changed the region's culture. Byundermining walkable urban neighborhoods while simultaneously making iteasier to commute in from the suburbs, planners effected a massivetransfer of wealth from from cities to suburbs. It's not surprisingthat many people responded to these incentives by moving to thesuburbs. But it...
Palin's Chances, Ctd
Bernstein applauds Millman's analysis:
I do think that things are more fluid than [Millman:] implies...there's stillplenty of time for someone other than Mitt Romney to play the Romneyrole he imagines (Rick Perry?). We don't have a good sense yet ofwhether Sarah Palin's appeal within Republican primary electorates iscapped...well, we do have a sense that it is capped, but whether that'sat 70% (not much of a problem) or 40% (very big problem) doesn't seemclear to me right now. Some numbers...
Face Of The Day
An Internet user looks at a Facebook page dedicated to Anna Chapman in Paris on July 23, 2010. Two weeks after 10 Russian spies flew back from the United States to Moscow, the buzz of interest around the ring's most photogenic member, the feisty redhead Anna Chapman, shows no signs of receding. While Chapman remains in an unknown location since her arrival in Moscow, reportedly being debriefed, she has apparently found time to write enigmatic Facebook updates and negotiate with journalists o...
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