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Links of the Day, October 14
News
- Heartbreaking: girls sell sex in Hong Kong for shopping money.
- Some coal plants are dumping waste into drinking water sources. How generous of them ...
- According to the Guttmacher Institute, bans do not reduce the number of abortions. Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year.
Health care
- The Senate Finance Committee passed its bill, 14-9, with Sen. Snowe (R-ME) the only Republican to cross party lines.
Politics
- Sen. Lindsey Graham is really getting it from the right for working with Sen. John Kerry on climate change legislation.
Miscellaneous
- A follow-up to the suggestion that email is on its way out: why email will never die.
- Enjoy:
- The world's "most beautiful object": this fireplace.

- Social stratification in social networking? Apparently so.
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