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IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Andrew Hodges	Turing and the Test of Time Celebrating Alan Turing's fundamental contributions to the computer age
The Motley Fool December 22, 2011 Catherine Baab-Muguira	Did Our Founding Fathers Believe in Free Markets? It's complicated.
HBS Working Knowledge December 16, 2011	Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History The editors of Harvard Business School's Business History Review, Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones, are challenging historians to tackle big subjects with major importance to the future of business.
HBS Working Knowledge November 7, 2011 Sean Silverthorne	The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy In his new book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John Cary's An Essay on the State of England.
TIME Asia November 14, 2011 Geoffrey Cain	Good Intentions In his 1955 classic The Quiet American, Graham Greene adroitly foresaw the tragic and absurd quality that came to characterize U.S. intervention in Vietnam.
Chemistry World October 24, 2011 Andy Extance	Dirty Pots Reveal Ancient Fish Suppers 6000-year old cooking pot recovered from a Danish bog still holds traces of the last supper it held.
AskMen.com Tijo Salverda	Family Crest: Status Symbols The status of the surname may be diminished, but, for better or worse, there's still emphasis in the upper echelons on proof of a "good" name." Elites still tend to marry elites, not working-class maids or coal miners -- even though they may share the same ancestors.
Fast Company September 14, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Legoland To celebrate Lego and all of toyland, we take a nostalgic look at the last century in popular playthings.
National Defense October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus.
AskMen.com	The Boys of Stasi A new photo exhibition in Berlin, "Pictures from the Secret Stasi Archives" reveals actual photos Stasi agents took of themselves in disguise. In other words, this is how one in 10 people actually dressed in East Germany during the 1970s.
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