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		<title>wikipedia&#8217;s &#8220;editorial row&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of recent edits to the Wikipedia pages on Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy that pronounced both of them dead, the site&#8217;s founder, Jimmy Wales, is proposing a system of &#8220;flagged revisions&#8221; — in other words, every change has to be cleared for accuracy by an editorial board somewhere. The system is already [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=141&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>steven meyers: x-ray vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Meyers&#8217;s work is a perfect example of science as fine art. Using finely attuned x-rays, he exposes beautiful arrangements of plants like this one. His website can be found here. For more beautiful portfolios of science as art, visit Seed Magazine&#8217;s portfolios feature.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=136&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the case of the robber goat</title>
		<link>http://littoralzone.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/the-case-of-the-robber-goat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nigeria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reported on Friday that police in Nigeria are holding a goat seized by a vigilante group which claims that the animal is a car thief who has changed his shape by witchcraft. The belief in magic and shape-shifting is wide-spread in Nigeria, particularly among the less educated, and goats are a favored form [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=134&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>pterosaur take-off</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleontology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have long been perplexed by the size of pterosaurs. The largest species of the extinct flying reptiles were roughly the size of modern giraffes and weighed far more than any bird, posing the question: how did they get all that bulk into the air? Birds generally leap into flight, relying on the strength of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=129&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>donkey-borne literacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC carried a piece today about mobile libraries drawn by donkey cart that travel among Ethiopian villages in order to provide schoolchildren with reading material. The project is part of the Ethiopian Books for Children and Educational Foundation (EBCEP), which also functions as a publishing house for many children&#8217;s books in Amharic script. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=126&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the toughest job in america</title>
		<link>http://littoralzone.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/the-toughest-job-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama transition team has a lot of difficult decisions on the table, to say the very least. There are plans to enact, positions to fill . . . but in its fine tradition of reporting, the New York Times has unveiled (and the BBC has picked up on) yet another decision tormenting top Obama [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=123&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on modern feminism in america and beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a report on the global gender gap released earlier this week by the World Economic Forum, women and men in the US are 72% equal — a bit of a weird-sounding statement, but it’s based on a quantitative index incorporating measures of economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, and health and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=121&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>and I think my job applications are bad</title>
		<link>http://littoralzone.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/and-i-think-my-job-applications-are-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard tell of the Plum Book, a comprehensive list of jobs that are filled by presidential appointment that is published every four years, shortly after the election. Begun in 1952, when the Presidency changed hands to a Republican for the first time in 22 years, the Plum Book lists 7,996 job openings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=119&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;breakings&#8221; by henry taylor</title>
		<link>http://littoralzone.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/breakings-by-henry-taylor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Long before I first left home, my father tried to teach me horses, land, and sky, to show me how his kind of work was done. I studied how to be my father&#8217;s son, but all I learned was, when the wicked die, they ride combines through barley forever. Every summer I hated my father [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=117&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>forget blood diamonds</title>
		<link>http://littoralzone.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/forget-blood-diamonds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico have discovered a process by which diamonds can be synthesized from tequila. The diamonds produced are microscopic and might not be Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s best friend, but they can certainly be put to use in computer chips or to form fine cutting edges for precise medical tools. Apparently, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=littoralzone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2831095&amp;post=114&amp;subd=littoralzone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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