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Recommended readings, to be enjoyed with coffee:

Gillian Tett - Financial markets: the case for radical intellectual overhaul

The Economist's backgrounder on South Africa's next president, Jacob Zuma

Esther Duflo outlines the basics of AIDS prevention: abstinence vs. risk reduction, with findings based on actual field work.

Cyprus - more divided.

Matt Taibbi asks the (*shudder*) teabaggers some questions

The promise of cheap genome sequencing