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Digg moves very quickly, and has a great many stories submitted every day, so good material can sometimes fly by before you even know it. These interactive visualizations look beneath the surface of the Digg community’s activities.
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Nuts about Southwest is all about our Employees, Customers, airplanes, and airports. We really are Nuts about Southwest and we hope that our Readers will share that passion by posting their own comments.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo will soon hold its first democratic presidential elections since the country gained its independence in 1960. It should be a moment for celebration. But the lavishly funded experiment—to the tune of half a billion do
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Mobilization is an international journal of research and theory specializing in social movements, protests and collective behavior. Mobilization was created to fill the void that there was no scholarly journal of research and theory with an interdiscplina
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From mass targeting of mobile phones with voice and text messages to old-fashioned radio broadcasts warning of imminent attacks, Israel is deploying a range of old and new technologies in Lebanon as part of the psychological operations (”psyops”) campaign
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Billions of dollars in federal contracts are supposed to go to small businesses. What really happens, and how do you get your share?
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The “universal service” regime ostensibly extends local phone service to consumers who could not otherwise afford it. To achieve this goal, some $7 billion annually is raised – up from less than $4 billion in 1998 – by taxing telecommunications us
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This is a dangerous moment for the Middle East, because the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon could easily escalate to involve the broader region. Indeed, there are voices in the United States and Israel calling for a deliberate broadening of the conflict to
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Enterprise reporting goes pro-am. Assignments are open sourced. They begin online. Reporters working with smart users and blogging editors get the story the pack wouldn’t, couldn’t or didn’t. They raise the money too. Q and A explains. There’s $10,0
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If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed a
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The Middle East is immersed in its worst crisis in years following the capture of three Israeli soldiers by the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Lebanese Party of God (Hizbollah) in late June 2006 and early July, Israel’s comprehensiv
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Unknown thousands of children and youth in northern Uganda have been abducted and forcibly recruited into a brutal rebel army over the past two decades. Tragically the Lord’s Resistance Army is far from exceptional. Children fight in perhaps three-quar
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This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one’s group is partly determined by group-specific investments
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Common intuition and experimental psychology suggest that the ability to self-regulate, willpower, is a depletable resource. We investigate the behavior of an agent who optimally consumes a cake (or paycheck or workload) over time and who recognizes that
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Hard questions that matter, like “can a pregnant woman drive in the carpool lane?” or “how can I win at that ultra-important-corporate-decision-making- process, rock-paper-scissor?” and of course, “is turkey a country or a bird first?”. Wait, is it *reall
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This Web site specializes in uncensored language research protected by the First Amendment. If you are under 21 years of age, immature, a legal scumbag, a shallow journalist, a p.c. creep, or offended by words, just go away.
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Ozzy, Hef, and the Cunninghams all shared something with us: their homes, which we visited through our TV screens. See them here with our Bird’s Eye View images.
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Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught. Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.
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The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.
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Popup Politicians is an AJAX-based widget that adds mini-profiles with links of Members of Congress to your page that appear when you mouseover the link.
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The mapping of Springfield began in the Spring of 2001 when we realized that no adequate map of Springfield existed either online or in print. Initially the content was collected from the City Profile and Springfield Vacation pages at The Simpsons Archive
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The Simpsons Archive is the Internet’s clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news, and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons and other fans around the world. You are invited to contribute your FAQs, news items, capsule submissions
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You can change the text on this image to whatever you like. Change the text in the form below, then click on “preview image”. The text in the image will change accordingly. You can align the text with spaces and enters.
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Hezbollah has opened a dangerous second front in the Israeli-Palestinian war of attrition that began in September 2000. The attached analysis not only describes the nature of Hezbollah and its military capabilities, but the severe limits to the Lebanese A
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DocuTicker offers a hand-picked selection of resources, reports and publications from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest organizations.
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The announcement that the U.S. is sending more troops into Baghdad is a grim warning of just how serious the situation in Iraq has become. The fact is that US forces are now strained throughout the country in spite of efforts to create Iraqi military, sec
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Conflict prevention and peace-building are sophisticated, high-priority issues in the policies of donor governments and international agencies. The new initiatives include a range of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes. This policy pa
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Coffee prices affect the livelihoods of 100 million people in over 50 developing countries - and international prices keep falling. Factors behind the crisis are oversupply, amongst others caused by the push to promote export earnings under market reforms
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Ever since the ZIP Code system for identifying address locations was devised in the 1960s, some citizens have wanted to change the ZIP Code to which their addresses are assigned. Because ZIP Codes are often not aligned with municipal boundaries, millions
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This report analyzes the current conflict between Israel and two U.S. State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and the radical Palestinian Hamas organization. On July 12, 2006, what had
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This set of links is a guide to useful and interesting information in the field of business economics. We try to do more than just point you to the home page of many of these large, sprawling web sites- we also try to take you directly to the most rel
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Between the U.S. and Canada, there are more than 148 million acres in the National Park System. Within all that territory, it only goes to figure you’ll find everything from mind-bending natural phenomena and plentiful wildlife to sybaritic pleasures. Gue
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Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - ReliefWeb
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American taxpayers spend nearly $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a “think tank” that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made availa
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“The World Economic Forum defines a public-private partnership as ‘a voluntary alliance between various equal actors from different sectors whereby they agree to work together to reach a common goal or fulfill a specific need that involves shared risk
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The Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, made possible through a generous gift from Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz, is the economic policy research arm of the Graduate Faculty’s Department of Economics. The goal of the Schwartz Center’s ac
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“In a new Carnegie Paper, Islam, Militarism, and the 2007–2008 Elections in Pakistan, Frederic Grare argues that the reality is that the Islamic forces will not be a defining factor. They are a dependent variable whose power is largely determined by t
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“In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the g
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“The web enables scholars to engage in several types of what I have called ‘amateur journalism.’ Of particular interest is scholars’ ability to effectively leverage their expertise in commenting on matters of public interest. This form of expert e
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“The fastest-growing competition in the United States is organized by NASCAR, a distinct business entity that is not controlled by the drivers who participate in stock car races. We suggest that the club-run sports leagues in the major North American sp
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“The Keller Fay Group today released a report that challenges several commonly held beliefs regarding word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing. Titled The Steak is the Sizzle, the study finds that products determined by consumers to be easy to discuss and recommen
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“Can the type of polling place in which people vote (e.g. church, school, or firehouse) influence how they cast their ballot? Results of two studies suggest it can. A field study using Arizona’s 2000 general election found that voters were more likely
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“This working paper points out that the region’s annual average of 1,200 cubic meters of water per person makes it one of the most water-scarce in the world. The author says that, while agriculture and the rural economy are important elements in the r
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Since the arrival of Al-Jazeera in late 1996, western style news programming such as the British Broadcasting Corporation and U.S. Cable News Network has fallen out of favor with Arabs on the street because it does not appeal or speak to their cultural se
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The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) analyzes the problems associated with the organization of labor in a rapidly developing globalized economic environment. Within a framework of seven research areas, IZA focuses on original and internationally com
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It is not wholly appropriate to apply the term “petrostate” equally to all larger exporters of oil, as if they were identical. “Petrostates” can be clearly divided into two unequal groups: those countries where the population is sufficiently small to live
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The issue of political reform in Syria straddles the line between reform of political institutions and removal from power of a particular regime and entails both domestic and external actors. In a new Carnegie Paper, Reform in Syria: Steering between the
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Trust is critical for organizations, effective management and efficient negotiations, yet trust violations are common. Prior work has often assumed trust to be fragile—easily broken and difficult to repair. We investigate this proposition in a laborator
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Suppose you lend a friend a DVD to watch on the agreement that he will mail it back to Netflix. If you find out your friend forgot to return the movie to the rental company, would you trust him with another DVD?
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For the 41 million Mexican voters who went to the polls on July 2, the major decision was whether they were going to continue to follow the same free-market model with limited spending and greater foreign investment that the country has had for the past s
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The Commission was reconvened to identify additional measures to help Cubans hasten the day when they will be free from oppression and to develop a concise but flexible strategic plan that will help the Cuban people move rapidly toward free and fair democ
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