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Reihan Salam, Daily Beast - Muslims remain a fairly small minority in the
Fair Vote - Instant runoff voting may face a binding repeal vote next year in
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Robert Lawless on anthropology's sorry history of helping empire
How to write like an academic. We tried it and came up with this: " The reification of post-capitalist hegemony opens a space for the historicization of the gendered body."
The Good Solider: Friday, November 6, 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS. Bill Moyers Journal broadcasts a documentary about the impact on soldiers of learning to kill - or be killed. Follows four veterans - one from World War II, two from Vietnam and the fourth from Iraq - as they reveal how the experiences of battle changed their lives.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"
Inside Higher Ed - What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an existential discussion on the definition of libraries, as a gathering of technologists pondered the evolution of one of higher education's oldest institutions.
"Let's face it: the library, as a place, is dead,"� said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at
Thorin prefaced her comments by saying that for the purposes of the debate she would be taking an extreme position on the fate of libraries. But her argument tapped into theories about the obsolescence of libraries - traditionally defined - that have grown along with the emergence of Web-based reference tools, e-books, digitized and born-digital content, and other technologies that some see as changing essential library functions.
"The scientists have mostly gone online with their library needs,"� Thorin said. "Cutting-edge scholars in the humanities are building new disciplines and online environments are, in effect, libraries themselves; they are diffuse, collaborative, non-hierarchical, always changing."�
Certain major research universities, she noted, have even begun moving their books to off-campus storage facilities due to space issues and a diminishing need for on-site hard copies. Libraries everywhere are eliminating pricey subscriptions to printed academic journals, often opting for less expensive digital versions.
| | Unemployment rate hits 10.2%, highest since 1983 - 11/09 |
| | By the fall of 2008, most American workers were bringing home roughly the same weekly wages they had earned in 1983, after accounting for inflation. -NYT |
| | The employed worked fewer hours in May 2009 - an average of just 33.1 hours a week - than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began counting in 1964 |
| | The percentage of people in the labor force not working but looking for work in August 2009 rose to 9.7 percent, its highest level in 26 years. The teenage unemployment rate, however, is at 25.5 percent, its highest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of such data in 1948. - New York Times |
| | Real unemployment highest since depression 7/09 |
A California couple tries to do battle with Goldman Sachs
Writing long stories in the time of Twitter
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"