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		<title>Wearable tech such as Google Glass, Galaxy Gear raises alarms for privacy advocates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayley Tsukayama</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Gear smart watch is set to hit stores this week, part of a new wave of wearable technology that some fear could open a largely unregulated door into users&#8217; private lives. The 1.6-inch, &#036;300 watch will be able to make calls, take pictures and send texts &#8212; collecting troves of data on users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Badger stew dish of the day for British fan of roadkill cuisine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Haddon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Take one dead badger, head and all, dust with flour and herbs, season and braise for five hours &#8212; that&#8217;s the recipe for a perfect stew, according to British roadkill-eater Arthur Boyt. From dogs and cats to polecats and mice, Boyt insists there is nothing tastier than scooping up a dead animal from the road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple has a secret weapon in iOS7, iPhone5s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Steve Jobs was still with us, many commentators &#8212; yours truly included &#8212; used to complain about the &#8220;reality distortion field&#8221; that surrounded Apple&#8217;s charismatic leader. Those in attendance when Jobs launched the devices and services (iPod, iTunes, OS X, iMac, MacBook, iPhone and iPad) that blew such huge holes in the business models [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A welcome sign: Tantrums may be on the way out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Demetriou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby signs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible). ]]></description>
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		<title>Construction work at the desk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean Snow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D-Bros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edition Horizontal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NOSIGNER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twelvetone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Get ready for 2014 with new diaries, fun desk accesories and other interior goods]]></description>
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		<title>A recipe for sanity: water, salt and nothing else</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Moyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isolation tank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This summer, I spent an hour floating in a 1.21 × 2.4-meter isolation tank filled with tepid salt water in a basement in Manassas, Virginia. Floating in a tank of skin-temperature water saltier than the Dead Sea is said to induce an ethereal, meditative state &#8212; one that doesn&#8217;t necessitate furtive handoffs on street corners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPCC report may be ditched</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/29/environment/ipcc-report-may-be-ditched/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ipcc-report-may-be-ditched</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Ingham  and Anthony Lucas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top U.N. experts have just delivered the first volume of a massive new climate change report, but already whispers are starting to be heard: Will it be the last such review? By the end of 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should have delivered all three tomes, plus a synthesis of the trio, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good morning Miss Kita-Senju, konbanwa Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Chozick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps there comes a day in many a man&#8217;s life when he squints and says to himself something like this: 「まずいなぁ、もう少し度の強いメガネがあったら良かった。この距離だと、あの方が女装している北野武さんなのか、ミス・インターナショナルなのか、分からないや」(&#8220;Mazui n&#257;, m&#333; sukoshi do no tsuyoi megane ga attara yokatta. Kono kyori da to, ano kata ga jyos&#333; shiteiru Kitano Takeshi-san nanoka, Misu Int&#257;nashonaru nanoka, wakaranai ya,&#8221; &#8220;Yikes, if only I had stronger eyeglasses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trail from Swiss glacier&#8217;s ever-faster melting is evidence of warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hourlong walk from the local railway station to the Morteratsch glacier is a winding trek through a valley littered with rocks that the retreating ice left behind. The walk was not always this long. In the mid-19th century, the Morteratsch glacier stretched all the way to the station in Morteratsch, a hamlet in southeastern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Majority of students experience bullying</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Osamu  and Nobuko Mizutani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER) announced on the fifth that according to a survey it had conducted, only 30 percent of students are free from being bullied in junior high school. ]]></description>
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		<title>Geragera waratte, urusai-yo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akemi Tanahashi  and Hitomi Tashiro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this lesson, we introduce vocabulary to express various kinds of laughter, smiles, giggles and so on.]]></description>
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		<title>Camera artist casts new light on Jomon millennia</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/28/general/camera-artist-casts-new-light-on-jomon-millennia/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=camera-artist-casts-new-light-on-jomon-millennia</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[archeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jomon Period]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pottery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Jomon Period of Japanese history is so shrouded in the mists of time that any bid to fathom its secrets stretches even the usual bounds of prehistoric archeology. Yet as amateurs and experts alike have continued unearthing examples of Jomon pottery and stone tools for more than a century, the pieces of the puzzle are gradually coming together.]]></description>
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		<title>Aquaculture advances are leading to more eco-friendly farmed salmon</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/28/environment/aquaculture-advances-are-leading-to-more-eco-friendly-farmed-salmon/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=aquaculture-advances-are-leading-to-more-eco-friendly-farmed-salmon</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamar Haspel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[farmed salmon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Come dinner time, wild salmon is an excellent choice. Many of the Pacific fisheries are well managed, and the fish itself is healthy and delicious. The problem is that there isn&#8217;t very much of it left. Worldwide, our annual wild salmon harvest comes to about 2 billion pounds (907 million kg), which sounds like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmed salmon beats wild salmon in taste test</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[farmed salmon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Read a story about salmon, and the odds are that, somewhere, it&#8217;ll tell you that wild salmon tastes better than farmed. But does it? We decided to find out in a blind tasting, and assembled a panel that included noted Washington seafood chefs and a seafood wholesaler. The fish swam the gamut. We had wild [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solitude is where you find it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit Nagamura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under cartoon-blue skies washed by early-autumn typhoons, I stand at Sendaizaka-ue (summit of Sendaizaka Slope) in Tokyo&#8217;s Minato Ward. Sendaizaka was named for daimyo lords from Edo Period (1603-1867) Sendai, now in Miyagi Prefecture, who maintained a yashiki (suburban home) on the slope that today hosts the newly rebuilt Embassy of South Korea. At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stroll through 1,000 years of history in one Nikko garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mansfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese gardens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before seeing the great sights of Nikko, the visitor cannot fail to be impressed by the luxuriance of the area&#8217;s moss. Towering cryptomeria trees, allowing filtered light to penetrate ground cover, provide ideal incubation zones and levels of exposure and protection for the flourishing of moss in this part of Tochigi Prefecture&#8217;s damp summers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPCC &#8217;95% certain&#8217; climate change is man-made</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top scientists have a better idea of how global warming will shape the 21st century: In a new report, they predict sea levels will be much higher than previously thought and pinpoint how dangerously hot it&#8217;s likely to get. In its most strongly worded report yet, an international climate panel said it was more confident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sands of time running out for rare Canada desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As desertification creeps into parts of the world, a rare stretch of sand in Canada&#8217;s vast western plains is oddly doing the reverse &#8212; slowly sprouting vegetation. Tufts of prairie grasses are emerging throughout Spirit Sands, a stretch of dunes steeped in local lore in a popular nature park in Manitoba province. The sands only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping tips from the Costco queen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about a crazy idea: A big-box American retailer seeks to enter a market where customers value precision and sophistication in their shopping experience. ]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s secret love of a breakfast loaf</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/26/food/japans-secret-love-of-a-breakfast-loaf/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japans-secret-love-of-a-breakfast-loaf</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Itoh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is generally regarded as being a rice-based food culture. However, bread — or pan in Japanese, derived from the Portuguese word pão — is eaten almost as widely.]]></description>
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		<title>Upgraded Caramelo, pastry shop at Cerulean; Hokkaido fair at Tokyo Dome Hotel</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/26/travel/upgraded-caramelo-pastry-shop-at-cerulean-hokkaido-fair-at-tokyo-dome-hotel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=upgraded-caramelo-pastry-shop-at-cerulean-hokkaido-fair-at-tokyo-dome-hotel</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyu Hotel’s Caramelo restaurant and its pastry shop, both on the lobby floor, have been renovated and reopened from Sept. 1.]]></description>
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		<title>Finnair&#8217;s CEO on Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/25/travel/finnairs-ceo-on-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=finnairs-ceo-on-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finnair held a press conference at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo on Sept. 24 to introduce Pekka Vauramo, who became the company&#8217;s new president and CEO in June. Founded in 1923, Finnair is the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland and one of the world&#8217;s oldest airline companies. Vauramo previously served in Hong Kong as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does 95% certainty of warming mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Borenstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill. They are as sure about climate change as they are about the age of the universe. And they are more certain about climate change than they are that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killer Sao Paulo pollution highlighted</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/25/environment/killer-sao-paulo-pollution-highlighted/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=killer-sao-paulo-pollution-highlighted</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air pollution kills more people annually than road accidents in Sao Paulo, Brazil&#8217;s most populous city and host of the opening game of the 2014 World Cup, a study found. The survey by the Health and Environment out Tuesday said at least 4,655 people died from pollution-related ailments in the city &#8212; home to 11 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Producer gets deep inside the otaku heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judit Kawaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Masaaki Katabami is a content producer working in Tokyo. Besides producing manga and mascot design for clients, Katabami publishes Burgeon, a biannual free manga magazine aimed at a female otaku (geek) readership. Available at Tokyo&#8217;s Comiket (Comic Market fair), the magazine is in its sixth year. In 2012, Katabami wrote two books on two of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is China after our inventions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Naughton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things never change. For as long as I can remember, people in the west have been paranoid about the Orient &#8212; and about China in particular. I grew up in an ultra-devout Catholic household in rural Ireland and I remember my mother being terrified by what people then called &#8220;the yellow peril,&#8221; by which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. lays out rules for some smartphone health apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials say they will begin regulating a new wave of applications and gadgets that work with smartphones to take medical readings and help users monitor their health. With the rise of the iPhone, Android and other mobile devices has come a flood of applications designed to help people stay healthy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gamers&#8217; dilemma at this year&#8217;s TGS: PS4 or Xbox One?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/24/digital/gamers-dilemma-at-this-years-tgs-ps4-or-xbox-one/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gamers-dilemma-at-this-years-tgs-ps4-or-xbox-one</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Ashcraft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When each new generation of game hardware begins, gamers are presented with choices: Which console will they buy? Will they be satisfied with one company's machine or will they need to buy rival hardware too?]]></description>
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		<title>Global warming &#8216;pause&#8217; gives ammo to skeptics&#8217; argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slowdown in warming that has provided fuel for climate skeptics is one of the thorniest issues in a report to be issued by U.N. experts on Friday. Over the past 15 years, the world&#8217;s average surface temperature rose far slower than many climate models have predicted. According to projections, global warming should go in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Rain&#8217; reveals it gameplay while &#8216;Wind Waker&#8217; goes HD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Ashcraft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re playing in the rain &#8220;Rain&#8221; is perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful game of 2013. Developed by Sony&#8217;s Japan Studio, it&#8217;s set in a darkened city and begins with a boy seeing the silhouette of an invisible girl in the rain. The boy follows the silhouette, turning into a shadowy form himself, and enters a [...]]]></description>
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