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Lake Mead This is a telling example of how convoluted and complicated water policy and water supply is in the Southwest and West. If Lake Mead drops below 1,050, the water will no longer underground to Vegas, because the intake pipes will no longer be underwater. They are desperately building newer, deeper intakes. It [...] The San Francisco Chronicle plans to fire half its employees, then raise the price of the paper and charge for online access. Such a breathtakingly stupid plan seems typical of the newspaper business. Why, would readers want to pay more for dumbed down or non-existent content? Let’s hope a buyer is found. Some observers speculated [...] From The Daily Mail who has more photos. By our count, at least five former Stanford employees told the SEC they thought Stanford was running a Ponzi scheme, from 2003 on. Yet the SEC resolutely did nothing, just like with Madoff. Look folks, if this happened in some little banana republic we’d have no problem saying it was obvious and blatant corruption. Does [...] Sf author, futurist, founder of the Viridian Design movement Bruce Sterling is, as usual, way ahead of the curve. He talked about how Web 2.0 uses the Web as a “platform” for services, and then dismissed that as an “utter violation of common sense” based on the kind of thinking, translated into the financial realm, [...] Stevie Wonder honored at White House “I think it’s fair to say that had I not been a Stevie Wonder fan, Michelle might not have dated me. We might not have married. The fact that we agreed on Stevie was part of the essence of our courtship,” President Obama said last night at [...] WSJ home page headline (no link yet) Stanford chief investment officer Laura Pendergest-Holt has been arrested and charged with obstruction in SEC investigation. She’s been thought to be the one most likely to sing. This might well be meant to insure she does just that. Right here After reciting a litany of horrifying statistics, Newgeography ends with a surprising conclusion. The reality is that the country achieved astounding economic and social progress since World War II. The reality remains that even after the losses we are not, objectively speaking, experiencing Depression like conditions. Critically, the answer to the question, are you [...] |  | ||||
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