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The Dharavi slum

• Mark Cuban has discovered that offering unpaid internships and compensating employees with experience instead of wages is apparently illegal.
  

• Chris Edwards posts some charts on the size of U.S. government.

• Well known inventor Dean Kamen has some very insightful comments about health care.

• The new venture capital: The Obama Administration is giving $529 million in taxpayer dollars to a company trying to develop hybrid cars only the rich can afford (one for $87,000 and another for $47,000). But it promises to create 5,000 new jobs, which works out to $105,000 per position.
  

• Noted environmentalist Stewart Brand makes the counter-intuitive argument that slums in developing countries are both good for people and the environment.