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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Stephen Hesse</title>
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		<title>Upgrading from four wheels to two or three</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Careening through the winding streets of Chennai, India, in the back of black and yellow auto-rickshaws, I am always amazed by the drivers&#8217; audacity — or perhaps a better term would be &#8220;death wish.&#8221; These are the subcontinent&#8217;s equivalent of New York&#8217;s exuberant cabbies, but these drivers are much more likely to be found traveling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting at leisure on who we are and where we live</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blue Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donella Meadows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wendell Berry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My day job as a professor in Japan offers precious few chances to take a step back from work and give the old brain a bit of free rein. But August is one such golden opportunity. This year, as usual, I have been visiting family in Massachusetts and spending time on the rugged North Atlantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At home on the Maasai Mara range</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bachi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elephant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mara Conservancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shamisen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Asuka Takita has a passion for Africa and its wildlife that took root during her childhood in Singapore and flourished in the soils of Kenya during her third year of university.]]></description>
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		<title>Jellyfish carry the sting of human overcrowding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It may not be immediately apparent what jellyfish, human population growth and our protein diet have in common. Take a closer look, though, and all three offer warning signs that dramatic changes are on the horizon for us and our planet. For aquarium fans, jellyfish are enchanting; for fishermen they can be costly and back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Abe: Bag the nukes and heed the Keeling Curve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantitative easing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tepco]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Prime Minister Abe, As you ride your recent wave of popularity, I know you are well aware that waves end, either in a crash or a fade. And you are luckier than most to have another chance since being elected as prime minister for the second time despite crashing out of the job in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African elephants pluck at Japan&#8217;s heartstrings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ivory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shamisen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next time you attend a shamisen performance, neither you nor most anyone else there will likely notice the elephant in the room. And those who do probably won’t have given it much thought. ]]></description>
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		<title>Be inspired: One person can help foster sustainable lives for millions</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/03/24/environment/be-inspired-one-person-can-help-foster-sustainable-lives-for-millions/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=be-inspired-one-person-can-help-foster-sustainable-lives-for-millions</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midori Paxton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNDP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, this column introduced Bangkok-based Midori Paxton, who is currently a regional technical adviser for biodiversity and ecosystems with the United Nations Development Programme — and who, I&#8217;m delighted to say, was a model student of mine here in Japan more than 20 years ago. Though it&#8217;s easy to state the simple fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One former student&#8217;s inspiring path to success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midori Paxton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Development Program]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing fewer years ahead and more behind me as a teacher, I often think back over the students who have passed through my classrooms and wonder how many will truly make a difference in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Take a deep breath of everyone else&#8217;s air and pollution</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/01/26/environment/take-a-deep-breath-of-everyone-elses-air-and-pollution/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=take-a-deep-breath-of-everyone-elses-air-and-pollution</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it was due to the fever of impending flu, or the arctic winds rattling our Tokyo home, but recent media photos of Beijing&#8217;s thick smog suddenly brought to mind thoughts of the late U.S. president, John F. Kennedy. On June 26, 1963, Kennedy delivered his most famous Cold War speech to reassure the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyu Asakura&#8217;s garden of wealth and privilege</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/12/30/environment/kyu-asakuras-garden-of-wealth-and-privilege/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kyu-asakuras-garden-of-wealth-and-privilege</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking personally, though likely for many readers, one of the nice things about living in the modern age is that many of the homes and estates of the wealthy and privileged have been opened to folk from the lower orders, meaning we can now freely clod-hop through their elegant drawing rooms and gawp at their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to care for the children when we&#8217;re at odds with the planet?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/12/23/environment/how-to-care-for-the-children-when-were-at-odds-with-the-planet/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-to-care-for-the-children-when-were-at-odds-with-the-planet</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps this column should begin with a disclaimer like those found on CDs and DVDs that are intended to help protect kids from obscenity &#8212; Parental Advisory: Explicit Content. I wonder about this because it might not be healthy for our children to know how little their society cares about them &#8212; let alone the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian scientist uses math to green Japanese baseball</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/11/25/environment/canadian-scientist-uses-math-to-green-japanese-baseball/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=canadian-scientist-uses-math-to-green-japanese-baseball</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Hoshino is a tall, slim mathematician, as tightly wound as a precision timepiece, and irrepressibly polite and cheerful. He also has a hard time taking &#8220;no&#8221; for an answer. Eager to share his love of math and its practical applications, Hoshino is committed to helping solve real-world environmental problems using mathematics &#8212; for example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fresh Currents&#8217; charts the way to, and from, Fukushima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s column is about a book that is very much more than just a book: It is a work of art, a labor of love and a realizable dream of a better future for Japan. But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself &#8230; A fortnight ago, on Oct. 12, Tokyo Electric Power Company&#8217;s internal-reform task [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s nuclear phaseout: Is it all smoke and mirrors?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/09/23/environment/japans-nuclear-phaseout-is-it-all-smoke-and-mirrors/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japans-nuclear-phaseout-is-it-all-smoke-and-mirrors</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 14, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda&#8217;s administration announced that Japan would end nuclear-power generation by 2040. Five days later his Cabinet failed to endorse the new policy; but on the same day, Sept. 19, Trade Minister Yukio Edano insisted that the government would still act &#8220;based on&#8221; the plan. Confused? Here in Japan it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If we ruin the air, what will our children breathe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the sun set into the Pacific Ocean from a hotel tucked in among the dry scrub hills of San Diego, I have a chance to reflect on life here in Southern California, on climate changes and on what&#8217;s in store for future generations. I&#8217;m here with a group of 22 Japanese university students who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Rio+20 the way the world ends &#8212; with a whimper?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/07/22/environment/is-rio20-the-way-the-world-ends-with-a-whimper/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-rio20-the-way-the-world-ends-with-a-whimper</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, more than 45,000 people descended on Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Coming 20 years after the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development held there in 1992 (which was generally referred to as the Rio Earth Summit), Rio+20 &#8212; as the event held from June 20-22 is known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s none so blind as those who deny they cannot see</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buddhism teaches that all human suffering is rooted in greed, anger and ignorance. Whether true or not, it is clear that related human failings are compromising our planet: our material greed, our ignorance of natural systems, and most of all, our dogged denial. Certainly these three factors share in the blame for Japan&#8217;s decision, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan has a role to play in environment and rights issues in Belize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The United Nations&#8217; largest-ever conference, billed as a historic opportunity to create a greener future, appears to be going up in smoke.&#8221; That was the sobering observation contained in an Associated Press story in The Japan Times of May 13 headlined &#8220;Fears of failure loom for largest-ever U.N. summit.&#8221; &#8220;With less than six weeks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It takes a forest, a field and a stream to raise a child</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1996, back when the present U.S. Secretary of State was the first lady, Hillary Rodham-Clinton published a book titled &#8220;It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us,&#8221; which popularized an old African proverb &#8212; &#8220;It takes a village to raise a child.&#8221; I&#8217;m betting that if David Paddock writes a book, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A woman of wisdom among the energy mandarins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask me who should facilitate Japan&#8217;s energy dialogue and the choice is easy: Junko Edahiro. Edahiro is a highly accomplished author, interpreter, translator, environmental journalist, policy consultant and cross-sector networker. She is also the inspiration behind several of Japan&#8217;s top environmental information networks, including Japan for Sustainability (www.japanfs.org). Earlier this month, I spoke with Edahiro, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gloom, doom &#8212; and Lester Brown&#8217;s &#8216;Plan B&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has read any of the 50-plus books that Lester Brown has authored or co-authored (in any of the 40-odd languages into which they&#8217;ve been translated) might easily imagine him to be another gloomy environmentalist. At least that was the kind of person I half-expected to encounter when we met at his invitation for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing self and systems for a leaner and greener Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Year in, year out, it never ceases to amaze me what a difference a day makes. In an instant, December ends, January begins, and a miraculous transformation takes place. For the reverent and the riotous equally, midnight wipes the cosmic slate clean. Through some curious combination of tradition, superstition and mass suspension of disbelief, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Japan to realize it really is the canary in the mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Christmas Day column is a book review, but it is also a wish and a prayer. The wish is that the book might, even in some small way, contribute to the development of robust and open debate over Japan&#8217;s energy future, the options available, and the hard choices that must be made by Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demand change: an open letter to Japan&#8217;s rising generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like my 17-year-old, then you probably already know just about everything there is to know, and reading this column you&#8217;ll likely just say: &#8220;Yeah, right, whatever,&#8221; or &#8220;So?&#8221; But if you have a few minutes, younger readers especially, please bear with me. As a father, professor and environment journalist, I am seriously concerned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only the Japanese public&#8217;s will can raze that lethal &#8216;village&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Of all the places in all the world where no one in their right mind would build scores of nuclear power plants, Japan would be pretty near the top of the list,&#8221; wrote Leuren Moret in a &#8220;Power and the people&#8221; Timeout special in The Japan Times on May 23, 2004. Her story, headlined &#8220;Japan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now is the time for a &#8216;brand Japan&#8217; that creates and inspires</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 19, just as this column hit deadline, news outlets reported that a massive demonstration was taking place in Tokyo, rallying tens of thousands of people against nuclear power. The next day, in a move that seemingly intended to demoralize this unprecedented expression of grassroots democracy, it was announced that Japan&#8217;s new Prime Minister, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is youth&#8217;s &#8216;creeping passivity&#8217; happening by design?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last February, I wrote an Our Planet Earth column titled &#8220;Don&#8217;t give up on Japan&#8217;s kids,&#8221; noting there that despite all the hand-wringing that goes on about this nation&#8217;s young people, my own experience with university students gives me cause for considerable optimism. I wrote that column in response to questions I often hear in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What chance a &#8216;free market&#8217; would cure all the world&#8217;s ills?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old friend is a successful investment banker who makes more money in a year than I will make in my lifetime. Like many people, though, he would like to make even more. Standing in his way, he believes, are lawyers and environmentalists. If we could rid society of these self-serving Don Quixotes, he argues, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readers offer 3/11 insights, valuable resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Japan has struggled with the physical and emotional challenges of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 11, and the ongoing nuclear crisis that resulted, I have written three Our Planet Earth columns related to those events: one on Japan&#8217;s response (March 27); one on alternative energy options (April 24); and one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. court victories show how to get rid of nuclear plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyer Tom Twomey knows far more than most of us about the importance of citizen participation in making energy policy. That&#8217;s because Twomey has spent four decades keeping a watchful eye on electric power suppliers in New York &#8212; and he&#8217;s learned that what we don&#8217;t know can hurt us. Certainly, what he&#8217;s learned about [...]]]></description>
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