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	10 States Where You Can Get Hot Deals On Foreclosed Homes by Mamta Badkar on Jul 21, 2012, 5:44 AM Save up to 53 percent!

	11 Awesome Insights From Wall Street's Sharpest Minds by Eric Platt on Jul 21, 2012, 7:11 AM El-Erian, Roubini, Shilling, and Bianco weigh in.

	Morgan Stanley's Reinhart: Washington Is Testing The Incredible Resilience Of The Macro And Micro US Economy by Sam Ro on Jul 21, 2012, 7:13 AM WHY?!?!

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21 July 2012

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Best of the Moment

Is Autism An 'Epidemic' Or Are We Just Noticing More People Who Have It?

Emily Willingham | The Crux | 11 July 2012

Autism is like a pool muddied by murky streams. Willingham clears these up. You'll see the whole business — surface, depths, contours — far better Comments

Where Obama Shines

David Brooks | NYT | 19 July 2012

In this "age of anxiety", Obama has managed foreign policy very well. "You don’t need big, bold visionaries. You need leaders who pay minute attention to the fleeting properties of each region’s specific circumstances" Comments

The Genetics Of Stupidity

Kevin Mitchell | Wiring The Brain | 5 July 2012

To understand intelligence, maybe we should look not for what creates it, but for what destroys it. Fresh thinking and a great example of why scientists should blog Comments

One More Massacre

Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 20 July 2012

"Every country has, along with its core civilities and traditions, some kind of inner madness. In America, it is the belief that guns designed to kill people can be widely available and not end with people being killed" Comments

Prodigal Frum

Mark Oppenheimer | Nation | 11 July 2012

Profile of David Frum. Coined the phrase "axis of evil" when writing speeches for George W Bush. Now he's a leading critic of the Republican right. Says the party has changed, not him. Truth is more complicated. And Canadian Comments

How To Win Marathons

Jeremy Clarke | Global Mail | 19 July 2012

Last year, 151 athletes in the world ran under two hours, 10 minutes for the marathon. Of these, 121, including the 20 fastest, were Kenyan. Clarke visits the village of Iten in the Kenyan highlands to find out how they did it Comments

FiveBooks Interview

Alan Rusbridger on the Future of News

The editor of the Guardian talks to us about brave new frontiers for journalism, the hunt for a business model to pay for it all, and what he hopes (and fears) the Leveson inquiry will decide about press regulation

Featured Special Report

Population and Resources

Will humans run out of natural resources? Is population growth a danger to society? Or will human innovation conquer? You decide

Reader Recommendations

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Book of the Day

Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld

Philip Gourevitch says: Hatzfeld then went back to his village and watched them come home, and suddenly he had these two groups of people, whom he’d studied more closely than you can imagine, re-encountering one another.

Video of the Day

Paul Krugman's Advice To Recent Graduates

"This is the third age of America. The great age of the intelligent person"

Quote of the Day

Buttonwood, on economics

"The best we can say about economics is that we know what not to do"