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39856 patenting the sun; Sachs on the very poor -- rank: 1000

Wonder if Jeffrey Sachs is trying to rehabilitate his rep after being so intimately linked with "shock therapy." Here's his article from this week's Economist. The magazine has a related editorial, which has this interesting bit: "Americans and Europeans rarely suffer from schistosomiasis, which afflicts 200m people worldwide, or lymphatic filariasis, which makes life miserable for another 120m. So the market is said to be too small to attract research. Gone are the days when Jona ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 12:27:04 PDT 1999

39857 language -- rank: 1000

A friend who works at the Wall Street Journal website says the word that Dow Jones uses for recycling stories across several media is "repurposing." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 12:52:50 PDT 1999

39858 International Inequality Comparisons -- rank: 1000

david dorkin wrote: >Can anyone direct to any good, preferably online comparisons of >inequality in both income and wealth across countries? I am aware of >James Galbraith's working paper at CEPA and am looking for any other >data sources and tables clearly presented if possible Yes, the Luxembourg Income Study, at <http://lissy.ceps.lu/access.htm>. The last word in international income & poverty comparisons. Basic data is at <http://lissy.ceps.lu/IncStat.htm>; workin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 11:51:11 PDT 1999

39859 only 75%? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Who is the House in day trading ? The brokers, who not only make money on commissions and bid-ask spreads, but who also earn money on the training schools where the sheep are prepared for their shearing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 10:45:40 PDT 1999

39860 Kirkland, anticommunist -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Having seen the obituaries of Kirkland in both the NY Times >and the Wall Street Journal, why do I get the impression that >he was much more enthusiastic about organizing Polish workers >than he was over organizing American ones? > >Having presided over the decline of the AFL-CIO into virtual >irrelevance, it is perhaps not surprising that the leading media >spokespersons for big capital are mourning his passing. Ain't that the truth. Though I like ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 08:55:44 PDT 1999

39861 Gore on Kirkland -- rank: 1000

[The encomia continue...] Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:51 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/199 9/8/16/5.text.1 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release August 14, 1999 STATEMENT BY THE VICE PRESIDENT Tipper and I were deeply saddened to learn of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 09:06:26 PDT 1999

39862 gentrification -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >2. Public spaces. There are no public spaces in suburban sprawl - >everything is private, including shopping malls. Tha means that security >guards have every right to kick you out, if they do not lik eyou behavior >(e.g. if you distribute Mumia Abu Jamal literature or sell alternative >art). City strets, by contrast are public spaces - they can house >commercial areas that are open to the public (as opposed to paying >customers). Add to that ot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 09:04:59 PDT 1999

39863 Kirkland, anticommunist -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 16, 1999 UNION'S LEADER, FREEDOM'S CHAMPION By Adrian Karatnycky. Mr. Karatnycky, president of Freedom House, was an assistant to Lane Kirkland from 1991-1993 and worked for the AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs in the 1980s. Lane Kirkland, who died Saturday at age 77, left an indelible mark on American domestic politics, played a central role in contributing to the collapse of communism, and was an influential non-governmental leader of the movement to exp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 07:20:10 PDT 1999

39864 ra, ra, ra -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I met and debated Cox. I think he's an honest boob. >Alm is a journalist, so he would naturally take Cox, >a high-ranking Ph.D. economist, as authoritative. Max, I'm a journalist, and I think most PhD economists are charlatans. How could an honest boob design the kind of statistical model of income mobility that Cox did? He stacked every element to show what he set out to prove. Either that's a remarkable coincidence - the honest boob interpretation - or he did i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 15 21:13:24 PDT 1999

39865 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >From what I can see, JB is as apt to draw lines as >anyone else. Maybe so, Max, but the point is you're drawing lines in the name of inclusion. Either people who think access to abortion is a crucial political demand should swallow their objections in the name of a "broader" coalition, or they should be sacrificed in pursuit of same. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 15 21:04:43 PDT 1999

39866 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >God forbid any left candidate I like who has any chance of winning >should ever come out publicly with a proposal to hand out needles to >junkies. It's reasonable, it's humane, it will save lives - but can't do it! God, I love American politics. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 15 20:32:50 PDT 1999

39867 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >You are quite right. The LP for the most part is following the >standard >practice of all-purpose left groups by putting forward a long menu of >'what >we stand for' with much too limited an emphasis on what is most >important. Au contraire, Max, the LP is foregrounding just the sorts of economic issues that should please you. While it's not true that they've avoided the abortion issue, they do keep most of the "social issues" in the background ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 15 11:15:55 PDT 1999

39868 ra, ra, ra -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander quoted: >With their wealth of >knowledge about economic statistics, Cox and Alm could have written a much >better book if they had felt less need to be cheerleaders. Cox & Alm are guilty of some of the most devious uses of statistics I've ever seen. They've been making their arguments in essays accompanying the annual reports of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas for the last 5 years or so (see the list at <http://www.dallasfed.org/htm/pubs/annual.html>). The 19 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 15 11:06:07 PDT 1999

39869 Send in the Clowns -- rank: 1000

[from an unsub'd address again, Max, you're making all this work for me!] From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:42:14 -0700 Anybody listen to the Republican prez candidates' speeches in Iowa? Keyes was the most frenetic and extreme, accusing Clinton of treason. Buchanan came close, intimating he would arrest Clinton upon taking the oath of office; the difference is that Buchanan knew he was kidding, whereas Keyes was serious. As usual, Ke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 15 10:47:12 PDT 1999

39870 GM in WP -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:59:00 -0700 For those exercised about GM, one way or the other, the Washington Post has a front-page piece on this today. (http://www.washingtonpost.com) mbs

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 15 10:40:32 PDT 1999