February 18, 2010 10:42AM 

# Thursday Links 

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- [A few things you might not know about rail travel](http://bit.ly/cPk0Cv): “Automobiles in intercity travel are as energy efficient as Amtrak. Cars are getting more energy efficient, while boosting Amtrak trains to higher speeds will make them less energy efficient.” The list goes on…

- Quiz Time! Which was the only country in the 27-nation European Union to register economic growth without going through a recession last year? [The answer might surprise you](http://bit.ly/bdHwEp).

- Unionized teachers refuse to work 25 minutes more a day, [so Rhode Island town fires all of them](http://bit.ly/dirIiy).

- Arnold Kling on [Haiti, poverty, and capitalism](http://bit.ly/asbZpG).

- Podcast: This is [what happens to American jobs](http://bit.ly/9igZwd) when you have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.

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