[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Bag News Notes profiles a now-vanished New York Times photo essay, one detailing children residing as restaveks with Haitian families who are--or are not?--servants.


• Centauri Dreams considers how the New Horizons probe might detect subsurface oceans on Pluto.


• Daniel Drezner thinks that applying bad analogies to contemporary international relationships can unduly prejudice the contemporary world, and wonders if the impending construction of the world's tallest building in China signals the end of the Chinese boom.


• Eastern Approaches notes the continued political strike in Poland over in-vitro fertilization.


• Geocurrents' Asya Pereltsvaig profiles the deportation of Soviet Koreans from their Pacific homeland to Central Asia in the late 1930s, and notes echoes of this deportation in the music of Soviet Korean singer-songwriters.


• GNXP's Razib Khan profiles the cat family tree.


• Language Hat links to a blog post demonstrating how Hittite was recognized as an Indo-European language.


• At Lawyers, Guns and Money, Robert Farley recommends against Canada's purchase of F-35 fighters as unhelpful for Canada's likely missions in the Arctic.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders if secure property rights really are as essential to economic growth as some have suggested.