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Today’s must-reads think you’re holding that mop wrong:
- How Moody’s sold its ratings—and sold out investors (McClatchy)
- The Web in a Tweet: Smart People Are Doing Wonderful Things (The Wilson Quarterly)
- Obama essentially decriminalizes medical marijuana in states where it’s legal (AP)
- Flow of terrorist recruits increasing (WaPo. But how did they measure this accurately?)
- Energy companies deeply split over climate change (NYT, but you could have read it here all last week.)
- There’s a Rep for that! (YouTube, via Balloon Juice)
- Dow 10,000 in Rhyme (Marketplace Minute)
- How climate change kills history (MoJo)
- British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence (Glenn Greenwald/Salon)
- Obama: Don’t tell me I’m holding the mop wrong (The Atlantic)
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