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          <title>&amp;#39;Death Race&amp;#39; is a Shaky, Blurry, Messy, Stupid Bore</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Death Race: <i>Death Race</i> is a movie aimed squarely at -- beyond the stated gender and age constraints -- idiots. By idiots, we refer specifically to adults who find WWF wrestling "compelling."... From Santa Fe Reporter.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:28:54 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.sfreporter.com">Santa Fe Reporter</source>
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          <title>Why Are So Few Female Chefs Drawn to the Helm of Restaurant Kitchens?</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508433</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Many believe the explanation is the crazy hours and militaristic physicality of the work, but isn't the field of emergency nursing, which poses similar challenges, run by women?... From Santa Fe Reporter.]]></description>
          <category>Food+Drink/Food+Drink</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:25:19 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.sfreporter.com">Santa Fe Reporter</source>
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          <title>The DNC Maze: Navigating Denver and Democrats</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[So, you can't make it to Denver for the 2008 Democratic National Convention? No worries; it's a madhouse anyway. But let's see how you would have navigated the convention of the century.... From Santa Fe Reporter.]]></description>
          <category>Politics/News</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:18:37 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.sfreporter.com">Santa Fe Reporter</source>
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          <title>SF&amp;#39;s Academy of Art Enters the World of NCAA Athletics</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508430</link>
          <description><![CDATA[This month, the art school kicks off an intercollegiate sports program, fielding 12 teams in the NCAA Division II Pacific West Conference. And if the notion of an art school recruiting players for NCAA competition and doling out athletic scholarships strikes you as odd -- it is. The Academy of Art is the only one.... From SF Weekly.]]></description>
          <category>Culture/Sports &amp;amp; Fitness</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:11:50 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.sfweekly.com">SF Weekly</source>
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          <title>The Two Faces of Spiritual Leader Bo Lozoff</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508405</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Lozoff faces allegations that he mistreated parolees and engaged in questionable sexual conduct at Kindness House, a centerpiece of his ministry.... From Independent Weekly (NC).]]></description>
          <category>News/Religion</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:53:30 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.indyweek.com">Independent Weekly (NC)</source>
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          <title>More Bad News at The News &amp;amp; Observer</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508403</link>
          <description><![CDATA[More layoffs loom at the North Carolina daily, and the spinoff entertainment publication could be history.... From Independent Weekly (NC).]]></description>
          <category>News/Media</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:49:52 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.indyweek.com">Independent Weekly (NC)</source>
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          <title>Is it Possible to Understand Minnesota&amp;#39;s Politics? You Betcha</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508402</link>
          <description><![CDATA[In our own quiet way, we're thrilled to be living in a battleground state, but to understand Minnesota politics today, visitors will have to understand what came before. To help, here's a look back at the most memorable moments in our political history.... From City Pages (Twin Cities).]]></description>
          <category>Politics/News</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:45:49 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.citypages.com">City Pages (Twin Cities)</source>
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          <title>Scientists Warn that Climate Change is Already Hitting New Mexico</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508377</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Few people on the planet are unaware of climate change -- reducing one's carbon footprint has practically become a fashion statement. But behind the headlines and slogans, scientists are tracking the impacts global warming is already having -- and projecting what is yet to come.... From Santa Fe Reporter.]]></description>
          <category>News/Environment</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:56:42 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.sfreporter.com">Santa Fe Reporter</source>
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          <title>A Field Guide to the Republican National Convention</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508376</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Meet the deranged, debauched and deluded characters coming to Minneapolis and St. Paul for the RNC.... From City Pages (Twin Cities).]]></description>
          <category>Politics/News</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:42:50 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.citypages.com">City Pages (Twin Cities)</source>
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          <title>What the Mexico City AIDS Conference Taught Me</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508374</link>
          <description><![CDATA[The CDC now tells us that, oops, they counted wrong for the past several years. The true number of new HIV infections occurring each year in the U.S. is more than 40 percent higher than previously reported.... From Independent Weekly (NC).]]></description>
          <category>News/Health &amp;amp; Science</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:31:44 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.indyweek.com">Independent Weekly (NC)</source>
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          <title>Do the Math, Then Vote for Obama</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=508373</link>
          <description><![CDATA[When it comes to putting more money in your pockets -- as the free-marketeers like to say, giving the middle class more cash to spend as it wants, thus stimulating the economy -- the Democrat is far, far ahead. And all he's going to do is put the very rich back where they were a few years ago, which was, well, very rich. But this message isn't getting out.... From San Francisco Bay Guardian.]]></description>
          <category>Politics/Commentary</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:14:58 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.sfbg.com">San Francisco Bay Guardian</source>
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          <title>Reclaiming San Francisco -- From Cars</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[The city's first ciclovia will open a car-free Embarcadero to cyclists this weekend.... From San Francisco Bay Guardian.]]></description>
          <category>News/Transportation</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:55:18 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.sfbg.com">San Francisco Bay Guardian</source>
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          <title>DNC Report: They Called Him B-Biden</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Joe Biden and I are both stutterers. Tonight, for all stutters, it's our moment on the national stage.... From Independent Weekly (NC).]]></description>
          <category>Politics/News</category>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:50:18 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.indyweek.com">Independent Weekly (NC)</source>
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          <title>The Photoshop&amp;#153; Cop</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Ken Kokotek mocked his superiors on the Internet. Now he's paying for it.... From Creative Loafing (Tampa).]]></description>
          <category>News/Public Policy Issues</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:47:18 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://tampa.creativeloafing.com">Creative Loafing (Tampa)</source>
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          <title>The Incredible Shrinking Lansing State Journal</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=506272</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Old-timers tell stories of a vibrant newsroom a decade ago, with more than 20 reporters, including three alone covering the state Capitol. The staff took pride in its role as the watchdog newspaper for Michigan government. Today, staff levels aren't the only things shrinking. Coverage is down. Staff morale is down amid the cutbacks. Circulation numbers are down.... From City Pulse.]]></description>
          <category>News/Media</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:21:06 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.lansingcitypulse.com">City Pulse</source>
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          <title>DC&amp;#39;s Comic Series &amp;#39;Trinity&amp;#39; Remains Addictive</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Trinity No. 12: As addictive as <i>Trinity</i> can be, this is one continuity-laden comic. Honestly, I'll probably keep reading it -- but I'll read it and weep. I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess.... From Creative Loafing (Charlotte).]]></description>
          <category>Books/Fiction Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:01:37 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/">Creative Loafing (Charlotte)</source>
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          <title>&amp;#39;Havana Nocturne&amp;#39; Looks at Gambling, Guns and Sex in Pre-Castro Cuba</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=506005</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It To the Revolution: The pre-Castro days of the late 1940s and the 1950s were the era when the Mafia ran the most successful string of big-buck casinos, posh hotels and spectacular nightclubs ever seen in this hemisphere -- and paid Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista nearly $10 million (in today's money) per week to ensure that their good thing was "protected."... From Creative Loafing (Charlotte).]]></description>
          <category>Books/Nonfiction Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:59:37 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/">Creative Loafing (Charlotte)</source>
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          <title>Mindless Self Indulgence Looks to Entertain</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=506002</link>
          <description><![CDATA[You'll Rebel To Anything: Calling in from the first leg of his band Mindless Self Indulgence's European tour in Austria, Jimmy Urine sounds like a serious, well-grounded guy who just happens to swill his own pee on occasion.... From Creative Loafing (Charlotte).]]></description>
          <category>Music/Profiles &amp;amp; Interviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:57:48 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/">Creative Loafing (Charlotte)</source>
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          <title>Wild Sweet Orange Grows Up</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505997</link>
          <description><![CDATA[We Have Cause to  Be Uneasy: The Birmingham band matures as its fanbase expands.... From Creative Loafing (Charlotte).]]></description>
          <category>Music/Profiles &amp;amp; Interviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:54:04 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/">Creative Loafing (Charlotte)</source>
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          <title>Black Women are Much More than Negative Media Portrayals</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505996</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Black women are constantly barraged with negative images of themselves and negative information. Even when the information is positive, it is positioned negatively.... From Creative Loafing (Charlotte).]]></description>
          <category>News/Race Relations</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:52:05 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/">Creative Loafing (Charlotte)</source>
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          <title>Bear-Baiting in Georgia: It&amp;#39;s the Oil, Stupid</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505995</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Not one American in ten could find Georgia on a map, but all of a sudden that country's "freedom-loving" government is of great importance to our national security. Bullshit. The situation in Georgia, pure and simple, is about access to oil and our contemptuous treatment of Russia in the post-communist era.... From Creative Loafing (Charlotte).]]></description>
          <category>Politics/Commentary</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:50:55 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/">Creative Loafing (Charlotte)</source>
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          <title>A Rift in NC&amp;#39;s Democratic Party in Otherwise Bright Election Year</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505994</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Both Michael Lawson and Kevin Smith of Wake County claim to be head of the N.C. Democratic Party African-American Caucus.... From Creative Loafing (Charlotte).]]></description>
          <category>Politics/News</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:49:14 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/">Creative Loafing (Charlotte)</source>
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          <title>Fortunately, &amp;#39;Traitor&amp;#39; Has Don Cheadle&amp;#39;s Moral Heft</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505958</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Traitor: Now that <i>Traitor</i> is done, it seems like puffing this package up with commercial viability also was a way of watering its premise down.... From Charleston City Paper.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:52:43 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com">Charleston City Paper</source>
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          <title>You&amp;#39;ll Get Drunk Watching &amp;#39;Bottle Shock&amp;#39;</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505957</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Bottle Shock: The story is perfect timing for our foodie-obsessed age, showing the backstory behind something we take for granted -- global wine culture -- while also delving into the finer points of winemaking, like the potential disaster of too much oxygen in producing a winning chardonnay.... From Charleston City Paper.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:50:28 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com">Charleston City Paper</source>
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          <title>Danit Brown&amp;#39;s Debut Chronicles the Struggle to Find One&amp;#39;s Place</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505954</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Ask for a Convertible: Osnat Greenberg grew up in Israel, in a high-rise apartment overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Her mother is Israeli, her father is American, she has eight cousins and countless second cousins, and her crazy grandmother will only eat yellow food.(The old woman dies of gas poisoning when she forgets to turn off the stove.)... From Charleston City Paper.]]></description>
          <category>Books/Fiction Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:46:32 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com">Charleston City Paper</source>
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          <title>Controversy Becomes Conventional in &amp;#39;Save the Males&amp;#39;</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505951</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care: Such books undoubtedly have a preconditioned choir to preach to, but offer little new to long time observers of the culture wars.... From Charleston City Paper.]]></description>
          <category>Books/Nonfiction Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:44:00 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com">Charleston City Paper</source>
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          <title>The Beats Go On in &amp;#39;Texas Music&amp;#39;</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505948</link>
          <description><![CDATA[The History of Texas Music: <i>The History of Texas Music</i> is an anthropological study of Texas as examined through its diverse offering of folk music, offering a historical study of social, ethnic and geographical influence and how they have laid the groundwork for a thriving indie music scene.... From The Texas Observer.]]></description>
          <category>Books/Nonfiction Reviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:17:21 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.texasobserver.org">The Texas Observer</source>
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          <title>Alex Holdridge on the Perils of Shoestring-Budget Filmmaking</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505945</link>
          <description><![CDATA[In Search of a Midnight Kiss: The <i>Midnight Kiss</i> director explains the dark place where indie filmmaking meets Starbucks.... From Willamette Week.]]></description>
          <category>Movies+TV/Profiles &amp;amp; Interviews</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:07:22 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.wweek.com">Willamette Week</source>
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          <title>Life and Death in Washington</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505923</link>
          <description><![CDATA[Call it "death with dignity" or "assisted suicide," Washington preps for Initiative 1000 -- with Oregon's help.... From Willamette Week.]]></description>
          <category>News/Health &amp;amp; Science</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:03:38 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.wweek.com">Willamette Week</source>
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          <title>Bear Kaufman Says Being Carbon-Neutral Isn&amp;#39;t Enough</title>
          <link>http://www.altweeklies.com/alternative/Redirector?oid=505915</link>
          <description><![CDATA[The senior at San Francisco State University's earth system science department has been experimenting with a scheme to return most of the carbon created by generating power to the ground in the form of charcoal, where it can improve the soil. His ultimate goal: A carbon-negative world.... From East Bay Express.]]></description>
          <category>News/Environment</category>
          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:36:52 -0400</pubDate>
          <source url="http://www.EastBayExpress.com">East Bay Express</source>
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