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The week’s best links (and some from last week, too) that we didn’t get to:

1. The Space Shuttle was launched on its final journey yesterday.

2. Martha Nussbaum is making a case for the humanities.

3. What kind of cities do Americans want to live in?

4. The Chinese census is a monumental task.

5. Social Security turned 75 this year; here are ten facts about it.

6. Really cool pictures of horses in Iceland.

7. Meeting with the Dalai Lama has serious economic costs.