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• What Would You Do in the Worst Case? A Freakonomics Quorum

  Photo: Jamesfischer These are the economic times that try men's souls, and women's too. In the past few months, a lot of people have seen their net worth fall substantially, and I'm sure more than a few have contemplated what would happen if they lost everything. So we asked a group of people - Nick Mills, [...
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• FREAK Shots: Who Are You Calling Third-World?

  Blog reader Nick Turner sent along this photo of a Body Shop ad in San Francisco: Photo: Nick Turner He was surprised that the ad guarantees fair-labor conditions for workers in Italy: I thought fair-trade protections were for third-world workers. I wonder how the Italians feel about this designation. The ad didn't outright call Italy third-world; but if it had, [...
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