The end of the line

Now, in the wake of the financial crisis, macroeconomics is in crisis or, at least, high flux. Respected professional economists can be found who advocate as the antidote to our current woes every possible combination of more and less expansionary fiscal and monetary policy. Indeed, there are very few positions that the Group of Seven and Group of 20 leading economies have not...

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Për një media sociale si faktor emancipimi, jo abuzimi

Në Shqipëri ende nuk ka një statistikë të plotë në përdorimin e platformave të ndryshme të medias sociale. Sidoqoftë, nisur nga shkalla e përdorimit, pranohet se, nga pikëpamja numerike, radhitja është e ngjashme me atë të vendeve të tjera të rajonit: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn....

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Privacy protections booted from CISPA data-sharing bill

Committee overwhelmingly votes down privacy amendments that would have curbed National Security Agency's access to private sector data. Now the bill heads to the House floor for a vote. ...

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Q&A: Disability benefits and you

Changes to disability benefits have come into force in some parts of the UK - marking the latest in a series of alterations to the welfare system....

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Drinking yourself to death is not a right

Both the mayor of New York, who wants to limit the size of sugary drink cups in restaurants and cinemas, and the UK prime minister, who sought a minimum unit price for alcohol, lost the argument. They were portrayed as social nannies pushing policies that discriminated against the poor and minorities, who deserve some pleasures....

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Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate secrets, study finds

Researchers were able to accurately infer a Facebook user's race, IQ, sexuality, substance use, personality or political views using only a record of the subjects and items they had "liked" on Facebook – even if users had chosen not to reveal that information....

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Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina elected pope

Thousands of followers gathering in the rain of St Peter’s Square had waited excitedly for the 266th pope to appear in the balcony above them. “Long live the pope!” people in the crowd chanted....

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Nishani nderon Azem Hajdarin me Urdhrin e Flamurit

Presidenti i Republikës, Bujar Nishani nderoi udhëheqësin e Lëvizjes Studentore të Dhjetorit ’90, Azem Hajdari (Pas vdekjes) me Urdhrin e Flamurit Kombëtar “Për kontributin e jashtëzakonshëm e të pamohueshëm dhënë gjatë drejtimit të Lëvizjes Studentore Shqiptare ‘90-‘91 në shembjen e sistemit diktatorial; për fitoren e pluralizmit politik dhe të parimeve të lirisë e të demokracisë, si dhe për vetëmohimin si politikan ......

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Captors get Stockholm syndrome

Rebels who held 21 Filipino U.N. peacekeepers in Syria put blankets on their hostages to help them sleep through the cold nights and a rebel commander became visibly emotional when his group released the men, a U.N. peacekeeping official said in Manila on Sunday. ...

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How Facebook could get you arrested

Smart technology and the sort of big data available to social networking sites are helping police target crime before it happens. But is this ethical?Facebook is at the cutting edge of algorithmic surveillance here: just like police departments that draw on earlier crime statistics, Facebook draws on archives of real chats that preceded real sex assaults. Curiously, Facebook justifies its use of algorithms by claiming that they tend to be less intrusive than humans....

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