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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>Camera artist casts new light on Jomon millennia</title>
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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>Rescuing gadgets from the  golden age of &#8216;Made in Japan&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Piles of old electronic gadgetry, most of it out of order, clutter Junichi Matsuzaki&#8217;s &#8220;studio&#8221; on the first floor of an aging public apartment building in Adachi Ward in northeastern Tokyo. To visitors the outdated technology may look like junk, but to the 53-year-old self-proclaimed consumer electronics collector, it&#8217;s treasure. Filling up the 80-sq.-meter space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seed bank sprouts support a-plenty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a sunny corner of Tomoko and Kenji Usui&#8217;s garden, surrounded by marigolds and goldenrod, there stands a peculiar little house. The thatched roof is tall and pointy like a witch&#8217;s hat, with flowers growing around the brim. The porch is wide and shady, with a handmade wooden chair on it inviting visitors to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic stars of the future look forward to 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yokohama Athlete Club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday night was warm and clear in Yokohama. A cloudless, gradually darkening sky stretched over the 400-meter track at the Yamato Sports Center — seemingly boundless in its ability to absorb the shouts and laughter coming from the 20 boisterous young members of the Yokohama Athlete Club, who had gathered for their weekly training session. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 3-D replica of Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8216;Sunflowers,&#8217; — yours for ¥3.4 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dalya Alberge</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A poster of one of Vincent van Gogh&#8217;s sunflowers is one of the traditional adornments to a student bedroom. The rest of us hang our reproductions in the knowledge that even the good ones are far from faithful to the originals &#8212; for which the going rate is &#163;24 million (&#165;3.7 billion). But not any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-gone writer tells it how it is</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iwate Prefecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenji Miyazawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Kenji Miyazawa was writing his stories and poems nearly a century ago, Japan was a country with a two-pronged mission: To become the first non-white, non-Christian nation to create a modern prosperous state &#8212; and to be the leader of an Asian revival. The Japanese people were obsessed with their cultural identity and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenji Miyazawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politicians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re just a bunch of scaremongers Raising alarm wherever they can And drinking their fill all the while fern fronds and clouds the world is that cold and dark But before they know it These fellows Rot all on their own Are washed away by the rains all on their own Leaving nothing but silent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong in the Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenji Miyazawa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strong in the rain Strong in the wind Strong against the summer heat and snow He is healthy and robust Free from desire He never loses his temper Nor the quiet smile on his lips He eats four gō of unpolished rice Miso and a few vegetables a day He does not consider himself In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How green is Tohoku&#8217;s &#8216;Green Connections&#8217; project?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/17/general/how-green-is-tohokus-green-connections-project/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-green-is-tohokus-green-connections-project</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[disaster prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tohoku]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On its surface, the plan seems like an environmentalist&#8217;s dream come true: Take wreckage from the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region of Honshu and pile it along the washed-out coastline; cover the crumbled concrete and broken wood with soil; then top it all with trees. Communities in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shock-and-awe art fills festival streets with fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schreiber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ekin matsuri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Are you tourist?&#8221; asked the man seated beside me on the early afternoon flight from Tokyo&#8217;s Haneda airport to Kochi in Shikoku. He spoke in hesitant English. &#8220;Not exactly. I&#8217;m on my way to cover the Ekin Matsuri,&#8221; I replied in Japanese. &#8220;Ah, Ekin. I&#8217;ve been to it a few times,&#8221; he said, switching languages. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Image-flip for male rhythmic gymnasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Smirks and snickering tend to greet any mention of &#8220;men&#8217;s rhythmic gymnastics,&#8221; as the phrase conjures up images of chaps in tights prancing around swinging ribbons or clutching squeezy balls to their chests like the sport&#8217;s female exponents. That couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. In fact, men&#8217;s rhythmic gymnastics is a fantastic event involving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninagawa&#8217;s golden oldies reach a whole new stage in life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;After a performance at the 232-seat Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris, one of the Japanese staff there said I had a &#8216;splendid voice.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t buy anything in Paris, but that was the best possible souvenir,&#8221; said Kiyoshi Takahashi, 85, the oldest male member of Saitama Gold Theater. Seven years before receiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven years on, and everyone&#8217;s itching for more</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/10/general/seven-years-on-and-everyones-itching-for-more/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=seven-years-on-and-everyones-itching-for-more</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yukio Ninagawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To date, including his all-male production of &#8220;The Merchant of Venice&#8221; that&#8217;s set to run next month at Sainokuni Saitama Arts Theater outside Tokyo, Yukio Ninagawa will have staged 29 of the 38 plays attributed to William Shakespeare — and his ambition to direct the entire oeuvre remains undimmed. Besides pursuing that goal, however, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Red Hat&#8217;s lethal Okinawa smokescreen</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/27/general/exclusive-red-hats-lethal-okinawa-smokescreen/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=exclusive-red-hats-lethal-okinawa-smokescreen</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Okinawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In July 1969, a leak of chemical weapons on Okinawa sickened more than 20 U.S. soldiers and laid bare one of the Pentagon&#8217;s biggest Cold War secrets: the storage of toxic munitions outside of continental United States. Public outrage following the Okinawa accident forced the White House to launch Operation Red Hat — codename for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender bending in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 14:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[transgender]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do our genitals define us? Increasingly, they do not. Is sexuality more complicated than male/female? Increasingly, it is. Or maybe not increasingly: Maybe the only thing that&#8217;s changed over the ages is how much of our true selves society lets us show. The Bible, keystone arch of Western civilization, had it all figured out. &#8220;Male [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family-crest master fears he&#8217;s one of a dying breed</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/06/16/general/family-crest-master-fears-hes-one-of-a-dying-breed/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=family-crest-master-fears-hes-one-of-a-dying-breed</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family crests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kamon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shoryu Hatoba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dressed in a black kimono and wearing a pair of eye-catching black, triple-framed spectacles, Shoryu Hatoba straightens his back as he sits on the tatami floor of his quaint studio in Ueno, central Tokyo, holding a pair of bamboo compasses fitted with a brush dipped in ink in place of a pencil. Then he focuses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death threats sparked Japan&#8217;s first cricket game</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Galbraith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cricket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Campbell Fraser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yokohama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On June 25, 1863, a Royal Navy team drawn from officers on ships sent to protect British expats in Japan had plenty to worry about as the lanky James Campbell Fraser strode out to bat against them on an apology for a cricket pitch in Yokohama. A swashbuckling Scot, Fraser had played cricket while at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typewriter aficionados in the United States are rewriting history, slowly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leila Macor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ermanno Marzorati has rarely been so busy. He is currently fixing a 1930 Underwood typewriter for Tom Hanks. But there are plenty more ancient writing machines awaiting his tender care. While the modern world taps away in an ever-increasing frenzy online, the Italian senses a new trend, from his Beverly Hills studio: the return of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Lurching&#8217; Lexus fortunately just ran into a wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toyota]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tanya Spotts, a real estate agent from Hamilton, Virginia, bought a new Lexus E350 in 2011. This is her story. &#8220;I had been driving it six months and it was near Christmas and my 22-year-old daughter was with me. I was parking in a second-level garage, my foot lightly on the brake, when the car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever some say, there&#8217;s no Japanese-language &#8216;code&#8217; to be deciphered</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Pulvers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Japan opened to the outside world in the middle of the 19th century after some 250 years of isolation imposed and enforced by its ruling shoguns, the Japanese language has been widely regarded as a kind of code. Foreigners, it is generally conceded, may be able to learn to &#8220;decipher&#8221; this code, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima photos focus on what can&#8217;t be seen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Kawashima</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tomoki Imai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photographer Tomoki Imai has been a blur of activity since we reached the lookout point halfway up 601-meter Mount Higakure in the Futaba district of Fukushima Prefecture. ]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to live with your death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can be a big challenge, even a burden, to strategize your life and prioritize your goals — and then stick to them.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Beauty&#8217; as beheld in Japan through the ages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alex Kerr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junichiro Tanizaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yukio Mishima]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In July 2006, Shinzo Abe published a book titled "Utsukushii Kuni e" ("Toward a Beautiful Country"), but what does he mean by "beautiful country"?]]></description>
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		<title>Trendsetting U.S. craft beers pour into Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 65 years after Allied planes flew Western supplies into blockaded Berlin, a new American import is arriving by air: craft beer. The beer is being flown in due to a new surge of German interest in American brewing that&#8217;s upending a centuries-old relationship in which German beer defined the gold standard for brewing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New moves to save Japan&#8217;s sacred trees from a fiery end</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winifred Bird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Spend a while walking the streets of any Japanese city and you are bound to notice it: Here and there among the concrete towers, shops and bustling streets, you&#8217;ll find clusters of trees. In some places, five or 10 stately Japanese cedars provide a patch of welcome shade. In others a full-fledged urban jungle hums, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Roman bones reveal brutal history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Gugliotta</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days of ancient Rome, it was never a good idea to send amateurs to pacify the Germanic tribes. The Emperor Augustus found this out in A.D. 9, when his handpicked crony, Varus, blundered into a series of ambushes in the Teutoburg Forest and lost about 20,000 men in three days. Several years later, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South African fossils show &#8216;weird&#8217; mosaic of chimp-human traits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerry Sheridan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[She walked with a knock-kneed gait, with a heel like a chimp but the upright posture of a human, and she may provide the most complete evidence yet of early man&#8217;s closest ancestor, scientists said Thursday. Two-million-year-old Australopithecus sediba&#8216;s awkward strut would eventually send a modern man begging for a knee or hip replacement, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe-phoria: A national punching bag morphs into a popular leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kingston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abenomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junichiro Koizumi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an irrational exuberance about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe evident in his 70 percent public-approval rating, a soaring Nikkei stock average and the Japanese media cheerleading the same man it hounded out of office in September 2007. The polite, face-saving fiction that Abe stepped down because of ill health after nearly 12 months in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening offers original ideas for repurposing goods</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Higgins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ruthie Mundell opens a door within the warehouse of the nonprofit thrift store known as Community Forklift and eagerly displays the donations of countless gardeners. Hoses, weed whackers, clay pots, axes and lawn mowers all form a silent testimony to hours of yardwork. What are the stories behind the artifacts? Did some donors get too [...]]]></description>
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