Malcolm Gladwell | New Yorker | 17 September 2012 "The child molester’s key strategy is one of escalation, desensitizing the target with an ever-expanding touch. In interviews and autobiographies, pedophiles describe their escalation techniques like fly fishermen comparing lures" Comments Masha Gessen | NYT | 16 September 2012 Putin telephones critical journalist, invites her to Kremlin to discuss his stunts: Diving for antiquities, running with wild animals. Yes, they are a bit ridiculous, he says. But they do draw public attention to serious things Comments Marty Makary | Newsweek | 17 September 2012 "While patients are encouraged to think that the health-care system is competent and wise, it’s actually more like the Wild West." Each year in America 100,000 die from medical error. Likely 20,000 doctors are impaired or fraudulent Comments John Garnaut | Age | 15 September 2012 Showdown in China between old power and new money. Daughter of city vice-mayor pursues rape claim against mining tycoon. Girl's parents are "red aristocracy". But her complaint vanishes. The capitalist has more clout Comments Steven Poole | New Statesman | 6 September 2012 "The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were never designed to answer. This is the plague of neuroscientism – aka neurobabble, neurobollocks, or neurotrash" Comments Ellen Siegel & Nabil Ahmed | Just World Books | 10 September 2012 A Jewish American who was working as a nurse in Beirut at the time and a Palestinian refugee born in Lebanon remember the Sabra and Shatila massacres of September 1982 Comments | 
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