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    <title>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success | The Atlantic</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anu Partanen in the Atlantic: "while Americans love to talk about competition, Sahlberg points out that nothing makes Finns more uncomfortable. In his book Sahlberg quotes a line from Finnish writer named Samuli Puronen: "Real winners do not compete." It's hard to think of a more un-American idea, but when it comes to education, Finland's success shows that the Finnish attitude might have merits. There are no lists of best schools or teachers in Finland."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Cycle Challenge is a competition to see which team can cycle the most miles in a month. Teams that come top win great prizes."]]></description>
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    <title>Awards offered for map mash-ups | BBC News</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BBC press release for an Ordnance Survey competition. Except: "Ideas already submitted include a service that lets pedestrians map safe routes based on the location of CCTV cameras." "There are three broad themes for the GeoVation prize - crime, health and the environment, although entrants can come up with other ideas." Sigh.
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Entries to the latest London by Londoners competition. There's a lot of good stuff in here; I'd have no chance. Also available as a slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/lblcomp030/show/
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    <title>Zimki Application Design Competition Winners!</title>
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    <title>On July 14th, one del.icio.us user will win $100. Enter this contest.</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, he got another one.
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