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• Ned Resnikoff reports on the 138 arrests at the protest at the Oakbrook, Illinois headquarters of McDonald’s on Wednesday, over at MSNBC.com.

• Traditional wealth advisers just don’t understand [millionaire] kids today, explains Reuters.

• After the New York Times published this investigation into the abuse of workers at New York University’s new Abu Dhabi campus, a distributor in the United Arab Emirates halted printing of the International New York Times because the story was “too sensitive.” Workers describe squalid living conditions, long hours, and missing paychecks. NYU has promised to look into it.

• Today in Hummus: death and disease. Sorry! Happy Friday!