15 hours ago by Alan Davidson

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita wants you to buy his book. He wants royalties and he wants fame. He wants the book to promote his consulting business. The text may well be full of self-promotional tall tales and calumny — unless the author calculated that the costs of dishonesty (potential intellectual disr ...

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2 days ago by culpering355

Al Jazeera: Shortly after midnight, drone missiles hit a compound commonly used by anti-government and al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Palooseen, North Waziristan. Eight were killed. In its report, Al Jazeera labeled them as “US drones” but cited no evidence to back up their claim. The attack, shortly a ...

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3 days ago by Ellen Wallace

Hamid Karzai’s inauguration for a second term as president of Afghanistan has come with unusually high security in the capital Kabul, and renewed pleas to step up the fight against corruption, from former US President Bill Clinton and other world leaders. Regular flights in and out of the city have ...

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7 days ago by PhoenixAscending

I spoke to a blogger friend via IM last night. She basically challenged/encouraged me to write more poetry. I immediately felt intimidated and insecure. I don’t feel very much like a writer. I recently reconnected with a junior high school friend and the thing she remembered most about me was my wri ...

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7 days ago by monia77bellsmith

A suicide attacker set off a car bomb at a police checkpoint in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing 10 people, officials said.

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7 days ago by Dietrich Stogner

SuperFreakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner SuperFreakonomics: 8 out of 10 Two words. Monkey hookers. The end. Okay, I guess I should write a bit more than that. But it’s difficult to criticize a book that points out that pimps are more economically effective that realtors, that introduci ...

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7 days ago by donkasprzak

I have been a fan of Malcolm Gladwell’s writing. Joining The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking and Outliers: The Story of Success comes his latest work What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures which is a collection of his writings ...

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8 days ago by donkasprzak

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner have released SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance a long awaited follow up to their hit Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. If you enjoyed Freakonomics ( my re ...

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9 days ago by tonguesoffire

clipped from www.foxnews.com Homicide car bombers killed 16 people and wounded more than 80 in two attacks in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, including a devastating strike on the regional headquarters of the spy agency overseeing much of the country’s anti-terror campaign. The attack on the Inter- ...

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9 days ago by Ellen Wallace

The latest in a string of attacks in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province that have targeted military, police and intelligence services took place early Friday 13 November in Peshawar, where a gunfire was followed by a bomb blast at the Inter-Services Intelligence’s provincial headquarters. Ten pe ...

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