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Munyaradzi Gwisai, a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe's law school, was showing internet videos about the tumult sweeping across North Africa to students and activists last Saturday, when state secu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Although inmate labor is helping budgets in many corners of state government, the savings are the largest in corrections departments themselves, which have cut billions of dollars in recent years and are under constant pressure to reduce the roughly $29,0... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Is your spouse hogging the new car? Or refusing to do the dishes? Now you can take your dispute to an online jury of your peers at a new website called JabberJury.com. Fast Company calls the website “The People’s Court for the Facebook generation,” while ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Dave Bieler, a loyal MR reader, asks: I see that you've provided some commentary on Marginal Revolution about refugee situations, but I'm curious to know what you think about refugee policies - i.e. what is the role of government? What is the role... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Thanks to Jayme Lemke, it has fallen into my clutches; the previous summary reference was here. The essay by Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh, is interesting throughout. It has useful insights on Sweden, statism, how collectivism and ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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C.R., a loyal MR reader, writes to me: I'm writing with a small favor, I was wondering if you could recommend (or ask for recommendations on MR) for a good history of labor unions in the US. I know a lot has been written especially ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Economist Joni Hersch applies the theory of compensating differentials to sexual harassment: Workplace sexual harassment is illegal, but many workers report that they have been sexually harassed. Exposure to the risk of sexual harassment may decrea... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Bob Lawson and Jayme Lemke write: This paper examines travel visa restrictions in 188 countries. We measure travel visa requirements (1) facing foreign visitors into a given country and (2) facing citizens of a given nation traveling abroad. Our analysis ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is Evan Emory. This past Monday, he posted a video on YouTube that showed (through some simple editing) him singing a sexually explicit song to a classroom full of elementary school students. He didn... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The author is Adrian Tinniswood and the subtitle is Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean. Excerpt: I found that robbery on the high seas was far from being the private enterprise I'd imagined it to be: behind it ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Several Circassian men boasted to me that they had kisnapped or "stolen" their wives, in order to force them to marry them. At first I was shocked, but the situation was not in fact what it sounded like. Far from being effectively ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Lawrence Tribe writes in today's New York Times regarding the health care law: Since the New Deal, the court has consistently held that Congress has broad constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. This includes authority over not just goo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In recent decades, successive waves of immigrants have been coming to Sweden, and many avail themselves of the laws and take Swedish-sounding names to hasten their integration. Mr. Ekengren recalled a case a few years ago in which an immigrant family requ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Guess I’ll cross that off the vacation list. I wouldn’t make it an hour.. Via BBC News. 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Following initial revelations last week, NASDAQ has today confirmed reports that one of its systems has been accessed by outsiders. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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According to a report by the WSJ, the NASDAQ Stock Market's computer network was repeatedly compromised during the last year. So far it appears that no damage was done and that the hackers "have just been... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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He cites his 2004 research: • Egypt's underground economy was the nation's biggest employer. The legal private sector employed 6.8 million people and the public sector employed 5.9 million, while 9.6 million people worked in the extralegal sector.... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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David Wessel reports: Honduras is interested. Two weeks ago, with only one "no," its Congress voted to amend the constitution to allow for a ciudad modelo. (No filibuster there!) And: In early January, Mr. [Paul] Romer went to the capital... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It is not just birds, rabbits and wild boar who meet a sticky end in the Italian hunting season. According to statistics published today, 35 people have also been killed in the past four months, and another 74 injured. Italy's anti-hunting league, the... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Remember when you were told that that speech was free on the internet? That may not be true, at least not in Kuwait where a blogger is under legal fire for a negative review of a restaurant he put on his blog. The restaurant is looking for both monetary d... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Under a proposal submitted last Monday by the Civil Affairs Ministry to China’s State Council, adult children would be required by law to regularly visit their elderly parents. If they do not, parents can sue them. “Before, the courts did not accept this ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Kevin Beaver and John Paul Wright report: An impressive body of research has revealed that individual-level IQ scores are negatively associated with criminal and delinquent involvement. Recently, this line of research has been extended to show that ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A man recently kidnapped his employee—who happens to be his son-in-law—because he thought the guy stole $245 worth of rings. He assaulted the younger man before finally setting him free in exc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I received this very useful email from Ken Hirsch: I looked into the basis for the statement I read on Marginal Revolution that "American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The fellow in this photo frequently serves as an expert witness in child pornography cases. He's currently being sued for doing things like "transforming a picture of a 5-year-old girl eating a doughnut i... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Suing or getting sued by your employer? Good luck! But also, don't use your work email account—a California court of appeals says any exchange between you and your lawyer can be used as evidence against you in court. More &raq... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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When we think pirated DVDs, China is the first to come in mind. However, this just might change as China Daily reports that the campaign to protect Internet intellectual property rights (IPR) will strengthen its efforts by targeting online piracy. Wang Z... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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You pull the trigger in a game, and a series of 1s and 0s determines whether you did anything in the virtual world. You pull the trigger on this thing and a real gun shoots at a real, living creature. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I've never had jury duty, but I hear that it's unpleasant. Maybe that's why the Cameron County district attorney's pushing for Facebook profiles to be viewed as part of the jury selection process—to... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Pop quiz: Which of these logos belongs to Sony Ericsson and which belongs to Clearwire? If you don't know the answer, then you've justified the federal trademark lawsuit Sony Ericsson just filed. More&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This remains an underreported story: Should health insurers have to cover treatment of Lyme disease? What about speech therapy for autistic children? Or infertility treatments? Can they limit the number of chemotherapy rounds allowed cancer patients? Or ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The author is Daniel Treisman and the subtitle is Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev. Is this the first non-fiction book to be making my "Best of 2011" list? Most of all, it argues persuasively that, rather than botchi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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34-year-old Shannon Johnson has been arrested after telling police officers that the reason her one-year-old son drowned in a bathtub several months ago is because she was busy playing a game on Facebook ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Apparently Julian Assange has some new legal troubles to worry about: He and WikiLeaks are facing a typo-filled $150 million lawsuit because a Florida man feels that he has suffered some serious emotional... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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New Hampshire-based Seacoast Radiology sent out an alert to its patients explaining that their private information may have been compromised. The reason? Some folks hacked into the medical group's server ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A story by Thomas Hawk, a rather popular photo blogger, is making its rounds right now. Apparently the man is being sued for $2 million over some photos he took in a museum and posted on Flickr. What's go... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Andrew Luster had it all: a multimillion-dollar trust fund, good looks, and a bachelor pad just off the beach in Mussel Shoals, California. Luster, the great-grandson of cosmetics legend Max Factor, spent his days surfing and his nights cruising the clubs... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Some members of the Capitol press corps took a 10-hour concealed handgun safety and shooting class this week – an exercise less about getting a weapon than getting into the Capitol. Visitors now must pass through metal detectors, virtually guaranteeing de... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A Chinese online store is selling hacked, illegal iTunes accounts tied to active credit cards, offering $200 worth of content from Apple's service for as little as $30.China's Global Times this week revealed that about 50,000 illegal accounts are ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Or so I predict: Ecuador has taken a decision that no other oil-endowed country has so far considered. It will refrain from developing the reserves beneath Yasuni national park and leave the forest untouched, if the outside world will compensate the count... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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“The smartphone is the most lethal weapon you can get inside a prison,” said Terry L. Bittner, director of security products with the ITT Corporation, one of a handful of companies that create cellphone-detection systems for prisons. “The smartphone is th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Happy New Year! You know what would have made it even happier? The non-existence of the Copyright Act of 1976, which blocked classic works of film and literature from the public domain (and your laptop an... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Every spring, private security officers at San Francisco International Airport compete in a workplace "March Madness"-style tournament for cash prizes, some as high as $1,500. The games: finding illegal items and explosives in carry-on bags; suc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Two Mississippi sisters serving double life sentences for their roles in an $11 armed robbery will be released, but only on the condition that the younger sibling donate her kidney to her sister, whose organs are failing, state officials said Thursday. He... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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There is only one legal gun store in all of Mexico, and the military serve as the clerks, and yet in the country guns are still bought and sold: Alberto Islas, a security expert based in Mexico, said it is common knowledge that the easiest way for the ave... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Do you know the old saying "A picture is worth a thousand words"? How about a new saying: "197 words is worth a thousand words"?: To take one example: Lehman’s holding company (LBHI) filed for bankruptcy, but at the last m... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Until the mid-1990s, Mexico spent just 0.008% of annual economic output on law enforcement, among the lowest rates in the world. The average officer earns $500 a month, or about half the average per-capita income in Mexico. Seven of 10 finished only prima... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Apple and a number of iPhone app makers including Pandora and Dictionary.com were sued Monday for allegedly helping advertisers secretly create profiles of iPhone users, including their location, without ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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You probably don't give Santa a second look when you see him in a department store or on a street corner every December...but maybe you should. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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