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Economic Case For Same-Sex Marriage | Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers | Bloomberg | 15 May 2012

The Browser — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:06:59 +0000

"The joining of husband and wife yields a more productive firm, because it allows one spouse to specialise in earning income from working in the market, while the other specialises in the domestic sphere." But times change

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Into The Wild | Seth Wickersham | ESPN | 13 May 2012

The Browser — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:52:29 +0000

One August night in 2008, Marko Cheseto walked onto a plane in Nairobi bound for Alaska. He had $100 and a cross-country and track scholarship to college in Anchorage. But events soon took a tragic turn for the talented runner

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Welcome To Life

The Browser — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:46:05 +0000

What you will see when you get reborn, as required by the legal department

Breaking The Rules | Marc Peruzzi | Outside | 10 May 2012

The Browser — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:54:33 +0000

An alternative approach to parenting: "Courage and a moral compass are fascism’s bane. Dare to live a moral life, I tell my kids, the beautiful hoodlums, and sometimes what’s right wins out over what is merely prescribed"

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Château Sucker | Benjamin Wallace | New York | 13 May 2012

The Browser — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:33:10 +0000

How one man fooled some of the world's most knowledgeable wine collectors. It's easy to say they should have spotted the con, now that Rudy Kurniawan has been indicted for fraud. But vanity, greed, credulity can be a powerful brew

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Bloodless Bean-Counters Rule Over Us – Where Are The Leaders? | Charles Moore | Telegraph | 11 May 2012

The Browser — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:02:47 +0000

The workplace is beset by "managerialists". You know the type. They speak in jargon and don't understand what their staff do. Their internal communications are propaganda, "consultation" amounts to advance notice. And they bleed us

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Can You Call A 9-Year-Old A Psychopath? | Jennifer Kahn | NYT | 11 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:22:03 +0000

Nine year old Michael is unlike others. His parents took him to see psychologist Dan Waschbusch. Who diagnosed him as a psychopath. "Even if accurate, it’s a ruinous diagnosis. No one is sympathetic to the mother of a psychopath"

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Turning The Tables: FDR, Tom Sawyer, And Me | Dan Ariely | Dan Ariely | 08 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:12:34 +0000

Great story from FDR election campaign. And, with a little help from Mark Twain, a lesson in how to persuade people to pay you for things when, by rights, it should be you paying them

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Summer Is The Goddamn Worst | Drew Magary | Deadspin | 10 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:00:22 +0000

If you have school-age children, that is. "You childless people don't understand. Just rip my spine out and use it for suspension bridge cable, because having a child out of school is like having your home invaded by 17 bats" (NSFW)

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Surviving Mesothelioma

The Browser — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:34:16 +0000

Having been exposed, aged nine, to asbestos