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		<title>Religion - 05.13.08</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Are the Quakers Going Pagan?: The liberal end of the Society of Friends has long had members who denied God&#8217;s existence or Jesus&#8217; divinity. Now hundreds of pagans call Quakerism home. [Christianity Today]
The Neural Buddhists: Scientists have more respect for elevated spiritual states. Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that transcendent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 05.13.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ World carbon dioxide levels highest for 650,000 years, says US report: The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high, according to the latest figures, renewing fears that climate change could begin to slide out of control. [Guardian]
Peregrine falcons in California&#8217;s urban areas are contaminated with toxic chemicals: The birds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture - 05.13.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Post-Katrina housing fits designers&#8217; agendas. But can the city live with it?: The style wars between the modernists, the traditionalists, and the free-thinking blobists were the farthest thing from Vernessa Rogers&#8217; mind when she was asked to choose from a group of sleek house designs commissioned by actor/architecture buff Brad Pitt. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
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		<title>Evolution - 05.13.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Pregnant Male: The seahorse is a strange fish. Many of the traits it possesses have evolved in a direction unlike any other family of animals underwater—its bent S-shape; its head at a 90-degree angle to its body; its prehensile tail; and, most curiously, the male&#8217;s brood pouch. A lab at Texas A&#038;M University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 05.13.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mr. Sammler’s City: Hip young residents of the revived Lower East Side or Williamsburg need to know that it’s possible to kill a city, that the streets they walk daily were once no-go zones, that within living memory residents and companies were fleeing Gotham, that newsweeklies heralded the rotting of the Big Apple and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 05.13.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face: When Ali Ardekani started fishing around on the Internet a couple of years ago for video blogs about Muslims, he did not like what he found: either the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims were depicted as bloodthirsty zealots, or they were offering defensive explanations as to why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 05.13.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ India is floored by homecoming of The Great Khali: The return of The Great Khali - a 7ft 3in (2.21m), 30st (190kg) professional wrestler - to his native India from the United States where he plies his trade, has created a level of hysteria usually reserved for Bollywood idols and cricketing heroes. [Times]
Bird-watcher: Every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 05.13.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Literary criticism could be one of our best tools for understanding the human condition: We literary scholars have mostly failed to generate surer and firmer knowledge about the things we study. While most other fields gradually accumulate new and durable understanding about the world, the great minds of literary studies have, over the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia Rising - 05.09.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A small Chinese carmaker with ambitious plans: WITH a model line-up that includes the Wingle, Sailor and Socool, and a corporate action plan to “attack the consciousness like a wolf while sensing danger like a rabbit”, it is easy to poke fun at Great Wall Motor, based in Hebei Province, south of Beijing. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 05.09.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Faux feminisim: Is comtemporary art paying too much attention to work that should be ignored?: But what it demonstrates really is that the art world is in a terrific fizz about painting at the moment. It has suddenly decided that painting is not dead any more but very much alive. And like somebody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education - 05.09.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Rankings Go Global: Once a purely American innovation — or problem, depending on how you look at it — lists of “best colleges” are everywhere. Even as the Times Higher is competing to establish the definitive worldwide college rankings, scores of nations from Kazakhstan to Peru are fast developing new systems to evaluate and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prehistory - 05.09.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ancient Seaweed Tells of Earliest Americans: Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas. [Discovery]
Past masters: Cro-Magnon people are sometimes depicted as crude, mammoth-hunting cavemen who were little better than grunting savages. The idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 05.08.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Want to Help the Environment? Eat Insects: “Americans have no idea how wasteful these large mammals are,” Gracer says. “If you want to feed a lot of people, insects are the best choice in terms of getting the biggest bang for your buck.” Insects, he claims, are nutritious. [Discover]
Is Cheap Meat Bigger Threat to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 05.08.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Coming soon: The post-female American cinema: Nowhere is our irrelevance more starkly apparent than during the summer, the ultimate boys&#8217; club. Over the next few months, U.S. cinemas - and many worldwide - will reverberate with the romping-stomping of comic book titans like Iron Man and the Hulk. The sexagenarian Harrison Ford will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biology - 05.08.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/620/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Designer Genes: When Drew Endy envisions the future, he sees giant gourds engineered to grow into four-bedroom, two-bathroom houses. He sees people alerted to nascent tumors in their bodies by internal biological sensors, and cars fueled by bacteria-produced gasoline. Endy, 37, is a pioneer in synthetic biology, a field that combines biology, chemistry, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 05.07.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Arizona&#8217;s solar aspirations in peril:  The sun shines 325 days a year in Arizona, on average, and some here see that as the state&#8217;s biggest energy asset. But fledgling efforts to turn Arizona into the solar capital of the world depend on making the initial investment in new energy plants affordable – something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology - 05.07.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I’m Not Lying, I’m Telling a Future Truth. Really.: Touching up scenes or past performances induces none of the anxiety that lying or keeping secrets does, these studies find; and embroiderers often work to live up to the enhanced self-images they project. The findings imply that some kinds of deception are aimed more at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 05.07.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ No Way to Treat a Lady: “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey played a risky game in catering to Washington’s power brokers with her upscale escort service. Her suicide, this month, marked a tragic—and not unexpected—end for a complicated woman who believed she was unfairly victimized. Having talked to Palfrey for months and spoken with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmology - 05.07.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Black hole rips apart screaming star: In a distant galaxy, a star orbiting a massive central black hole strays too close to the insatiable giant and is torn apart. But before it can be devoured, the star lets out one last scream in a flare of light that slowly echoes across the galaxy. Astronomers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia Rising - 05.06.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The New China: Shenzhen, once a sleepy fishing village, is now a teeming city of skyscrapers and factories, artists and laborers. But will this microcosm of modern China be the model of metropolitan life, or a lesson in getting too big too fast? [Good]
China&#8217;s next-generation nationalists: As human rights protesters dogged the Beijing Olympics&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 05.06.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Brazil defends ethanol in food-versus-fuel fight: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the bad publicity is unwarranted and uninformed. Many biofuel experts agree. Critics, they say, fail to distinguish between the different kinds of ethanol. Brazilian ethanol from sugar cane is up to eight times more energy efficient to produce than ethanol derived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 05.06.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Avoiding caricature in an American sitcom about Islam: Two summers ago, when Moses Port and David Guarascio, both television writers, pitched their unorthodox and potentially controversial premise for &#8220;Aliens in America&#8221; - a comedy built around a Pakistani Muslim exchange student who moves in with a somewhat reluctant family in small-town Wisconsin - they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 05.06.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Trunk calls: I am looking at a tree that is bearing some very strange fruit. Pairs of headphones have sprouted from its branches and are dangling invitingly at head height. Put on a pair and you&#8217;ll hear something surprising - the secret soundtrack of trees. The inner life of trees has been a lifelong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 05.05.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Russian women make gold-digging an art form: They sit at nearly every table in Moscow&#8217;s smartest restaurants, wearing designer jewellery and smiles that show they know they are the envy of every girl in Russia. But for the wives and girlfriends of Russia&#8217;s super-rich oligarchs, the good life has just got a little bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia Rising - 05.05.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Who Will Tell the People?: How could this be? We are a great power. How could we be borrowing money from Singapore? Maybe it’s because Singapore is investing billions of dollars, from its own savings, into infrastructure and scientific research to attract the world’s best talent — including Americans. [NYT]
Chinese firms bargain hunting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture - 05.05.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Heatherwick Effect: What can a designer bring to the world of architecture?: For the past few years, an office development tucked away overlooking an old canal behind Paddington Station, in London, has been attracting clusters of people who come to see a footbridge. Made of steel and wood, and crossing the water in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 05.05.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/623/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ S.F. is crime central - on the printed page: Modern crime fiction was born in a small apartment at 891 Post St. in San Francisco. That&#8217;s where Dashiell Hammett wrote &#8220;The Maltese Falcon,&#8221; using his digs as the model for Sam Spade&#8217;s urban lair. Published in 1929 to popular and critical praise, the novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution - 05.05.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Pieces in our evolutionary puzzle: New finds from Africa are fleshing out the possible beginnings of the human evolutionary line, with several candidate species vying for the title of our earliest ancestor. Genetic data suggests we shared a last common ancestor with our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, between about 5m and 7m years ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 05.02.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/632/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Gospel of Consumption and the better future we left behind: But despite the apparent tidal wave of new consumer goods and what appeared to be a healthy appetite for their consumption among the well-to-do, industrialists were worried. They feared that the frugal habits maintained by most American families would be difficult to break. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia Rising - 05.02.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/631/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the O.C.: China’s rising elite is importing a new American lifestyle, complete with fake lakes, stucco ranch houses, and Hummers in the driveway. But as these gated communities grow, is China doomed to repeat all of America’s mistakes? [Good]
How China Leads the World in Web Censorship: Just in the time for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology - 05.02.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/600/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Appetite may be the ultimate mind-body problem: So researchers are studying rat junkies—and human subjects, too—in the hopes that a deeper understanding of appetite will yield strategies to obstruct it. The studies explore psychology as well as physiology because, as every dieter knows, appetite afflicts the mind as much as the body. Hunger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/621/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Is Desert Solar Power the Solution to Europe&#8217;s Energy Crisis?: A tiny fraction of the sun&#8217;s energy that shines upon the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East could meet all of Europe&#8217;s electricity demands. The technology to harness the energy already exists. So why is hardly anyone investing in it? [Spiegel]
Lots of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/619/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It’s the Adultery, Stupid: Politics is now about sex. Not just scandalous sex, not just who is having what kind of sex, but what we think about the sex each politician is having, or not having. Sex (sex, not gender) in politics is as significant a subtext as race. It has the power to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia Rising - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/618/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Chinese build secret nuclear submarine base: China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region, it can be disclosed. [Telegraph]
China and India’s Economic Rise: It is well known that the world’s economic fault lines are rapidly shifting eastward. Strong economies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/613/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ French Muslims Fight for Recognition and Respect: After generations of living in France, Europe’s largest Muslim community is still struggling for recognition amid widespread stereotypes and suspicions. Despite the presence of some Muslim ministers in the French cabinet, most Muslims in France have to fight discrimination daily. [Speigel]
In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims: This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/609/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New African Art, Resisting Assimilation: Into this confusion intelligently steps &#8220;Flow,&#8221; assembled by the Studio Museum in Harlem&#8217;s associate curator, Christine Y. Kim. The exhibition presents the work of 20 artists under the age of 40 who were either born in Africa or whose parents emigrated. Only a few of the artists in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/607/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Olympic Landscape: When it comes to dreaming up grand architectural visions, repressive authoritarian regimes are clearly the way to go. In less time than it takes for New Yorkers to draw up a committee to decide whether to vote on drawing up a committee, the city of Beijing has reinvented itself in anticipation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/577/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What’s a Roman earn? Find out on the Internet: Italians were surprised, and in some cases outraged, on Wednesday to discover that their income levels were available for public viewing on an Internet site. As part of a crack-down on tax evasion, the outgoing center-left government made public every citizen&#8217;s declared taxable income on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/595/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Two Comedians Battle for London: One candidate is a former Trotskyite and sounds like a markets guru. His rival has lots of jokes, but little political experience. Londoners will have a tough time choosing a mayor on Thursday &#8212; but at least they have been thoroughly entertained by Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson. [Spiegel]
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		<title>Physics - 05.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/566/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At the heart of the matter: What is the single most important fact in science? It is a question of almost risible naivety and surely one that no serious scientist would attempt to answer. Yet in the early 1960s the American Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman put forward what he believed to be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 04.30.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/602/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Novelist gets mother of all criticism: MICHEL Houellebecq is a literary icon whose novels have been acclaimed by critics as the cruel illumination of a troubled era. But France&#8217;s most celebrated and controversial contemporary author could be pushed off his pinnacle following an astonishingly vitriolic attack from a critic with a unique insight into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education - 04.30.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/612/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A Professor Sues His Students: On bad days, there are no doubt plenty of professors who have joked about suing students. But it is pretty rare that somebody actually does so. A law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has — and the ramifications could extend well beyond his dispute. Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.30.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/610/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Poison ice: As the sea ice melts, a toxic stew of mercury and synthetic chemicals is seeping into the Arctic food web, harming the area&#8217;s people. We may be next. [Salon]
Beyond petrol: There are many alternatives to oil for use as a fuel, each with its own unique set of problems. Which will we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biology - 04.30.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/596/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Starlings know if you are watching them: Starlings can tell if you are watching them, according to a study that has shown for the first time that starlings respond to a human&#8217;s gaze. Starlings will keep away from their food dish if a human is looking at it. However, if the person is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.29.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/611/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The New Economics of Hunger: In Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City, traders watched from the pits early last summer as wheat prices spiked amid mediocre harvests in the United States and Europe and signs of prolonged drought in Australia. But within a few weeks, the traders discerned an ominous snowball effect &#8212; one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia Rising - 04.29.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/anthropology/614/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Indians are coming: India nevertheless accepts that it cannot compete directly with China’s substantial financial clout, and is instead aiming for a more nuanced partnership, based on “south-south” reciprocity, as opposed to a colonial-style “north-south” relationship, which is seen as more typical of China and the West. [Economist]
The citadels of the global economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion - 04.29.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/594/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ An Iranian&#8217;s vision of Jesus&#8217; life stirs debate: Nader Talebzadeh, began to speak, precisely, so as not to be misunderstood on a matter so sensitive. The Iranian director&#8217;s new film is based on the Islamic version of the life of Jesus, depicting the man Christians believe to be the messiah and son of God [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lowbrow - 04.29.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/583/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I did sniff colleague&#8217;s chair, admits politician:  One of Australia’s most senior conservative politicians broke down today as he tearfully admitted sniffing the chair of a female colleague shortly after she vacated it. Troy Buswell, the leader of the opposition Liberal Party in Western Australia, was under intense pressure to resign over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History - 04.29.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/573/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Did Lincoln&#8217;s assassin escape? Science may finally lay debate to rest:  Pop! A shot was fired and, 143 years ago today, John Wilkes Booth - assassin of Abraham Lincoln - collapsed to the ground, mortally wounded in the neck. That&#8217;s what history says. But two local Booth family descendants - Joanne Hulme of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 04.28.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/597/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School: Ms. Almontaser, a teacher by training and an activist who had carefully built ties with Christians and Jews, said she was forced to resign by the mayor’s office following a campaign that pitted her against a chorus of critics who claimed she had a militant Islamic agenda. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education - 04.28.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My home-school days: When I tell people that I was home schooled, I frequently encounter an amalgam of awe, pity and curiosity. I can see the false images materializing behind their eyes &#8212; a childhood spent idling in front of the TV in my pajamas, or spent subject to the fanciful whims of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.28.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Rearming the world: With much less fanfare than the early days of the Cold War, the world is entering a new arms race, and with it, a dangerous new web of military relationships. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks international armed forces spending, between 1997 and 2006 global military expenditures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.28.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Is environmentalism the opiate of the liberals?: In this extract from his new book, Iain Murray argues that greens – who worship both a Weather God (the climate) and an Earth Mother (Gaia) and who brook no dissent – have become hectoring, intolerant religionists. [Spiked]
The future of dirt: THE EARTH&#8217;S UNCERTAIN oil reserves and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 04.28.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ John Dubrow&#8217;s Handsome Urban Motifs: Since his first New York exhibition in 1985, John Dubrow has created some of the finest paintings of his generation. The commanding suite of aerial cityscapes born of his 1997-98 residency in the World Trade Center towers comes straight to mind. So do his views of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prehistory - 04.28.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Buried Dogs Were Divine &#8220;Escorts&#8221; for Ancient Americans: Hundreds of prehistoric dogs found buried throughout the southwestern United States show that canines played a key role in the spiritual beliefs of ancient Americans, new research suggests. Throughout the region, dogs have been found buried with jewelry, alongside adults and children, carefully stacked in groups, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture - 04.28.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Urbanists Point the Way Forward: Perhaps the New Urbanists should cherish their outsider status. A gifted crew of architects and planners, they have changed the conversation about urban planning in the United States. They reject conventional postwar developers’ essentially quantitative, two-dimensional, single-use-oriented blueprints for residential subdivisions and office parks in favor of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education - 04.25.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/565/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Despite 25 years of reform, U.S. schools still fall short: Now, despite the push toward standards-based reform that culminated in No Child Left Behind, the United States has made relatively small strides in student achievement. And it has fallen further behind other industrialized nations. Without major changes, including better teacher training and compensation, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 04.25.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  50 best cult books: Our critics present a selection of history&#8217;s most notable cult writing. Some is classic. Some is catastrophic. All of it had the power to inspire.  [Telegraph]
Orwell prize goes to lament for Palestinian landscape: Britain&#8217;s most prestigious award for political writing, the Orwell book prize, has been won by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution - 04.25.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/574/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds: In the first analysis of proteins extracted from dinosaur bones, scientists say they have established more firmly than ever that the closest living relatives of the mighty predator Tyrannosaurus rex are modern birds. [NYT]
Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island: Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology - 04.25.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/585/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Social status is hard-wired into our brains: Leaders and followers show differences in brain activity which could help explain why low ranking people tend to be more sick, and die sooner, than high rankers. The discovery that class and hierarchy is built into the brain chimes with a famous sketch on The Frost Report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.25.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/591/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Outsourcing Childbirth: Surrogacy itself seems to have come out of the mommy closet, to judge from recent media coverage. The New York Times and the Boston Globe have both reported on the practice of outsourcing wombs to poor Indian women. On a recent cover of Newsweek, the abdomen of a pregnant woman appeared with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.24.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Turn down that thermostat, permanently: Oil at $110 a barrel. Gasoline at $3.35 (or more) per gallon. Diesel fuel at $4 per gallon. Independent truckers forced off the road. Home heating oil rising to unconscionable price levels. Jet fuel so expensive that three low-cost airlines stopped flying in the past few weeks. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 04.24.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/584/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ MUSLIM MARTIN LUTHERS, The Theologians Working Towards a Euro-Islam: Leading Muslim scholars are laying the theological foundations for a &#8220;Euro-Islam&#8221; which would reconcile their religion with the challenges of modernity. But just how compatible is Islam with secular Western values? [Spiegel]
University &#8216;an agent of extreme Islam&#8217;: A JUDGE has likened Griffith University to hardline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biology - 04.24.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/582/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What Genes Remember: Many geneticists now think that the behaviour of our genes can be altered by experience—and even that these changes can be passed on to future generations. This finding may transform our understanding of inheritance and evolution. [Prospect]
What are little boys made of? Scientists pinpoint bananas: Women are more likely to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 04.24.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From Haiti to L.A., the tangled tale of George Laguerre, owner of TiGeorges&#8217; Chicken: It&#8217;s a tangled tale. Dreams of Hollywood figure in it, and the 1984 Olympics, and a Haitian grandmother&#8217;s determination that her family was going to live in America, whether they wanted to or not. Laguerre grew up with 10 brothers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion - 04.24.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?: Many atheist sects are experimenting with building new, human-centered quasi-religious organizations, much like Ethical Culture. They aim to remove God from the church, while leaving the church, at least large parts of it, standing. But this impulse is fueling a growing schism among atheists. Many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmology - 04.24.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/521/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Most Distant Galaxy Pile-Up Found: Astronomers have announced the discovery of the most distant galactic collisions ever seen: A cluster of early galaxies caught in the act of merging into one giant galaxy when the universe was just a toddler. [Discovery]
Beneath Arctic ice pack, teeming life holds extraterrestrial clues: Deming believes the bacteria and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.23.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/586/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Vengeance Is Ours: Though we might wonder how Daniel’s society came to revel in killing, ethnographic studies of traditional human societies lying largely outside the control of state government have shown that war, murder, and demonization of neighbors have been the norm. Modern state societies rate as exceptional by the standards of human history, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.23.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/587/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Prepare for new Ice Age, says scientist: SUNSPOT activity has not resumed after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that - far from warming - the globe is about to return to an Ice Age. Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 04.23.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/579/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Oil painting &#8216;invented in Asia, not Europe&#8217;: In 2001 the Taliban destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in the Afghan region of Bamiyan, around 140 miles northwest of Kabul, which were hewn out of sandstone cliffs in the sixth century and, measuring up to 55 metres, were the biggest of their kind. Although caves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prehistory - 04.23.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned archaeologists: What makes them remarkable are their carved reliefs of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge. Never mind wheels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.22.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/581/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Treading lighter with low-carbon diets: Conscientious consumers who want to tread lightly are increasingly concerned about their own carbon footprints. They&#8217;ve changed lightbulbs. They covet a Prius more than a Porsche. Now their anxiety over global warming has shifted to the supermarket and dinner table. The global food and agriculture system produces about one-third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.22.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Nomads at last: AT THE Nomad Café in Oakland, California, Tia Katrina Canlas, a law student at the nearby university in Berkeley, places her double Americano next to her mobile phone and iPod, opens her MacBook laptop computer and logs on to the café&#8217;s wireless internet connection to study for her class on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology - 04.22.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/562/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All: To put it in today’s terms, owning an iPod doesn’t make you happier, because you then want an iPod Touch. Relative income — how much you make compared with others around you — mattered far more than absolute income, Mr. Easterlin wrote. The paradox quickly became a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 04.22.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/559/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Life in a Parallel Society: In Germany, Islam is often equated with fundamentalism and fanaticism, a perception that imposes a heavy burden on the country&#8217;s 3 million Muslims. Their relationship to Western society is divided between integration and sometimes self-imposed exclusion. [Spiegel]
Intolerance in Indonesia: In the global debate about the compatibility between Islam and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lowbrow - 04.22.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Evening Standard diarist in manure attack: A journalist at the Evening Standard was assaulted this morning, when an aggrieved subject of one of the newspaper&#8217;s diary items got up early to throw manure at him. [Times]
No sex please, we&#8217;re Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank has told its executives that they cannot claim brothel visits and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biology - 04.21.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/558/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Biologists join the race to create synthetic life: Researchers will gather in London this week to outline plans to promote one of the most audacious, and controversial, scientific ideas of the 21st century - synthetic biology. The new discipline, established by scientists such as human genome pioneer Craig Venter, involves stripping microbes down to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.21.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/572/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At last, Africa is starting to see a green revolution. Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s not too late: After decades of ruinous western meddling, donors now realise the key to feeding this starving continent is small farmers. [Guardian]
In Lean Times, Biotech Grains Are Less Taboo: Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.18.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger: In Cairo, the military is being put to work baking bread as rising food prices threaten to become the spark that ignites wider anger at a repressive government. In Burkina Faso and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, food riots are breaking out as never before. In reasonably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 04.18.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Lost Art of Writing About Art: In certain circles, the Whitney Museum&#8217;s Biennial exhibition of contemporary art is known as &#8220;the show everybody loves to hate.&#8221; Usually the criticism comes in the form of negative reviews. But this year it&#8217;s different, with the brickbats directed at the exhibition&#8217;s accompanying commentary instead of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 04.18.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In Chicago&#8217;s streets, a thriller shot in a single take: That&#8217;s because this 20-year-old, first-time director is making his kidnap drama in a single take – without any editing. Once the camera starts rolling, it&#8217;s nonstop action through the streets of Chicago – including a race down Lake Shore Drive and a two-mile chase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy - 04.18.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Privacy becoming more elusive for Americans:  Individuals might treasure their personal data like Social Security and credit-card numbers, but identity thieves can buy them cheap and in bulk online. Credit-card numbers can now go for as little as 40 cents each. A matching name, Social Security number, address, and date of birth cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture - 04.18.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Situation Terminal Can anyone design a nice airport?: But recently Asian countries, and some European ones, have been approaching the problem with a bit more imagination. The best new airports in the world right now are in Beijing, where Norman Foster’s Terminal 3 has just opened, and on the outskirts of Madrid, where Terminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion - 04.18.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What the Passover Seder reveals about interfaith couples: The American Jewish community has been obsessed by the roots and implications of interfaith marriage—that is, a Jewish person with a non-Jewish spouse—for more than a decade and a half. About half of Jewish Americans choose to marry non-Jews, a reality that was seen, until recently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution - 04.18.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ SUSPENDING LIFE: If almost every species on Earth was killed some 250 million years ago, how did our ancient ancestors survive and evolve into us? [Seed]
Gods and earthlings: Intelligent design &#8220;theorists&#8221; (a misnomer, for they have no theory) often use the alien scenario to distance themselves from old-style creationists: &#8220;For all we know, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History - 04.18.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Archimedes Codex unpeeled by modern technological sleuthing: This is about an ancient book called The Archimedes Codex, bought for $2.2 million in October, 1998, at an auction in New York City by an anonymous collector who sent it to the Walters Art Museum, here to be restored, conserved, and probed for its content. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.17.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What are our alternatives for storing radioactive waste?: It seems like the good citizens of Nevada would sooner elect an orangutan as governor than let the federal government fill Yucca Mountain with radioactive waste. Can&#8217;t blame them, I guess, but that spent nuclear fuel has to go somewhere. What, then, are the alternatives to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 04.17.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A Calm and A Storm: &#8216;Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions,&#8221; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, takes us deeper into the inexhaustibly complex relationship between nature and culture than any other exhibition I have ever seen. When Nicolas Poussin sets men and women amid vast landscapes, he is reflecting on our experience of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.16.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A new Evangelism for the US: The terms of engagement in America’s “culture wars” have been subtly changing since the 1990s with the economic, intellectual, social and political coming of age of many Evangelicals in the Bible Belt. This has been brought about by the rise of the oil and real-estate industries, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 04.16.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Schoolboy corrects Nasa calculations: Nasa has been outsmarted by a German schoolboy who corrected its estimates of the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, it was reported today. The German Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten newspaper said 13-year-old Nico Marquardt came across the Nasa miscalculation after conducting a study as part of a regional science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 04.16.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Bookstores bracing for the next chapter: Only a few years ago, bookstores helped define neighborhoods. They were physical and cultural markers on the landscape - showcases of what mattered, there and then. Now, instead of perking up when I step through the doors of a good bookstore, I wonder morosely how long it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physics - 04.16.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/529/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Before the Big Bang - the Big Bounce: Scientists have obtained their first glimpse of what happened before the Big Bang of creation, revealing there was a &#8220;Big Bounce&#8221;. The new work suggests that time existed before the Big Bang, when a more ancient universe collapsed to give birth to the one we live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education - 04.16.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/525/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Who Will Save Catholic Schools?: Every generation lives off the cultural inheritance of its predecessors. Among that inheritance for today’s American Catholics is a network of parochial schools built by their immigrant forebears, which served both to teach the faith and ground the community. But today, many of those Catholic schools in urban areas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology - 04.15.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/535/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Scientists find secret ingredient for making (and losing) lots of money - testosterone: In the film Wall Street, which symbolised the excess of the 1980s, the most successful traders were odious alpha-males with aggression seeping from every pore. But stereotypes often have a kernel of truth, and researchers from Cambridge University have concluded what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.15.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Zealand&#8217;s Maori rediscover themselves in tattoos: With a little ink, some stinging pain and a helping hand from the ancestors, Mark Kopua can heal a wounded soul. He is a modern master of an ancient art called ta moko, one of the world&#8217;s oldest forms of tattooing and a renewed source of pride [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Ways to Store Solar Energy for Nighttime and Cloudy Days: Solar power, the holy grail of renewable energy, has always faced the problem of how to store the energy captured from the sun’s rays so that demand for electricity can be met at night or whenever the sun is not shining. The difficulty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 04.15.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/541/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Teacher accuses Islamic school of racism: A former teacher at an Islamic school, who alleged that it taught an offensive and racist view of non-Muslims, has been awarded £70,000 by an employment tribunal after winning his case for unfair dismissal. Colin Cook told the tribunal in Watford that pupils were taught from Arabic books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biology - 04.15.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  View from the lab: our debt to worms: If the worm didn&#8217;t turn, much of the Earth would be uninhabitable, writes Prof Steve Jones. [Telegraph]
Young fire ants curl up and (pretend) die: Opossums do it, some snakes do it and even big bison do it. Now a new study now shows fire ants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.14.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/551/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jobless Dutch forced into past-life therapy: The long-term Dutch unemployed are being forced into “regression therapy” in the hope that coming to terms with past lives will help them find a job. [Telegraph]
Israel re-brands kibbutzim to lure eco-aware generation: The campaign, focusing on 140 sites in the north and south of the country, aims [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Big oil to big wind: Texas veteran sets up $10bn clean energy project: T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just $2,500 (£1,200) in the bank. After a string of audacious takeovers he turned it into an independent empire that challenged the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 04.14.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Penniless artist auction makes £2m: He spent his youth in a hostel for the elderly and his adulthood living in warehouses with alcoholics and an embalmed tramp. He was fascinated by metaphysics, death and green linoleum, and painted jealousy, orgasms and still life. When the impoverished artist died of a heart attack in August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy - 04.14.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/504/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Already Big Thing on the Internet: Spying on Users: In 1993, the dawn of the Internet age, the liberating anonymity of the online world was captured in a well-known New Yorker cartoon. One dog, sitting at a computer, tells another: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Fifteen years later, that anonymity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prehistory - 04.14.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Getting Drunk on Chocolate in 1100 B.C.: Not only were the first chocoholics tinkering with cacao around 1100 B.C.—500 years earlier than previously thought—but they might have been doing so to get a tipsy buzz. A recent chemical analysis of 3,000-year-old pottery shards in northern Honduras turned up traces of theobromine (its name means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.11.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?: The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals. [NYT]
Newest energy source: cow patties: Imagine a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.11.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Chinese Americans feel sting of Olympic protests: On Cat Chao&#8217;s Mandarin-language talk show &#8220;Rush Hour&#8221; on KAZN-AM (1300), most callers haven&#8217;t been debating whose side to take but why the Western media has been so biased against China in its reporting of the riots that rocked Tibet earlier this month. &#8220;They&#8217;re pretty angry,&#8221; Chao [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture - 04.11.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/540/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Get Me Rewrite: A New Monument to Press Freedom: How many mediocre buildings can one city absorb? And what if these buildings are meant to affirm our highest values? Those questions come to mind as I ponder the Newseum, the latest reason to lament the state of contemporary architecture in this city. Rising on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 04.11.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Is this the world&#8217;s finest bookshop?: &#8216;This is Holland,&#8221; a sales assistant tells me, as I scan bookshelves generously stocked with English as well as Dutch works. &#8220;We are not so religious. Yes, we have more mosques now - but we have also a lot of empty churches.&#8221; And here&#8217;s a great thing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 04.11.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Xu Beihong: A Chinese master of styles that straddle East and West: Xu Beihong is widely recognized as the father of modern Chinese painting, both for his innovative ink works that did much to revitalize the traditional Chinese form and for his willingness to embrace Western techniques, particularly French Realism. [IHT]
&#8216;Outsider&#8217; With Insider&#8217;s Influence: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.10.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/538/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Calm down, dear, it&#8217;s only chaos: Complexity, networks, instant feedback: these are ideal conditions for chaos - not for the chaos endured by commuters, but for the theory of chaos. What this tells us is that small, apparently insignificant, changes can trigger big upheavals. A computer breakdown, a virus, a sub-prime mortgage, can set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.10.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/532/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8216;Citizen scientists&#8217; watch for signs of climate change: People with no formal training are helping scientists track and record birds, fish, stars, and plants in their neighborhoods online. [CSM]
Where That Suit Has Been: To environmentally conscious consumers, the prepurchase itinerary of clothes has become as important a consideration as the organic nature of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion - 04.10.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/513/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ An Atheist in the Pulpit: James McAllister, a 56-year-old Lutheran minister in the midwest, was working on his sunday sermon one Thursday afternoon last summer. It wasn&#8217;t going well. The reverend wasn&#8217;t suffering from writer&#8217;s block—in fact, he was crafting quite an elegant parable about &#8220;the importance of making our whole lives a prayer.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution - 04.10.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/503/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Ben Stein&#8217;s Expelled - No Integrity Displayed:: In the new science-bashing movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Ben Stein and the rest of the filmmakers sincerely and seriously argue that Charles Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution paved the way for the Holocaust. By &#8220;seriously,&#8221; I mean that Ben Stein acts grief-stricken and the director juxtaposes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History - 04.09.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/530/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Wife-beating in Ancient Rome: For all the glory and glamour of its art and literature, classical antiquity produces household statistics that make the heart sink. Greek and Roman girls were normally married in their mid-teens to men twice their age. Until menopause, if they were lucky enough to survive that long, they could expect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 04.09.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/520/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Islamic adviser wants opt-out for Muslim sex offenders: Muslim sex offenders could be allowed to opt out of a treatment programme being run by the Prison Service because it is against their religion. The service&#8217;s Muslim adviser, Ahtsham Ali, said there is a “legitimate Islamic position” that criminals should not discuss their crimes with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture - 04.09.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/514/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Industrial Revolution, Take Two: Why can’t a building be as eco-friendly as a tree? What if the concept of waste didn’t exist? Having collaborated with such giants as Google, nasa, Ford, and Wal-Mart with his “Cradle to Cradle” philosophy, architect William McDonough wants to usher in a new Industrial Revolution. No sacrifices necessary, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.08.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/531/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Online papers challenge Japan&#8217;s mainstream media: It used to be that in Japan, to get the story, journalists had to belong to a press club, where they enjoyed a cozy relationship with their sources. And to join a press club, they had to write for one of Japan&#8217;s major media outlets. But in recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 04.08.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/526/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music: The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. Following are the winners in Letters, Drama and Music. [NYT]
History out, celebrities in as top publisher wields axe: One of Britain&#8217;s most distinguished publishers has been condemned for turning its back on serious history books in favour of &#8216;crappy&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 04.08.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/523/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Taking Botero seriously: Fernando Botero, who will be 76 in two weeks, caught the art world&#8217;s collective eye a half-century ago, yet his art is so idiosyncratic that it continues to defy definitive analysis. I, for one, have never been able to decide whether the Colombian native is a sly and exceptionally deft satirist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology - 04.08.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/512/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sexuality: Your Telltale Fingertips:  How your hands are a marker for behavior. Relative finger length—or digit ratio—is a marker for brain differences molded by hormones. [Psychology Today]
The Healing Power of Nature: A bit of green may calm a child&#8217;s frayed nerves. Rural children who have access to nature seem better equipped to handle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 04.08.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/507/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My repudiation was a sham: SALMAN Rushdie has confessed that he pretended to &#8220;embrace Islam&#8221; in the hope that it would reduce the threat of Muslims acting on the fatwa to kill him. The author issued a statement in 1990 to defuse the row about his novel The Satanic Verses, which had provoked Muslims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biology - 04.08.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/486/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish: Naturalists as far back as Aristotle have known that fish make sounds. But when Jacques Cousteau titled his 1956 documentary “The Silent World,” it seemed that he captured the public’s imagination about underwater life while leaving our ears deaf to fish barks, chatter, groans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.07.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/528/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Record: Wind Powers 40% Of Spain: Wind power is breaking new records in Spain, accounting for just over 40 percent of all electricity consumed during a brief period last weekend. As heavy winds lashed Spain on Saturday evening wind parks generated 9,862 megawatts of power which translated to 40.8 percent of total consumption. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.07.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/527/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Those Who Control Oil and Water Will Control the World: It was Rudyard Kipling who brought the idea of the Great Game into the public mind in Kim, his cloak-and-dagger novel of espionage and imperial geopolitics in the time of the Raj. Then, the main players were Britain and Russia and the object of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History - 04.07.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/524/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ian Fleming&#8217;s novel plan to outwit the Nazis: A secret mission cooked up by Ian Fleming in September 1940, more than a decade before he created James Bond, appears as preposterous as any adventure that he devised for his fictional creation. Fleming, in his role as a naval intelligence officer in the Second World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physics - 04.07.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/490/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Prof Peter Higgs interview: Smashing atoms at CERN and the hunt for the &#8216;God&#8217; particle:  The machine will slam subatomic particles called protons together to recreate conditions not seen since an eyeblink after the Big Bang of creation and explore new realms of nature, including finding the Higgs particle that plays a starring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.04.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/519/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ An Eco-System of One’s Own: Brushing your teeth, checking your e-mail, ordering lunch, hitting the gym—almost every move you make affects the health of the planet. From the cell-phone/gorilla connection to the growing e-waste factor, Alex Shoumatoff explores the global impact of the average American routine. [Vanity Fair]
The Great Forgotten Clean-Energy Source: Geothermal: If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.04.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/522/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Biker Turf War Escalating in Germany: The Bandidos and the Hell&#8217;s Angels are waging all-out war for dominance in Germany. Court testimony by a former member &#8212; who crossed his gang and is now living in protective custody &#8212; is providing frightening details about these secretive societies. [Spiegel]
Virtual nightmares about social networking: &#8216;Children at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 04.04.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/509/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New HarperCollins Unit to Try to Cut Writer Advances: HarperCollins Publishers is forming a new publishing group that will substitute profit-sharing with authors for cash advances and will try to eliminate the costly practice of allowing booksellers to return unsold copies. [NYT]
Leaving the ghetto: Short of money and short of food, V S Naipaul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education - 04.04.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/508/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A good grade for Teach for America: What makes a good teacher? Experience helps. But a new study of Teach for America (TFA) – education&#8217;s version of the Peace Corps – shows that their novice high school teachers bring something to the classroom that trumps traditional training and experience. The advantage of having a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History - 04.04.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/460/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Oldest Bling Found in Peru: The earliest known gold jewelry made in the Americas has been discovered in southern Peru. The gold necklace, made nearly 4,000 years ago, was found in a burial site near Lake Titicaca [Discovery]
How the Battle of Actium Changed the World: The Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art - 04.03.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/505/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Maya Lin&#8217;s earthly concerns: The growing degradation of the natural world haunts Lin &#8212; celebrated as the creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the reinventor of the American memorial genre &#8212; as she pulls together the plans for what she says will be her &#8220;last memorial.&#8221; The title of this work-in-progress, like many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.03.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/518/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Neuromarketing could make mind reading the ad-man&#8217;s ultimate tool: Neuroscience and marketing had a love child a few years back. Its name - big surprise - is neuromarketing, and the ugly little fellow is growing up. [Guardian]
Once a sex offender, always a sex offender?: Sex crimes evince such strong feelings of revulsion and repugnance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmology - 04.03.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/502/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery: Now researchers say their translation of symbols on a star map from an ancient civilisation includes notes on a mile-wide asteroid that later hit Earth - which could have caused tens of thousands of deaths. [Telegraph]
&#8216;Revolutionary&#8217; new technique aims to find Earth-like planets: The technique helps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Islam - 04.02.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/494/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Muslim true/false: How much do Americans know about the views and beliefs of Muslims around the world? According to polls, not much. Perhaps not surprising, the majority of Americans (66%) admit to having at least some prejudice against Muslims; one in five say they have &#8220;a great deal&#8221; of prejudice. Almost half do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.02.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/516/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Border fence will skirt environmental laws: Homeland Security announces that it will waive regulations in order to complete the fence along the southern U.S. border by the end of this year. [LA Times]
Deadly Frog Fungus Spreads in Virus-Like Waves: A frog-killing fungus in Central and South America spreads in waves like other infectious diseases, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.02.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/515/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Immigration Issues End a Pennsylvania Grower’s Season: For 35 years, Keith Eckel, 61, one of the largest tomato growers in the Northeast, had the workers and the timing down to a T: seven weeks, 120 men, 125 trailer loads of tomatoes picked, packed and shipped. This year, however, the new politics of immigration — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environment - 04.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/500/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Why Trashing the Oceans is More Dangerous Than We Imagined: Degrading plastics may cause serious toxic risk to ocean dwellers and, eventually, us. [Popsci]
Chestnuts to sprout from Appalachian strip mines: In a double-barreled approach to environmental restoration, Appalachian mountains scarred by strip-mining are being planted with American chestnut trees, a species that has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 04.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/510/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Cuckoo for Switzerland: In reality, the Swiss have produced a remarkable success story that goes far beyond the signature tourist products they are known for: chocolates, watches, and knives. They have one of the world’s most stable economies, a skilled workforce, internationally recognized export companies, a sound currency, and renowned banking and financial services. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture - 04.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/498/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In Village, a Proposal That Erases History: Over the last few years the growing clout of developers has gradually chipped away at the city’s resolve to protect its architectural legacy. The agency most responsible for defending that legacy, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, has sometimes been accused of putting developers’ interests above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion - 04.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/496/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Being one of the first British female rabbis: When I was ordained in July 1989, the Leo Baeck College graduating class of five ordinands included two women: the ninth and tenth female rabbis in Britain. [New Statesman]
 Jihad, Jew-Hatred, and Evangelicals and Jews Together: The debate is not over whether contemporary Islamism is vehemently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology - 04.01.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/489/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ April Fool! The Purpose of Pranks: Keep it above the belt, stop short of total humiliation and, if possible, mix in some irony, some drama, maybe even a bogus call from the person’s old flame or new boss. A good prank, of course, involves good stagecraft. But it also requires emotional intuition. [NYT]
Paranoid? Scientists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 03.31.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/506/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Baton Passes to Asia: Every now and again, an ice cap the size of Rhode Island breaks off. The breaking sound right now is that of the end of the era of the white man. I’d been thinking about this at Dubai airport in the middle of the night, as the latest news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books - 03.31.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/488/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Online raiders stole my book: In the digital age, anyone can publish more or less anything, legally or illegally, at the push of a few buttons. I recently found an entire digitised copy of one of my own books on the internet. Someone had simply fed the book into a scanner, changed a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education - 03.31.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/487/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Rise of the &#8216;rock star&#8217; school superintendent: No Child Left Behind has created a demand for school administrators who can take the pressure, and some 20 percent of school districts are now seeking superintendents because of a shortage. [CSM]
One Class: In most communities, students attend school every day because they are convinced that educational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People - 03.31.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/459/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Lance Corporal Matt Croucher threw himself over grenade to save comrades: A Royal Marine who threw himself over an exploding grenade to shield his comrades from the blast has been recommended for a Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest military honour. Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, who was on a reconnaissance mission in southern Afghanistan, escaped unscathed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society - 03.28.08</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/blog/501/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:43:50 +0000</pubDate