links for 2008-04-15

• WSJ: On the alleged engineering shortfall in the US
  As usual, the statistical decline of the US is much exaggerated.
  (tags: statistics education india asia)
• Slate: Game theory explains dinner-party dates.
  (tags: women economics society)
• WSJ: Health insurance companies as mafiosos
  Joseph Kellerman makes an interesting case for returning to the days before everyone was dependent on insurance.
  (tags: healthcare economics)
• NYP: Walk Like a Local: How to Pass for a Native New Yorker
  Check, check, and check. . . except that I no longer live there. I weep a little on the inside each time I remember this.
  (tags: new_york)

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