Friday, August 24, 2012

Weekly Reading List [8.23.12] - Back from vacation

1. Slugfest 2012: The Making of The Atlantic's September cover - As campaigns heat up, I find the marketing side of it all very fascinating. All the propaganda, from both sides, as well as what newspapers and magazines put out to create the drum beat of election season.

2. Mitt Romney to Todd Akin: Just Quit Already & The Complicated Politics of Abortion - More campaign coverage

3. China Spends to Boost EconomyChina's Tianjin city plans $236 billion investment programme & China Confronts Mounting Piles of Unsold Goods - We often think of China as being more robust and economically sound, it's interesting to read that they are also using stimulus plans to grow their economy. Better to do it before your in the hole, I suppose, but interesting none-the-less.

4. Risks of Syrian Intervention Limit Options for U.S. & The Public-and private- reasons the U.S. isn't arming Syrian Rebels & Syria's Mutating Conflict - More of the same, unfortunately.

5. New Biorefinery Finds Treasure in Starbucks' Spent Coffee Grounds and Stale Bakery GoodsWith 1.3 billion tons of food dumped in landfills around the world each year, scientists test new "biorefinery" idea.

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