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					<description>Get Informed. Choose Your News.</description>
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				<title>Airlines and the FAA: Too close for comfort?</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/airlines_and_the_faa_too_close_f/</link>
				<description>Too close for comfort — or not close enough

Specific incidents aside, the fact remains that the FAA inspection system is not the hands-on, feet-on-the-tarmac system that many in the flying public assume it is. Generally speaking, FAA doesn’t even i</description>
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				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2008-04-09 08:21:58</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
					<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23999441/</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>10 Tips: Surviving ‘Black Friday’</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/10_tips_surviving_black_friday/</link>
				<description>8. Pick the right shopping buddy. Unless you want to bicker and feel frustrated all day, think hard about who would get into the spirit of a shopping day like this. As Yuri Baranovsky wrote in a hilarious survival guide to Black Friday, “Taking your lo</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-11-23 08:25:27</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>MSNBC</name>
					<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15840733/</link>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Burnout on the God beat - second top religion writer calls it quits</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/burnout_on_the_god_beat_-_second/</link>
				<description>Covering religion may be harmful to your faith. Two leading religion journalists — one in Britain, one in the United States — have quit the beat in recent months, saying they had acquired such a close look at such scandalous behaviour by Christians th</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-11-16 01:43:43</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>blogs.reuters.com</name>
					<link>http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2007/11/15/burnout-on-the-god-beat-second-top-religion-writer-calls-it-quits/</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
													<credibility>90</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>My husband is a better mother</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/my_husband_is_a_better_mother/</link>
				<description>Daddy's girl

I am no longer merely mildly annoyed by her obvious preference. I find it downright disturbing. So does my husband, enough so that when he and I return from a romantic weekend and pick up our daughter at my parents' place, Gary insists I w</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-10-25 08:19:17</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>MSNBC</name>
					<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21018217/</link>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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				<rating>
					<rating>Interesting [4]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Fact or Fiction?: Babies Exposed to Classical Music End Up Smarter</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/fact_or_fiction_babies_exposed_t/</link>
				<description>The phrase &quot;Mozart Effect&quot; conjures an image of a pregnant woman who, sporting headphones over her belly, is convinced that playing classical music to her unborn child will improve the tyke's intelligence. But is there science to back up this idea, which</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-21 10:26:22</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Scientific American</name>
					<link>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa029&amp;articleID=FBB1ABAE-E7F2-99DF-3C2FEE4066F9308B</link>
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								<credibility>92</credibility>
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					<rating>Insightful [7]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Gold Star Father Kicked Defending Dead Son's Memorial ...by Mélida Arredondo</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/gold_star_father_kicked_defendin/</link>
				<description>Carlos Arredondo, 47 year old father of two sons, arrived in the nation's capitol on Monday, 09/10/07 to share a memorial he has made to honor for his eldest son, Alex. Carlos has visited thirty of the United States with the traveling memorial to his son</description>
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				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-18 09:42:43</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>www.michaelmoore.com</name>
					<link>http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=919</link>
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					<rating>Shocking [10]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>No wonder men treat us as sex objects if we act like this</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/no_wonder_men_treat_us_as_sex_ob/</link>
				<description>Women have been debating whether lad mags are sexist for so long that the average media studies sixth-former could probably have scripted most of yesterday's discussion on Radio 4. One of the genre's leading titles, Nuts, launched its own cable TV channel</description>
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				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-14 12:53:38</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Guardian Unlimited</name>
					<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2167935,00.html</link>
													<more_info>http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/</more_info>
								<credibility>92</credibility>
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					<rating>Insightful [7]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Orgasms for the hell of it</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/orgasms_for_the_hell_of_it/</link>
				<description>One of the downsides of being known for writing a book about my sex life is that people tend to make certain assumptions. Many conclude that I must be up for hopping into bed with any bloke who offers himself as a sexual candidate. The other frequent assu</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-12 09:43:31</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Guardian Unlimited</name>
					<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2166974,00.html</link>
													<more_info>http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/</more_info>
								<credibility>92</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [4]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Is Eating Local the Best Choice?</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/is_eating_local_the_best_choice/</link>
				<description>Those who say eating local is not always the best choice for the planet are forgetting one very important part of the equation: community.

Some 30 years ago NASA came up with another BIG idea. Assemble vast solar electric arrays in space and beam the e</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-11 11:09:29</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Alter Net</name>
					<link>http://www.alternet.org/environment/60670/</link>
													<more_info>http://www.newsique.com/sources/alternet/</more_info>
								<credibility>86</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Brazilian Waxing Exposed: Let ‘Er Rip</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/brazilian_waxing_exposed_let_er_/</link>
				<description>I’ve often wondered how many precious minutes of my life have been lost while I was locked in the privacy of my bathroom, warming a small strip of Sally Hanson wax with my 1800 watt hairdryer, preparing to coif my seemingly uncoiffable bikini region. I</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-11 08:28:08</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>www.divinecaroline.com</name>
					<link>http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22262/23618</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [9]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Sept. 11 anniversary evokes pain, memories - or a need to move on</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/sept_11_anniversary_evokes_pain_/</link>
				<description>There will be the long recitation of the names of the dead, the moments of silence, the images of planes hitting the World Trade Center.

Six years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, there will be public memorials and private remembrances. For som</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-11 08:13:15</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>SF Gate</name>
					<link>http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/154902882/article.cgi</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Female sex offenders reveal cultural double standard</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/female_sex_offenders_reveal_cult/</link>
				<description>A trusted, even respected or beloved teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.

What used to shock us, but is now much too commonplace, is that the teacher is a woman.

Their names become tabloid headlines: Mary K. Letourneau,</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-10 21:45:16</pubDate>
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					<name>Seattle Times</name>
					<link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2003874026_predator10.html</link>
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					<rating>Insightful [8]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>On Faith</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/on_faith/</link>
				<description>There is a memorable scene in the short story “Bloodshed” by the spectacular Jewish-American novelist Cynthia Ozick. A Hasidic Rebbe endowed with the ability to read other people’s minds confronts a visiting nonbeliever seated in his synagogue. Afte</description>
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				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-09 21:12:07</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2007/09/atheism_secularism_lets_get_ou.html</link>
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					<rating>Insightful [6]</rating>
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				<title>Is There Anything Good About Men? And Other Tricky Questions</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/is_there_anything_good_about_men/</link>
				<description>What percentage of your ancestors were men?

No, it’s not 50 percent, as I’ll explain shortly. But first let me credit the source, Roy F. Baumeister, who answered that question – and a lot of other ones – in an address on Friday at the annual co</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-21 13:51:01</pubDate>
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					<name>New York Times</name>
					<link>http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/is-there-anything-good-about-men-and-other-tricky-questions/index.html?hp</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Conquering the Drawbacks of Democracy</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/conquering_the_drawbacks_of_demo/</link>
				<description>While democratic government is better than dictatorships and theocracies, it has its pitfalls. FSM Contributing Editor Philip Atkinson describes some of the difficulties facing President Bush today.

President George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-16 09:16:38</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Family Security Matters</name>
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					<rating>Shocking [8]</rating>
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				<title>Greetings From Idiot America</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/greetings_from_idiot_america/</link>
				<description>There is some undeniable art--you might even say design--in the way southern Ohio rolls itself into northern Kentucky. The hills build gently under you as you leave the interstate. The roads narrow beneath a cool and thickening canopy as they wind through</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-15 22:54:04</pubDate>
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					<name>Esquire</name>
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				<title>The Bible's literary sins</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/life/the_bibles_literary_sins/</link>
				<description>Contrary to popular belief, the Bible is not a good book. I'm not talking in a moral sense and it's not my purpose to discuss its malign social influence, scientific absurdity, historical implausibility and the rather sordid origins of Christian orthodoxy</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>life</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-13 10:01:15</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>blogs.guardian.co.uk</name>
					<link>http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/08/the_bibles_literary_sins.html</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [5]</rating>
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				<title>Sub-Standard - Subway's 3-Foot Sub</title>
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				<description>They're easy, filling and available in just about any size. No wonder, large sub sandwiches are the &quot;must have&quot; food of many super bowl parties. It's a no brainer right, since most party sub sandwiches are sold in 3 foot sections, that's what you'd expect</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-07-10 11:02:53</pubDate>
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				<title>Body Language Flirting</title>
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				<description>Statistics differ but most experts agree it takes us between 90 seconds and four minutes to decide if we fancy someone!</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-07-05 03:43:11</pubDate>
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				<title>Are there really 64 million U.S. Roman Catholics?</title>
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				<description>Are there really more than 64 million U.S. Roman Catholics?

That's what the 2007 Official Catholic Directory, due out this week, will say. But what about the dead, the double-counted and the disgruntled ex-Catholics — all of whose names may still plu</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-25 10:05:23</pubDate>
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