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Cutting Costs the Montana Way - NYTimes.com
WITH the debt crisis and the weakening economy fresh on their minds, most Americans have probably concluded that government, as a rule, cannot manage money responsibly. But it can. Just look at Montana.
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36 Hours in Downtown Manhattan - NYTimes.com
ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER is rising, and the 9/11 Memorial will open right below it next month on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Although progress on the World Trade Center site has been slow, the surrounding neighborhoods did not wait to revive (and in some cases reinvent themselves) after all the emotional and economic devastation. The financial district is bustling, Chinatown is as quirky and enticing as ever, and TriBeCa is bursting with new restaurants, bars and hotels. With the exception of those seeking a night of relentless club-hopping, travelers hardly need venture north of Canal Street for a complete New York weekend.
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Handy flowchart helps you decide which science fiction series to watch next on Netflix
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“One of my swale church members believes in a God who has commanded against sexual activity outside of marriage. It just isn’t right for larger swales to force smaller ones to have sex. I appeal to you as the first and greatest of the swales: Command your people against coerced sexual activity.”
Seconds of silence ticked away.
“Come to me,” she said. “You and your swale church member.”
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EP296: For Want Of A NailBy Mary Robinette Kowal—4—Book Review: DeathlessBy Sarah Frost—18—EP297: AmaryllisBy Carrie Vaughn—19—Book Review: EmbassytownBy Josh Roseman —29—EP298: The ThingsBy Peter Watts —31—EP299: Plus Or MinusBy James Patrick Kelly —43 -
Archive: LDS, Page 2 | BenCrowder.net
Also, I finally got around to reading Eric James Stone’s story “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made,” which had been sitting around in my Instapaper queue for a few weeks. And I really liked it. Fascinating stuff. (It’s about a Mormon branch president and plasma-based beings in the heart of the sun.)
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The purported hacker who infiltrated the BART's Police Officers Association website today claims to be a French girl ("Humiliating, huh?") who executed her first hack, SF Weekly has learned. SF Weekly chatted online with someone who claimed to be the mind behind today's attack. She provided us with the security hole she used, saying the whole thing was incredibly simple.
Lamaline_5mg -- her online handle -- doesn't claim to be part of Anonymous, the Internet-based movement that masterminded Monday's BART protest. She even took issue with referring to the attack as a hack: "They had zero security," she wrote. "Listen, don't ask questions. I'll tell you what's important to know first." -
Cramming For College At Beijing's Second High | Fast Company
Here is an existential question of high-school philosophy: If everyone is equally nerdy, does that mean no one is a nerd? In The People's Republic of China, you might add the following corollary: Is collective nerdiness the way forward?
As twilight descends in Beijing on a Saturday in March, an informal meeting of nerds commences outside the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University. Class has ended for the day, and the streetside air is noxious and smothering--Beijingers sometimes euphemistically call it "big fog," when in fact it's actually unrelenting, overwhelming smog. The bespectacled quartet of teens--Bob, Daniel, Julia, and Janice (whose glasses don't have lenses in them)--hurriedly try to figure out what they're going to do next.
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