Friday, July 1, 2011

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  • It must be frustrating when you win big but can’t take your victory lap.

    That’s the position anti-abortion activists in Kansas find themselves in. Here they are on the cusp of what may be a major victory.

    No more abortions in Kansas? Not quite, but new licensing laws might well force two of the state’s three remaining abortion clinics out of the abortion business, depending on the outcome of today’s federal court hearing.

    tags: culture

  • Think of Connecticut, and what comes to mind are the swells of Greenwich, the exurban good life of Litchfield County, the land of New England steady habits. By some measures America’s richest state, it still evokes images of Yankee stability and enterprise relatively immune to the nation’s economic and political tumult.

  • The sale of MySpace is a sobering reminder that even in bubble times, social networking is not always the road to riches.

    The site, bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for an eye watering $580 million in 2005, looked like a bargain a couple of years later as it became the favoured web hangout of what was briefly the MySpace generation. Then they and many millions of new networkers moved to Facebook.

    tags: technology

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