March 2012
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“You could play the bubble, because it might not be over yet, but I wouldn’t put...”
– A Yale economist reflects on Apple’s astonishing share price, which has risen by 83% in the past year, and by almost 50% so far in 2012. Apple is an iconic brand—now it is a totemic investment, too.
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“According to an exposé by the Associated Press, the NYPD has been monitoring...”
– Over the last ten years the New York police department has become a sophisticated counter-terrorism agency. But now it may have crossed a line.
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“Germany has around 200 places where a mother can either leave her baby—heated...”
– Since their introduction in Hamburg in 2000, such refuges have taken charge of around a thousand babies that might otherwise have been given away less carefully. But there is a problem: abandoning children is illegal.
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“Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001 Islam in America has flourished....”
– A boom in American mosque-building will probably further rouse those who are worried that radical Islam will take root. But as with other religions in the country, the main challenge facing Islam is not radicalism, but secularisation.
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