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Researchers estimate the lake existed more than 3 billion years ago. It covered as much as 80 square miles and was up to 1,500 feet deep– roughly the equivalent of…

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President Barack Obama told the American Medical Association yesterday that he believes single-payer health care systems have worked “pretty well” in some countries, but no major U.S. newspaper available in…

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The local authority has restored [Flint, Michigan’s] attractive but formerly deserted centre but has pulled down 1,100 abandoned homes in outlying areas. Mr Kildee estimated another 3,000 needed to be…

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WASHINGTON— President Obama took his health care overhaul proposal to one of its more skeptical audiences, telling doctors at the American Medical Association conference in Chicago that the United States…

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From Harper’s: Larry Godwyn on Civil Rights in St. Augustine, Florida From “Anarchy in St. Augustine” in the January 1965 Harper’s Magazine St. Augustine was born of the sea, cursed…

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The public plan has a very particular political lineage: The lesson liberals took from the 1994 health reform fight was that you couldn’t threaten the insurance coverage individuals already had.…

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Day and night bombs, shells, GBU39 radioactive arms, and machine gun rounds are being fired by the Israeli Defense Forces from air, sea, and land against a civilian population of…

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Can you imagine what a craven, bumlicking ass-goblin you’d have to be to get a job working for the Wall Street Journal, not mention up front that you used to…

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There’s no mistaking what’s going on in the speech delivered last week. No preliminary niceties; just a rehearsal of Obama’s actions and expectations. Eight “I”’s right off the bat: “Just…

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From Harper’s: Jonathan Lethem on the joys of plagiarism From “The Ecstasy of Influence: A plagiarism,” by Jonathan Lethem in the February 2007 Harper’s Magazine. Appropriation has always played a…

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From Harper’s:Stuart Chase on the auto industry in the last Depression. From “The Enemy of Prosperity: Overproduction,” in the November 1930 Harper’s Magazine. Overproduction, particularly in this year of world-wide…

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The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps…

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From Harper’s:Cynthia Gorney on Partial-Birth Abortion From “Gambling With Abortion: Why both sides think they have everything to lose,” by Cynthia Gorney, in the November 2004 Harper’s Magazine. The Partial-Birth…

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The most obvious example of the trouble caused [by the 1872-73 horse flu outbreak] was in Boston. A major fire broke out on November 9th at the height of that…

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What happens to our star-crossed lovers? How does their love ebb and flow over time? That’s where the math comes in. By writing equations that summarize how Romeo and Juliet…

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Naturally, the article that broke the Kundera story–a weird collage of historical reconstruction and literary innuendo–became a story in its own right, and the outcry about Kundera became a meta-outcry:…

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From Harper’s: Lewis Lapham on Obama’s Achievetrons From “Achievetrons,” by Lewis H. Lapham, in the March 2009 Harper’s President Barack Obama’s Christmas shopping for cabinet officers in December of last…

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From Harper’s:Jon Mooallem on Star Wars archaeology From “Raiders of the Lost R2: Excavating a galaxy far, far away,” by Jon Mooallem, in the March 2009 Harper’s It was just…

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From Harper’s: Daniel Brook on payday lending From “Usury Country: Welcome to the birthplace of payday lending,” by Daniel Brook in the April 2009 Harper’s Magazine During the Gilded Age…

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I attend auctions primarily to study the behavior of the kill buyer, whose main client is a slaughterhouse, and to provide more transparency to this aspect of the horse industry.…

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From Harper’s: Paul Reyes on cleaning up after the mortgage crisis From “Bleak Houses: Digging through the ruins of the mortgage crisis” in the October 2008 Harper’s Foreclosures are our…

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A strike mission on the three nuclear facilities would require no fewer than 90 combat aircraft, including all 25 F-15Es in the IAF inventory and another 65 F-16I/Cs. On top…

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Much has been written about the Insight, Honda’s new low-priced hybrid. We’ve been told how much carbon dioxide it produces, how its dashboard encourages frugal driving by glowing green when…

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From Harper’s: Eleanor Roosevelt and TV From “Mrs. Roosevelt does a TV commercial,” November 1963. Booraem and I worked out the details, including Mrs. Roosevelt’s right to approve the text…

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Dig a little deeper, though, and Citi’s stress-test results look more like an F than the B+ the bank seemed to get. Among the 19 banks the government probed, Citi…

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Noted: Harper’s Assistant Editor Christopher R. Beha was on the Leonard Lopate show discussing his book The Whole Five Feet Wednesday, May 13. Listen at www.wnyc.org. Leaving aside the spurious…

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“Previously, some researchers and law-enforcement officials have raised red flags. In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology in 2007, a group of scientists and FBI officials called for better oversight…

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From “Sick in the Head: Why America won’t get the health-care system it needs,” by Luke Mitchell, in the February 2009 Harper’s Magazine. From Harper’s: Luke Mitchell on Single-payer Health…

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