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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Two death-row inmates were exonerated during the year, taking the total number of prisoners in the modern era who had been awaiting execution only to be found innocent to a staggering 186.”
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I have spent the past two weeks visiting the United States, at the invitation of the federal government, to look at whether the persistence of extreme poverty in America undermines the enjoyment of human rights by its citizens."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bobby Constantino: "In between the important cases, I found myself spending most of my time prosecuting people of color for things we white kids did with impunity growing up in the suburbs. As our office handed down arrest records and probation terms for riding dirt bikes in the street, cutting through a neighbor’s yard, hosting loud parties, fighting, or smoking weed – shenanigans that had rarely earned my own classmates anything more than raised eyebrows and scoldings – I often wondered if there was a side of the justice system that we never saw in the suburbs. Last year, I got myself arrested in New York City and found out." Depressing but necessary reading.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A Tennessee father was arrested recently by an overzealous officer for picking his children up at school by foot. The school’s policy is that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["PPC created a simplified budget process, meant to mimic the deliberative budget process, particularly with its consideration of tradeoffs.
"The results of the process were extremely detailed, particularly compared to what pollsters normally produce.  But the big picture was strikingly clear. Massive cuts to defense on the spending side, massive tax hikes on the revenue side"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For 18 of 19 programs tested, majorities want either to increase spending or maintain it at current levels. The only exception is assistance for needy people around the world. "]]></description>
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    <title>How the Tea Party broke the Constitution | Wonkblog</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two main points from this: that federal discretionary spending is already at 80% of 2010 levels, and that the Tea Party, despite claiming to praise representative democracy, has in fact had the effect of making it more direct (and more dangerously radical).]]></description>
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    <title>Moynihan and Nixon: How charity didn't begin at home | NY Times</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I didn't know that Nixon proposed a minimum income plan for families with children in 1970. ]]></description>
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    <title>Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low | Gallup</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-10T01:16:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gallup.com/poll/165317/republican-party-favorability-sinks-record-low.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The GOP's unfavorable rating among Republicans is up eight points from September” um. ]]></description>
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    <title>Don’t slam D.C. for the shutdown, America: You sent these wackos | Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-09T19:26:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dont-slam-dc-for-the-shutdown-america-you-sent-these-wackos-here/2013/10/07/7f7f55ca-2f40-11e3-8906-3daa2bcde110_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America, you sent these guys here. They represent plenty of you, none of us." -Washington, D.C.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/10/03/228869250/shutdown-not-for-political-fundraising">
    <title>Shutdown? Not For Political Fundraising | NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-08T21:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not stopping during the government shutdown: Democrat begging emails, according to @tomcoates.]]></description>
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    <title>A government shutdown, a social breakdown | Al Jazeera</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Today the attack on the poor is no longer cloaked in ideology – it is ideology itself. This ideology is not shared by most Americans, but by those seeking to transform the Republican Party into, as former GOP operative Mike Lofgren describes it, "an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe."' A good read on the philosophy behind the government shutdown.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/some-economic-consequences-of-the-shutdown/?_r=2&amp;">
    <title>Some Economic Consequences of the Shutdown | NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Furloughed government workers amount to 0.5 percent of the work force who would be counted as unemployed” if unemployment was being counted, which it isn't, because of the shutdown.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2013-10-04T19:41:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Leaving the politics aside for the moment, what’s a civic hacker or data journalist to do when most of the government web and FTP presence is unreachable as well?" You mirror it, if you can.]]></description>
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    <title>In rural Tennessee, a new way to help hungry children: A bus turned bread truck | The Washington Post</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["More than 1 in 4 children now depend on government food assistance, a record level of need that has increased the federal budget and changed the nature of childhood for the nation’s poor."]]></description>
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    <title>All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need| The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-06T17:40:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Conor Friedersdorf in the Atlantic on the US surveillance state.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620">
    <title>Why the City of Miami Is Doomed to Drown | Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-27T05:20:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Miami, as we know it today, is doomed... It's not a question of if. It's a question of when." A sobering read about climate change and Florida.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/2013/06/14/white_suburban_soccer_moms_love_nsa_surveillance/">
    <title>White suburban soccer moms love NSA surveillance! | Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-26T03:56:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/2013/06/14/white_suburban_soccer_moms_love_nsa_surveillance/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Of course, white suburban soccer moms are more interested in the intrigue of Snowden’s (ex?)girlfriend. Why should they care? They don’t worry that they will awake some morning and find themselves on the wrong side of the state — and certainly not because “they’re not doing anything wrong,” but rather because they’re not the wrong color, the wrong religion, the wrong ethnicity, the wrong family."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/04/airport-rankings">
    <title>Airport rankings: The best airport on the planet | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-24T21:07:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/04/airport-rankings</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["American airports are generally fairly awful, so their poor performance in this survey is no great surprise."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/the_disturbing_and_sometimes_t.html">
    <title>The disturbing and sometimes tragic challenge of walking in America | Kaid Benfield's Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-20T18:10:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/the_disturbing_and_sometimes_t.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In much of America, walking – that most basic and human method of movement, and the one most important to our health – is all but impossible.  Maybe not literally impossible, but inconvenient at best, and tragically dangerous way too often."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/16/canadian-loonied-and-us-dollar-bills/">
    <title>Both sides of the loonie | National Post</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-18T20:16:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/16/canadian-loonied-and-us-dollar-bills/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the Canadian dollar coin, US dollar bill, and why the latter seems unlikely to disappear despite the popularity of the former.]]></description>
<dc:subject>money currency us canada</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html">
    <title>Pain Continues after War for American Drone Pilot | Spiegel Online</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-16T20:50:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The stories of drone - sorry, remotely piloted vehicle - operators. Heartbreaking.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us war drones politics ptsd</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://io9.com/5958187/what-happens-to-women-denied-abortions-this-is-the-first-scientific-study-to-find-out">
    <title>What happens to women denied abortions? | io9</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-14T03:41:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://io9.com/5958187/what-happens-to-women-denied-abortions-this-is-the-first-scientific-study-to-find-out</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['There has been no sustained effort to study what happens to women who want abortions but can't get them due to restrictive rules. Until now. These women are called turnaways. A new longitudinal study reveals what happens to their economic position, health, and relationship status after seeking an abortion and being denied it.'

'There is strong evidence that making abortions available will allow women to be healthier, with brighter economic outlooks.']]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/11/us-politics-absurd-britain-george-iii">
    <title>US politics today is as absurd as Britain's under George III | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-13T21:49:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/11/us-politics-absurd-britain-george-iii</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I suggest we have nothing at all to learn about politics from across the Atlantic". Geoffrey Wheatcroft lays into the US constitution and political setup with fine form.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83704.html">
    <title>The GOP's media cocoon | POLITICO.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-13T21:49:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83704.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Martin on the Republican Party's filter bubble.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/08/an-american-tragedy.html?mbid=social_retweet">
    <title>Why Oak Creek Isn't Being Treated as a Tragedy | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-15T03:41:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/08/an-american-tragedy.html?mbid=social_retweet</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The media has treated the shootings in Oak Creek very differently from those that happened just two weeks earlier in Aurora. Only one network sent an anchor to report live from Oak Creek, and none of the networks gave the murders in Wisconsin the kind of extensive coverage that the Colorado shootings received."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/aug/13/paul-ryan-republican-draconian-proposals">
    <title>Pass notes No 3,228: Paul Ryan | World news | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-14T23:41:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/aug/13/paul-ryan-republican-draconian-proposals</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As PRDH says: "I get the impression the Guardian don't like Paul Ryan. And frankly he seems a complete dick of a man, so I'm with them."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2011/06/six-dams-and-six-reservoirs/">
    <title>six dams and six reservoirs | mammoth</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-01T01:10:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2011/06/six-dams-and-six-reservoirs/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the Missouri river's engineering. "I’ve said elsewhere that I think the Army Corps is an exceptionally peculiar organization, probably the country’s most radically avant-garde landscape practice, but rarely recognized for that, as it is the scale, agency, and organizational intricacy of the Corps’ work, not its formal properties, which render it so radical."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/8q_nextgen.html">
    <title>How We'll Get Where We're Going Tomorrow | NASA</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-23T03:22:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/8q_nextgen.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the new US air traffic control infrastructure, imaginatively named NextGen. "Leighton Quon, project manager of NextGen Systems Analysis, Integration, and Evaluation at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., answers eight questions about what NASA is doing to help improve air transportation for all of us in the future."]]></description>
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    <title>The Unwelcome Mat | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-17T17:42:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/the-unwelcome-mat.html?_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mark Vanhoenacker, on the experience of arriving in the US. "Tourism promotion is common sense. But we might reconsider the wisdom of requiring travelers to subsidize it in exchange for a grilling about their sexual health and genocidal activities." "Americans may be surprised by the conclusions of a 2006 survey by the U.S. Travel Association, which found that foreign travelers were more afraid of United States immigration officials than of terrorism or crime."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/news/features/gop-primary-chait-2012-3/">
    <title>Why 2012 Is the Republicans Last Chance | New York Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-09T07:22:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/news/features/gop-primary-chait-2012-3/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Republicans are worried this election could be their last chance to stop history. This is fear talking. But not paranoia." On demographics, politics, and a strategy that bets it all on 2012's elections.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://gizmodo.com/5588086/smithsonians-spacesuits-number-one-on-the-runway">
    <title>Smithsonian's Spacesuits: Number One On The Runway | Gizmodo</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-09T07:13:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gizmodo.com/5588086/smithsonians-spacesuits-number-one-on-the-runway</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The iconic NASA spacesuit didn't show up in astronauts' closets fully formed. Here, a small sampling of the many precursors held with reverence at the Smithsonian Museum." Images from 'Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection' by Amanda Young and Mark Avino.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/03/can-urban-highways-be-fixed/1399/">
    <title>Can Urban Highways Be Fixed? | The Atlantic Cities</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-05T18:18:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/03/can-urban-highways-be-fixed/1399/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kaid Benfield, quoting Presidential archives: "[Eisenhower] went on to say that the matter of running Interstate routes through the congested parts of the cities was entirely against his original concept and wishes; that he never anticipated that the program would turn out this way . . . and that he was certainly not aware of any concept of using the program to build up an extensive intra-city route network as part of the program he sponsored."]]></description>
<dc:subject>infrastructure roads traffic us interstate urbanism via:@enf</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n05/andrew-cockburn/drones-baby-drones">
    <title>Andrew Cockburn · Drones, baby, drones | LRB</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-02T07:31:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n05/andrew-cockburn/drones-baby-drones</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["After the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, predicted to take place by 2014, America’s wars will be handed over to drones." This article takes a good, hard look at what that actually means (and what may have been overpromised). Sadly, it's subscriber only.]]></description>
<dc:subject>lrb drones war us politics pentagon</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16881957">
    <title>The American bus revival | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-27T18:28:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16881957</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The BBC on US coach travel: "Rising petrol prices and a new breed of British-owned discount operators, based in the densely populated north-east corridor, have made the coach a viable alternative to the car, plane or train for a growing number of travellers." "Inter-city bus travel grew by 7.1% in 2011, compared with 1.5% for air and 1.16% for rail, according to DePaul University."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us transport bus coach stagecoach firstgroup via:antimega</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2011/06/poll_americans.html">
    <title>Poll: Americans Ambivalent on Abortion | Christianity Today</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-20T17:33:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2011/06/poll_americans.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[June 2011: "Most Americans said that “pro-choice” described them somewhat or very well (70 percent). At the same time, nearly the same percentage said the same about being “pro-life” (66 percent). This overlap between those who feel comfortable with pro-choice and pro-life labels exists among all major demographic groups."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us abortion politics christianity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/26/abortion_saved_my_life/singleton/">
    <title>Abortion saved my life | Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-19T02:01:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/2011/05/26/abortion_saved_my_life/singleton/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway."]]></description>
<dc:subject>abortion health us salon</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210">
    <title>California Dreamin' | MetaFilter</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-18T19:39:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the comments on a post about the removal of state(-level) funding for library services across California, this is a deservedly well-circulated comment about libraries and their role in providing internet access.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202">
    <title>One Town's War on Gay Teens | Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-06T07:18:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Michele Bachmann's home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back." This is depressing.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/arts/music/romney-and-gingrich-pull-songs-after-complaints.html?_r=1">
    <title>Romney and Gingrich Pull Songs After Complaints | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-04T19:10:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/arts/music/romney-and-gingrich-pull-songs-after-complaints.html?_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[‘"Strike another two songs from the Republican playlist: “Eye of the Tiger,” by Survivor, and “Wavin’ Flag,” by the Somali-born musician K’naan. “When you think about every iconic song that has emotional resonance for millions and millions of Americans, in almost every instance, Republican candidates can’t use the song because the artist is not supportive,” said Steve Schmidt.’]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/06/republicans-no-business-regulation">
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    <dc:date>2012-01-17T07:11:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/06/republicans-no-business-regulation</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What we saw is something unique in the history of American social movements: a mass conversion to free-market theory as a response to hard times. Before this recession, people who had been cheated by bankers almost never took that occasion to demand that bankers be freed from "red tape" and the scrutiny of the law." An extract from Pity The Billionaire by Thomas Frank.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html?_r=2">
    <title>My Guantánamo Nightmare | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-15T20:47:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html?_r=2</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It was only after the United States Supreme Court ordered the government to defend its actions before a federal judge that I was finally able to clear my name and be with them again."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lamag.com/features/Story.aspx?ID=1568281">
    <title>Between the Lines | Los Angeles magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-12T05:20:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lamag.com/features/Story.aspx?ID=1568281</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["That prized garage space or curbside spot you’ve been yearning for may be costing you—and the city—in ways you never realized. A journey into the world of parking, where meter maids are under siege, everybody’s on the take, and the tickets keep on coming." A great article explaining some of the reasons why city planning there has led to Los Angeles being quite so car-centric.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/">
    <title>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success | The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-05T02:56:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/</link>
    <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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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.single.html">
    <title>The best American wall map, by David Imus | Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-03T10:32:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.single.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So what makes this map different from the Rand McNally version you can buy at a bookstore? Or from the dusty National Geographic pull-down mounted in your child’s elementary school classroom? Can one paper wall map really outshine all others—so definitively that it becomes award-worthy? I’m here to tell you it can. This is a masterful map. And the secret is in its careful attention to design."]]></description>
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    <title>California train's travel-time mandate adds to soaring cost | latimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-15T21:07:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bullet-speed-20111215,0,6931986,full.story</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The ballot measure for the project required that the L.A.-to-San Francisco trip take no more than two hours, 40 minutes. Achieving that would mean building more viaducts and tunnels, which are costly."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/an-hsr-country-is-a-centralized-country/">
    <title>An HSR Country is a Centralized Country | Pedestrian Observations</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-06T03:26:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/an-hsr-country-is-a-centralized-country/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An interesting read on high speed rail and the development it spurs. "What this suggests is that HSR does not create centralization so much as reinforces it when it already exists. The Shinkansen made the rest of Japan more dependent on Tokyo, and the TGV has made most of France more dependent on Paris." The author considers the US, but surely the UK would go the way of France and Japan also.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/30/142714568/interpreting-the-constitution-in-the-digital-era?ft=1&amp;f=13">
    <title>Jeffrey Rosen: Interpreting The Constitution In The Digital Era | NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-30T18:08:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.npr.org/2011/11/30/142714568/interpreting-the-constitution-in-the-digital-era?ft=1&amp;f=13</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[[ These new technologies are "challenging our Constitutional categories in really dramatic ways," says George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen. "And what's so striking is that none of the existing amendments give clear answers to the most basic questions we're having today." ]]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/04/texas-death-row-werner-herzog">
    <title>Death row, Herzog and the man who maintained his innocence | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-06T02:06:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/04/texas-death-row-werner-herzog</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Michael Perry, the man at the centre of Herzog's new film on the death penalty, was executed in Texas for a crime he says he didn't commit. Joanna Walters interviewed him before he died."]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardian us politics deathpenalty crime texas</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/id/2300425/pagenum/all/">
    <title>The diverging diamond interchange | Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-02T16:55:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/id/2300425/pagenum/all/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tom Vanderbilt on a new kind of intersection that's being used a lot for new roads in the US, where drivers apparently have a morbid fear of having to either stop, or wait for more than a single phase change. Still, it's interesting.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us traffic transport road design infrastructure via:iamdanw</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f0a854885237/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/node/18929200">
    <title>Californian freeways: Carmageddon | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-11T17:17:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/18929200</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For 53 hours, workers will shut a portion of “the 405”. The stretch is not long—ten miles northbound and four miles southbound—but it is strategic." "A European might ask why people don’t bicycle instead, or take a bus or train." Oh, those silly Europeans!]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist us california losangeles roads traffic cars transport</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.grist.org/sprawl/2011-06-22-the-american-suburbs-are-a-giant-ponzi-scheme">
    <title>The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme | Grist</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-27T22:10:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.grist.org/sprawl/2011-06-22-the-american-suburbs-are-a-giant-ponzi-scheme</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["our own history -- let alone a tour of other parts of the world -- reveals a different reality. Across cultures, over thousands of years, people have traditionally built places scaled to the individual. It is only the last two generations that we have scaled places to the automobile."]]></description>
<dc:subject>urbanism development cars transport politics economics us</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:45def0ee7a59/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/killing_bin_laden">
    <title>Killing bin Laden: Let's call it a day | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-03T17:40:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/killing_bin_laden</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A perceptive roundup of, and addition to, commentary about the deat of Osama bin Laden from the Economist's Democracy in America blog, pointing out that there's not so much to celebrate.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist osamabinladen terrorism us politics comment</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-china-red-dawn-20110316,0,995726.story">
    <title>How an invading army changes from Chinese to North Korean | LA Times</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-17T05:52:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-china-red-dawn-20110316,0,995726.story</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As Lee says, '"Red Dawn" remake swapped Russian invaders for China.  Then, after filming, digitally changed them to North Korea.  Try to avoid offending your new economic masters, America.']]></description>
<dc:subject>film china korea us politics via:lee</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://cardhouse.com/travel/train.htm">
    <title>Travelling Cross-Country by Train.</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-04T18:34:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cardhouse.com/travel/train.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As someone who has travelled long distances by train at least six times, I have some advice that perhaps you will find useful. A series of fourteen train tips follows.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/01/25/yes-there-are-grocery-stores-in-detroit-by-james-griffioen/">
    <title>There Are Grocery Stores in Detroit | The Urbanophile</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-27T18:54:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/01/25/yes-there-are-grocery-stores-in-detroit-by-james-griffioen/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A guest post by James Griffioen pointing out that while there may not be big-box stores in Detroit, the city has plenty of places to get food (and not just junk, either).]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/design/26abroad.html?adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1296100871-Bu67jcX8S7hBzRB2dI5YPw&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>David Wojnarowicz Ruckus, as Viewed From Britain | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-27T04:05:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/design/26abroad.html?adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1296100871-Bu67jcX8S7hBzRB2dI5YPw&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It has something to do with the ideal of the American Everyman. As with the military or medicine, so with museums, we are by national inclination meddlers. Europeans are not, which is why they have reacted to the Smithsonian flap with the same mildly appalled bafflement that they express toward American opposition to the health care bill. It all seems inexplicable to them." The NYT on Wojnarowicz, Sensation, Tate, the Smithsonian, and attitudes. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>art culture nytimes newspapers comment uk us europe</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/26/pass-notes-sputnik">
    <title>Pass notes No 2,917: Sputnik | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-26T21:07:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/26/pass-notes-sputnik</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A symbol of Chinese ambition, according to Barack Obama."]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardian sputnik space history us china sovietunion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-01-25-1Ahighwaydeathlottery25_ST_N.htm">
    <title>Study: Roads are safer in urban areas | USATODAY.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-25T22:37:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-01-25-1Ahighwaydeathlottery25_ST_N.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The safest places to drive in the USA are Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts. Among the most dangerous: Montana, Wyoming, Louisiana and Mississippi. Those conclusions are based on federal data of traffic fatalities per 100,000 population and per 100 million miles driven."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us traffic cars transport safety</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all">
    <title>The battle over the Constitution | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-20T14:36:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin was sure that the document had its faults, and just as sure that the framers were fallible.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us newyorker politics history government constitution</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2281/leary_1_15_11/">
    <title>Guernica / Detroitism</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-18T03:23:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2281/leary_1_15_11/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There are three principal conventions of Detroit writing in the major media." This article looks at all of them, with the thread of the ruin photography running through the article.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us detroit urbanism decay photography comment</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d709c7017b66/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.gapersblock.com/ac/2011/01/06/getting-the-right-angle-on-vivian-maier/">
    <title>Gapers Block : A/C : Chicago Arts &amp; Culture - Getting the Right Angle on Vivian Maier</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-16T22:19:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gapersblock.com/ac/2011/01/06/getting-the-right-angle-on-vivian-maier/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["By now you may have heard about Vivian Maier"]]></description>
<dc:subject>us chicago photography discovery attribution history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/id/2280972/pagenum/all/#p2">
    <title>Streetcars vs. Monorails | Slate</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-15T12:25:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/id/2280972/pagenum/all/#p2</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Subtitled "The future of urban transportation looks a lot like the past", this Tom Vanderbilt piece is well worth reading.]]></description>
<dc:subject>transport publictransport monorail streetcar trams us infrastructure via:mondoagogo</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/the-film/">
    <title>the Film | The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - a Documentary</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-14T18:32:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/the-film/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the film’s historical center is an analysis of the massive impact of the national urban renewal program of the 1950s and 1960s, which prompted the process of mass suburbanization and emptied American cities of their residents, businesses, and industries. Those left behind in the city faced a destitute, rapidly de-industrializing St. Louis , parceled out to downtown interests and increasingly segregated by class and race. The residents of Pruitt-Igoe were among the hardest hit." A companion piece to Utopian London, of sorts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>film documentary planning infrastructure housing us via:antimega</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:24fac108799a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opinions/my_country_my_train_my_k-hole.php">
    <title>My Country, My Train, My K-Hole by Hugh Ryan | The Morning News</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-25T16:21:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opinions/my_country_my_train_my_k-hole.php</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I don’t love trains because they teach me about America. I don’t love them because they connect me with a country I have never known. I love them because they disconnect me from everything else. When the train pulls out of the station, it’s like a plug being yanked from a socket."]]></description>
<dc:subject>travel trains us connectivity internet attention</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:080a781e4b01/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/">
    <title>The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-16T02:21:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries." This made me very angry, with occasional glimmers of light from Europe's attitudes to torture and the fact Manning is a UK citizen. Unfortunately, I doubt that the British government will do anything to stand up for those rights.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us politics wikileaks prison torture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/12/152465.htm">
    <title>U.S. World Press Freedom Day 2011 | Department of State</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-07T18:16:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/12/152465.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The theme for next year’s commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information." Who said Americans have no sense of irony?]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics journalism press unesco us</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5b7fd052b880/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/oct/31/travel-us-train">
    <title>Travel: Amtrak adventures | The Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-24T23:03:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/oct/31/travel-us-train</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Some said it would be slow, boring and expensive, but spending 15 days covering 6,511 miles on an epic Amtrak journey across America's heartland was "soul calming"' - Anna Pickard on the jounrey around the US.]]></description>
<dc:subject>trains us writing annapickard transport holiday</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5babdce35bcf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/?pagination=false">
    <title>
        The Myth of Charter Schools

 by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books
      </title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-03T19:15:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/?pagination=false</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[gnat: Fascinating NY Times piece on public education. http://j.mp/9j4Fb8]]></description>
<dc:subject>us education politics school documentary review culture via:@gnat</dc:subject>
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