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		<title>Icon Beckham set to retire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Beckham, whose curling free kicks, rugged good looks and celebrity marriage made him one of the most famous athletes in the world, is retiring from soccer. Whether striding on the grass, the red carpet or the fashion catwalks, Beckham transcended his sport and became its highest-paid player, with a fortune estimated at &#036;250 million. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Abenomics&#8217; turns Japan into global investor target</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shamim Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Investors are more confident in a Japanese leader than any time since at least September 2010, with optimism about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#8217;s policies exceeding that for counterparts in the U.S., Europe and China. The number of respondents who are more optimistic than pessimistic on the impact of Abe&#8217;s plans on Japan&#8217;s investment climate rose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9/11 military &#8216;carte blanche&#8217; revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave presidents to wage a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes. Senior Defense Department officials insisted Thursday that the law should remain unchanged, since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nippon Ishin to oust member over South Korean prostitute claim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nippon Ishin no Kai, whose coleader Toru Hashimoto is under fire for contentious remarks, will expel a party lawmaker who claims Japan has "swarms" of South Korean prostitutes. ]]></description>
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		<title>JGB yield spikes raise alarm bells</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it a sign of a full-fledged economic recovery or a looming catastrophe in the monetary making? Recent spikes in Japan&#8217;s long-term interest rate, represented by the 10-year government bond, have created a stir and roused a deep sense of alarm among investors and powerful politicians. A confident Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda fired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hashimoto now blames public for misreading him, snubs press</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nippon Ishin no Kai coleader Toru Hashimoto says the public's "lack of reading comprehension" has caused his remarks to be taken as trying to justify the wartime sex slaves have been "misunderstood." ]]></description>
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		<title>The main question: Why did Hashimoto open his mouth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since news broke that Osaka maverick politician Toru Hashimoto said Japan's wartime sex slave system was necessary and U.S. soldiers in Okinawa should use more prostitutes, the question is why did he say this? ]]></description>
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		<title>JAEA head quits over Monju ills</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president of the state-run Japan Atomic Energy Agency resigned Friday over the body&#8217;s failure to properly inspect the troubled Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, science and technology minister Hakubun Shimomura said. Shimomura told reporters that he had accepted Atsuyuki Suzuki&#8217;s resignation and will name a successor shortly. On Wednesday, the Nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese director tests limits with &#8216;Touch of Sin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disgusted by corrupt local leaders, an angry miner picks up a shotgun. A migrant worker returning home looks to armed robbery to escape a life of relentless bleakness. A pretty receptionist at a sauna is driven to the limit when a gangster tries to rape her. And a young man drifts nightmarishly from job to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resona in Malaysian bank tieup for Asian expansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resona Holdings Inc., the nation&#8217;s fifth-largest bank by market value, is poised to tie up with Malaysia&#8217;s Public Bank Bhd. as part of its efforts to expand in Asia. Resona will sign an agreement with Malaysia&#8217;s third-biggest lender on Monday to serve Japanese companies looking to enter the country and borrow in the local currency, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe powers Giants past Lions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes a lot to stop the Yomiuri Giants once they get on a roll. A whole lot more than Ryoma Nogami and the Seibu Lions had Friday night. Shinnosuke Abe put the Giants ahead with a three-run home run in the third inning, and the Kyojin just kept piling on in a 7-2 win [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In reversal, man claims Jackson long abused him</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian choreographer alleged Thursday that Michael Jackson sexually abused him for seven years as a child, a claim the late singer&#8217;s estate described as &#8220;outrageous and sad.&#8221; Wade Robson &#8212; who testified at Jackson&#8217;s infamous 2005 molestation trial that the star never touched him &#8212; told a TV interviewer that the self-styled &#8220;King of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe lays out next step in his growth strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveils strategies for economic growth, ranging from promoting exports of infrastructure systems and developing measures to help create startup ventures to easing tourist visa regulations.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed fracking rules hit by green, oil groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration drew sharp criticism from environmental and oil industry groups Thursday when it issued a new draft of regulations for fracking on federal and Indian lands. Environmental groups said the new draft provides weaker water protections than a version the Interior Department proposed a year ago, and oil industry groups said they wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shut Monju down permanently</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Abe government should give up on the trouble-plagued Monju fast-breeder reactor project after the Nuclear Regulation Authority cited safety management problems.]]></description>
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		<title>Women translate remarks for world</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translations of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto&#8217;s remarks on Japan&#8217;s wartime sex slaves posted on Facebook by a women&#8217;s group have provoked heated reactions from all over the world. All Japan Obachan Party, a group set up by Osaka-based middle-aged women in November, translated Hashimoto&#8217;s recent remarks into seven languages &#8212; English, Chinese, Korean, French, Spanish, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before tea party scandal, IRS harassed gay groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before there was the tea party, there was Big Mama Rag, Inc. It was a radical feminist collective in the 1970s, and it devoted itself to lectures, seminars, a free library and a newspaper, the Big Mama Rag. The group applied for nonprofit status from the IRS and was initially refused for, among other reasons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skateboarders fight to save famed London spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skateboarders soar out of the concrete bowl beneath London&#8217;s Southbank Center, as they have done for the past 40 years, while spectators drink beer and hip-hop beats stoke up the party atmosphere. But this is no party &#8212; it is a protest. These knights of the pavement are jousting with authorities to save one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign-born professional strives to reconnect Japanese with koto music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise George Kittaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only is the gifted musician breaking down stereotypes about traditional music in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beckham&#8217;s impact was immense</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Davies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The England coach was pulling away after a training session when suddenly David Beckham asked the driver to stop. Beckham stepped out of the coach and signed autographs for two fans he had missed earlier. Sometimes it is the small things that define a person. Sorry Jose, but the real Special One is David Beckham. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As LDP rides high, are factions biding time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayako Mie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In late April at an upscale hotel in Tokyo, more than 100 people thronged to have their photo taken with Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso. The fundraising party, organized by Ikokai, Aso&#8217;s faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attracted more than 2,500 people, twice more than last year, when the LDP was the largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live music therapy boosts fragile preemies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes. This is therapy in a newborn intensive care unit, and research suggests that music may help those born way too soon adapt to life outside the womb. Some tiny premature babies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game maker GungHo blows by rivals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GungHo Online Entertainment Inc.&#8217;s presence on the stock market has been growing rapidly on the growth of its monstrously popular smartphone game &#8220;Puzzle and Dragons.&#8221; After starting the year at &#165;84,200, GungHo&#8217;s stock price had climbed to &#165;1.26 million at Friday&#8217;s close on the Jasdaq. This brought its market value to &#165;1.45 trillion, sending it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WBA bantamweight champ Koki Kameda to face Apolinario in title defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WBA bantamweight champion Koki Kameda will face third-ranked challenger John Mark Apolinario of the Philippines in his seventh defense of the title on July 23 at Tokyo Big Site. After winning a razor-thin split decision over Panomroonglek Kaiyanghadaogym of Thailand in April, the 26-year-old Kameda has proclaimed he is prepared to put his career on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LulzSec &#8216;hacktivists&#8217; sentenced</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four members of the LulzSec international hacking group were sentenced to prison terms in Britain on Thursday for masterminding cyber-attacks on major global institutions, including Sony Pictures and the CIA. Ryan Cleary, 21, Jake Davis, 20, Mustafa al-Bassam, 18, and Ryan Ackroyd, 26, saw themselves as &#8220;latter-day pirates&#8221; when they carried out the attacks on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill would get tough on welfare cheats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government adopted two welfare bills at a Cabinet meeting Friday that would spell out tougher measures for cheats. The legislation comprises a bill to revise the Public Assistance Act and a bill to support poor people. Under the proposed change to the Public Assistance Act, the first full revision since it took effect in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funds mulled to move schools out of tsunami zones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling coalition is planning to earmark funding to help move schools and other facilities for children and the elderly out of tsunami range from a massive earthquake. The Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito are considering including the measure in proposed legislation to prepare for a powerful quake in the Nankai Trough off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spy scandal casts shadow over Park win</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyung Jin Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The scandal shaking up South Korea&#8217;s main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul&#8217;s opaque rival to the north, but the country&#8217;s own people. Internet postings ostensibly from ordinary South Koreans, but actually from National Intelligence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hakuho improves to 6-0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hakuho motored ahead with a sixth win and Harumafuji posted a morale-boosting victory to get his stuttering campaign to prove his worth as a yokozuna back on track on the sixth day of action at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday. Hakuho, seeking a 25th Emperor&#8217;s Cup, was unfazed by Okinoumi&#8217;s attempts to register [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LDP platform for July poll to push reactor restarts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruling Liberal Democratic Party platform for this summer&#8217;s Upper House election will probably include a pledge to restart idled nuclear reactors. A draft of the LDP policy package, on which its Upper House poll platform will be based, calls for the government to take responsibility for restarting reactors. For the December Lower House poll, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LDP wants more might for SDF, and Ospreys</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayako Mie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Democratic Party called Friday for a more muscular role for the Self-Defense Forces in defending Japan and fulfilling the nation&#8217;s responsibility as a U.S. ally. In its draft proposal for a 10-year defense outline, the party&#8217;s Defense and Security Committee says the SDF should be given more amphibious capabilities and equipped with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston suspect called victims &#8216;collateral damage&#8217; for wars overseas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims &#8220;collateral damage&#8221; for U.S. action in Afghanistan and Iraq, local media reported Thursday. &#8220;When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,&#8221; Tsarnaev also scribbled on the inside wall of the boat where he hid from police during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Moai statue puts down roots in Minamisanriku</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A replacement Moai statue from Chile was installed Thursday in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, as a gift to help the tsunami-hit residents recover. It took about two hours for a crane to lift the 2-ton, 3-meter-high replica of one of Easter Island&#8217;s famed statues from a shopping mall parking lot to its new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Striker Wilson to complete suspension this weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vegalta Sendai striker Wilson will serve out the remainder of his two-match ban for Saturday&#8217;s away game to Yokohama F. Marinos after being sent off in the Asian Champions League, the J. League said Friday. Wilson was handed the ban by the Asian Football Confederation after he was dismissed in the late stages of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe urges help for working parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday his government will consider a range of policy measures to help companies that actively support employees with children. Abe made the comments after visiting an in-house nursery at cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. in Minato Ward, Tokyo, and spoke with employees who use the facility. Abe told reporters afterward that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kabul suicide bomb attack kills 15</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including six U.S. military advisers and two children, officials said. An Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out by a new suicide unit formed in response to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dying man&#8217;s blinks lead to verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. man was found guilty of murder Thursday after his paralyzed victim identified him by blinking during a police interview. The defense had tried to block a police video of the interview, saying David Chandler&#8217;s blinking was inconsistent and unreliable. A jury convicted Ricardo Woods, 35, of murder and felonious assault. Police interviewed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modec, Saga tie on tide-wind gambit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modec Inc., a maker of floating oil platforms, and the Saga Prefectural Government have announced they will conduct this autumn the world&#8217;s first experiment to generate electricity from a combination of tidal and wind systems. The combination is expected to help increase stability and efficiency of power production from alternative sources. The 60-meter floating apparatus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two charged in parade shooting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two brothers who belong to a New Orleans gang were charged with opening fire at a Mother&#8217;s Day parade in New Orleans where 20 people were shot, police said Thursday. Sunday&#8217;s shooting at a crowded parade filled with families shocked the Big Easy, which is struggling to overcome what Mayor Mitch Landrieu described as &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panasonic to source H.K. batteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling electronics maker Panasonic Corp. plans to procure small lithium-ion batteries for smartphones from a Hong Kong firm, sources said Friday. Sales of the batteries made by Amperex Technology Ltd., a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of TDK Corp., might start by the end of the fiscal year ending next March under the Panasonic brand, the sources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marchand lifts Bruins to OT triumph over Rangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good things happen for the Bruins in overtime. Even for Brad Marchand. Boston&#8217;s leading goal-scorer during the regular season scored his first of the postseason with 4:20 left in the first overtime and the Bruins beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Thursday night in the first playoff game in 40 years between the Original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking care of an aging smartphone &#8212; until the end</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I had bought a smartphone, but I ended up with a dumb phone instead. It&#8217;s probably my fault for not asking for documentation showing it had passed an IQ test. My phone is not smart enough to pass university entrance exams, the American SAT&#8217;s, the Japan Language Proficiency test, the Eiken test or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama blasts sex crimes in military</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama summoned the Pentagon&#8217;s leadership to the White House on Thursday for a crisis meeting about sexual assault in the armed forces, but the commander in chief said that &#8220;there&#8217;s no silver bullet to solving this problem.&#8221; In a brief appearance after the session, Obama said sex crimes in the military are &#8220;dangerous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employment rate for college grads hits 93.9%</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The employment rate for people who graduated from college in March rose for the second straight year, standing at 93.9 percent on April 1, the start of the business year, up 0.3 percentage point from a year earlier, the government said Friday. The employment situation for college graduates has been recovering since the 2008 Lehman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defense cybersecurity unit planned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Ministry said Thursday it will create a team of experts to counter cyber-attacks and prevent them from threatening national security. &#8220;We are seeing more complicated and sophisticated cyber-attacks than before, and it&#8217;s a big threat,&#8221; Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said. &#8220;We need to work closely with U.S. authorities.&#8221; By next March, around 90 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changes in color of cooking foods can accelerate disastrous results</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever tried toasting hamburger buns on a grill? It takes uncanny timing to achieve an even medium brown across the buns. Typically, they remain white for far too long. Then, as if time accelerates, they blow past toasted to burned in the seconds it takes to flip the burgers. The same phenomenon is at work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pyramid wrecker claims permission</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The owner of a road-building company in Belize that has been blamed for the near destruction of one of the country&#8217;s biggest Maya pyramids said Thursday that the landowner gave permission to extract the material. Businessman Denny Grijalva said the landowner had allowed excavations on his property for more than a decade. In 1998, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massacre clan wins in Philippine polls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A clan whose chiefs are on trial for the Philippines&#8217; worst political massacre secured big wins in local elections this week, results showed Friday, deepening fears that justice may never be served. Leaders of the Ampatuan family and their gunmen are accused of massacring 58 people, including 32 journalists, in the southern province of Maguindanao [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minister red-faced over &#8216;sneaky nuts&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he &#8220;liked&#8221; a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself. Western Australia Minister for Education Peter Collier said he clicked the &#8220;like&#8221; button under what he thought was an innocent photo of the then-16-year-old in late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret AP subpoena case revives calls for media shield bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy over the U.S. government&#8217;s secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators &#8212; and the White House is endorsing the idea. The proposal will not provide blanket protection for a journalist from having to reveal who he or she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LDP panel wants first grade open to 5-year-olds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An education reform panel of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will propose bringing forward elementary school enrollment by one year so 5-year-olds can start compulsory education, sources said Friday. The panel headed by House of Representatives member Toshiaki Endo will also suggest changing the nation&#8217;s 6-3-3 education system, which refers to six years at elementary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New textile able to absorb more influenza antibodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Osumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have come up with new technology that lets textiles absorb more flu antibodies, a development likely to make face masks more effective in warding off the flu bug, the Textile Industry Research Institute of Gunma said. Textiles with influenza antibodies aren&#8217;t new on the market, but the technology currently in use involves dipping fibers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niigata, Yokohama evenly matched in Final Four clash</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Odeven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One victory separated the Eastern Conference regular-season champion Niigata Albirex BB and the second-place Yokohama B-Corsairs in the standings. That one game is indicative of the talent, roster depth, experience and quality coaching for both teams. Niigata finished 36-16 in Matt Garrison&#8217;s second season as head coach. Yokohama went 35-17 under second-year bench boss Reggie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A glimpse inside the minds of sex slavery predators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Harris  and Ed Pilkington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ariel Castro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annals of criminal history are writ large with ordinary streets that hide dark secrets, but even so the peculiar horror believed to have been perpetrated by Ariel Castro on Seymour Avenue in the rust-belt city of Cleveland stands out. He stands accused of kidnapping three girls, keeping them captive for years in his suburban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aichi&#8217;s drop in 2012 factory rankings deceiving, if only for lack of energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aichi ranked fourth nationwide in new factory construction in 2012 with 51 new locations designated for plants, a report compiled by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said. Although the prefecture&#8217;s rank slid from second last year, new properties rose by eight, with the aerospace and automobile industries leading the way with 11 new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putin to begin helicopter commute</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Vladimir Putin is to switch from car to helicopter for short hops from the Kremlin, his spokesman said Thursday, delighting drivers weary of his motorcade causing huge jams but raising concerns about damage to the historic buildings. Until now Putin has commuted daily to the Kremlin from his country residence, zooming along empty roads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesotho princesses can&#8217;t be chiefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesotho&#8217;s top court Thursday upheld a law that bars princesses from succeeding their fathers as traditional chiefs, a decision that activists say dealt a &#8220;serious blow&#8221; to women&#8217;s rights and gender equality. Constitutional Court Judge Ts&#8217;eliso Monaphathi ruled the current law is not discriminatory, as it allows for the wives of a chief to become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. adopts rule on derivatives trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rule intended to loosen the largest U.S. banks&#8217; control over the trading of complex investments and help safeguard the financial system was weakened Thursday by regulators. Critics say the changes will allow major Wall Street banks to continue to dominate the $700 trillion derivatives market. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the rule by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia executes three murderers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia executed three convicted murderers Friday, an official said, the second time that the country has done so since 2008 in a move that drew fire from rights groups. Suryadi Swabhuana, Jurit and Ibrahim, all Indonesians, were put to death by firing squad in Nusakambangan prison, on an island off the coast of Java. Indonesia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darvish bests Verlander to notch seventh victory of season</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banished to the dugout after his shortest outing in nearly three years, Justin Verlander wandered around like he didn&#8217;t know who or where he was. Maybe it&#8217;s because his pitching was unrecognizable. Geovany Soto knocked out the Detroit ace with a three-run homer that capped a seven-run third, and Yu Darvish lasted eight innings even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aussie gets 45 years for killing Indian</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbor and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed Friday for 45 years for the &#8220;horrifying&#8221; murder. Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a 24-year-old accounting student who lived in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alleviate Okinawa&#8217;s burden</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-one years after Okinawa reverted from U.S. administration to Japan, Okinawans are not happy about the U.S. military presence or Japan-China territorial tensions.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. stocks dip on weak results, data</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. stocks Thursday took a pause from a recent winning streak, selling off after a disappointing earnings report from Walmart and some middling economic data. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 42.47, or 0.28 percent, to 15,233.22. The broad-based S&#38;P 500 fell 8.31, or 0.50 percent, to 1,650.47, while the Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 6.37, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An evening of Cambodian dance in Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of May 16, various kinds of traditional Cambodian dance were performed at the open-air Citizens&#8217; Plaza of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings in Shinjuku Ward. Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Japan-Cambodia diplomatic relations, the performance took place as part of a two-day cultural exchange event, Open-Air Noh and Cambodian Dance, which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aeon sets 50% female manager goal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retail giant Aeon Co. plans to have women filling 30 percent of managerial positions by 2016 and 50 percent by 2020, President Motoya Okada said. Only around 10 percent of all managers at its roughly 200 group companies are women, due in part to rules that oblige candidates for managerial posts to basically accept transfers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neocriminology: identifying a murderer&#8217;s brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1987, Adrian Raine, who describes himself as a neurocriminologist, moved from Britain to America. His emigration was prompted by two things. The first was a sense of banging his head against a wall. Raine, who grew up in England, and is now a professor at the University of Philadelphia, was a researcher of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China-India: coercion easily trumps diffidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a classic replay of its old game, China recently intruded across the Himalayan frontier with India and then disingenuously counseled "patience" and "negotiations."]]></description>
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		<title>Crime not ruled out in Texas blast</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One month after a fire triggered a massive blast at a Texas fertilizer plant that killed 15 people, officials Thursday had to declare the cause of the blaze as &#8220;undetermined.&#8221; Investigators narrowed the number of possible causes to three: a problem with one of the plant&#8217;s electrical systems, a battery-powered golf cart and a criminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knicks dig in, force Game 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks broke out just enough to stay in it. Anthony scored 28 points and the Knicks avoided elimination in the Eastern Conference semifinals with an 85-75 victory over the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 on Thursday night. Reserves J.R. Smith and Chris Copeland each had 13 points for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has the distinctly un-catchy, abbreviated title &#8220;DSM-5,&#8221; and is known to no one outside the world of mental health. But, even before its publication on May 22, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, psychiatry&#8217;s dictionary of disorders, has triggered a bitter row that stretches across the Atlantic and has fueled a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh counts cost after cyclone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangladesh and Myanmar cleaned up on Friday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes, relieved that the damage was not much worse after the storm weakened as it made landfall. At least 40 people were either killed by Cyclone Mahasen or while trying to flee its impact, including 25 Muslim Rohingya whose bodies washed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents in Norway jailed for incest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Norwegian court Thursday sentenced a couple to 17 years in prison for violence, rape and incestuous relations with their three sons, calling it the country&#8217;s worst sexual abuse case. A 39-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man had been accused of physical and sexual violence over two years, from a very young age, against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PM2.5 excessive at most monitors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air pollution caused by microparticle PM2.5 exceeded environmental criteria at more than 70 percent of the measuring stations across Japan in fiscal 2011, the Environment Ministry said. Many of the observatory stations that measured levels of PM2.5 exceeding the environmental limit are located in eastern and western regions. In addition, above-limit figures were recorded at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salaries slipped again in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monthly pay of private-sector workers in Japan averaged &#165;313,695 in fiscal 2012, down 0.7 percent from the previous year, as the nation&#8217;s ranks of part-time workers expanded, the government said Friday. Pay dropped for the second consecutive year, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said. Base wages fell 0.5 percent to &#165;242,328, while bonus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minds traumatized by disaster heal themselves</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit on Boxing Day 2004. The resulting tsunami devastated huge swaths of the Indian Ocean coastline and left an estimated quarter of a million people dead across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Aid agencies quickly arrived to help battered and traumatised survivors. Mental health was a massive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISS ammonia leak fixed, NASA says</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday. The &#8220;gusher&#8221; erupted a week ago, prompting the hastiest repair job ever by residents of the orbiting lab. Spacewalking astronauts replaced a suspect ammonia pump Saturday, just two days after the trouble began.]]></description>
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		<title>Moniz confirmed as energy secretary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the new U.S. energy secretary. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama&#8217;s first term. Moniz was an energy undersecretary in the Clinton administration. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat and chairman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cerberus extends tender for Seibu</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cerberus Capital Management LP said Thursday it will extend its tender offer for Seibu Holdings Inc. shares for two weeks until May 31 as shareholders are still making inquires about the U.S. private equity firm&#8217;s offer. Cerberus, which already holds a 32 percent stake in the railway and hotel operator, made no change to other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google gets queries sent by startup in Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google&#8217;s dominance in communist Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company&#8217;s search engine, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party. The move Thursday follows an Associated Press [...]]]></description>
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