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	<title>Live By the Pen, Die By the Pen &#187; Current Events</title>
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	<description>Because the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword</description>
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		<title>Interesting Political Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re not sure whether you&#8217;re registered to vote or not&#8211;or even if you think you *are* registered to vote&#8211;you might want to check out this site to be sure. Can I Vote has links for all 50 states. In addition to checking whether you&#8217;re registered or not, you can also find out where you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Proposes Lifting More Rules Against Media Consolidation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past several years, the FCC has removed many of the rules that kept companies from buying up too much of our media &#8212; our TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers. It used to be that a single corporation could only own a limited number of media outlets. What that meant was that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snake in the Toilet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this awful tale about a woman who found a python in her toilet. Ahhhhhhhhh! Tags: snakes, python, toilet]]></description>
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		<title>More Death in Burma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It just gets worse and worse. I had to miss posting a few days, so here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been happening for the past several days. Groups Struggle to Tally Myanmar&#8217;s Dead Yangon: Monks Massacred at Monastery A news clip from September 27: Burma: UN envoy meets top general as regime blames foreigners for violence from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burmese Demonstrators Killed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overnight, monasteries in Burma were raided by government forces, and at least one and possibly as many as three or four of the protesters were killed during the crackdown. Read the details on BBC&#8217;s site and commentary on With Bowl and Robe. Here&#8217;s some more background on the situation: And Jim Carrey&#8217;s admiration for Aung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burmese Buddhists March in Rangoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching the amazing protests going on in Burma for the past nine days. Here&#8217;s a YouTube clip from BBCnews from day four of the march: Burma, also called Myanmar, has been run by a military government for decades. You might have heard of Aung San Suu Kyi, who was legally elected the leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational and Interesting Podcast Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 04:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found an interesting post on podcasts being put out by universities, and another list of college podcasts here. In addition to the sites they lists, I also found several more universities that are now putting out podcasts. Here&#8217;s are some of them: MITOpenCourseware University Channel at Princeton University Podcasts at Havens Center for the Study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming and Sea Level Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a story I&#8217;m writing that&#8217;s set in the future, I needed to research this sea level rise I&#8217;ve been hearing about. With the temperature rise from global warming, the sea levels will also rise, for two different reasons. For one thing, it&#8217;s basic physics that water expands as its temperature rises. As the temperature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thrilled to pieces that the democrats did so well in the midterm elections. Yippee! Hooray! Now to keep their feet to the fire. There&#8217;s a lot to be done, and a lot to undo, and if they screw this up, it&#8217;ll hurt our chances of taking the White House in &#8217;08. On other fronts&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screwed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daphne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a fascinating talk on BookTV on CSPAN given by Thom Hartmann, author of the book Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class &#8212; And What We Can Do About It. He talked a lot about the history of the middle class, about conservatives and progressives and how many of the laws [...]]]></description>
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