Caribbean Medical Schools

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/nyregion/23caribbean.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
New York Medical Schools fight to prevent Caribbean medical school students from completing part of their core education in NY hospitals alongside US medical students.

The Captive Arab Mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/opinion/21iht-edcohen21.html

Keep the Internet Free

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/steve-wozniak-to-the-fcc-keep-the-internet-free/68294/
Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) to the FCC.

Top Secret America

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/monitoring-america/

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.

The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

The Real Science of Mind

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/a-real-science-of-mind/

In Defense of Disgust

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/12/in-defense-of-disgust
Is the emotion of disgust a result of natural selection? Surely in part it must be. But does evolution give us a complete picture?

The Crisis of the American Intellectual

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/12/08/the-crisis-of-the-american-intellectual/
Our intellectual life is becoming reactionary: opportunities are viewed as threats, hopes as dangers, progress as the unraveling of all that is beautiful and true

Michael Bloomberg, American God

http://www.slate.com/id/2278234/

Mao Ze Dong

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/12/20/101220crbo_books_mishra?currentPage=all

What Makes a Sad Song?

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/12/what-makes-a-song-sad/67709/