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Despite the early flood of criticism which caused the cancelation of the project, some media heavyweights have published articles defending the DARPA Terrorism Futures Market. Check out this articles in FORTUNE and another that just went up on the New York Times site.

As noted
here yesterday, the Lowell, MA Spinners of the
Class A New York-Penn league have announced a JACK
KEROUAC bobblehead
doll giveaway for August [...]

US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whose staff has been quietly negotiating a measure that could halt plans for a wind farm off Cape Cod, backed away yesterday from the controversial amendment to federal energy legislation.
Kennedy has remained vague about his stance on the project, which would be built in Nantucket Sound, roughly 6 miles from [...]

Every summer I take my foreign law students to Shakespeare in the
Park, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Comnaly’s effort to increase the community’s
culture level. Every year I arrive ready for the bard, with bread
[...]

Enter the nicotini: Smoking ban leads to tobacco-infused drink
Call it a liquid cigarette because this drink comes complete with the
nicotine rush and tobacco aftertaste found in a pack of Camels. These tobacco-spiked
martinis are being served up for die-hard smokers who don’t want [...]

July 30 — Former U.S. fighter pilots held prisoner by Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War can’t collect compensation from seized Iraqi money that President George W. Bush set aside to rebuild that country, a U.S. judge said.
The former fighter pilots had been awarded [...]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off
the assembly line Wednesday, 70 years after Adolf Hitler’s government introduced
Germans to a two-door passenger car that became an icon around the globe.
Workers painstakingly crafted the final car: a baby blue version marked
[...]

Self-aware or empathetic people are more likely to catch
the yawns, say US researchers.
Studies have shown
that 40-60% of people who watch videos or hear about yawning end up
joining in.
Contagious yawning [...]

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) A local literary icon will be
honored next month in a way usually reserved for sports figures:
a bobblehead doll.
The first 1,000 fans at the Aug. 21 game between the Lowell Spinners [...]

Some cigarettes have a “kick” containing 35 times more “freebase” nicotine - the most addictive form - than others, researchers have found. The findings could help rate the addictiveness of different brands, they say.
The amount of freebase nicotine in cigarette smoke increases as the alkalinity, or pH, increases. This factor can be influenced by the [...]

Sorry, you won’t be able to buy shares in Usama Bin Laden
anytime soon, as
reported here this morning. Reacting to immediate intense
pressure, Paul Wolfowitz killed the project
"I couldn’t believe that we would [...]

The first
Flash Mob in the Boston area is set for Thursday in Harvard
Square.  Over 500 mobsters have signed up for the event, and today
received an email from the shadowy [...]