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		<title>The World&#8217;s Mothers in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When State of the World’s Mothers 2012 was released by Save The Children this week, timed to commemorate Mother’s Day, the American media pounced on one point made in the 70-page report: The U.S. ranked #25 in a tally of which countries were the best and worst places for being a mom.]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Power of Profanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As written for the Daily Dose on MSN. Watch your language if you find yourself in Middleborough, Mass., anytime soon. The town’s police chief wants to curb public cursing by slapping your foul mouth with a $20 fine. WTF, Officer Prig? Aren’t you immune to expletives like the rest of us, having become inured after hearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Adolescent World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As written for The Daily Dose on MSN.com At the United Nations this week, the focus is not on nuclear arms, peace in the Middle East, or the downhill tumble of the global economy. A subject even more central to the well-being of the planet is in the spotlight of the world stage: the health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigating through Eurozone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most Americans, knowing how healthy the euro may be is a simple matter of measuring U.S. dollars against the standardized currency of the eurozone. If the dollar is strong, exchange rates will be good in the 17 member states of the European Union that have transitioned to the euro; if not, well, maybe you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Jim</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2003, I received a phone call from an editor at Backbeat Books asking if I’d be interested in writing the biography of Jim Marshall. The iconic designer of Marshall amplifiers was turning 80 years old and his stateside distributor, Korg, wanted to pay tribute with a book about not only his amps but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why To Feel Good About Losing The Lottery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As written for The Daily Dose on MSN.com Who Could Blow $640 Million? Tales of mega-loss among lottery winners &#160; At over $640,000,000, tonight’s Mega-Millions lottery draw promises the biggest lottery payday ever. It’s an incomprehensible number, really, and it’s equally hard to think of anything you couldn’t afford even after a few hundred mill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss, the Father of Hip-Hop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As written for MSN Now The Lorax, an eco-film, is dropping today, but there&#8217;s newsness of Seussness we&#8217;ve yet to relay. Did you know that Theodor Seuss begat rap? Check the match-ups and mashups and this link and that. He taught HOVA and Slim all the flow that they knowses when they mama read Green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSN Now is a new portal at the mighty Microsoft Network. The site, launched at midnight last Wednesday, aggregates top stories trending online. Any story that could, would, or should be circulating in social media can be ingested in one big gulp over at MSN Now. To develop the content, MSN has hired media producers from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ock Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular visitors to this site (Ma? You out there?) know that I prefer this blog to be as self-aggrandizing as possible. I like to think that&#8217;s the charm of it. But sometimes you find a reason &#8212; in this case, eight of them &#8212; to set ego aside. The Rock Ock guitar, seen here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get TED in Your Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a year, thought leaders from the fields of medicine and healthcare present progressive ideas at the TEDMED Conference. If you&#8217;re already familiar with TED talks, you know that the speeches and presentations can be mind-blowing. Among the topics addressed at TEDMED 2011, held last week in San Diego, were medical mushrooms, the near future [...]]]></description>
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