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May 20, 2010	Groups spar over car black boxes as Congress mulls auto safety bill QUOTE: A proposal to equip all new cars with "black boxes" to record crash data...But automakers and safety advocates disagree over the extent of the data the devices should collect and over the extent they should be able to survive the worst of crashes.	Washington Post
May 18, 2010	The cloud's conflict of interest over interoperability: It's time for cloud customers to vote with their dollars to get the openness and portability they've been promised QUOTE: The core motivation behind the lack of cloud interoperability is based on a simpler rationale: greed. Cloud providers have a clear conflict of interesting in support interoperability, as it deprives them of the ability to lock in customers.	InfoWorld
May 07, 2010	Unclear Result in Britain Puts Focus on Electoral Rules QUOTE: '[The British] system, designed for two-party politics, always fails to deliver a Parliament that reflects the way people voted,” Mr. Dé said. “Third parties are always punished, and fourth parties are often invisible.'	New York Times
May 02, 2010	Web’s Users Against Its Gatekeepers QUOTE: With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks, there is growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about whether operators of the networks should be allowed to treat Web users differently, based on the users’ consumption.	New York Times
Apr 30, 2010	How Much to Donate? God Knows QUOTE: If we’re going to try to set standards that might offer guidance for us all, shouldn’t we look not just at what people earn but what they have? Once you do, it suggests a whole new way of thinking about what to give and a couple of ways to donate higher amounts more easily.	New York Times
Jan 09, 2010	The Damage of Card Rewards (Your Money) QUOTE: the 1 to 3 percent or more of every transaction that merchants pay to accept the cards is a significant cost, and the small local retailers that make neighborhoods vibrant often pay a higher percentage. Stores then build those fees into higher prices, so people who aren’t earning any rewards can end up subsidizing those who do.	New York Times
Oct 28, 2009	Critics: DEA crackdown denies some patients pain medication QUOTE: Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication...	Washington Post
Oct 28, 2009	Germany Looks at Ways to Protect Online Journalism QUOTE: The new governing coalition [in Germany], led by Ms. Merkel’s Christian Democrats and including the Free Democratic Party, has pledged to create a new kind of copyright to protect online journalism.	New York Times
Oct 26, 2009	Who owns an artist's legacy?: Digital media open the door to mash-ups, tributes, and other reinventions. QUOTE: advances in digital media threaten to unbridle the ironclad control that gatekeepers use to guard their ownership rights, tailor a narrative, and protect a legacy [of a dead celebrity].	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 25, 2009	A new demand for uranium power brings concerns for Navajo groups: Mining planned at a mountain considered sacred QUOTE: Now, interest in carbon-free nuclear power is fueling a potential resurgence of uranium mining. But Indian people gathered in Acoma, N.M., for the Indigenous Uranium Forum over the weekend decried future uranium extraction...	Washington Post
Oct 22, 2009	To protect your privacy, hand over your data QUOTE: [some experts believe] our digital identities will be more secure if they rest on reams of data on our everyday life culled from cellphones, online transactions and the like.	New Scientist
Oct 19, 2009	Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets (Danger Room) QUOTE: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available...	Wired
Oct 19, 2009	Which Side Is Government On? Millions of contract workers whose salaries are ultimately paid by government live in poverty. Uncle Sam should demand high standards, not pay as little as possible. QUOTE: In 2007 the Labor Department found in 80 percent of its SCA [Service Contract Act]investigations that employers [contracted by the federal government] underpaid wages or benefits or both. And wages are so low in many service jobs, especially where few workers belong to unions, that prevailing wages are often only sub-poverty wages.	American Prospect
Oct 17, 2009	When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question (Slipstream) QUOTE: So, what might your movie picks and your medical records have in common? How about a potentially false sense of control over who can see your user history?	New York Times
Oct 16, 2009	Wellness Incentives Could Create Health-Care Loophole: Workers Who Fail Medical Tests Could Pay More QUOTE: By more than doubling the maximum penalties that companies can apply to employees who flunk medical evaluations, the [new healthcare] legislation could put workers under intense financial pressure to lose weight, stop smoking or even lower their cholesterol,	Washington Post
Oct 13, 2009	Latin America's worst wage gap for women and minorities? Powerhouse Brazil QUOTE: ...Brazil sits at the bottom of a list of 18 regional countries when it comes to how much women and minorities are paid for the same job a white man does.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 09, 2009	FCC to investigate "gating" role of middle-mile access lines QUOTE: As DSL or cable customers, consumers usually pay directly for that last-mile access. But large businesses and other ISPs shell out humongous sums for middle and secondary transport services to connect their networks or cell towers with the Internet backbone.	Ars Technica
Oct 09, 2009	Should Medicare Benefits Start Later in Life? (Economix) QUOTE: Instead of heeding the frightening messages emanating from self-styled “protectors” of Medicare, such as Ms. [Betsy] McCaughey, the elderly might search their souls on the moral platform for the political economy of sharing in a civilized society.	New York Times
Oct 08, 2009	File-hosting site up in arms over Firefox plug-in QUOTE: One of the latest incidents in the ongoing battle over advertising involves file-hosting sites, which support the service by showing ads to users as they download files. One of these sites, MediaFire, is bothered by a Firefox plugin called SkipScreen which automates the user straight past the ads.	Ars Technica
Oct 06, 2009	Report: U.S. Should Give Preference to Skilled Immigrants Over Relatives QUOTE: The United States should cut back on the admission of immigrants who are extended-family members of U.S. citizens and permanent residents to make room for more skilled workers, a new independent panel recommended Tuesday.	Washington Post
Oct 05, 2009	Virtual world disputes heading for real courtrooms QUOTE: Just as the digital revolution has facilitated piracy and copyright theft in other spheres, those who make a living running businesses in Second Life have seen their profits eroded by users who have found ways to copy their intellectual property (IP).	New Scientist
Oct 05, 2009	Report on Bailouts Says Treasury Misled Public QUOTE: The inspector general who oversees the government’s bailout of the banking system is criticizing the Treasury Department for some misleading public statements last fall and raising the possibility that it had unfairly disbursed money to the biggest banks.	New York Times
Oct 03, 2009	Will Books Be Napsterized? (Digital Domain) QUOTE: With the new devices [electronic readers] in hand, will book buyers avert their eyes from the free copies only a few clicks away that have been uploaded without the copyright holder’s permission?	New York Times
Sep 29, 2009	Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water QUOTE: Here is an inconvenient truth about renewable energy: It can sometimes demand a huge amount of water. Many of the proposed solutions to the nation’s energy problems, from certain types of solar farms to biofuel refineries to cleaner coal plants, could consume billions of gallons of water every year.	New York Times
Sep 23, 2009	Is birth control the answer to environmental ills? (60-Second Science) QUOTE: Who gets to set the limiting number for population growth? Who are the targets of restrained fertility and is this just? And, ultimately, is there an ideal number for human population on this planet?	Scientific American
Sep 22, 2009	Netflix Prize 2: (Privacy) Apocalypse Now? QUOTE: security researchers found a way to link the anonymous movie recommendations with data from other sites in order to identify individual Netflix users.	Ars Technica
Sep 21, 2009	Reports Criticize Pandemic Planning: Flu Readiness Check Finds Gaps In Care, Coverage QUOTE: Many state and local governments are not adequately prepared to deal with a surge of patients in a flu pandemic or quickly distribute vaccine and antiviral drugs...	Washington Post
Sep 21, 2009	Debate Flaring Over Grants for Research QUOTE: Managers at the National Institutes of Health are increasingly ignoring the advice of scientific review panels and giving hundreds of millions of dollars a year to scientists whose projects are deemed less scientifically worthy than those denied money.	New York Times
Sep 20, 2009	Why Health Care Will Never Be Equal (Economic Views) QUOTE: How should we, as a society, decide who gets the benefits of this medical breakthrough?	New York Times
Sep 19, 2009	Planes to nowhere? Congress plans to increase small-town airline subsidies QUOTE: opponents call the program [Essential Air Service] wasteful spending, noting that much of the money provides service to areas with fewer than 30 passengers a day.	Los Angeles Times
Sep 19, 2009	Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid’s Legacy QUOTE: Thousands of schools across South Africa are bursting with students who dream of being the accountants, engineers and doctors this country desperately needs, but the education system is often failing the very children depending on it most to escape poverty.	New York Times
Sep 19, 2009	Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity (By Degrees) QUOTE: efforts to cover consumer electronics [in electrical efficiency rules] like televisions and game consoles have been repeatedly derailed by manufacturers worried about the higher cost of meeting the standards.	New York Times
Sep 18, 2009	DRM's tentacles snare British HDTV QUOTE: DRM watchers are sounding the alarm about a proposal to bring what they fear amounts to a "broadcast flag" to the UK's over-the-air digital Freeview television service.	Ars Technica
Sep 17, 2009	Maligned, or misaligned?: Executive pay QUOTE: Investors frequently reap nothing but frustration when they seek to restrain the financial aspirations of corporate bosses.	Economist
Sep 17, 2009	Expand the House? (On Politics) QUOTE: because each state gets at least one seat... and because the overall size of the House has not changed in a century, the number of people represented by a single congressman can vary widely.	New York Times
Sep 16, 2009	A third of Karzai votes may be fraudulent, EU official says: The EU's monitor for Afghanistan election suggests that 1.1 million of the incumbent president's votes must be investigated. QUOTE: The Afghan elections... received another body blow Wednesday when the head of the European Union's election-monitoring commission said that as many as 1.1 million votes cast in the vote were "suspect."	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 16, 2009	Panhandling bans hurt some fundraisers QUOTE: Communities seeking to prevent panhandlers from venturing into streets are stirring controversy with bans that also prevent people from approaching vehicles to ask for charitable donations.	USA TODAY
Sep 16, 2009	Should cheetahs be reintroduced in India? (60-Second Science) QUOTE: controversial efforts are underway to return the cheetah to India...	Scientific American
Sep 15, 2009	When It Comes to Pollution, Less (Kids) May Be More (Green) QUOTE: new study performed by the London School of Economics suggests that, to fight climate change, governments should focus on another pollutant: us. As in babies. New people.	Washington Post
Sep 15, 2009	Cracking the Spine of Libel (The wild Side) QUOTE: English libel laws create particular difficulties for science journalists. Science, after all, is about evaluating evidence. Science journalism, sometimes, requires pointing out when evidence is weak or absent.	New York Times
Sep 14, 2009	Insurers Fight Speech-Impairment Remedy QUOTE: Medicare and private health insurers decline to cover cheap devices like iPhones and netbook PCs that can help the speech-impaired, despite their usefulness and lower cost.	New York Times
Sep 14, 2009	Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Antitrust Concerns Swirl Around Sale of Diebold Voting Machines QUOTE: Sen. Charles Schumer asked the Justice Department’s antitrust division on Monday to investigate the recent sale of Diebold’s voting machines division to a competitor, saying the deal raises anti-competitiveness concerns and has “adverse implications on how our country votes.”	Wired
Sep 11, 2009	Joe Wilson aftermath: Illegals get scrutiny in health reform: Current healthcare bills don’t explicitly mention how illegal immigrants would be treated under some important provisions. QUOTE: Republicans in general charge that since none of the [healthcare] bills contain enforcement mechanisms to check that recipients of government subsidies are legal, illegal immigrants would be able to sneak into the system and get US cash [for healthcare subsidies] anyway.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 06, 2009	How to Negotiate a Severance Package QUOTE: As the national unemployment rate nears 10 percent, many Americans are doing something they had never imagined they would do: negotiate a severance package.	Washington Post
Sep 06, 2009	Movie Studios See a Threat in Growth of Redbox QUOTE: Furious about a potential cannibalization of DVD sales and a broader price devaluation of their product, three studios (20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers and Universal) are refusing to sell DVDs to Redbox [a video rental vending machine company] until at least 28 days after they arrive in stores.	New York Times
Sep 05, 2009	Who Will Care for the Newly Insured? (Prescriptions) QUOTE: 2013. That’s the year everyone would have to have health insurance under the House version of the health care bill. ...many experts say it’s not nearly enough time to beef up the supply of physicians necessary to care for the tens of millions suddenly entering the health care system.	New York Times
Sep 05, 2009	New Exotic Investments Emerging on Wall Street QUOTE: some are dismayed by Wall Street’s quick return to its old ways, chasing profits with complicated new product	New York Times
Sep 04, 2009	W.T.O. Says Aid to Airbus for A380 Was Illegal QUOTE: A preliminary report by the World Trade Organization has found that Airbus received illegal subsidies for the $13 billion A380 superjumbo jet and several other airplanes, hurting Boeing in the battle for sales...	New York Times
Sep 04, 2009	GQ’s Provocative Article on Russia Will Be Hard to Find in Russia QUOTE: Condé Nast, publisher of GQ, decided not to send copies of the magazine to Russia, to post the article [that criticizes the Russian government] on GQ’s Web site or to include a translated version of it in any of the four magazines it owns in Russia...	New York Times
Sep 04, 2009	Ethics scrutiny needed for Chinese–European projects: Panel calls for joint advisory body to monitor research. QUOTE: Biomedical research collaborations between Europe and China need greater ethical oversight to combat unregulated stem-cell therapies and prevent the exploitation of clinical-trial participants.	Nature

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