In their typically clinical manner, The Economist offers useful guides for various cities throughout the world.
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“Special management meals”
If you get locked up in Baltimore, keep your nose clean. The “special management meal” sounds terrible.
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OddPost.com
OddPost appears to be an amazing new Web-based email system.
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Periodic table of behavioral traits
Here’s a periodic table of behavioral traits.
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“Bring on the Time Zones”
“Bring on the Time Zones,” W.D. Wetherell says in an excellent essay praising the “phantasmagoric” feeling jet lag produces.
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Media, journalism, and tech
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American newspapers and objectivity
American newspapers are supposed to be objective. In comparison to British papers, are ours boring and “bloodless”?
Although their endowments have been hit hard by the economic downturn, American foundations are still giving away a lot of money.
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World Cup TV schedule
This summer’s World Cup TV schedule has been announced.
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Friedman on suicide bombing
Thomas Friedman argues that the US must act to ensure that the Palestinian suicide bombing strategy fails in their quest for statehood.