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Friday, May 11, 2007

by Ben Newell last modified Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Thanks to regulatory pressure, Ryanair no longer offers "free" flights. . . Rabbit ear chic? You can enhance your fancy new HDTV with an eighty-year-old technology. . . Adam Smith also understood bootleggers and baptists. . . A stronger Euro erodes the cost competitiveness of southern Europe. . . More fuzzy math? School choice advocates say it has saved the country $444 million. . .

Thanks to regulatory pressure, Ryanair no longer offers "free" flights. . .

Rabbit ear chic? You can enhance your fancy new HDTV with an eighty-year-old technology. . .

Adam Smith also understood bootleggers and baptists. . .

A stronger Euro erodes the cost competitiveness of southern Europe. . .

More fuzzy math? School choice advocates say it has saved the country $444 million. . .

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