links for 2007-08-15

• Angkor was a city ahead of its time - Los Angeles Times
• Rick Bookstaber: What’s Going On with the Quant Hedge Funds? - DeLong
• Comet probes reveal evidence of origin of life, scientists claim - EurekAlert
• How Karl Rove lost a generation of Republicans - FT.com
• Welfare State and Life Satisfaction - Journal of Interest
• Foreign grad students and research - Vo EU
• The future of the world is nuts (not corn) - Salon.com
• 'Sunk costs' and the war - Opinion - USATODAY.com
• How to speak hedge fund. - By Daniel Gross
• Survey of Professional Forecasters Infltion Forecast - FRB Philadelphia
• Subprime ‘crisis’: FAQs (revised & updated) - Vox EU
• Error by FTC Reveals Whole Foods' Trade Secrets - washingtonpost.com