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Thursday, December 6, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [6 Dec 2012]

6 December 2012

 Best of the Moment

Basketball Diaries, Afghanistan

Peretz Partensky | n+1 | 5 December 2012

Gorgeous long read. Triumphs and tragedies of young American coaching pickup basketball team in Jalalabad. Starts well. Team thrives, gets invited to tournament in Kabul. Then the problems start. Small ones first, lethal ones later Comments

What Is Peace?

Margaret Paxson | Aeon | 5 December 2012

Why is it so usual to study war, and so rare to study peace? "Contemporary research that says it is about peace is really about conflict. It’s about resolving conflict, cleaning up after conflict, bringing aid in conflict settings" Comments

The Debtor Prisoner's Dilemma

Harold James | Project Syndicate | 4 December 2012

Argentina thought it had got out from under huge debts by devaluing and defaulting, but a recent US court ruling favoured holdout creditors. It's a dramatic raising of the stakes. What happens when unpayable debts can't be erased? Comments

How The North Dakota Fracking Boom Shook A Family

James William Gibson | Guardian | 4 December 2012

Many farmers and ranchers own only surface rights to their property, not subsurface mineral rights. So what happens when the oil prospectors turn up? On this account, there's little you can do to stop them ruining your life Comments

Remains Of The Day

Matt Mendelsohn | Washingtonian | 28 November 2012

A husband who died. Another who turned out to be gay. And a wife who never imagined she'd be so happy. A wedding photographer sets out to learn what happened to the couples who hired him for their big day (h/t @longform) Comments

Families In Flux

Bruce Bower | Science News | 29 November 2012

What we do and don't know about how different household arrangements are affecting children Comments

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