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Month: November 2013

Pressure Builds to Finish Volcker Rule on Wall St. Oversight

November 18, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://nyti.ms/1bH3uxw The Obama administration, currently stumbling through the health care overhaul, has reached a critical stage in its other signature effort: reining in Wall Street.

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U.S. Investigates Currency Trades by Major Banks

November 15, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://nyti.ms/1e6O3z3 From their desks at some of the world’s biggest banks, traders exchanged a series of instant messages that earned them the nickname “the cartel.”

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Senate Blocks Judicial Nominee With Filibuster

November 13, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://nyti.ms/1bsRsrj WASHINGTON — Another of President Obama’s choices to fill a vacancy on a powerful appeals court was blocked by a filibuster on Tuesday as

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Artists can do more than engineers to push innovation in tech

November 12, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://qz.com/146108/artists-can-do-more-than-engineers-to-push-innovation-in-tech/ THE VALUE OF ASHTON KUTCHER Artists can do more than engineers to push innovation in tech By Gulay Ozkan8 hours ago Gulay Ozkan is

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On Becoming China’s Farm Team

November 7, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://nyti.ms/HIpYmb Look at the $4.7 billion purchase in September of the pork producer Smithfield Foods by Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. — the Chinese firm that

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Mindfulness – Getting Its Share of Attention – NYTimes.com

November 7, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/fashion/mindfulness-and-meditation-are-capturing-attention.html Mindfulness: Getting Its Share of Attention Roman Muradov By DAVID HOCHMAN Published: November 1, 2013 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ SAVE E-MAIL SHARE PRINT SINGLE PAGE REPRINTS

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Dirty Dozen List of Endocrine Disruptors | Environmental Working Group

November 7, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://www.ewg.org/research/dirty-dozen-list-endocrine-disruptors Dirty Dozen List of Endocrine Disruptors 12 Hormone-Altering Chemicals and How to Avoid Them MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013 There is no end to the

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From Sea to Shining Sea: Subsidy Millionaires Are Everywhere | Environmental Working Group

November 7, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2013/11/sea-shining-sea-subsidy-millionaires-are-everywhere From Sea To Shining Sea: Subsidy Millionaires Are Everywhere By:  Mary Ellen Kustin, EWG Legislative Policy Analyst, and Soren Rundquist, GIS/Landscape Analyst FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

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Billionaires Received U.S. Farm Subsidies, Report Finds

November 7, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/billionaires-received-us-farm-subsidies-report-finds.html?hp WASHINGTON — The federal government paid $11.3 million in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies from 1995 to 2012 to 50 billionaires or businesses in which they

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How An Aqueduct Turned Los Angeles Into A ‘Garden Of Eden’

November 4, 2013 sean Uncategorized

NPR – November 3, 2013 Today the beauty of Los Angeles is dramatically symbolic of the ancient prophecy: The desert shall “blossom like a rose.”

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