Rich and Strange Aeons

Conservative witness compares mandatory census to torture
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Sun City and zoning out children
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revolution in the retirement home
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billionaires behind the Tea Party: Rupert Murdoch, David and Charles Koch
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radioactive decay rates changing with the sun?
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drink water before meals, lose weight
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how to tell your boss is lying
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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
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military tribunals show their flaws. 15 year old threatened with gang
rape, been held for 8 years
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Palin attacks Scott Brown
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"deconstructionist" museum architecture
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Thomas Mayne San Francisco Federal Reserve building, "green" building
built without air-conditioning, and a failure as an office building
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Gehry's Stata building at MIT. Leaks, cracks, backs up
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Other Gehry problems
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Bilbao problems
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Iran media call French first lady 'prostitute' for objecting to a woman being sentenced to stoning for adultery.

China's state enterprises growing
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Orange County not so rich, white and Republican
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California's most Republican county debates raising taxes to save only
hospital
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deepwater oil drilling taking new risks
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"papers please". Border checks on US trains
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'The patrol says that answering agents’ questions is voluntary, part of
a “consensual and nonintrusive conversation” Some passengers agree,
though they are not told that they can keep silent. But others, from
immigration lawyers and university officials to American-born travelers
startled by an agent’s flashlight in their eyes, say the practice is
coercive, unconstitutional and tainted by racial profiling. '

'To others, it evokes travel through the old Communist bloc. “I was
actually woken up with a flashlight in my face,” recalled Mike
Santomauro, 27, a law student who encountered the patrol in April, at 2
a.m. on a train in Rochester.

Across the aisle, he said, six agents grilled a student with a computer
who had only an electronic version of his immigration documents. Through
the window, Mr. Santomauro said, he could see three black passengers,
standing with arms raised beside a Border Patrol van.

“As a citizen I’m offended,” he said. But he added, “To say I didn’t
want to answer didn’t seem a viable option.” '