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City Journal, by Roger Scruton - American visitors to Paris, Rome, Prague, or Barcelona, comparing what they see with what is familiar from their own continent, will recognize how careless their countrymen often have been in their attempts to create cities.

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What Happy People Don’t Do

NY Times - Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That’s what unhappy people do.

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Criminology - Can the can

Economist - The idea that graffiti-spraying and other forms of low-level delinquency promote further bad behaviour has now been tested experimentally. The researchers’ conclusion is that one example of disorder, like graffiti or littering, can indeed encourage another, like stealing. The message for policymakers and police officers is that clearing up graffiti or [...]

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Time machines: Our chronic obsession with watches

Independent - From Oysters to Seamasters, Skyhawks to Hemipodes, the world of luxury watches is booming as if recession were an alien concept. But who actually needs a diamond-encrusted, solid gold chronograph with built-in altimeter?

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Invasion of the Netbooks

BusinessWeek - Some consumers are opting for the inexpensive, small, Web-connected computers in place of laptops that can cost three times as much.

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Art’s too expensive, says Hirst

Independent - Just months after the success of a ground-breaking sale at Sotheby’s that brought him nearly £100m, Hirst has described the art market as over-priced, and welcomed the prospect of selling his work at cheaper rates in the present climate of recession.

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What women ‘really think’

Telegraph - Almost two out of five women now see themselves as feminists, research for Stella magazine has revealed. However, nearly three out of four women would rather have a man, than a woman, as their boss. Nearly half of women (46 per cent) think a couple should live together before they marry. [...]

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We can be heroes …

Financial Times - Three recently published books are products of the transition from the heroic age of journalism to the … what? It has no name, as yet. Early indications are that the “demotic age” might fit, because of the explosion over the past 10 years of internet-based blogs, social networking sites, [...]

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