Banning Facebook would just shift people over to another service where they are likely to still make really bad decisions so I doubt it will fix the problem.

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The court heard that Mr Adal still had "really bad nightmares, waking in a cold sweat" and was now too scared to stay in his kebab shop alone.

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Which might be very nice for both Apple and the Chinese manufacturing workers who still have jobs and really rather bad for those who lose them as Dell and HP presumably sell less or move manufacturing elsewhere and certainly would be bad for everyone else who works in Dell, HP and the rest as the companies faced those higher costs.

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But it still seems fair to ask a deeper question: is American politics really that bad?

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This is too bad, since a state whose unemployment rate still lags the national average could really use the thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic impact that would be generated by development of the portion of the prolific Marcellus Shale formation that underlies much of the southwestern quarter of the state.

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