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Spincycle is interested in questions around media, governance, and political economy. He strongly values reading good fiction for he feels that it imparts the important value of empathy.
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Encouraging Compliance Through Public Disclosure: Creating Effective Environmental Regulation
Making environmental problems known to the public appears to improve compliance dramatically — an effective and inexpensive solution for many countries with limited enforcement tools.
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Paneer This, Paneer That: The Story Of Not So Indian Food
Indian food outside India has taken on a life of its own.
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Borrowing Small, Aiming Big: Microlending's Big Promise
Providing small loans to villagers is an effective strategy for helping countries work their way out of poverty without enriching dictators.
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Do Roads Bring Jobs to People?
It takes more than transportation systems to improve third world economies.
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A Whole New World Sans Confusion: FDA Defines "Whole Grain"
Market shelves today are full of products claiming to be 'whole grain'. Do you know what that really means?
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End of "Summers" at Harvard - Harvard Pres. Resigns
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Irrational Exuberance Explains Google Jitters
It seems the whole stock market is besieged by nervous anxiety – ready to pounce upon companies showing any sign of weakness.
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Report Says 92% of Gitmo Prisonsers Not Al-Qaeda fighters
A new report shows that most of the prisoners at Guantanamo may be there for reasons other than actual involvement in terrorism.
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Crafting Policy on Stem Cells: Ethics, Politics and Economics
The hubris of technology is most discernible in the fact that when people talk about technology, they talk about 'when' and not 'if'.
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Outsourcing Hate: Call Center Employees Face Abuse
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