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  BBC News - Ex-officer jailed for death crash A man with numerous convictions for speeding, going at 60mph in a 30mph area, drives into a married couple, killing the man instantly and permanently disabling his wife. He is jailed for four years and banned from driving for five.

  This is disgusting. [...]

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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  Yes Bill, No Owen: Why I Still Doubt Aid-Growth Regressions | David Roodman | Global Development: Views from the Center "Personally, I doubt aid regressions more than aid." (tags: aid growth) [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-20

  The effectiveness of fiscal and monetary stimulus in depressions | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists "There is one important source of information on the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal stimulus in an environment of near-zero interest rates, dysfunctional banking systems and heightened risk aversion that [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-19

  The New York Times > Books > Image > Book Review | ‘A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century,’ by Jane Vandenburgh A profoundly moving page of words and little pictures from Alison Bechdel, reviewing Jane Vandenburgh. (tags: comics books) Audio: Fiction Podcast: Orhan Pamuk reads Vladimir [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-18

  London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog Fascinating report of a talk by Oliver Green of the London Transport Museum on the impact of the growth of the Underground on London's new suburbs. (tags: transport london planning history) The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth "The [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-17

  Maps: Fighting Disease and Skewing Borders - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com I am strangely chuffed to know that Frank Jacobs, the guy behind Strange Maps, is a Londoner. (tags: london maps geography history books) Global Warming - Salon.com "As one might guess, in 1970, the center of [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-15

  BBC NEWS | Programmes | Politics Show | Superfast train set for departure "However some critics question whether high-speed rail will deliver the benefits claimed for it.

  Professor Stephen Glaister of Imperial College, London, told the Politics Show that despite costing £20bn or £30 bn, it was doubtful whether it would [...]

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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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  International Year of Astronomy 2009 Posters | simoncpage.com Lovely retro-inspired designs (tags: design art) Book Review - 'What the Dog Saw - And Other Adventures,' by Malcolm Gladwell - Review - NYTimes.com Pinker zings Gladwell: "An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad thing. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-13

  Why Buy Homes At All? «  Modeled Behavior I like the comment here from 'ao':

  "Why should homeowners buy a home as a bundle of consumption and investment goods rather than rent a home and invest traditional investments? In the long run, the asset value of a house owned by the [...]

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-11

  velorution » Blog Archive » The convinceables have been convinced "Paris is no Amsterdam either, but the Velib has been a success because DelaNoe has given a clear message to all Parisians that cycling was being made safe; many boulevards had the right hand lane transformed into a segregated cycle [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-09

  The Jobless Rate for People Like You - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com Stunning infographic showing unemployment trends for different segments of the population. (tags: design inequality) The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - A Division Through Time - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com (tags: photography germany history) [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-08

  Matthew Yglesias » The Senate’s the Thing "It’s worth taking a moment to appreciate the fact that in a unicameral United States of America, we would now have passed both a comprehensive health care reform bill and also the most important piece of environmental legislation in the history of the [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-06

  London Cycling Campaign - Media trivialise Public Accounts Committee road safety report Cyclists on pavements: the facts

  On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.

  Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.

  On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:39am EST
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• links for 2009-11-06

  London Cycling Campaign - Media trivialise Public Accounts Committee road safety report Cyclists on pavements: the facts

  On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.

  Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.

  On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:46pm EST
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  London Cycling Campaign - Media trivialise Public Accounts Committee road safety report Cyclists on pavements: the facts

  On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.

  Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.

  On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:20pm EST
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  London Cycling Campaign - Media trivialise Public Accounts Committee road safety report Cyclists on pavements: the facts

  On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.

  Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.

  On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:37pm EST
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  London Cycling Campaign - Media trivialise Public Accounts Committee road safety report Cyclists on pavements: the facts

  On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.

  Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.

  On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:54pm EST
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  London Cycling Campaign - Media trivialise Public Accounts Committee road safety report Cyclists on pavements: the facts

  On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.

  Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.

  On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:32pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-06

  London Cycling Campaign - Media trivialise Public Accounts Committee road safety report Cyclists on pavements: the facts

  On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.

  Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.

  On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:57am EST
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  London Cycling Campaign - Media trivialise Public Accounts Committee road safety report Cyclists on pavements: the facts

  On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.

  Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.

  On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:18am EST
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• links for 2009-11-06

  With tax break, a big carbon footprint - The Boston Globe This is quite a change of tone from the Ed Glaeser who said that the size of the average US home showed that Americans have the best housing in the world:

  "the tax code encourages Americans to live in big, [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:49am EST
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• links for 2009-11-04

  Guido Fawkes: The blogger who knows the power of gossip | Media | The Guardian Interesting, but fails to mention Paul's most shameful secret: his very earnest, very bad free-market NGO, 'Global Growth Org'. (tags: free-marketeers) [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:02pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-03

  A first look at Robert Crumb's The Book of Genesis | Books | guardian.co.uk This looks fecking marvellous. (tags: comics) Environmental and Urban Economics: The Future of Research Economics Good economics, says Matthew Kahn, is hard: "The agents we are studying form expectations of the future, are highly heterogeneous, their choices [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• links for 2009-11-01

  Economist's View: "Increasing the Social Mix" The implications of school mix, and thereby of housing and planning policy, for social mobility: "the evidence suggests that “increasing the social mix within schools may increase performance of disadvantaged students with neutral or in some cases with positive effects on overall performance. Thus, [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:04pm EST
  by Jim