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Marketwatch columnist Chris Plummer makes several arguments as to why high gasoline prices are good for the US. It’s one of the more lucid articles on the subject.
As oil prices climb, we’ve seen politicians call for a moratorium on the gasoline tax. In Europe, they’re calling for a lowering of the high benzine tax, too. [...]

Despite my fixation on gadgets, especially new gadgets and anything from Apple, I love print. I will subscribe to a new quarterly magazine called Dispatches, which the Washington Post wrote about this week. Read more here:
I’m a dinosaur: I still love print

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Aren’t people eating too much already? Must baseball parks offer seats that allow their occupants, assuming they still can FIT into those seats, all-you-can-eat meals? No doubt this latest trend from the fattest country in the world will be picked up by enterprising sports venues in other countries. 
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As if the experience of flying weren’t bad enough already with lousy (or non-existent) airline food, precious little leg room, massive delays, packed flights and idiotic security “theater” measures, here comes Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulatory authority, with a deranged plan to make the flying experience completely unbearable: Ofcom is allowing UK-registered airlines to let [...]

The historic events of May 1968 — the student revolt and workers’ strikes — have been captured on film and camera but where are they now? A remarkable website created by the French newspaper Liberation has compiled many of the videos and images, a lot of them never seen before. Go to http://mai68.ina.fr.
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The UK is facing a grave threat: the dramatic decline in the number of curry houses. The culprit: new immigration rules that exclude skilled curry chefs from Asia. According to the Financial Times:
The problem for restaurateurs is that most of their new chefs come to the UK on sponsored visas from Bangladesh. That has been [...]

Chinook salmon vanish without a trace
Supermarket data breach compromises 4.2 million accounts
Seth Godin: Why bother having a resume?
37 Signals: Keep it simple, stupid

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