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		<title>Articles and News of Interest for 04/05/07</title>
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		<title>The Business of Sickness:  A comprehensive look at the current state of healthcare.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ We live in a very complex world, and our current system of how we prepare for, diagnose, and treat sickness is as complex, daunting, and frustrating to most people as almost any other single aspect of our lives.  To most of us, the current healthcare system is rather like the man behind the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the world of quantum economics.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the world where the concept of rational, informed decision making breaks down.  Where the worldview of any one individual is more important than truth or efficiency.  Where the right hand doesn&#8217;t know what the left hand is doing, and emotions override what should be easily predictable.
Welcome to the world of quantum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The creater of The Million Dollar Homepage has struck again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex Tew, the creator of the Million Dollar Homepage, has once again proven that he is a genius when it comes to understanding how the internet can reward creativity and the ability to adapt existing resources to new uses, thus creating value out of seemingly nothing.
The original Million Dollar Homepage was so unique that millions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we looking at abortion the wrong way?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Steven Levitt, in his Freakonomics blog, has an article where he looks into a recent proposal by a Texas senator, who wants women who are showing up at abortion clinics to be paid $500 if they instead choose and follow through with adoption.  Steven&#8217;s analysis indicates that many pregnant women who always intended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are all businesses &#8220;predatory&#8221; by nature?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ According to economics, any mature sector of the economy will show a net zero profit for the businesses that do commerce in that sector. This is due to new businesses coming into the sector until all of the available profit is split between too many businesses to make a difference. But we all see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Sub-Prime lending crash will hurt the self-employed.</title>
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Sub-Prime lending has for some time been a method by which the gainfully self-employed can obtain a home mortgage. However, with the current failures of several sub-prime lenders, that source of funds could rapidly dry up.

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Anyone who has gotten a home loan knows about the mountain of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does your financial advisor actually make any difference?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next time you see your financial advisor, or talk to one trying to convince you that they can take care of you, ask them a simple question.  &#8220;How many of your clients have you help to go from middle-class to SEC accredited?&#8221;  If they don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re asking, or say &#8220;zero&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs a conspiracy, when you can have a paradigm?</title>
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 What do crop circles, the &#8220;Shadow Government&#8221;, the Trilateral Commission, 9/11, current prescription drug prices, UFO&#8217;s, current gas prices, the stock and financial markets, and countless of other topics have in common?  They all have people claiming that other people are &#8220;conspiring&#8221; to do something that the rest of us don&#8217;t know anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breeding for Sparta!  Why women don&#8217;t usually go to war.</title>
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 Women are just as intelligent as men. They multitask better, have a higher pain tolerance, and have been noted to be deadlier in combat than men. If this is the case, then why aren&#8217;t we using more women in our fighting forces.
 Because, as a species, [...]]]></description>
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