[LINK] Some Friday Links

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• Claus Vistesen's Alpha Sources is very critical of Germany's plan to reduce unemployment by exporting workers to other countries, in the context the increasingly short supply of human capital in Germany and its region.


• Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing announces that a Maureen F. McHugh short story collection has been released online as a Creative Commons document. Remember China Mountain Zhang? Yes, same person.


• Centauri Dreams reports that planetary systems with gas giants orbiting close to the star (hot Jupiters) might still have Earth-like worlds orbiting further out in the habitable zone.


• Daniel Drezner reports on the sophisticated global coordination of Chinese protests against Tibet.


• Edward Hugh argues that the relative strength of the French economy is, with Germany's current and Spain's future weakness, the only thing keeping the Eurozone and the Euro up.


• Joe. My. God. seems to be unhappy that large majorities of young gays and lesbians in New York City expect to be monogamously partnered, with children, by the age of 30.


• Tyler Cowen suggests that one reason for high commodities prices is the inefficiency of China, currently in the middle of a massive rural-to-urban migration.


• Norman Geras manages to inadvertently point out, at least to me, that British Columbian writer and journalist Terry Glavin has a blog.