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This contributor has posted the following stories:

• As the UN prepares to announce indictments for a series of murders and assassinations, the mood in Lebanon is getting edgy
• Facebook Warns Debt Collectors About Using Its Service
• Full-body X-ray risk versus risk of terrorist attack: one man’s calculation
• Voting in an Echo Chamber: The Myth of the “Informed” Vote
• The Symbolic Power of a Gay Soldier
• Liang Congjie, modern China’s first environmentalist
• How earmark ban is already changing Capitol Hill
• This is Your Brain on Food
• Opportunity has power industry scrambling
• Iranian nuclear scientist killed in motorbike attack
• The Partisan Mind
• Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Offers Few Risks, Report Finds
• Democrats’ dwindling options on tax cuts
• UN’s plea for helicopters in Congo going unheard
• Global action is not going to stop climate change. The world needs to look harder at how to live with it.
• Emilio Eduardo Massera, commander of Argentina’s “dirty war”, died on November 8th, aged 85
• Siprnet: where America stores its secret cables
• Officials Pressed Germans on Kidnapping by C.I.A.
• Washington Rule Makers Out of the Shadows
• Pit bull laws have teeth, need braces
• The last thing a movement of former pariahs should seek is to inflict the same agony on someone else.
• OpenLeaks to mimic WikiLeaks—minus the “political agenda”
• Beijing declares a war (of words) on cars
• To revive the economy, pull back the red tape
• The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention
• In Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Implementation Matters
• Senate Repeals ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
• Deficit reduction: Why it may not be dead despite the costly tax cut deal
• Detroit automakers join lawsuit over E15 fuel approval
• The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
• Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin are presiding over a system that can no longer change
• Kicking the can down the road
• Politics, celebrity gossip, business headlines, tech punditry, odd news, and user-generated content: these are the chew toys that have made me sad and tired and cynical.
• Should we oppose (digital) sit-ins?
• Ford Starts Stop-Start Next Year
• Low-cost air travel pioneer dies
• Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say
• WikiLeaks and the Hazards of Nerd Supremacy
• Fields of tears: they came to America, for the best of reasons
• Can you disappear in surveillance Britain?
• Time, gentlemen: an elegy on the British pub
• The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model
• In Russia, Dissent Turns Into a Solo Act
• Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids?
• Green above and clean below
• Abortion rates stall after thirty-year decline
• Lebanese government collapses as Hezbollah resigns
• The Biggest Tax Problem Facing Households and the IRS is…The Tax Code
• Southern Sudan Is Favored in Results
• Apple Says Steve Jobs Will Take a New Medical Leave
• Police officers may lawfully search mobile phones
• The incandescent bulb: an obituary
• High Price for India’s Information Law
• Postal Service to close another 2,000 locations
• Facebook turning your check-ins, likes into ads
• Opposition in Egypt Gears Up for Major Friday Protest
• Mubarak Orders Ministers to Resign but Backs Armed Response to Egypt Protests
• How to Tax the Rich
• ElBaradei to US: Take Egypt’s Mubarak off life support
• What’s causing a shortage of common drugs?
• Sandwich bag gets boy excluded from class contest
• Value added tax: Senate weighs a tax reform Reagan once shunned
• No Easy Fixes as Internet Runs Out of Addresses
• Adults with college degrees in the United States, by county
• “Upcycling” program flourishes
• U.S. Blames Drivers, not Toyota
• The Huffington Post’s Achilles Heel: Search engine optimization won't work forever
• Borders nears bankruptcy
• The goals and means of meth control
• The Dirty Secrets of Search Optimization
• Biodiesel Boom Catches Drivers In Grease Trap
• Obama budget plan reveals vastly diminished ambitions
• We know where you’ve been: privacy, congestion tracking, and the future
• Ivorian Forces Fire on Protesters
• How the Twenty-First Century is Making you Miserable [opinion]
• Elders Take Charge in Libyan Town
• Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid
• How to Behave in an Art Museum
• Aid crisis on Libya’s west border
• If Congestion Pricing Is So Great, Why Don’t Businesses Do It?
• Insurance and pension costs hit by ECJ gender ruling
• Too big for its britches — a review of the 2011 Mini Countryman
• Libyans continue to fight as U.S. ponders military intervention
• Equals [video]
• House panel votes to defend DOMA
• On Libya, many questions [opinion]
• Japan begins quake relief mission
• Japan PM: quake is “worst crisis since World War Two”
• Supreme Night Court: Judges Relax By Trying the Fictitious and the Dead
• Schrödinger’s Rapist, or: a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced [opinion]
• Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
• Inside classified Hill briefing, administration spells out war plan for Libya
• Abercrombie and all that: a short history of London’s aborted ring road scheme [12 min. video]
• Investigation Reveals Depth of Chick-Fil-A’s Ties to Anti-Gay Causes
• Help Make Better Map of Global Light Pollution
• ECOWAS wants more UN action against Gbagbo
• Ivory Coast’s conflict and Rwanda's genocide: Key differences [opinion]
• German medical group recommends placebos
• Midwife shortage costing lives, says Save the Children

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© 2010–2012 William Cline, except story headlines and excerpts.