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Imagine The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko all rolled into one. You don't have to: the FBI has just broken one of the largest-ever insider dealing rings in Wall StreetImagine The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko's Wal (Read More)
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Government plan to stop sex offenders using social networking sites would breach human rights lawGovernment plans to block paedophiles from using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been shelved because (Read More)
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We are being encouraged to think Twitter is more important than it really is – stand by for Lineker, Hansen and Shearer competing through Tweets next summerThe fact that last week's edition of The Moral Maze was dedicated to (Read More)
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Members of Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs to demand assurance of future independence from home secretary Alan JohnsonMore members of the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs are set to resign unless they (Read More)
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Levying a "transaction tax" on the frenzied activities of City traders and their rivals in the world's financial markets is not a new idea, but it may be one whose time has come.American economist James Tobin originally propo (Read More)
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While the impact of such contemporaries as Nelson Mandela on the events of the 20th century is firmly established in the public mind, the crucial role played the architect of glasnost is in danger of being overlookedAt the Br (Read More)
Weekly Wrapup: Mega Content Sites, Gen Y on Twitter, iPhone App Recommendation Services, And More...
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In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using (Read More)
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Steven Poole enjoys a rigorous examination of an abstract notionHumans are often misled by abstract nouns of their own making, and sometimes the bamboozlement can last centuries or more. Because one can say the word "justice" (Read More)
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Michael Morpurgo's tale of a wild child ranks among his bestChildren's fiction often finds ingenious ways of getting rid of adults, forcing its protagonists to depend on their own resources and initiative. Michael Morpurgo's (Read More)
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This long-awaited novel recalls a dangerous era for artists. By Maya JaggiBarbara Kingsolver's first novel in nine years takes a huge risk in venturing into copiously charted territory. It moves from the muralists and surreal (Read More)
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Disillusionment with post-1989 life has tempted some to turn against democracy, not just neoliberal economicsWhen I was a child in the 1960s, there was a photo in my history book. "Man market in the 1930s" was its title. Youn (Read More)
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Our father Thomas Whiston, who has died of cancer aged 70, spent his life in education and research and was the author of more than 150 books and papers on a wide variety of topics. A focus on the importance of interdisciplin (Read More)
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Faiso Sahil injected herself with a drug found on hospital trolley and then blamed midwife when twins diedA woman who killed her unborn twins by injecting herself with drugs to induce their birth was jailed today after going (Read More)
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Thankfully, the citizens of Tel Aviv are not as callous as national leaders when it comes to practising one tenet of the Jewish faithAt governmental level, Israel's attitude towards the 17,000 African refugees living in the c (Read More)
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Government watchdog makes appeal to courts as latest statistics show 13% fall in serious pollution cases since 2007The courts were today urged by the government's environment watchdog to issue tougher fines for environmental (Read More)
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David Nutt is wrong. Reclassification of this harmful drug would send out the wrong message to our childrenAs a Labour loyalist I seldom vote against the government – in fact there are three occasions when my conscience has l (Read More)
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Civility has its uses, but we should not be afraid of satire and mockery as weapons against religious powerThe question: Is there an atheist schism?Religious teachings promise us much — eternal life, spiritual salvation, mora (Read More)
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Ikea. Of course, I've been there, everybody goes there. Yes, because it is so convenient. At least, we say that each time before we go and end up walking the aisles in line with the other Ikea sheep getting more and more aggr (Read More)
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Experience of Nick Hemming suggests the profile that follows an award or nomination isn't all that great for giving a new act a head start on long slog to the topSix months ago, a warehouseman got the break of his life. That, (Read More)
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