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				<title>Most think founders wanted Christian USA</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/most_think_founders_wanted_chris/</link>
				<description>Most Americans believe the nation's founders wrote Christianity into the Constitution, and people are less likely to say freedom to worship covers religious groups they consider extreme, a poll out today finds.

The survey mea</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-09-12 08:16:51</pubDate>
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					<name>USA Today</name>
					<link>http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/155348966/2007-09-11-amendment_N.htm</link>
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								<credibility>91</credibility>
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					<rating>Shocking [16]</rating>
													<credibility>85</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>The Face of Local Counties Shifts With Surge in Minorities</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/the_face_of_local_counties_shift/</link>
				<description>Fueled by an explosion of jobs attracting immigrants to the nation's suburbs, the percentage of minorities has dramatically increased in six local counties -- including Prince William, where the share of minorities grew from 35 percent in 2000 to 48 perce</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-09 08:15:00</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/08/AR2007080802358.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Experts: Leadership, money keys to building bridges</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/experts_leadership_money_keys_to/</link>
				<description>Nearly a quarter of the nation's roughly 600,000 major bridges carry more traffic than they were designed to bear, according to reports based on federal government data. Experts said Thursday that the problem stems from a lack of money and leadership.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-03 00:48:05</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/02/bridge.infrastructure/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Cities struggle to fix aging infrastructure</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/cities_struggle_to_fix_aging_inf/</link>
				<description>An exploding steam pipe under a busy street in Midtown Manhattan this week dramatizes potentially dangerous decay in aging public works systems across the nation that will require tens of billions of dollars to fix.

From New York to Atlanta, cities off</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-07-20 11:26:53</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>USA Today</name>
					<link>http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/135499535/2007-07-19-manhattan-explosion_N.htm</link>
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								<credibility>91</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>D.C., New York Get Biggest Increases in Counterterrorism Aid</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/dc_new_york_get_biggest_increase/</link>
				<description>The Department of Homeland Security increased counterterrorism funding for Washington and New York City yesterday but warned that doling out more federal cash to the nation's largest urban areas would require the virtual elimination of aid to mid-size cit</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-07-19 04:26:02</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/18/AR2007071801507.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>California says no to coal, but world disagrees / Dirty but plentiful energy source seen as oil alternative</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/california_says_no_to_coal_but_w/</link>
				<description>California took its final step toward weaning itself off coal last week, while the rest of the nation -- and the world -- continued going resolutely in the opposite direction, one that environmentalists say bodes ill for the fight against global warming.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-05-28 09:59:02</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
					<link>http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/120226821/article.cgi</link>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>We're Number One! America Leads the World in War Profits</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/were_number_one_america_leads_t/</link>
				<description>The United States is a proud nation of firsts -- among them: weapon sales, military expenditure, oil consumption, CO2 emissions, external debt, private military personnel and more.

An introduction by Tom Engelhardt:

Hey, aren't we the most exception</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-05-22 08:00:24</pubDate>
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					<name>Alter Net</name>
					<link>http://www.alternet.org/audits/52169/</link>
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								<credibility>86</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>The right leadership after tragedy</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/the_right_leadership_after_trage/</link>
				<description>GRIEF, HORROR, sorrow and sympathy — after a tragedy like Monday's shootings at Virginia Tech, these are the appropriate first responses from not only typical Americans but the nation's political leaders. Part of any president's job is helping the natio</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-04-18 16:27:13</pubDate>
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					<name>Los Angeles Times</name>
					<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/printedition/opinion/~3/109967308/la-oe-brownstein18apr18,1,7387593.column</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Bush shares 'day of sadness' with Virginia Tech</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/bush_shares_day_of_sadness_wit/</link>
				<description>Representing America's anguish, President Bush said Tuesday that he prays for comfort for those victimized by the &quot;dark turn&quot; of the day at Virginia Tech that turned into the nation's deadliest shooting spree.

&quot;Laura and I have come to Blacksburg today</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-04-17 15:52:19</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/17/bush.virginiatech.ap/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Bush 'horrified' by Virginia Tech shootings</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/bush_horrified_by_virginia_tec/</link>
				<description>President Bush said Monday that the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, the deadliest campus violence ever in this country, affects every student across the nation.

&quot;Schools should be places of safety, sanctuary and learning,&quot; Bush said in reaction to the</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-04-16 16:54:59</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/16/bush.virginia.tech.ap/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [4]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>California Split</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/california_split/</link>
				<description>SOMETHING interesting is happening in California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to have grasped the essential truth that no nation — not even the United States — can be managed successfully from the center once it reaches a certain scale. Moreover,</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-02-13 21:53:55</pubDate>
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					<name>New York Times</name>
					<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/opinion/10alperovitz.html?ei=5090&amp;en=1b812b8d80e2d9d9&amp;ex=1328763600&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
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								<credibility>96</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
													<credibility>90</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>North Dakota Issues Nation's First Hemp Permits</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/north_dakota_issues_nations_firs/</link>
				<description>North Dakota issued the nation's first licenses to grow industrial hemp Tuesday to two farmers who still must meet federal requirements before they can plant the crop.</description>
				<type>news</type>
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				<pubDate>2007-02-07 13:01:08</pubDate>
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					<name>FOX News</name>
					<link>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250671,00.html</link>
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								<credibility>82</credibility>
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					<rating>Amazing [4]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>mrmdc</username>
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				<title>The Terrorists Who Aren't in the News</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/the_terrorists_who_arent_in_the_/</link>
				<description>On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-11-13 08:14:14</pubDate>
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					<name>Alter Net</name>
					<link>http://www.alternet.org/story/43182</link>
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								<credibility>86</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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