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1. Is it time to start shutting down law schools?
By Natalie Kitroeff in Bloomberg Business
2. One airline wants to make food and farm waste into jet fuel.
By Jenny Che in the Huffington Post
3. Here are five reasons America should fear the rising global middle class.
By Brenda M. Seaver in the National Interest
4. Forget merely securing Bitcoin. This tech can secure and encrypt any transaction on the web.
By Morgen E. Peck in IEEE Spectrum
5. For young girls, having a working mom could unlock future success.
By Jesse Singal in the Science of Us
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