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Daily chart: Global abortion rates | The Economist - 0 views

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    global abortion rates
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Shell companies: Launderers Anonymous | The Economist - 0 views

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    Shell Companies
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Arctic ice: Now you don't | The Economist - 0 views

  • The summer sea ice is shrinking so much mostly because greenhouse warming is raising Arctic temperatures. This has direct effects: when the air is warmer, more ice melts. It also has indirect effects. Warm, salty water from the North Atlantic sliding below the cold, fresh upper layers of the Barents Sea may be one of them. Another could be that warmer air is often moister. Moist air traps more heat in summer. In winter it tends to create more clouds, which keeps the surface below warm.
  • ice-albedo effect:
  • The melt is happening much faster in reality than it does in computer programs.
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  • The effects in the Arctic, on fisheries and trade, may be easier to measure.
  • On the other side of the ocean the Parry Channel, a part of the Northwest Passage which has been ice-free in previous years, this year stayed resolutely impassable.
  • Such quirks will make the Arctic an unpredictable place to work. But if the details are tricky, the big picture is clear. Clear as an open ocean.
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2C-I or 'Smiles': The New Killer Drug Every Parent Should Know About | Healthy Living -... - 0 views

  • "I think [the drugs] just keep changing to try to circumvent the law," Lindsay Wold, a detective with the Grand Forks police department, told Yahoo Shine. "Anytime we try to figure something out, it changes." Since July, her department has launched an awareness campaign in an effort to crack down on 2C-I's growing popularity with teens and young adults in the area. While reports of overdoses have spiked, Wold says it's difficult to measure it's growth in numbers.
  • "Synthetic drugs don't generally show up on drug tests and that's made it popular with young adults, as well as people entering the military, college athletes, or anyone who gets tested for drugs,"
  • "Many of these types of drugs were originally designed for research to be used on animals, not people." In fact, 2C-I was first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin, a psychopharmacologist and scientific researcher. He's responsible for identifying the chemical make-up of the so-called "2C" family, a group of hyper-potent psychedelic synthetics. I
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  • "Drugs used to take longer to get around but now with the internet they can spread by word of mouth online,
  • It's also be blamed for the death of a young man in the same area, who died after repeatedly slamming his body into trees and power line poles while high on the drug.
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Corporate tax avoidance: The price isn't right | The Economist - 0 views

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    Good stats on corporate tax avoidance
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Chinese herb Ginkgo "does not prevent Alzheimer's" - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    What will this do to the demand for gingko biloba?
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India hit by national strike over economic reforms - Yahoo! News - 0 views

  • called the strike to protest against a 14 percent increase in heavily subsidized diesel prices, and a government decision that opens the door to foreign supermarket chains investing in India.
  • economic reforms aimed at boosting a sharply slowing economy
  • long demanded by Indian business leaders, were crucial for economic growth.
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  • "Good economics seldom makes for good politics,"
  • mom-and-pop "kirana" stores, who fear the retail reform will drive them out of business
  • "If we don't protest now, the central government will eliminate the poor and middle-class families,"
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    India strike over market-oriented new policies
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The case for outsourcing jobs - Sep. 14, 2012 - 0 views

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    outsourcing
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    Unemployment Benefits Across the World
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Daily chart: Absent friends | The Economist - 0 views

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    where is 2012 growth coming from?!
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Daily chart: The debtors' merry-go-round | The Economist - 0 views

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    Debt around the world - interactive chart
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International trade: Boxed in | The Economist - 0 views

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    Global Trade
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Taxes and the rich: Looking at all the taxes | The Economist - 0 views

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    Taxes - blog opinion  - nice participation assignment
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Daily chart: Winners and losers | The Economist - 0 views

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    real GDP growth from 2007-2012
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Focus: Poverty, inequality and redistribution | The Economist - 0 views

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    Gini Coefficient
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