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		<title>In Japan, parents try to go on: &#8216;My child should come home to me&#8217; &#8211; CNN.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read the stories of Japan’s post March 11 survivors, the ache in my heart grows and carves a very large hole in my soul – in particular, for the parents. I don’t know what I would do were I in this situation. I cannot fathom how a surviving parent can conjure the strength [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cynical about Political Cynicism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have grown weary of whiny journalists and pundits who have such a limited understanding of history and narrow appreciation of things in this country that have worked and worked very well. Point One: wholesale political changeover equals waste in terms of training new politicos to do a job that takes (by my own estimation) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Print Lingers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Print lingers because it still meets the basic marketing paradigm: it serves a useful purpose. I suppose there will come a day when 100 perfect bound pages of 80 pound gloss stock will be as rare as a rotary phone, but it hasn't happened yet. And if the stats are correct - it'll be quite a while yet before we will truly say that print is dead.]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee drinkers less likely to be hospitalized for heart rhythm disturbances</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["This association does not prove cause and effect," he says. "These data should be reassuring to people who drink moderate amounts of coffee that their habit is not likely to cause a rhythm disturbance."]]></description>
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		<title>Well Rising</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was rummaging through some notes and rediscovered this wonderfully written poem – quite possibly one of my favorites. It is called &#8216;The Well Rising&#8217; by William Stafford; featured by NPR in its coverage of John Felstiner’s book “Can Poetry Save the Earth?” The well rising without sound, the spring on a hillside, the plowshare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of optimism is that it breeds dignity and honor. Without it, people tend to throw over the hood of despair. And what does despair do, but lead us to disillusionment. In its own part, disillusionment has a far more nefarious role. When mixed with the rhetoric of cynicism and anger, it causes people to say and do stupid things.]]></description>
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		<title>My Green Hedge on Inflation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not everybody wants to be a tree hugger, so I say "don’t." Be smart instead. Plan for the future and ACT NOW. Put your Green Hedge into motion before hyper-inflation hits you where it won’t grow back.]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Homework is Good for Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A million kids groaned when researchers from the University of Nebraska announced their finding earlier this month: homework is good for you, the more the better. &#34;Awww, man!&#34; Contrary to popular mythology (perpetrated mainly by teary-eyed anti-homework pundits, but also by aforementioned students), there&#8217;s no such thing as &#34;too much homework.&#34; And here&#8217;s a newsflash: [...]]]></description>
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