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		<title>Poetry in Motion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate subways. Traveling in tunnels under the earth is a mode of transportation more appropriate for moles or hamsters. Human beings need light and air. Much of my misspent youth was spent on the London subway, called the Underground, and I have no fond memories of it.
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		<title>Reincarnation for Dummies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marooned in a waiting room, I picked up a magazine and started reading a sensational article about reincarnation. The article speculated on the past lives of some enormously famous celebrities I’d never heard of. The author appeared to believe that every media celebrity must be the reincarnation of a past media celebrity, a theory that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Unemployment Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the economy collapsed on our heads in 2008 a huge number of people have lost their jobs, and there&#8217;s not much sign of any improvement. Even before the recession the habit of sending American jobs abroad (outsourcing) was a big issue in the coming years. Its supporters claim that, if we can produce more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you how it was to spend two weeks in England with my ninety-seven year old mother. We wanted to give her a break from her busy life of watching television and drinking tea at home, so we stayed in a rented cottage on a sheep farm in the middle of the beautiful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anxious Traveler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are good reasons to be nervous about traveling these days. We share the roads with drivers who are absorbed in phone calls or texting, and perhaps enjoying some kind of drug experience into the bargain. When we take to the skies we are at the mercy of mad shoe bombers, underwear bombers and soon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Wedding, Small Wedding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 18:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the merry month of May most of us had had the experience of being almost run off the road by gigantic white limousines racing from one ceremony to the next. We live near a spot much favored for wedding photographs and, on the weekends, the happy couples are lined up like jumbo jets waiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Causes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The desire to make things clean and tidy in the springtime seems to be an almost biological urge. Like most biological urges, it should be resisted. Spring may be the season of renewal and new beginnings, but there’s no point in going mad about it. The energy and optimism we feel at this time of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eternal Revenue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, and especially in April, most of us have wondered why taxes exist. The answer, of course, is that we must have taxes in order to support the government. This leaves us with the question: why does the government exist? That&#8217;s easy. If we didn&#8217;t have a government, who would collect the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Have Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The English language is constantly changing, but not necessarily improving. In theory every new word or usage enriches the language in some way. How could we communicate today without verbs like “to Google” or “to outsource,” or adjectives like “supersize”? But, all too often, new terms simply push out the old without raising the quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Existential Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was waiting for a train, and idly watching a young Asian woman whose gaze was intently fixed on the station platform. She forced me to look at the platform too, which was a perfectly ordinary slab of filthy concrete covered in squashed chewing gum, and to remember all the other platforms, sidewalks, stairs, floors [...]]]></description>
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