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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Jobs Proposal: Needed But Too Late to Influence Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FDR'S MISTAKE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Labor Day, President Obama finally turned to focus on jobs. So far this year, other items have dominated the agenda: financial reform, the BP oil leak, the Afghanistan war, the Middle East peace process. Now, less than two months before the mid-term elections, the president has begun to address the main issue on most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Level of Credit-Card Debt Influenced By Inheritance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine and Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADDICTION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMPHETAMINE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month&#8217;s Scientific American Mind ran an article on research showing that young adults with a variant of the enzyme MAO-A in their brains carry, on average, up to 16% more credit-card debt than those with another form of enzyme. Although that&#8217;s not a huge effect, the story is interesting because of the enzyme implicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Education, Focus Shifts From Tests to Teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.md-writer.com/blog/?p=1653</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDUCATION POLICY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JASON FELCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. TIMES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES PUBLIC SCHOOLS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MY FIFTH GRADE TEACHER]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RATE TO THE TOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STANDARDIZED TESTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STUDENT PERFORMANCE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TEACHER EXCELLENCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEACHER PERFORMANCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VALUE-ADDED ANALYSIS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Current education policy has moved away from No Child Left Behind, President Bush&#8217;s program, which emphasized standardized tests, to Race to the Top, President Obama&#8217;s initiative, which continues the testing but adds a focus on individual teachers and students. Like most Americans concerned about the future of our nation and the upcoming generation of students, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motor Neuron Disease Is Connected to Recurring Concussions</title>
		<link>http://www.md-writer.com/blog/?p=1648</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine and Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have found that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease) may result from repetitive trauma to the brain. The disease characteristically begins with muscle weakness and lack of coordination. People have difficulty getting out of chairs, climbing stairs, and sometimes swallowing. Slowly, inexorably, the paralysis spreads up and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Science Denial Work?</title>
		<link>http://www.md-writer.com/blog/?p=1644</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["DON'T KNOW MUCH"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["WONDERFUL WORLD"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ATTITUDES TOWARD EVOLUTION]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CHOOSING YOUR OWN FACTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CLIMATE CHANGE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GLOBAL WARMING]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HUMAN DESCENT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JAY INGRAM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SURVEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PEW SURVEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POLITICAL ATTITUDES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Less than half of Americans accept as fact that humans descended from ape-like primates, according to a survey by the National Science Foundation in 2006. People like me wonder about these deniers of science. How do their minds work? Not only does evolution seem self-evident, since many animals of different species are so much alike—think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blowback: In Pursuit of Al Qaeda, the Government Develops Pervasive Pursuit Capabilities That One Day Could Target American Citizens</title>
		<link>http://www.md-writer.com/blog/?p=1640</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AFGHANISTAN WAR]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, the NY Times ran a story on the Obama&#8217;s administration&#8217;s covert war on al Qaeda. But war is not the right word. What the reporters described is a clandestine Special Forces campaign. The reporters wrote that the CIA has become a paramilitary organization, conducting attacks with missiles and other weapons, and the Pentagon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Natural Malaria Infection Be Turned Into Natural Malaria Vaccination?</title>
		<link>http://www.md-writer.com/blog/?p=1636</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine and Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AZITHROMYCIN]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MALARIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MALARIA VACCINE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MOSQUITO-BORN DISEASE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MOUSE MALARIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATURAL VACCINATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLASMODIUM LIFE CYCLE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLASMODIUM PARASITE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PROPHYLACTIC ANTIBIOTICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPOROZOITE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VECTOR-BORN DISEASE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vaccination usually involves injecting someone with a dead or weakened microbe for the purpose stimulating the development of immunity. A similar thing happens when a malaria-infected mosquito bites a human. The mosquito injects a form of the malaria parasite, called a sporozoite, into the person&#8217;s blood stream. Only, the human usually doesn&#8217;t become immune but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Test for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease, A Major Advance, Should Aid in Developing Treatments</title>
		<link>http://www.md-writer.com/blog/?p=1630</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TEST FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new test to diagnose Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (AD) at an early stage may be at hand. Until now, the definite diagnosis of this most common form of dementia required an autopsy to demonstrate plaques of amyloid-ß protein and tangles of tau protein in the brains of deceased patients. A test that would diagnose the disease [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google and Verizon in Pact to Create Premium Tier of the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.md-writer.com/blog/?p=1626</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHRIS VAN HOLLEN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ENHANCED INTERNET CONTENT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC REGULATIONS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOOGLE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIGH BANDWIDTH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIGH TRANSMISSION SPEED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NET NEUTRALITY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PREMIUM INTERNET PRICING]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PREMIUM INTERNET SERVICES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VERIZON]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google, the company that some time ago evidently changed its motto to &#8220;Do evil,&#8221; is teaming up with handmaiden Verizon to influence FCC regulations regarding net neutrality. Their apparent goal is to insinuate preferential treatment into the internet by persuading the commission to establish exceptions to such regulations. The effect would be to create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Obesity Rates May Impact Longevity and Puberty of American Children</title>
		<link>http://www.md-writer.com/blog/?p=1622</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kapit</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicine and Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMERICAN DIET]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIGH-FAT HIGH-SUGAR FOOD PRODUCTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INCREASING OBESITY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEDICAL COSTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATIONAL POLICY]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OBESE CHILDREN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OBESITY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OBESITY RATES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PRECOCIOUS BREAST ENLARGEMENT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUBERTY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REDUCED LONGEVITY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SHORTENED LIFE EXPECTANCY]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The prevalence of obesity in America has risen to 34% of the adult population, the CDC announced last week. An adult is considered obesity if his or her BMI, which is calculated from height and weight, is greater than 30. The public health agency tracks the nation&#8217;s average BMI with telephone surveys asking people to [...]]]></description>
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