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Do American students have the right to enlist the aid of God in support of their high school football team? That’s the big question that a Texas court will soon have to decide on, says The New York Times. Will it allow the cheerleaders of Kountze High to go on decorating their home field with …
In 2010 the richest !% in the US captured an astonishing 93% of the year’s increase in incomes. In the same year, CEOs made, on average, 243 times as much as the median worker. Between 1970 and 2010 the Gini co-efficient, which measures inequality, rose in the US from .035 to 0.44, an astounding increase. …
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How close are American gated communities to idea of the Epicurean garden, where people can live among those with like interests, enjoy tranquility and live without fear? Or are they in fact divisive signs of a breakdown in social cohesion? My own view is that Epicurus never simply shut himself away and turned his back …
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A man who ate two bags of microwaved popcorn every day for a decade had been awarded $7.2m in damages after developing “popcorn lung” – an irreversible obstructive lung disease that results in a severe shortness of breath. Wayne Watson, from Denver, sued the popcorn’s manufacturer Gilster-Mary Lee Corp, as well as the owners of …
And how do we convince kids not to cheat, asked James Krohe Jr. in the Illinois Times, when the most successful people in society cheat all the time? Today we learn how bankers pocket billions by “rigging the interest rates they charge each other”. Big Pharma fakes its drug trials. Famous singers lip-sync at concerts. Admired …
