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Sunday, December 8, 2013

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The New York Times
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Bedouins Fight to Keep Their Family Land

Israeli officials have struggled to convince residents that giving up land their families have lived on for generations will lead to a better future.
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Fascinating talk by Emmanuel Wallerstein (Yale) on China and the World System, with lots on Africa:


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Researchers may have discovered a plan to disable Meniere's disease



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GREAT INVESTMENT: this by reporters: The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner


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S.C.H.O.O.L. = Seven Crappy Hours Of Our Life. C.L.A.S.S. = Come Late And Start Sleeping. F.I.N.A.L.S. = Fuck I Never Actually Learned Shit


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How Going to the Gym Went from Muscle to Mindful




Sure, it's cold, but the gas company wants you to conserve gas. Some tips

Gas Company recommends conservation during cold snap

Southern California Gas Co. officials are asking customers to reduce their heating usage in order to help conserve natural gas supplies as a cold snap descends across the region.

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Pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead's love letters to her soul mate, Ruth Benedict
 



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What personal characteristics does someone need to become an entrepreneur? Self-confidence and a care for detail


 
If you live your life with the regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you will have no today to be thankful for!



 


Emotional narcolepsy: the tendency to switch off whenever others make a demand/start to depend on you: the compulsion to disappoint.




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Stress-Free Holidaze? Nah. Just Prepare



Wall Street Journal
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Chinese demand is helping to fuel a boom in bitcoin, the virtual...


Chinese demand has helped fuel a boom in the virtual currency called bitcoin. Now, investors are wondering how China's role in the market will evolve. 
 

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Chinese demand is helping to fuel a boom in bitcoin, the virtual currency.




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What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now.




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Casual Predation

 
The other day while riding a Paris train, a man boarded my car and, out of all the empty places to sit, chose the seat d… 

"I’ve been stalked, followed home, threatened, attacked, hit, kicked, and groped by complete strangers."





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Tiger's Nest monastery in Bhutan 


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Our greatest fear - greater that the fear of any deadly epidemic - is the fear of losing our sense of self.








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