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What do these have in common?

Really great piece by the Freakonomics guys that asks, "What do a deaf woman in Los Angeles, a first-century Jewish sandal maker and a red-cockaded woodpecker have in common?" Turns out they were all on the short end of laws meant to do good.

January 26, 2008