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		<title>Emue Technologies Anti-Fraud Credit Card</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/18/emue-technologies-anti-fraud-credit-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Credit card fraud is something that we&#8217;ve heard of for a long time now, but it is comforting to know that those in authority are doing something about it. Emue Technologies has improved on their anti-fraud credit card by combining a world first embedded 14-segment E Ink display with a 12-button numeric keypad, microprocessor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.&#8217;s First Marijuana Cafe Opens In Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/16/u-s-s-first-marijuana-cafe-opens-in-oregon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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The US’s first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.
 
The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the first to give certified medical marijauna users a place to get hold of the drug and smoke it — as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Hold Half of U.S. Jobs in Wake of Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/16/women-hold-half-of-u-s-jobs-in-wake-of-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Households that could afford to have one spouse stay home find roles upended by layoffs in male-dominated industries
Jeff and Vicki Grenz celebrated their 25th anniversary on Sept. 12, 2007. The date marked another milestone for the California couple: Ms. Grenz went back to work. 
 
After giving birth to the second of four children, Ms. Grenz, now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Timebomb Hits Over-60&#8217;s Baby Boomers</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/15/health-timebomb-hits-over-60s-baby-boomers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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 Today&#8217;s 60-year-olds are the first modern generation to be less healthy than their immediate predecessors.  A health timebomb is hitting baby boomers: the over-60 year olds are sufferring more illnesses caused by bad diet and lack of exercise.
 
Despite improvements in medicine and standards of living, they are more likely to be blighted by problems from aching knees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vans Shoes With R. Crumb Artwork</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/15/vans-shoes-with-r-crumb-artwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Counter Culture Icon Fritz the Cat now available on Vans

Vans slip-ons have been a popular and fashionable shoe option for many years now. In recent years, Vans has made shoes featuring designs from pioneering underground artists we really dig like Robt. Williams and Rick Griffin. We were thrilled to find out that they recently added a series of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beatles Never Broke Up?</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/14/the-beatles-never-broke-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Get ready for a strange story of a lost Beatles album found on cassette on the other side of a portal to a parallel universe. James Richards brought the cassette back and is making all the songs available. Here&#8217;s the skinny&#8230;

&#8220;On Sept. 9, 2009 I experienced something that I still am having trouble believing happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Technologies That Haven&#8217;t Ended The Human Race&#8230; Yet</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/14/6-technologies-that-havent-ended-the-human-race-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Today, the world comes to an end. Well, in theaters, anyway. 2012 has us thinking about the apocalypse &#8217;round these parts (so uplifting, we know), and that led us to wondering about all the crazy technology that&#8217;s all around us — technology that at one point or another caused widespread fear that it was all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make One / Get One &#8211; Audiobook Science Fiction Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/13/make-one-get-one-audiobook-science-fiction-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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SFFaudio has just announced their 4th Annual Make an Audiobook, Get an Audiobook Challenge. They have twenty Science Fiction and Fantasy titles of public domain and Creative Commons novels that they&#8217;d like to see freely available as audiobooks on the internet. They&#8217;re looking for participants to commit to recording and editing the sound files and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics Could Lead To LED Tattoos</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/12/implantable-silicon-silk-electronics-could-lead-to-led-tattoos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/12/implantable-silicon-silk-electronics-could-lead-to-led-tattoos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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A clear silk film, about one centimeter squared, with six silicon transistors on its
surface about to be implanted into a mouse (Photo: Rogers/Omenetto)

 Tattooing dates back to at least Neolithic times and has experienced a resurgence in popularity in many parts of the world in recent years. Advancements in tattoo pigments and the refinement of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Inventions That Changed The World</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/11/top-10-inventions-that-changed-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Xray
To mark its centenary, in June the Science Museum in London had its curators select the 10 objects in its collection that had made the biggest mark on history. These then went to a public vote to find the most important invention of past centuries. Visitors to the museum and online voters cast nearly 50,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sociological Deconstruction of the Disney Princesses</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/11/sociological-deconstruction-of-the-disney-princesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Jeff Brunner offers this scathing critique of the values that the Disney Princesses teach girls. After the jump, you can view a response about what Disney teaches boys  (would be princes).


Link via Popped Culture
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		<title>Sahara Desert Divulges Vanished Persian Army</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/09/sahara-desert-divulges-vanished-persian-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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The Sands of the Sahara desert have finally told a tale of loss of mythical proportions.

&#8220;The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology&#8217;s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flute Hero On The Rampage!</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/09/flute-hero-on-the-rampage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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[YouTube - Link]

Ever wonder what would happen if you combined true musical talent with a popular video game like Rockband? This is what you would get.
While taking a break from practicing one day, MsFrizzyHair, a recent college graduate with music degree had a bizarre thought as she watched her brother play Rockband. &#8220;I wonder if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extremely Rare &#8211; Royal Raymond Rife Microscope #2 Up For Auction In London</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/04/extremely-rare-royal-raymond-rife-microscope-2-to-be-sold-in-london-auction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Royal Raymond Rife Microscope #2

Royal Raymond Rife, &#8220;genius scientist&#8221;, trained for six years at the Carl Zeiss Optical Company in Germany and became the inventor of powerful microscopes, leading to the discovery of a revolutionary therapy for viral diseases.
 
Pictured above is his second microscope which will be included as lot 113 in the Bonhams sale 10th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Giants of the Urals</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/04/the-seven-giants-of-the-urals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Tall and mighty do they stand!

Seven rock formations called Man-Pupu-Nyor (little mountain of the gods) stand in the Komi Republic, a part of the Ural Mountain area of Russia. They range from 30 to 42 meters tall! The pillars formed when erosion washed away the mountain that once surrounded them over a period of 200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Accent Beats French as World&#8217;s Sexiest</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/03/irish-accent-beats-french-as-worlds-sexiest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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The Irish accent has beaten its French counterpart as the world&#8217;s sexiest.
Men with an Emerald Isle brogue came top in a poll of 5,000 women worldwide, while the French accent only came fourth, just ahead of Australian.
Italian was second. In third place was the Scottish burr. English was sixth and Swedish was seventh, with Spanish, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Oasis of the Seas&#8217;: World&#8217;s Largest Cruise Ship Sets Sail</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/01/oasis-of-the-seas-worlds-largest-cruise-ship-sets-sail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Oasis of the Seas
The world&#8217;s largest cruise liner, the Oasis of the Seas, has set sail for Miami from the Finnish shipyard where it was built. (Pics)
The 1,200 foot (360 metre) ship has a price tag of almost 1.5 billion, 16-deck-high, 220,000-ton and was commissioned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. The Oasis of the Seas has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vatican to Accept Married Priests on Case-by-Case Basis</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/01/vatican-to-accept-married-priests-on-case-by-case-basis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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The world is indeed changing with the acceptance of married priests
The Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis as Rome makes it easier for disillusioned conservative Anglicans to convert.
A surprise Vatican decision, announced 10 days earlier to make it easier for Anglicans to become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Daylight Saving Time in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/01/the-history-of-daylight-saving-time-in-the-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Daylight Saving Time ends in most of the United States a 2AM on Sunday, November 1st (Hawaii and Arizona have been on standard time all summer). We remember which way to set our clocks by thinking “spring forward, fall back.” It makes you wonder how we ever got our clocks coordinated in the first place. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Officially Launched In China</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/01/iphone-officially-launched-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Apple’s iPhone has officially gone on sale in China. Despite the country being the world’s largest mobile market, there wasn’t any frenzy like the iPhone launches in other countries. While you might suggest it’s a cultural difference or other reasons, it’s most likely caused by 2 factors. The first being that the iPhone in China [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Bill Clinton Meet a Fake Kim Jong-il?</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/01/did-bill-clinton-meet-a-fake-kim-jong-il/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Will the real Kim Jong -il please stand up?

 
Jong-il? Or was it a fake North Korean leader that entertained Bill Clinton on that mission to Pyongyang to retrieve the two imprisoned American journalists?
In the absence of fact, the Hermit Kingdom has long been a free-fire zone for outlandish rumour. And they got more outlandish than ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Behind Mona Lisa&#8217;s Smile</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/31/the-secret-behind-mona-lisas-smile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Leonard DaVinci&#8217;s masterpiece Mona Lisa
The secret behind Mona Lisa&#8217;s enigmatic smile has been explained by scientists who believe it changes depending on which part of the eye sees it first.  One of the charms of the world&#8217;s most famous painting is that she appears radiant one moment and then serious and sardonic the next.  Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-English Character Web Addresses &#8211; Biggest Change To Internet In 40 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/26/non-english-character-web-addresses-biggest-change-to-internet-in-40-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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International domain names or addresses that can be written in non-English characters are expected to be approved this week.  This will spark one of the biggest changes to the internet in its four-decade history.
 
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN &#8211; the non-profit group that oversees domain names &#8211; is holding a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich Germans Demand Higher Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/26/rich-germans-demand-higher-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes. The group say they have more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and social programmes to aid Germany&#8217;s economic recovery.
Germany could raise 100bn euros (£91bn) if the richest people paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are There Scientific Reasons To Believe In Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies?</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/24/are-there-scientific-reasons-to-believe-in-vampires-werewolves-and-zombies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Vampires
One dark and stormy evening, Spanish neurologist Juan Gomez-Alonso was watching a vampire movie when he realized something strange; he noticed that vampires behave an awful lot like people with rabies. The virus attacks the central nervous system, altering the moods and behaviors of those infected. Sufferers become agitated and demented, and, much like vampires, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Galaxy Cluster Discovered 10.2 Billion Light Years Away</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/23/new-galaxy-cluster-discovered-10-2-billion-light-years-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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The galaxy cluster named JKCS041 is some 10.2 billion light years away
The furthest galaxy cluster from Earth has been spotted some 10.2 billion light years away.  The group of galaxies, known as JKCS041 has beaten the previous record holder by around a billion light years.  It appears as it was when the Universe was only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infographic of Mars Missions</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/23/infographic-of-mars-missions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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SPACE &#8211; The final frontier? Ok well maybe Mars has been done a few times.
Editorial illustrator and data visualizer Bryan Christie created this fantastic graphic of Mars missions.

Link to Bryan Christie
Higher res at imgur. (via Laughing Squid)
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		<title>11 Incredible Homes From Around the World for Under $50K</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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The worldwide recession has hit a lot of people hard, but it’s not all doom and gloom. Far from it actually, as is the case with property. As the price of real estate has fallen, there are plenty of bargains to be had all around the world! The villa pictured is in Halcyon Hills, Greece.
No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand Town Cancels Kids Rabbit-Carcass-Throwing Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/23/new-zealand-town-cancels-kids-rabbit-carcass-throwing-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>China Hoping Chinese Literature Goes Global</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Sanwei Bookshop in central Beijing
China has excelled in recent years at producing Olympic gold medalists, skilled factory workers and more billionaires than any country other than the United States. But authors are another story. The influence of China&#8217;s novelists and other writers has long been stunted by the country&#8217;s history of censorship and custom of [...]]]></description>
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