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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>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>The &#8216;whole&#8217; brown-bread challenge in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whole-wheat and whole-grain products are hard to find in Japan, where most bakeries and supermarkets sell white bread products only. Of the three major bread manufacturers in Japan, only Shikishima Baking Co.&#8217;s Pasco brand offers loaves of bread and &#8220;English&#8221; muffins made from whole-wheat flour &#8212; it&#8217;s called the Mugino Megumi (The Blessings of Wheat) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good health essentials: whole grains and fiber</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hope Warshaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do all whole grains contain dietary fiber? What are other sources of fiber? These questions seem simple, but they&#8217;re not. Answering them, however, is important because they focus on two healthful eating goals: 1) Eat more whole grains and 2) Eat more dietary fiber. Both are supported by research evidence. Eating sufficient whole grains, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veggie-heavy diet and yoga shown to slow cell aging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makiko Kitamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The fountain of youth may simply be a healthy diet and reduced stress after all, not a magic pill or expensive cosmetics. Comprehensive lifestyle changes, including more fruit and vegetables as well as meditation and yoga, were shown to reverse signs of aging at the cellular level for the first time in a study published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get lost in Inokashira Park and find yourself in Ghibli</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ghibli Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inokashira Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo with kids]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Kichijoji: my favorite Tokyo neighborhood. Less than 30 minutes from the heart of the city, this hip suburb has everything a downtown dweller would want: good restaurants, good shopping, a thriving music scene and one of the coolest parks in the Kanto region. Indeed, most of my friends who live there tend to stick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-harm blogs can pose problems for those fighting depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Dewey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Self-harm blogs shelter in a dark, desperate corner of the Internet that few of us will ever see. But 14-year-old Anouschka, a baby-faced blogger, has lived here for months, collecting photos of slashed wrists and razor blades, reading grim, adolescent poems about death and loneliness — and meeting the first community of friends that she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Vuitton celebrates it muses, while Control Bear heads its own store</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/09/lifestyle/louis-vuitton-celebrates-it-muses-while-control-bear-heads-its-own-store/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=louis-vuitton-celebrates-it-muses-while-control-bear-heads-its-own-store</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Control Bear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kotabatofuku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Vuitton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagatake Uehara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stopover]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Vuitton is celebrating six of its designer's "muses" in an interactive exhibition at the Tokyo Station Hotel. "Timeless Muses" honors supermodel Kate Moss, film director Sofia Coppola, French actress Catherine Deneuve, novelist Françoise Sagan, architect Charlotte Perriand and, to bring the "timeless" into context, 19th-century French Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Eat This Much&#8217; plays part of virtual nutritionist</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/09/lifestyle/eat-this-much-plays-part-of-virtual-nutritionist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=eat-this-much-plays-part-of-virtual-nutritionist</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maggie Fazeli Fard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, when Los Angeles&#8217; Louis DeMenthon was trying to bulk up, he encountered the ubiquitous challenge faced by those seeking physique changes: meal planning. In vain, DeMenthon searched for an online planner that would tell him exactly what foods to eat in order to pack on muscle. When he came up empty-handed, DeMenthon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renovating business and hope in Onomichi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discovery Link Setouchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Onomichi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setouchi Minato no yado]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Onomichi in the southeastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture, which looks out to the Seto Inland Sea, has a rich and long tradition as a hub of trade. During the Edo Period (1603-1867), it prospered as a key docking point for domestic ships peddling goods, and from the early 20th century it grew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the smiles of Nepal with good dental care</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/07/lifestyle/saving-the-smiles-of-nepal-with-good-dental-care/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=saving-the-smiles-of-nepal-with-good-dental-care</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Miller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was pouring rain in the Nepali village of Kaskikot, which was bad news for Laura Spero and the ceremony she had planned. Mid-April was far too early for monsoon weather, but one thing the 33-year-old had learned since she began traveling regularly between Bethesda, Maryland, and Nepal 11 years ago was that nothing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closely knit friends in Daikanyama</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/03/lifestyle/closely-knit-friends-in-daikanyama/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=closely-knit-friends-in-daikanyama</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Demetriou</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting at a low wooden table with a group of Japanese mothers discussing the pros and cons of different knitting stitches. In my hands are the embarrassingly uneven beginnings of a turquoise scarf that I am hoping will become the first-ever knitted item among the many I&#8217;ve started that I will actually manage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google crunches data on munching snacks in the office</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year Google had an M&#38;M problem. So, as it does with most dilemmas, the Internet giant put its data wizards into action. Employees were eating too much of the free candy and that, the firm surmised, might hinder efforts to keep them healthy and happy. So in what could be called Project M&#38;M, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are designer babies coming in the future?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/09/02/lifestyle/are-designer-babies-coming-in-the-future/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=are-designer-babies-coming-in-the-future</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Geddes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pregnancy screening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Connor Levy made history when he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May, but not because he was created through in vitro fertilization. Rather, he is the first child to be born after his parents screened the genomes of a batch of their embryos for abnormalities, in an effort to pick the healthiest for implantation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A big day out at the sumo</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/20/lifestyle/a-big-day-out-at-the-sumo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-big-day-out-at-the-sumo</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edo Tokyo Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kokugikan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryogoku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sumo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re sweaty, they&#8217;re chubby and they love pushing each other around. But enough about the folks at my family reunion, let&#8217;s talk about sumo. This quintessentially Japanese sport is a lot of fun to witness with kids, and the Ryogoku neighborhood surrounding Tokyo&#8217;s Kokugikan sumo stadium has several other places worth visiting, too. Each sumo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The truth is, &#8216;pretty is as pretty does&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/08/19/lifestyle/the-truth-is-pretty-is-as-pretty-does/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-truth-is-pretty-is-as-pretty-does</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Wax</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Tress can&#8217;t change who is on the cover of Cosmopolitan. She can&#8217;t stop college guys from sharing links from sites such as BroBible and Hot or Not. But she can tell you how her husband cheated on her because, he said, she wasn&#8217;t &#8220;pretty enough.&#8221; And she will tell you how years after their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A high divorce rate means it could be time to try &#8216;wedleases&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Rampell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that far too many marriages end in divorce, yet the institution does not adapt. Indeed, most Americans today want to expand conventional marriage to include same-sex couples. So why is there no effort to improve the legal structure of marriage, when it shows itself to be deficient? Marriage is a legal partnership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let your babies get loud at karaoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Demetriou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karaoke]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Friday evening in Shibuya. The sun is setting, the neon is flashing and the crowds are swelling. And so with beginning-of-the-weekend fever in the air, it is perhaps little surprise that Madonna is already blaring in one karaoke room on the second floor of a building near the station. It may not yet be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy furniture and all things green</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean Snow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[10 Terra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haoshi Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kokuyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nendo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ofon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shibaful]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rearranging furniture with the flip of a coin Not all office workspaces are created equal — we can&#8217;t all have those luxury designer, expansive spaces. But small offices still need to deal with fluctuations in staff and changes in layout, no matter how minor. Ofon, designed by Nendo for office supply giant Kokuyo, is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing up for a longer life span</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard A. Lovett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Jensen, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnessota, is talking on the phone, but his voice is drowned out by what sounds like a vacuum cleaner. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;m on a treadmill.&#8221; David Dunstan, an Australian researcher, uses a speakerphone so he can walk around his office at the Baker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuffed-toy savior shares secrets of his plush lifestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A chap doesn&#8217;t often talk about his teddy bear in public, let alone bare all to eternal cyberspace through a national newspaper. But someing so extraordinary happened to mine of late that I&#8217;ve resolved to throw caution to the wind, to defy, umm, teddiquette — and to come clean. First, a clarification: While said bear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aquariums offer summer escape</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tokyo aquariums]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past Monday was Marine Day in Japan. Aside from creating a much-appreciated three-day weekend, the role of the holiday is to encourage people to reflect on the integral role the ocean plays in Japan&#8217;s history. So, what better time to visit an aquarium? Japan has plenty of places to ogle fish, and not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you fear missing out, don&#8217;t panic, you&#8217;re not the only one</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mofo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard about FOMO &#8212; &#8220;fear of missing out&#8221;? Most common among the under-30 crowd, it happens when someone feels nervous about not attending social events, like that awesome party everyone else enjoyed last weekend. People have always been concerned about their social standing, but the explosion of social media has made FOMO a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walk away from dessert or literally walk it off</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella Boston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you knew that a 340-gram chocolate-chip frappe (530 calories) would cost you up to two hours of brisk walking, would you still order it? New research shows that when we have &#8220;exercise cost&#8221; information readily available, we are less likely to make unhealthful food choices. The research, by Meena Shah at Texas Christian University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s brush up on foods that are good for teeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Seidenberg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When my boys recently had their teeth checked, their dentist warned them that summer is the worst time for cavities. Parental rules relax, allowing more candy and soda into the mix at the same time as brushing slackens. As much as I hate to admit it, I can see this happening in our household. Does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bubbles, music and paint as babies learn to create</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Demetriou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Creators]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a moment, I wonder if I&#8217;ve accidentally strayed onto the set of a children&#8217;s TV programme. Center stage are three grown men in matching T-shirts singing at the top of their voices in a Technicolor-bright toy-filled room more dazzling than Joseph&#8217;s dreamcoat. Beneath a sparkly disco ball, one man is strumming a guitar, another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hands on with the &#8216;maker movement&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Make magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maker movenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Frauenfelder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The so-called maker movement of do-it-yourselfers is set to continue its momentum at a global level, and as such the world will see an explosion of innovative creation from individuals, according to Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of the U.S.-based Make magazine. Recent technological developments such as 3-D printers, inexpensive software systems and open-source microcontroller boards are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying through an urban obstacle course like 007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lenny Bernstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[parkour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re my age (meaning not in your 20s) and you&#8217;ve even heard of &#8220;parkour,&#8221; it&#8217;s probably because of that scene in the 2006 remake of &#8220;Casino Royale&#8221; when James Bond chases a bounding, bouncing bad guy up a giant construction crane, down an elevator shaft and over all kinds of obstacles on a building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dragons, mist and bouncy clouds await in west Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Jenkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[About 45 minutes from Tokyo&#8217;s skyscrapers, resting in the hinterlands of Tachikawa there is a land of mist and dragons. It&#8217;s a place where rolling hills tumble toward an Aztec pyramid, and children bounce on clouds. The place is called Showa Kinen Koen, and an afternoon there is time well spent. Take the train to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New sunscreen labels to stop beach lovers from getting burned by lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surveillance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. domestic spying]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that bottle of waterproof sunblock you bought last year? It lied &#8212; lotion can&#8217;t be waterproof or totally block out harmful rays. Thanks to new sunscreen-labeling rules from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that recently came into effect, misleading terminology has been wiped away to help consumers understand what exactly it is they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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