This lengthy index listing of planetary information might not look like much visually, but it means that these kind of pictures are now worth not just a thousand words, but potentially a million.

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Critics of the farm bill also say it has too much pork, but not the kind you think of when you think farming.

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Normally I would not give this kind of facile argument much attention, but it is such a perfect illustration of a point I have made for years about the climate debate that I simply cannot resist.

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Mayer, on the other hand is focused not so much on cutting costs, but on building the kind of collaborative workplace that can create truly inspiring products.

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As you know, those additional benefits would not only help families very much in need of help, but that kind of assistance is judged by independent economists to be the most effective means of giving a boost to the economy, because folks who are unemployed are much more likely to spend the assistance that they get and inject it right back into the economy.

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For other states less well-endowed, Chicago can offer hope of a different kind: not so much the example of its excellent restaurants or its vast convention centre, McCormick Place, but that of its Navy Pier.

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