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Life Expectancy Around the World
Since income is only a very incomplete measure of human welfare, I include below the World Bank figures for life expectancy.…
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Bush Finally Decides to Work in August
President Bush (43) has decided to hit the campaign trail instead of the golf course this August. Bush Schedule: August 2001--Vacation--Golf/clearing brush/boa…
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No More Time for Jawboning Sudanese Government
The Sudanese catastrophe has continued far too long without active intervention by the rest of the world. It's far past time to plead with the Sudanese gov…
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Digital music blog looks promising
I'll take a look at this blog by Brad Hill from time to time.…
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Derek and the Downloads
Derek Slater at A Copyfighter's Musings is all over the eBay digital download experiment, exploring whether the first sale doctrine can apply to digital cop…
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Almost half the world's people live on little more than a $1 a day.
The new World Bank country statistics book offers the following breakdown of the world's population, according to average annual income per capita.…
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Yes, by all Means, a New Intelligence Czar Needed
The 9/11 Commission may suggest the creation of a new intelligence czar to coordinate the intelligence from various agencies. But such a position already exis…
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UK Linked to Terror? At least under guilt by association
The 9/11 Commission will report on possible connections of Iran to the 9/11 hijackers. As per a CNN.com report: The commission has found that eight to 10 of t…
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Arnold Denounces Opponents as "Girlie Men"
The Governator refuses to withdraw his denunciation of his Democratic legislative opponents as "girlie men." How about the female legislators who opp…
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Joe Gratz
Joe Gratz…
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Winning at Cards
Kudos to my old friends from my New York days, Russ Falconer, Steve Gustavson and Paul Reilly, who just won a trademark case and successfully proved "smart…
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Reading Between The Lines
Ernest Miller has annotated the RIAA's letter to the senators supporting the INDUCE act. The letter's on the long side and the comments- some astute,…