The Choice: Food & Poverty

It's a scenario familiar to all: it's evening after a long day of work, or maybe you have a few minutes before going to the gym, or it's Sunday morning and you need a few last -minute ingredients for barbecue. A trip tot the grocery store cannot be avoided. You are quite familiar with the large supermarket chain, in fact there is one year son's school. Their product are surely cheaper and better than those from the small shop on the opposite corner...right? As a consumer have you ever tried to understand the differences between the vegetables you might find in the street market versus the mega stores? Is there a difference in quality? And what are you really paying for? And what about solution... is there a way to buy only what you need?

This map hopes to provide the answers to some of these questions by creating a visual critical comparison between that various ways we shop. We will show what is hidden beneath the surface when you seek to buy vegetables for you and your family and ask the question...is a good choice even possible?

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Your Coming Tax Cut (or Not)

The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 are set to expire at the end of this year, and the fight is on to renew some or all of them. Many Democrats want to scrap future cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers. Wealthy Americans, they say, can use their tax savings to create jobs. In either case, the extensions would be expensive: perhaps $2.7 trillion less for the Treasury through 2020.

Here is a guide to who will get what if the cuts are extended, and who got what from the last seven years of cuts, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research organization.— BILL MARSH

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How Leaky is your country?

An HTML5 Visualisation experiment with WikiLeaks v0.1. This is a little project to learn more about what can be done with processing.js, HTML5 and Ruby on Rails. It is best viewed in Google Chrome as the HTML5 Processing.js is quite heavy.

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Home Buyers Survey: Waiting for a Correction

A survey conducted by ICICI Securities shows that while property prices are expected to go uo, buyers' sentiment is waning. Most feel that real estate is unaffordable and are waiting for a correction before they take a decision.

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