Much of the huge drop in crime rates in the 90's can be traced to Roe v. Wade. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/magazine/03LEVITT.html">Steven Levitt</a> just rocketed to the top of my reading list.

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<a href="http://www.tradesports.com/">TradeSports</a> has betting on current events, like whether
WMDs will be found in <a href="https://www.tradesports.com/jsp/intrade/trading/t_amd.jsp?selConID=none&z=03/08/2003-15:28:57&eventSelect=5478&updateList=true#">Iraq by Sept. 30</a>. The historical data on pricing is 
awesome; even better is the free marketing they got via the botched DARPA project, so now their markets
should be more liquid. 

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Last night, I put up a list of <a
href="http://www.haller.ws/ncf/blogs.html">New College blogs</a>.  Piqued with
"where are they now" curiosity, I ambled through <a
href="http://www.newcollege.org">NewCollege.org</a> and saw that Joy Kanwar was
working at <a href="http://www.skadden.com">Skadden</a> (which is the 100+
hours/workweek madhouse of a securities law firm where <a
href="http://www.haller.ws/logs/index.cgi?20030720#20030720">Jason</a> worked). I wonder
how much variance there is in post-NC life, probably not as much as we'd like
to think. ;)

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