September 2010
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“Eli Yishai, Israel’s minister of the interior, wants his ministry’s...”
– As an alternative, the minister in charge of government efficiency, Michael Eitan, suggests that the computers be programmed to receive online requests from citizens on the Sabbath but to respond to them only after the Sabbath. But what about requests from Muslim or Christian citizens? Israel...
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“Last Sunday, it emerged that the United Nations was set to appoint a Malaysian...”
– But a week is a long time in interstella affairs - and now no-one’s quite sure what’s going on. Why a row about an alien ambassador reveals a lot about the UN.
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“A canadian man is suing Lufthansa for C$86,000 ($84,000), claiming the German...”
– And having travelled, perhaps understandably, without a Gabonese entry visa, poor Mr Bruno was detained by police and placed in confinement for a day.
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“Since 2005 the number of paid-for Indian daily newspaper titles has surged by...”
– Old-fashioned papers are thriving in India, where editors’ fingers are still stained with black ink, not red.
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“Your cover of President Sarkozy will annihilate any hope you had of waking up...”
– The row over that cover featuring a diminutive President Sarkozy continues (for bemused American readers, it ran only in Europe) - this letter from a reader in Paris holds us to task for besmirching the reputation of a whole nation.
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“There is something infantile in the belief of the constitution-worshippers that...”
– Our Lexington columnist is perplexed by the tea-party movement’s fidelity to the American constitution
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“Many companies doing business in Africa will soon move their sites to a...”
– The “Africa 2.0” initative is bringing Africa’s smartest marketing brains together to promote a brighter image for the continent.
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“So if the new economy is actually one of knowledge capital and relationship...”
– Lauren DeLisa Coleman: What You Missed at The Economist’s Conference (via 1982)
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“Imagine you are an up-and-coming drug-trafficker. What do you need? Guns,...”
– In Mexico, even the most heinous villains have comic-book monikers. The government’s wanted-list includes El Chiquilín (the little boy), El Muletas (crutches) El Borrego (the lamb). Mexico’s most wanted man, Joaquín Guzmán, is known simply as “Shorty”.
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“Lothar von Faber, the great-grandson of the company’s founder, took over...”
– Faber-Castell, the world’s biggest branded pencil manufacturer, has been making pencils since 1761 - and its profits are still rising. An eight-generation family firm shows how innovation need never stop.
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“If the worlds of heavy metal and commercial aviation were two sets in an...”
– The front man of Iron Maiden, who has regularly flown commercially for an aircraft-leasing company called Astraeus Airlines, has now been appointed the operation’s head of marketing. The Telegraph has the details.
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“Mad Men” reminds people of a world they have lost—a world where bosses did not...”
– In the search for happier workplaces, our business columnist thinks the simple pleasures of the sixties provide a far better model than the modern cult of enforced office fun - which “has spread like some disgusting haemorrhagic disease.”
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Google lost my home →
Our technology correspondent ceased to exist after changes to Google’s mapping data rendered his house invisible to the search provider’s mapping systems. It could have been worse: dodgy digital mapping has led motorists into the path of oncoming trains, driving into lakes, and stranded in snowdrifts.
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“The adult-entertainment industry recently posted a video on YouTube in which the...”
– It’s not just news organisations struggling with the web: these are tough times for peddlers of e-sex, too.
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“Rudimentary literacy acquisition in English takes the average child roughly...”
– Wy are English wurds so hard to spel? Masha Bell, a doughty campaigner for English spelling reform, has counted at least 3700 English words with ‘unpredictable’ spelling, many of which simply have to be learned by rote. The Germans simplified their language - should anglophones do the...
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“While Ms O’Donnell’s views on evolution do not flow from her...”
– Our Democracy in America blog suggests that the deeply conservative views of tea-party success-story Christine O’Donnell might be shared by figures on both sides of the political divide.
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“One thing I’m constantly struck by with the tea-party movement is its...”
– A blogger on our Democracy in America blog asks if there’s a sustainable future for the tea-party movement.
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