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Notable: "8 out of the 9 top government officials in #China have scientific backgrounds": http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012... #Leaders #Backgrounds #US

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Dress Rehearsal for "Heir Apparent": "China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, Opens U.S. Tour": http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #China #GeoPolitics $$

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Awesome list. "Ten Most Difficult Words to Translate" into English. Totally relate to No. 5, "Tartle". http://www.altalang.com/beyond-... #Language

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They're going to make a movie out of this. You just watch: "In This Online Word Game, the Winning Spell Is Love" http://online.wsj.com/article... $ZNGA

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Goes back a long way: "Chinese Hackers Suspected in Nortel Breach" http://online.wsj.com/article... via @WSJ #China #Internet #Security #Hacking $$

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Tough to tell them apart anymore: "Super PACs: Real life, or Comedy Central?": http://www.politico.com/news... via @POLITICO #2012 #SuperPacs $$

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Case Study: In North Carolina's "Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story": http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #Education #CultureOfInstruction

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Age-old universal issue: "Amid Japan Reconstruction, Generational Rift Opens": http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #Japan #Demographics #Politics $$

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Barron's had a "Dow 15,000" cover, as a 2 year target. That's up 17% from 12800. Then 17,000 as "50-50 bet" http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02... #Markets $$

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Samsung's answer to getting Android ICS 4.0 on their tablets: Just buy a new one: Intros Galaxy Tab 2: http://gigaom.com/mobile... #BuyOneAlready

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Marketing push: "Sony to set plans for Whitney Houston catalog". How long to "The Bodyguard 3D"? http://www.firstpost.com/fwire... #Music #Whitney $$

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Their time in the sun: "Expanded Role Proposed for Elite Military Forces": http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #Military #Politics #Budget $$

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Wireless carriers going to love this: "Spotify’s iOS app gets an update that doubles the stream quality to 320 kbps http://thenextweb.com/apps... $$

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Awesome: "Saturday Night Live accurately skewers Verizon 4G advertising" http://www.theverge.com/2012... #Tech #Ads #Android #Gobbledygook #Humor #SNL

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Liking my GoPano, both device and App. http://pinterest.com/pin...

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Ancient Seagrass, 100k+ years old: 'Oldest living thing on earth' discovered in Mediterranean Sea" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science... #Science #Earth

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Fixing it: "Following Path’s contact fiasco, Instagram silently adds a contact list access prompt" http://thenextweb.com/mobile... #Internet #Privacy

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Hilarious via @Arrington: "Amazing...What people think entrepreneurs do" http://uncrunched.com/2012... #Internet #Economy #Humor $$

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QOTD @nickbilton: "The big deal is that privacy and security is not a big deal in Silicon Valley" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012... #Internet #Privacy $$

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More Americans Relying on Government Benefits - More American are relying on government benefits, and the... http://mponit.tumblr.com/post...

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US "needs 140k to 190k more workers with “deep analytical” expertise & 1.5m more data-literate managers" http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #BigData $$

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Advice for business travelers to China & Russia:"Electronic Security a Worry in Age of Digital Espionage": http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #Internet $$

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For some "Indian" Indian "In London: Great Indian Food Without the Fuss": http://travel.nytimes.com/2012... #Travel #Food #Indian

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Some data on the Economics of BIrth Control http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #2012 #Economy #Politics $$

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Thomas Friedman on GOP addressing America's challenges w/ an "incoherent mix of hardened positions" http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #2012 #OpEd $$

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The unsocial part of Social Media: http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #Internet #Culture #Essay #SocialMedia

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Good, but untimely Obituary: "Whitney Houston’s Voice of Triumph and Pain": http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #Whitney #Obit #RIP #Music #Tragedy

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So #Romney isn't a flip-flopper on Abortion now, just back MA n '94, "whose politics didn't match his own" then. http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #2012

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In Afghanistan and beyond, US is "Privatizing the Ultimate Sacrifice": http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #Politics #Military #Economy #Defense $$

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Arab League Request UN peacekeeping mission, while Islamist groups, incl. Al Qaeda call Jihad against #Syria Govt: http://www.nytimes.com/2012...

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