Anne Hull | Washington Post | 9 December 2012 Tabitha Rouzzo, 17, was dealt a poor hand in life. She is determined through hard work and sheer effort to get out of the circumstances in which she grew up. But leaving poverty is tougher than it once was in America (h/t D Lippman) Comments Tom Bergin | Reuters | 6 December 2012 After shining a light on the tax avoidance strategy of Starbucks (to some effect), Reuters turns the heat on Amazon. The online retail giant uses a complex strategy to ensure that its profits pile up in tax-friendly Luxembourg Comments Frank Rich | New York | 9 December 2012 "What's really shocking about the Petraeus affair is not Petraeus's affair but the fact that once again, we were taken in by a secular plaster saint." And there are many more where he came from, says Rich in this fun, barbed piece Comments Raffi Khatchadourian | New Yorker | 10 December 2012 Lawsuit exposes 20 years of US military "psychochemical" research. "The characteristics we are looking for in these agents are exactly opposite to what pharmaceutical firms want in drugs, that is, the undesirable side effects" Comments Judith Shulevitz | New Republic | 6 December 2012 We are having our children much later than we used to. Both men and women. And we are only very slowly becoming aware of the consequences Comments William Rashbaum et al | NYT | 11 December 2012 Terrific story. Suicide of college dean on trial for fraud whose friends were "Catholic priests, Chinese gangsters, American lawmakers, a Taiwanese general". Big-time gambler. Alcoholic. Reputed murderer of first husband (of three) Comments Gary Marcus | New Yorker | 7 December 2012 How Chomsky changed linguistics. "For most of us, words and sentences are tools for communicating. But for Chomsky, words and sentences are tools for understanding the nature and origins of knowledge" Comments David Michael | Billfold | 11 December 2012 Norway's oil wealth makes for higher wages, shorter working hours, more demand for labour. Swedes flock there: 10% of Oslo residents are Swedish. "Young people today don't want to work at all. It's good that we have the Swedes" Comments | 
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