March 2012
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In Brazil Cyclist’s Death, A Clash Between Wealth... →
The death of a cyclist in a car accident involving Thor Batista, the 20-year-old son of Brazil’s richest man, has awakened a debate over wealth, influence and traffic deaths.
Very sad and pathetic.
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Playlist for Bryce - March 23, 2012 →
Listen to Terry Riley.
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“In all, about 50,000 people were arrested in 2011 for marijuana possession; some...”
– Counterfactual: What if those 50,000 people were left alone and those 50,000 arresting officers did something else?
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Crash Witnesses: NYPD Won’t Charge Cabbie Who... →
Every kind of superlative and expletive applies here. I don’t know what else to say about the NYPD.
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A Bike Company Offers a Prescription for America’s... →
n8han:
As part of its wellness program, QBP offers a few inducements for employees to commute by bike: The company provides secure parking and showers at work, and it pays employees $3 each day they ride to work. The cash payments add up to about $45,000 each year.
While the study doesn’t isolate the impact of bike commuting on lower health care costs, the program seems to be paying off....
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“It’s too simplistic to say - as many people have done - that I am...”
– Antonioni on Il deserto rosso
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“I didn’t go home and give her classified cables, but I told her what I was...”
– CIA divorces
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“Just been following the latest developments in Syria … in all honesty – looking...”
– An email from Mayassa al-Thani, the daughter of the Qatar Emir to Asma al-Assad, the First Lady of Syria.
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Performa Magazine: Yvonne Rainer in Conversation... →
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RoseLee Goldberg: For more than 25 years, from 1975 to 2000, you worked almost exclusively as a filmmaker, producing seminal works such as The Man Who Envied Women (1985) and MURDER and murder (1996). It seemed that during that period you were not choreographing or dancing at…
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“The Iranian nation has never pursued and will never pursue nuclear weapons....”
– Juan Cole: Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb (via seaofgreen)
I personally believe that Khamenei is telling the truth. It’s always lost in the noise, but the United States Intelligence community does not believe there is an active Iranian nuclear weapons program. There’s no...
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