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Why the Latest Air-Scare Shows How Safe Airline Travel Is, Not How Dangerous
The flying world's counterpart to your car's airbag and anti-skid brakes.
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Wikimedia commons The China Story You Should Pay Attention to, and the One You Should Ignore
Skip past anything that talks about a coming dawn of the Chinese Century. Go straight to stories on the complications of China in the here-and-now.
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Reuters Bad News, Good Headline
The importance of one verb and one noun
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Mediaite I've Got the Next Great Story Lead for CNN
Maybe a former finance minister of an African nation was also on the flight?
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Michael Janeway and The Atlantic
A man who played a large role in shaping the magazine you see today.
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YouTube Today's 777s-in-Peril Update: Asiana 214, MH 370
Lawyers offer their contention of why a pilot is not to blame for one accident. A former NTSB investigator directs blame at the pilot in another.
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via VOA Where to Get Your Next Fix of MH370 News
Chris Goodfellow, who has offered the so-far least-unlikely explanation of what happened, does a 90-minute Q&A.
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Museum of American Finance Bloomberg in China: It's Not About the Terminals, It's About the Data
Either way, there's a tension with the company's journalistic operations.
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Bloomberg and China, TL;DR Version
What would Bloomberg's best reporters make of an institution that tried to stonewall its way past a controversy?
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Bloomberg Another Bloomberg Editor Explains Why He Has Resigned, Over Its China Coverage
"For the international press, there are many reasons for crimped ambitions."
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AP photo, via NPR Chinese Media: The Bad and the ... Puzzling
黄皮白心”的香蕉人" and other great moments in international understanding. Bonus: the person Megyn Kelly should meet on her next trip to Beijing.
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Pages photocopied from University of Miami library John Boyd, From US News
Appreciating "a towering intellect who made unsurpassed contributions to the American art of war"
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Happy and Unhappy in China
Laughing through the airpocalypse, no longer laughing at a familiar joke
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Why We Read More Than 1 Paper, Cont.
The WSJ harmonization watch goes on.
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Wikimedia Commons George Wilson
A military reporter for whom combat was never an abstraction
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In Honor of the Olympics, Let's Talk Filibuster
What's the word I was looking for—the one that starts with "F" and applies when a bill gets 59 votes? Oh, yes, now it comes back to me: "Fail."
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A New Year Starts, an Era Ends
"So long, old friend."
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Next in our Special Series: Gas-Price Rise Means Drivers Pay More
Good thing we have experts to explain these things to us!
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Nation Books Afraid of Free Speech, on Many Fronts: PEN, Google, China, Goliath
Free societies depend on free-swinging critiques, even those that are "unbalanced" or "go too far."
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Reuters Just Use the Damned Word: Filibuster
Defining obstructionism down
