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1. We should end our obsession with skinny phones.
By Napier Lopez in the Next Web
2. Meetings need a shot clock.
By Bob Frisch and Cary Greene in the Harvard Business Review
3. Sorry Baby Boomers. To fix Washington, we’ve got to elect Generation X.
By David L. Rosen in Politico
4. This is the single worst public policy mistake America can make, and we keep making it.
By Jared Bernstein in the Washington Post
5. You might not be overweight. Here’s why BMI — body mass index — is a bad yardstick for health.
By Julie Cohen at the University of Santa Barbara
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