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The Berlin Wall resembled an ideological scar and not only severed a city but symbolized the failure of an evil syste           ]]></description>
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Surveys conducted of federal intelligence workers who may be moving to Central Virginia as part of base realignment provide valuable insight into the kinds of professionals who will eventually become our neighbors.           ]]></description>
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You may be used to seeing sports heroes on special cereal boxes, from Bruce Jenner and Mary Lou Retton on. Now there are heroes of a different kind.           ]]></description>
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Tickle Me Elmo, thankfully, is long removed from the Must Have Christmas Present list for parents this holiday season.           ]]></description>
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          <title>That was one great big escape</title>
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Maybe we need a new highway sign.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Planning costs need cutting</title>
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Proposals to raise Albemarle&#8217;s zoning fees provide a pointed example of the county&#8217;s overall conflict between cutting costs and raising revenues.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Free market must have say</title>
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The solution to issues with the U.S. health care system starts with the individual, not with the federal government.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A vote against your liberty</title>
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Tom Perriello cast a critical vote against personal liberty and for more federal spending and confiscation of private wealth.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A vote against your liberty</title>
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When Democrat Tom Perriello voted on Nov. 8 for the health care &#8220;reform&#8221; bill in the House, he cast a critical vote against personal liberty and for more federal spending and confiscation of private wealth.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Was program a clunker?</title>
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&#8220;Cash for Clunkers&#8221; failed to meet expectations, suggests an Associated Press investigation.
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          <title>A D&#45;Day rescue?</title>
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We&#8217;re sorry to hear that the National D-Day Memorial is laying off nearly half its staff.
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          <title>Was program a clunker?</title>
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&#8220;Cash for Clunkers&#8221; failed to meet expectations, suggests an Associated Press investigation.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A D&#45;Day rescue?</title>
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We&#8217;re sorry to hear that the National D-Day Memorial is laying off nearly half its staff.           ]]></description>
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All right, folks, the election&#8217;s over. Time to remove those political signs from the public right-of-way, as required by law.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Dealing with more tragedy</title>
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The bittersweet irony is that community tragedies stir our hearts and, often, stir us to selfless action.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Follow a thread of mystery ...</title>
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A snippet of Amelia Earhart&#8217;s &#8220;hair&#8221; was actually a collection of thread.           ]]></description>
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Here&#8217;s a charmer &#8230; and her name is Meadow.
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          <title>The breath a&#8217; what?</title>
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In Oxford, Ohio, police stopped a man on Halloween night and charged him in connection with numerous alleged offenses.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:57:06 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Agency flees responsibility</title>
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&#8220;Trust us. We&#8217;re here from the federal government and we&#8217;re here to help you.&#8221;
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          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:48:44 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>We need both winners, losers</title>
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Virginia voters gave Bob McDonnell a mandate to focus on the commonwealth&#8217;s lagging economy.
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With this year&#8217;s election just finished, let&#8217;s look back at the state&#8217;s rookie senators: Democrats Jim Webb and Mark Warner. 
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          <title>The beauty of science</title>
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Congratulations to the University of Virginia and Trinh Xuan Thuan, an astronomy professor and author.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:20:17 EST</pubDate>
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Whatever results, the political candidates have been a vital part of the greatest political process on Earth: an election in a participatory democracy.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:03:45 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Late ballots: No&#45;fault error?</title>
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Last year, Virginia failed to mail some 2,100 absentee ballots in time           ]]></description>
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          <title>McDonnell right for Virginia</title>
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We say this with great respect for his opponent, state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds           ]]></description>
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          <title>Norris earns Council return</title>
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Charlottesville needs Dave Norris&#8217; experience on Council. 
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A governing body benefits from new energy and fresh ideas. The Daily Progress is endorsing write-in candidate Andrew Williams for City Council.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:57:32 EST</pubDate>
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The 57th District is fortunate to have David Toscano as its delegate.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Return Bell to office</title>
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The Daily Progress recommends that voters send Rob Bell back to Richmond.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:36:49 EST</pubDate>
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But if this country truly wants high-speed rail, we&#8217;re going to have to get serious about the effort. Eight billion dollars won&#8217;t get us there.
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The story of Sgt. David Budwah baffles the mind. 
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James Madison University&#8217;s leveling of charges against two student journalists raises troubling concerns over press freedom.
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Two issues from last spring describe the challenges that will await the net governor Virginia: federal stimulus mondy and federal education money.           ]]></description>
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He brings a totally unique viewpoint that adds to the insights which, in total, make up county government.           ]]></description>
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Mr. Lowry presents the most finely nuanced evaluation of county and district issues.           ]]></description>
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Virginia has two fundamentally different, yet fundamentally able, candidates running for attorney general.           ]]></description>
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For the ninth year in a row, silver was the most popular color for cars in America. Twenty percent of U.S. cars are silver.
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A recent police chase in California illustrates a wave of the future.
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Cynthia Neff&#8217;s abhorrent mailer comparing her opponent&#8217;s votes to the immorality of a cheating husband is reprehensible.           ]]></description>
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Preliminary new figures on school dropout rates inject a pressing issue into the current Albemarle County Board of Supervisors race.
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It&#8217;s common sense: If offenders get help transitioning back into society, the transition is more likely to be successful.
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The legacy of Barack Obama&#8217;s victory in 2008, thus far, has been one of division. 
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A judge&#8217;s decision sends exactly the right signal about the importance of voting and the state&#8217;s error in not mailing absentee ballots in accordance with law.           ]]></description>
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Applause to Nicole Muller, a high school junior who has taken on a big goal: Trying to collect a ton of food before Saturday to donate to local food banks.           ]]></description>
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The party of &#8220;change,&#8221; as it turns out, has done little to advance the cause of reform when it comes to military earmarks and political back-scratching.           ]]></description>
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As columnist Bob Gibson so rightly points out in today&#8217;s Commentary, mud-slinging may help a politician get elected but it doesn&#8217;t help him govern.           ]]></description>
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A suburban Pittsburgh man slept through a house fire, and not even the sirens of firetrucks or the sounds of firefighters served to wake him up.           ]]></description>
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Maxi Sopo was a fugitive from a federal bank fraud investigation who apparently had successfully eluded authorities by slipping into Mexico and out of sight.
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&#8220;Possibility City&#8221; is a great catchphrase. But a new round of ads asking folks to consider the possibilities has some officials squirming with embarrassment.            ]]></description>
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If a word is in public use, it ought to remain in common use. Nobody should be able to own it.            ]]></description>
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Once again, our area is at the center of dispute between prison officials and free speech advocates.
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Say hello to the four-day workweek. And, no, it&#8217;s not a move designed to expand the worker&#8217;s leisure time.
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Well-wishers lavished fond accolades on former Mayor A, Raymon Thacker amid a memory-laden celebration Sunday in Scottsville.
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In view of the hopes pinned on the expanded Amtrak service to Charlottesville, it is with regret that we learn of a decline in Amtrak ridership.
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If we thought Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Denise Lunsford would actually stop prosecuting high-profile misdemeanors such as domestic assault and drunken driving &#8212; and so put her job at risk in the next election &#8212; we would be raising the roof in wrath.           ]]></description>
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Hooded tribunals? Nameless, nonaccountable jurors? No, we&#8217;re not talking about &#8220;justice&#8221; in some Third World autocracy.           ]]></description>
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On the same day, two groups, working independently, memorialized the deaths of two Virginia &#8212; and American &#8212; legends.           ]]></description>
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Virginia placed three sites on three national lists of Top 10 Great Places in America.           ]]></description>
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Amid the gathering malaise of the post-euphoria era of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency, trouble is afoot in Afghanistan.            ]]></description>
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Electronic medical records are supposed to cut costs and simultaneously improve care. But there are problems with both those goals.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:56:48 EST</pubDate>
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Charlottesville City Council apologized for the conspiracy that had kept 12 city youths from their rightful place in the classroom.           ]]></description>
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The election for Virginia&#8217;s Seventh Congressional District seat held by Eric Cantor, minority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives, is more than a year away. But already the campaign is heating up.            ]]></description>
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In a fascinating &#8212; and much needed &#8212; project, University of Virginia students are &#8220;updating&#8221; advice from the Father of our Country with guidance from etiquette maven Miss Manners.            ]]></description>
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A school pool in San Antonio was inadvertently catapulted back more than 100 years when it flew a U.S. flag with just 43 stars.           ]]></description>
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President Bush the elder may have celebrated his 85th birthday with a skydive, but Jane Bockstruck has gone him one better.           ]]></description>
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The University of Florida has removed a link to its zombie emergency plan from its Web site.           ]]></description>
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Neither leaders nor residents endorsed a state suggestion           ]]></description>
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Transparency in government was one of Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;yes we can&#8221; calls to a new and better government. The new president&#8217;s first public act was to order more federal openness.            ]]></description>
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Our hearts go out to the family in Orange County whose toddler was killed by their dog.           ]]></description>
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So, alaw stops you from texting while driving your car but allows the driver of that mammoth 18-wheeler to type onto a computer keyboard?           ]]></description>
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In a surprising move, school Superintendent Pam Moran recommended that Albemarle County keep three small southern elementary schools open.           ]]></description>
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If President Barack Obama wants to make good on his promise of transparency, now is the time. 
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Sponsored by the United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area and named in memory of local media figure and community leader Laurence E. Richardson, the Day of Caring is in its 18th year of looking out for people.           ]]></description>
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Anyone who thinks that a potato is a potato is a potato should think again.            ]]></description>
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Universal Orlando Resort is creating the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a new theme park area opening next spring.
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At a trial in Northern Virginia this week, an Illinois man pleaded guilty in a nationwide identity theft ring that victimized both individuals and institutions.
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Now comes an opportunity to bring back a long-gone species to Virginia, and through no real effort of our own.
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Community members are wise to keep up the pressure for better sidewalks and bikeways in the Pantops area.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:43:17 EST</pubDate>
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Recent information about the organization named ACORN is disturbing, discrediting and cause for action. 
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He&#8217;s not the first governor to hold the roles of chief executive, presidential cheerleader, vice presidential contender and party boss, but the timing, given the fiscal state of things, was poor. Virginia needed his attention here.            ]]></description>
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In a digital age, the written word still has great power. 
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A California man didn&#8217;t see a thing wrong with throwing as many as 3,000 golf balls into Joshua Tree National Park: He was paying tribute to dead golfers.           ]]></description>
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If the cat has nine lives, how many do you think the dog has?
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Us dogs gotta stick together when the fuzz arrives. That must have been the pact a pack made in Hope Mills, N.C.           ]]></description>
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A thumbs-up also goes to the University of Virginia School of Architecture, which partnered with the Elizabeth River Project to create the Learning Barge.           ]]></description>
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Congratulations to Charlottesville and Albemarle County students and schools for gains in SAT scores over last year.           ]]></description>
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The very agency responsible for consumer safety in the transportation of hazardous materials has gotten so chummy with the industry that it has lost sight of its responsibility to the public, a new congressional report charges.           ]]></description>
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Too many books, too little time,&#8221; goes the saying. Well, Virginia inmates may have plenty of time &#8212; but now they have too few books.           ]]></description>
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Much diplomatic tut-tutting was sparked by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez&#8217;s gift of a book to President Obama at the Summit of the Americas in April.            ]]></description>
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Did you hear about the motorists who were concerned about a load of shrubs that had apparently fallen off a truck into the highway?           ]]></description>
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This week held two significant dates &#8212; 9/11 and 09/09 &#8212; each evoking emotions at the opposite end of the scale.           ]]></description>
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Frank Batten Sr. was not a resident of Charlottesville, but through his support of the University of Virginia he influenced this community as profoundly as many who make this their permanent home.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:48:50 EST</pubDate>
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There could be no other choice &#8230;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:48:24 EST</pubDate>
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When the Troubled Asset Relief Program &#8212; the federal effort to shore up failing companies &#8212; was passed last year, we wondered and worried:           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:57:34 EST</pubDate>
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Children who were &#8220;opted out&#8221; of the president&#8217;s speech missed an inspiring yet pragmatic pep talk, and that&#8217;s just too bad.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:06:10 EST</pubDate>
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Fact: The national debt is so huge, its numbers don&#8217;t even fit on a standard calculator.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:09:22 EST</pubDate>
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The health care debate has turned dramatic, with angry crowds storming meetings. But most disturbing is the haste with which reform is being pushed.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:06:19 EST</pubDate>
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Ever envy those folks who can type a term paper on their computer while listening to their iPod and chatting on their cell phone? Or who can Skype on their desktop, Google on their laptop and game on their Xbox, all at the same time?           ]]></description>
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The &#8220;imagineers&#8221; of Herbie the Love Bug were really on to something.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:01:58 EST</pubDate>
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Wow. Don&#8217;t forget your deodorant if you&#8217;re planning to vacation in Honolulu.
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