Recommended Readings 080727 ~ On Aging, Dirty Words, Displays, Security, Dorms, Schools, Africa, Contraception, Tourism, Peacekeeping, the Future...

A few more tasty news morsels this week...

• The Globe Magazine has a nice Boomers Issue about staying Forever Young. Nice mention of MIT Age Lab.
• Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau this Sunday is an homage to George Carlin who, quite obviously, "didn't work in print." Indeed he worked live and in your face!
• Scott Kirsner in his Innovation Economy column encourages Rethinking Display Technology. Includes a nice illustration and mention of Dave Merrill's Siftables.
• Jesse Noyes of the Boston Business Journal writes that MIT alumnus entrepreneur Patrick Sobalvarro's startup Intellivid's assets rolled into Tyco security unit. Security systems is one of the relatively stealthy business clusters in Boston-metro with such firms as Raytheon, Iron Mountain, and others in this area.
• Dawn Wotapka writes in the WSJ about businesses in the collegiate real estate sector in Campus Living, and Even a Theater: Specialized Developers Helping More Colleges To Meet Housing Needs.
• Malin Rising in the AP writes about Big change for welfarist Sweden: School choice and for-profit private enterprises being the preferred providers.
• It's good to see Manchester United hero's new goal: educating Africa's Children writes Jonathan Northcroft in the Sunday Times.
• The USAToday's Rick Hampson writes that Americans finding purpose in hopes for Africa's future, with religion-driven volunteerism booming, something I'm rather ambivalent about.
• John Allen opines about the Pope vs the Pill in the NYTimes about the papal edict Humanae Vitae which reiterated the church's ban on artificial birth control (a stunningly medieval stance condemning millions to lives of misery and poverty and reinforcing anti-woman policies worldwide).
• Bret Stephens opines in the WSJ about Al Gore's Doomsday Clock and Gore's challenge to America. Stephens asserts "Serious people understand [Gore's idea] is absurd."
• On the other hand, Robert McFarlane and George Philippidis opine about How Free Trade Can Help Solve the Energy Crisis.
• Martin Fackler in the NYTimes writes that Flush With Cash, More Asian Tourists Flock to Japan which is probably a great way to lower long-lived tensions and misapprehensions throughout Asia about Japanese. Tourism is a better pathway to co-prosperity!
• Harvey Morris in the FT interviews the UN's Jean-Marie Guehenno who reveals that Conflict interventions push close to 'the outer limit of peacekeeping' which is a worrisome thing given the growing demands for such actions.
• The Daily Galaxy writes The Future Isn't What it Used to Be! (It's Going to be Better) about the UN State of the Future report.