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links for 2008-02-29

• Informed Comment: Obama Scores against McCain
  (on the question of al Qaeda in Iraq)
  (tags: campaign08)
• Mankiw's 10 principles of economics
  right ON!
  (tags: video economics)
• Musings in Italian History
  Bruce Sterling plunders Hippolyte Adolphe Taine on The Baths of Caracalla. Plus ça change...
  (tags: history empire)
• WHO: New survey finds highest rates of drug-resistant TB to date
  "Proportions of MDR-TB among new TB cases were 19.4% in Moldova, 16% in Donetsk in Ukraine, 15% in Tomsk Oblast in the Russian Federation, and 14.8% in Tashkent in Uzbekistan..."
  (tags: epidemiology demography)
• TED Talks | Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
  (tags: video astro)