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With a Whisper, Cuba's Housing Market Booms
HAVANA — Virtually every square foot of this capital city is owned by the socialist state, which would seem sure to put a damper on the buying and selling of property. But the people of Havana, it turns out, are as obsessed with real estate as, say, condo-crazy New Yorkers, and have similar dreams of more elbow room, not to mention the desire for hot water, their own toilets and roofs that do not let the rain seep indoors.

Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
A SEA change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store — something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn’t oil. It's meat.

Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
Turn on the TV today, and you could be forgiven for thinking it’s 1999. Democrats and Republicans are bickering about where and how to intervene, whether to do it alone or with allies and what kind of world America should lead.

Links for January 10, 2008

Report criticizes oilsands companies on environment
Nine out of 10 oilsands producers in Alberta got a failing grade in a new study that compared the environmental records of the different companies.

Radiohead Finds Sales, Even After Downloads
LOS ANGELES — In a twist for the music industry’s digital revolution, “In Rainbows,” the new Radiohead album that attracted wide attention when it was made available three months ago as a digital download for whatever price fans chose to pay, ranked as the top-selling album in the country this week after the CD version hit record shops and other retailers.

The Wire in 4 Minutes
Get caught up on David Simon's critically acclaimed look at drugs, police and power in Baltimore with this quick recap of the first four seasons of The Wire.