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		<title>Swedish police Gypsy file triggers racial profiling fears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malin Rising</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his suburban Stockholm apartment, Marcello Demeter sits at the kitchen table with his two daughters, Isabelle and Sandra &#8212; and wonders how they got on the list that has sent Sweden into an uproar. About a week ago, the 42-year-old Swede found out that he and his wife, Susanne, their three children and at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgian elects to be euthanized after failed sex-change surgery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 44-year-old Belgian in distress after a failed sex change was euthanized this week after doctors agreed to the mercy-killing on psychological grounds, national media said Tuesday. Nathan Verhelst died Monday in a Brussels hospital surrounded by friends after requesting assistance to die in a case that has been highly publicized in Belgium, which became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World is not ready for rapidly aging population, global study finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study going out Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group.]]></description>
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		<title>Russia anti-gay law casts shadow over Sochi Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Lally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let other mayors fret about potholes, taxes and sewers. This is an Olympic city, and here is the jeans-clad mayor striding into his office on a recent afternoon, fresh from a landslide, and not the electoral kind. When Sochi won the 2014 Games, life went epic. First Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov and the mere mortals of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cameron seeks strict porn curbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a land whose uptight reputation is belied by its wicked ways, the Conservative-led British government is in midst of a crusade to enact some of the strictest curbs on pornography in the Western world. The campaign follows the rape and murder of two young girls by men seemingly addicted to online pornography. One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nontraditional college students juggle work, kids, bills with coursework</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenna Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Barack Obama talks about the cost of higher education, his mentions of &#8220;college students&#8221; might often evoke images of teenagers who spent their senior years of high school searching for the four-year institution that best matched their personalities, then enrolled and moved into the dorms while mom and dad paid the bills. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tattoos make inroads with 50 and older crowd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Bahrampour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago, a good girl didn&#8217;t walk into an establishment plastered with images of dragons and flames, hike her shirt up over one shoulder and let her body be injected with ink. Especially not if she was, like Darlene Nash, a 57-year-old grandmother. But America has changed since then, and so has Nash. &#8220;When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia weighs higher divorce fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has backed a proposal to make divorce far more expensive as a way of discouraging ill-considered matches, state media reported Tuesday. &#8220;The motives (for the suggestion) are understandable: switch on your brain when you&#8217;re getting married, otherwise there&#8217;s going to be material penalties,&#8221; the prime minister said. Medvedev, who served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict defends record on abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven months after leaving the papacy, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI broke his self-imposed silence Tuesday by releasing a letter to one of Italy&#8217;s best-known atheists in which he denied covering up for sexually abusive priests and defended Christianity to nonbelievers. It was the first work published by Benedict since he retired and his first-ever denial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Grandma export&#8217; exposes Germany&#8217;s struggle with care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Kresge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonja Miskulin has forgotten her beloved cat, Pooki. She can&#8217;t remember whether she has grandchildren and has no memory of her nine-hour journey one recent Sunday to forever leave behind her home in Germany. Suffering from dementia, the wheelchair-bound former translator celebrated her 94th birthday in a Polish nursing home in August. Her daughter sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherokee child returned to couple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A South Carolina couple who vowed last month to not leave Oklahoma unless they went home with a 4-year-old Cherokee Indian girl they have been trying to adopt since her birth were given custody of the girl Monday night after the Oklahoma Supreme Court said it didn&#8217;t have jurisdiction over the child. &#8220;She&#8217;s safely in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scots march for independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of people marched through the Scottish capital of Edinburgh on Saturday, calling for independence a year ahead of a referendum on whether to break away from the United Kingdom. The pro-independence campaign &#8220;Yes Scotland&#8221; estimated that 20,000 supporters joined the march, turning the city center into a sea of blue and white as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins: &#8216;I don&#8217;t think I am strident or aggressive&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Anthony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the top floor of Random House&#8217;s offices in London, the world&#8217;s number one thinker &#8212; according to Prospect magazine&#8217;s annual poll &#8212; walks in from the roof terrace and shakes my hand. Richard Dawkins is a trim 72-year-old with one of those faces that, no matter the accumulation of lines, will always draw the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian wins Muslim beauty contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Quranic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in Jakarta on Wednesday, a riposte to the Miss World contest, which has sparked hard-line anger. The 20 finalists from six countries, who were all required to wear headscarves, put on a glittering show for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assisted suicide OK: Hawking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist who suffers from motor neuron disease, has publicly backed the notion of assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses. &#8220;We don&#8217;t let animals suffer, so why humans?&#8221; the 71-year-old said in a BBC interview, although he insisted there should be safeguards. Hawking, regarded as one of the world&#8217;s most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French say &#8216;non&#8217; to kid pageants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Child beauty pageants may soon be banned in France after a surprise vote in the Senate rattled the pageant industry and raised questions about how the French relate to girls&#8217; sexuality. Such contests, and the dolled-up beauty queens they produce, have the power to both fascinate and repulse, and have drawn criticism in several countries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pageant winner reflects new ideal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Tandon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[minorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miss America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nina Davuluri]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before she was crowned the first Miss America of Indian descent, Nina Davuluri was asked about a Chinese-American celebrity who admitted undergoing surgery to reshape her eyes. In the interview before a national audience Sunday, 24-year-old Davuluri tactfully avoided criticizing TV personality Julie Chen but made clear that she would do nothing similar. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate over Muslim veil ban heats up in Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nick Clegg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain was dragged into a debate Tuesday on Muslim women wearing full-face veils in public, with its biggest-selling newspaper backing calls from politicians to join European countries that have banned its use. The topic had stayed below the British political radar until the past week when a judge ruled that a Muslim woman will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yemen eyes ban  on child brides</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yemen&#8217;s rights minister said Saturday that she will press for the minimum age of marriage to be raised to 18, after the reported death of a young girl on her wedding night. Eight-year-old Rawan Abdo Hattan is believed to have died last week from internal bleeding after sexual intercourse, following her marriage to a man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious garb ban bill riles Quebec</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of mostly Muslim protesters took to the street in Montreal to express anger Saturday at a plan to ban public workers from wearing religious garb in Quebec. The prohibition of headscarves, turbans and other religious garments is part of a proposed overhaul of the province&#8217;s &#8220;Charter of Values.&#8221; The planned measure, soon to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slovenia building its first mosque</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek on Saturday laid the foundation stone for what will be Slovenia&#8217;s first mosque &#8212; 44 years after the initial request to build it was made. The laying of the stone in the presence of a government minister from Qatar, which is helping to fund the project, was a &#8220;symbolic victory against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quran-burning pastor thwarted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial Florida pastor was arrested Wednesday before he planned to burn almost 3,000 copies of the Quran, one for each of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, U.S. media reported. Terry Jones, 61, was detained in the town of Mulberry, near Tampa, and faces charges of transporting fuel illegally and openly carrying a firearm, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Somalis brace for khat ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Evans</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[khat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Britain bans the herbal stimulant khat, Mohamod Ahmed Mohamed will lose his livelihood. But he fears most for his small Somali community without the leaf that fuels its social life. &#8220;I can switch to another business, but what about the youth, where are they going to go &#8212; the street, the mosque, to hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8216;he or she&#8217; may actually prefer to be called &#8216;ze&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/07/world/a-he-or-she-may-actually-prefer-to-be-called-ze/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-he-or-she-may-actually-prefer-to-be-called-ze</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Tam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexuality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Nicholas Gumas settles into his third year at George Washington University in the U.S. capital, he won&#8217;t just ask incoming students for names, majors and hometowns. If the situation calls for it, he will ask for preferred gender pronouns (PGPs). To clarify their gender identity, students can request that others refer to them with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. gay couples still face challenges serving abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexuality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Austin Watkins had reason to celebrate when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a key portion of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), marking a breakthrough in gay rights and making his husband eligible for federal benefits everywhere in the United States. But as a civilian defense worker deployed in Japan, Watkins faces a unique barrier. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Cheney says sister &#8216;dead wrong&#8217; on gay marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexuality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, posted on Facebook on Friday night that her sister, who is running for the Senate in Wyoming, is &#8220;dead wrong&#8221; to oppose same-sex marriage. Liz Cheney, who is opposing Republican Sen. Mike Enzi in a primary next year, released a statement earlier in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High hopes for victims of female genital mutilation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[female genital mutilation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nondescript suburb on the outskirts of San Francisco. A plain brick building. Seven nervous women wait in the sunlight. They are here for surgery, which perhaps has as much claim as any other to describe itself as &#8220;miraculous.&#8221; The little building doesn&#8217;t shout its purpose, for many reasons. First, this surgery is about female [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black-white economic gap in U.S. is still as wide as ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Barack Obama spoke at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, he symbolized part of the complicated story of America&#8217;s racial progress in the past half a century. Can there be more convincing testimony to the breathtaking advancement of African-Americans than a black president? Yet even as racial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Swiss sex drive-in divides Zurich residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Swiss city of Zurich opens the country&#8217;s first sex drive-in to better regulate prostitution and move the sex trade outside the city center, residents, politicians and sex workers remain divided over the plan. The nine so-called sex boxes, located in a former industrial zone in the west of the city, will be available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European experiments with sex drive-ins, &#8216;love parks&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swiss city of Zurich is to open a sex drive-in on Monday. Similar initiatives exist in Germany and Italy, while Belgium and the Netherlands have come up with a different approach. Here are some examples. Germany: The cathedral city of Cologne established a drive-in brothel in October 2001 with eight rooms, called &#8220;sex huts&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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