Yet Arabs living in those dictatorships underperform their stateless brethren in the Palestinian Authority, to say nothing of Arabs who have chosen to live in Israel, on almost any measure of human development: life expectancy, literacy, education and political freedom.

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Some 30 television stations in 17 cities across the country have now installed additional transmitters on their towers to beam live local broadcasts to mobile receivers mostly for nothing.

ECONOMIST: America is finally poised to get mobile television

If it were possible to stay on the path we are on, eventually we would have nothing to eat, nothing to wear and no place to live but we would all have really great health care.

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