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		<title>Miles to go before NREGA&#8217;s full potential achieved: PM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Urging state governments not to &#8220;fail the poor&#8221;, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said the country had still to realise the full potential of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) whose implementation had been uneven across states.

We still have miles to go before we achieve the full potential of this unique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US in delicate spot over Afghan vote fraud claims: NYT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Though Obama administration officials are reluctant to confirm that there has been wholesale fraud in the presidential elections in Afghanistan, they have recognised that with President Hamid Karzai getting a slim majority, that they will have to keep dealing with him for another five years.

While there are clearly numerous egregious instances of fraud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s new leaders agree to form coalition government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Yamaguchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Japan&#8217;s new ruling party is forming a coalition government with two smaller groups, despite differences on foreign policy and on the presence of U.S. Marines on Okinawa, party leaders announced Wednesday.

The agreement paves the way for Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama to put together a new Cabinet. Hatoyama is almost certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care&#8217;s bumpy road: More potholes, headaches than Democrats expected</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Babington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Harry Reid could hardly believe his ears.

The Senate majority leader was in Denver for a mid-August Democratic conference when he heard one of Congress&#8217; pivotal negotiators on health care trashing a bill on that very subject.
&#8220;You have every right to fear,&#8221; Republican Sen. Charles Grassley told a raucous citizens&#8217; forum in Iowa that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timeline of developments in Obama&#8217;s effort to overhaul health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronology of President Barack Obama&#8217;s efforts this year to overhaul health care:

—Feb. 24: In a speech to Congress, Obama says the &#8220;crushing cost&#8221; of health care is driving families and small businesses into bankruptcy and hobbling U.S. companies in global economic competition.
—Feb. 26: Obama&#8217;s first budget seeks $634 billion over 10 years as a down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Obama&#8217;s critics wanted big fuss over his back-to-school speech _ and they got it</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/analysis-obamas-critics-wanted-big-fuss-over-his-back-to-school-speech-_-and-they-got-it-163271/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter R. Mears</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — There may be a lesson plan for grown-ups in the contrived controversy about Barack Obama&#8217;s back-to-school pep talk to students. It would be to do your homework, just as the president told the pupils.

That way, the people who protested the Obama speech before they knew what was in it would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Okla. researchers hope 1,000-acre switchgrass experiment turns up a cash-making biofuel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Evans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ARDMORE, Okla. — Watching grass grow is tedious, but researchers in the Oklahoma Panhandle say they&#8217;ll stare at their switchgrass — all 1,000 acres of it — until they know whether they&#8217;ve found a commercially viable source of biofuel.

The site is billed as the largest such project in the world as scientists try to determine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia may remove gender criteria for military jobs, allowing female combat roles</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/australia-may-remove-gender-criteria-for-military-jobs-allowing-female-combat-roles-163257/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/australia-may-remove-gender-criteria-for-military-jobs-allowing-female-combat-roles-163257/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanalee Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ADELAIDE, Australia — Australia may allow female soldiers to serve in front-line combat roles under proposed equal-opportunity guidelines that stoked debate Wednesday on whether women can meet the physical demands.

Defence Personnel Minister Greg Combet told Parliament Tuesday that new physical employment standards were being developed for the Australian Defence Force that remove gender and age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hindus hail Malta Catholics for inclusiveness attempt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEVADA - Hindus have applauded Catholic Archdiocese of Malta for documenting that students should &#8220;learn from the beauty and goodness of other faith traditions&#8221;.

According to Constitution of Malta (Chapter I, Article 2, Item 3): &#8220;Religious teaching of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Faith shall be provided in all State schools as part of compulsory education.&#8221;
American Hindu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Son of late Philippine leader Corazon Aquino declares presidential candidacy for 2010 vote</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/son-of-late-philippine-leader-corazon-aquino-declares-presidential-candidacy-for-2010-vote-163127/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Teves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines — The son of late Philippine leader Corazon &#8220;Cory&#8221; Aquino announced Wednesday he will run for president next year to continue the legacy of his mother, who became the country&#8217;s democracy icon for standing up to dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Sen. Benigno &#8220;Noynoy&#8221; Aquino announced his campaign in the suburban Club Filipino where his mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the clove? Cigarette importer tries cigars to get around flavored-cigarette ban</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/wheres-the-clove-cigarette-importer-tries-cigars-to-get-around-flavored-cigarette-ban-161824/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Felberbaum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, Va. — The nation&#8217;s top distributor of clove cigarettes is offering fans a new way to get their fix after the spice-flavored cigarettes are banned later this year — cigars.

The new filtered cigars — close to the size of a cigarette and flavored with clove, vanilla and cherry — allow Kretek International Inc., which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ag industry defends itself over grisly video of chicks, says farming isn&#8217;t a pretty business</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ag-industry-defends-itself-over-grisly-video-of-chicks-says-farming-isnt-a-pretty-business-160103/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ag-industry-defends-itself-over-grisly-video-of-chicks-says-farming-isnt-a-pretty-business-160103/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Duara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[IOWA CITY, Iowa — Paul Lasley cringed when he heard about an undercover video showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa hatchery.

The images were upsetting, to be sure, but as someone who grew up on a farm, Lasley knows that bringing meat and poultry to America&#8217;s dinner table is often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Omar Bongo off Gabon&#8217;s ballot for first time in decades _ but eldest son is front-runner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yves Laurent Goma</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBREVILLE, Gabon — For the first time in more than 41 years, Gabonese casting their votes Sunday will not know ahead of time who their next president will be.

Eighteen candidates are vying to replace the late President Omar Bongo, who ruled for more than four decades and ran as the only candidate in many elections. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2,000-yr-old bronze statue of roman emperor Augustus  discovered in Germany</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/2000-yr-old-bronze-statue-of-roman-emperor-augustus-discovered-in-germany-149991/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN -  Archaeologists   have   discovered fragments  of a 2,000-year-old bronze Roman equestrian statue  of Emperor Augustus in a stream near Giessen in Germany.

According to a report in The Local, on August 12,  archaeologists pulled the gold-gilded, life-sized head of a horse and a shoe  of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nissan plant in Tenn. switches to methanol to power parts-hauling vehicles, cut costs</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/nissan-plant-in-tenn-switches-to-methanol-to-power-parts-hauling-vehicles-cut-costs-149361/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/nissan-plant-in-tenn-switches-to-methanol-to-power-parts-hauling-vehicles-cut-costs-149361/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Poovey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SMYRNA, Tenn. — In another cost-cutting move that also makes its car and truck production a little greener, Nissan North America said Tuesday it will use methanol fuel cells on some vehicles used to haul parts to assembly lines, starting at its plant in central Tennessee.

Executives at the plant near Nashville and the CEO of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jayson Blair, life coach? Disgraced ex-reporter adopts new career after fall from journalism</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/jayson-blair-life-coach-disgraced-ex-reporter-adopts-new-career-after-fall-from-journalism-144637/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Barakat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[McLEAN, Va. — Jayson Blair knows his new profession — life coach — smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline.

&#8220;People say, &#8216;Wait a minute. You&#8217;re a life coach?&#8217; That makes no sense,&#8217;&#8221; says Blair, the ex-journalist best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of The New York Times. &#8220;Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howzzat! Government official writes in 125 styles with both hands</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/howzzat-government-official-writes-in-125-styles-with-both-hands-143364/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUCKNOW - It started as an exercise to improve his poor handwriting when in school and has blossomed into a unique calligraphic talent. Government official Ravi Prakash Saraswat, 50, has mastered the art of writing in 125 styles from either hand and is now eyeing the record books.

Saraswat, a resident of  Badaun district of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With flu season near, Obama, Calderon talk preparation during summit of North American leaders</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/with-flu-season-near-obama-calderon-talk-preparation-during-summit-of-north-american-leaders-135223/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/with-flu-season-near-obama-calderon-talk-preparation-during-summit-of-north-american-leaders-135223/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Loven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GUADALAJARA, Mexico —President Barack Obama pressed for a new tone in the United States&#8217; relationship with Mexico but found no immediate progress Sunday on the divisions between him and Mexican President Felipe Calderon over the pace of U.S. drug-fighting aid and a ban on Mexican trucks north of the border.

Obama kicked off his second trip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Source: Obama administration tells Capitol Hill it wants a former FBI agent to run the TSA</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-source-obama-administration-tells-capitol-hill-it-wants-a-former-fbi-agent-to-run-the-tsa-133924/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eileen Sullivan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has told some members of Congress that it plans to pick a former FBI special agent to head the federal agency charged with keeping terrorists off airplanes.

Erroll Southers would be the fifth man to run the Transportation Security Administration, which was formed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 British paratroopers, 1 American killed in Afghan attacks</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/3-british-paratroopers-1-american-killed-in-afghan-attacks-133633/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Weissenstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL — Three British paratroopers and an American service member were killed in attacks in Afghanistan&#8217;s south and east, officials said Friday, raising the number of international troops slain in the first week of August to 19.

The pace of Western casualties could make August the deadliest month for U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barclays says BlackRock offer for asset management arm is compelling</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/barclays-says-blackrock-offer-for-asset-management-arm-is-compelling-132475/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/barclays-says-blackrock-offer-for-asset-management-arm-is-compelling-132475/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — British bank Barclays PLC said Thursday that U.S. investment manager BlackRock Inc.&#8217;s offer for its asset management arm, Barclays Global Investors, was a &#8220;compelling proposal&#8221; that could generate as much as $14.2 billion pounds.

Barclays said that the transaction would generate around $13 billion — rising to $14.2 billion based on Wednesday&#8217;s closing price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metal leak at chemical plant in central China leaves 500 sick, 33 hospitalized</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/metal-leak-at-chemical-plant-in-central-china-leaves-500-sick-33-hospitalized-128956/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/metal-leak-at-chemical-plant-in-central-china-leaves-500-sick-33-hospitalized-128956/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — More than 500 villagers in central China have been found to have high concentrations of a dangerous metal in their bodies after a series of leaks from a chemical plant, state media reported Monday.

Of the nearly 3,000 villagers living near the Changsha Xianghe Chemical Plant in Hunan province&#8217;s Zhentou township, 509 people were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC proposes new restraints on &#8216;pay-to-play&#8217; practices by investment firms</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sec-proposes-new-restraints-on-pay-to-play-practices-by-investment-firms-117600/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sec-proposes-new-restraints-on-pay-to-play-practices-by-investment-firms-117600/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcy Gordon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed new rules to restrain investment firms from making political donations to state or local government officials with an eye toward winning pension plan or other public business.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 at a public meeting to propose curbing &#8220;pay-to-play&#8221; practices by barring investment firms from providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meltdown 101: Commercial real estate market woes could spell trouble for banks and the economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/meltdown-101-commercial-real-estate-market-woes-could-spell-trouble-for-banks-and-the-economy-117579/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Veiga</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The residential housing market went into a tailspin over a burst housing bubble and a whole lot of bad mortgages. The commercial real estate market has suffered a different sort of one-two punch.

Between the recession and the financial crisis, many commercial property owners were left struggling, and many banks were stuck with troubled loans on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chandigarh administration gears up to curb ragging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHANDIGARH - In order to curb incidents of ragging in colleges, the administration of the union territory of Chandigarh has decided to come down hard on the guilty by strictly adhering to the guidelines of the Supreme Court and University Grants Commission (UGC).

&#8220;Ragging in any form is a serious offence. To make our educational institutions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As death toll of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan mounts, opposition grows toward mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO — As the death toll of Canadian soldiers and their NATO allies mounts in Afghanistan, so does the growing opposition to Canada&#8217;s mission there.

Canadian research company EKOS released a poll Thursday indicating that 54 percent of respondents opposed Canada&#8217;s mission, while 34 percent said they support it. Twelve percent were undecided.
Meanwhile, authorities said a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she will resign from office July 26; spokesman won&#8217;t say why</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASILLA, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down — throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.

The news rattles a Republican Party plagued with setbacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allow private investment in nuclear power: Economic Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - India&#8217;s Economic Survey for 2008-09 released here Thursday has called for allowing private players - both domestic and foreign - to invest in the country&#8217;s nuclear power sector.  

The survey, tabled in parliament by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, however, said the foreign direct investment (FDI) cap should be fixed at 49 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than 140 countries agree on UN role in solving global economic crisis at financial summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edith M. Lederer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS — More than 140 countries agreed Friday on a blueprint for a global response to the world&#8217;s worst economic crisis in 70 years which gives the U.N. a new role in representing hard-hit developing countries but leaves some demands by rich and poor countries unmet.

Near the end of a three-day financial summit, General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US envoy says that Mumbai-style attacks &#8216;cannot be allowed;&#8217; vows to help Pakistan, India ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD — The U.S. national security adviser said Thursday that attacks like last year&#8217;s deadly siege in Mumbai must be prevented and vowed to help Pakistan and India improve their relations to combat the militant threat.

Gen. James Jones held talks in the Pakistani capital on Thursday with President Asif Ali Zardari and other top government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New government council will help auto workers transition to new manufacturing jobs, Biden says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Seewer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PERRYSBURG, Ohio — A new government council will help auto industry workers transition to new manufacturing opportunities, including jobs in alternative energy, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday.

Biden toured the northwestern Ohio headquarters of the Willard &#038; Kelsey Solar Group, which plans to begin large-scale production of solar panels this year. The Toledo area has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western  Union  introduces  digital vendor  program  for  mobile mobile banking platforms</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/western-union-introduces-digital-vendor-program-for-mobile-mobile-banking-platforms-88563/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/western-union-introduces-digital-vendor-program-for-mobile-mobile-banking-platforms-88563/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BARCELONA - The Western Union  Company  (NYSE:  WU), a global  leader  in  money-transfer services,  announced  today  the launch  of  its  Digital  Vendor Program intended to extend the reach and accessibility of Western Union Money Transfer(r) services to mobile finance initiatives in Latin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepwalker put on nine stone because of nightly snacks!</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sleepwalker-put-on-nine-stone-because-of-nightly-snacks-84179/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sleepwalker-put-on-nine-stone-because-of-nightly-snacks-84179/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - A woman, who sleepwalks, has put on  nine stone as she has unknowingly been snacking nightly.

Anna  Ryan,  42, who was consuming over 2,000  calories  of  food without  realising,  suffers from a condition,  which  makes  her gorge herself while asleep with catastrophic effects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea&#8217;s plutonium plans violate UN resolution, says US</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/north-koreas-plutonium-plans-violate-un-resolution-says-us-84140/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/north-koreas-plutonium-plans-violate-un-resolution-says-us-84140/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DPA</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VIENNA - North Korea&#8217;s plans to turn its plutonium stock into atomic bomb material would violate the latest UN Security Council resolution, the US warned Wednesday.

Speaking at the first meeting of the IAEA&#8217;s governing board after North Korea&#8217;s second nuclear test in May, US representative Geoffrey Pyatt also called on the Stalinist state to return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea&#8217;s nuke blast could have been a mock test</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/north-koreas-nuke-blast-could-have-been-a-mock-test-83914/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/north-koreas-nuke-blast-could-have-been-a-mock-test-83914/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - Reports indicate that a global network of sensors designed to verify nuclear testing has failed to pick up radioactive gases from North Korea&#8217;s nuclear blast, which indicates that the country might have used conventional explosives to mimic a nuclear test.

North Korea conducted what it claims was its second nuclear test on May 25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stocks set to drift in absence of better economic data amid interest rate, inflation fear</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/stocks-set-to-drift-in-absence-of-better-economic-data-amid-interest-rate-inflation-fear-81427/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/stocks-set-to-drift-in-absence-of-better-economic-data-amid-interest-rate-inflation-fear-81427/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Lepro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The summer slowdown is setting in on Wall Street.

The stock market has been drifting, stalling a three-month rally, and analysts say investors need to see more concrete signs of economic growth before they&#8217;ll take stocks higher.
At the same time, concerns are growing over climbing interest rates, a falling dollar and rising commodity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the story straight, inmate reporters wield pens in the pen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Locke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Like journalists everywhere, the staff of the San Quentin News cover news, sports and the local arts scene. But these reporters are pen men with a difference.

They work for a paper written by and for inmates of San Quentin State Prison.
&#8220;When we first started, a lot of people were real dismissive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian mayors pass resolution to shut out US bidders from local city contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WHISTLER, British Columbia — Canadian mayors passed a resolution Saturday that would potentially shut out U.S. bidders from city contracts in response to the U.S. administration&#8217;s &#8220;Buy American&#8221; policy.

The nonbinding resolution passed 189-175 at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Whistler, British Columbia.
Federation president Jean Perrault said the fair trade resolution was developed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA judge approves $4.1 billion award for California company&#8217;s former executive</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/la-judge-approves-41-billion-award-for-california-companys-former-executive-73515/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/la-judge-approves-41-billion-award-for-california-companys-former-executive-73515/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — A judge approved a $4.1 billion arbitration award against an Internet communications company accused of firing its chief operating officer in a dispute over commissions he said he was owed.

The award confirmed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court includes commissions, along with back wages, interest and other payments for Paul Chester, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific Ocean faces threats that will render some coastal areas uninhabitable</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pacific-ocean-faces-threats-that-will-render-some-coastal-areas-uninhabitable-68603/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - A new research by scientists has determined that the Pacific Ocean, occupying a third of the planet&#8217;s area, faces threats that will render some coastal areas uninhabitable.

According to a report in ENN (Environmental News Network), pollution such as sewage, runoff from land and toxic waste; habitat destruction; over-fishing; and climate change leading to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space  rock  yields important &#8220;ingredient in kitchen&#8221;  on  Earth before life began</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/space-rock-yields-important-ingredient-in-kitchen-on-earth-before-life-began-66253/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/space-rock-yields-important-ingredient-in-kitchen-on-earth-before-life-began-66253/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - Scientists have found  formic  acid,  a molecule  implicated  in the origins of life, has been  found  at record  levels on a meteorite that fell into the Tagish  Lake  in Canada in the year 2000.

According to a report by BBC News, cold temperatures on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texmaco, United Group tie up to make hi-tech wagons</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/texmaco-united-group-tie-up-to-make-hi-tech-wagons-64480/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/texmaco-united-group-tie-up-to-make-hi-tech-wagons-64480/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOLKATA - Texmaco Ltd, a KK Birla group company, has formed a joint venture with United Group of Australia to manufacture hi-tech wagon and locomotive bogie frames, it was announced here Tuesday.



&#8216;A joint venture company with United Group, one of Asia&#8217;s leading end-to-end rail technology solutions provider, has been incorporated, and steps are being discussed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress should support Pawar as next PM: Sangma</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/congress-should-support-pawar-as-next-pm-sangma-63260/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/congress-should-support-pawar-as-next-pm-sangma-63260/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GUWAHATI - Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)  leader and  former  Lok  Sabha Speaker Purno  Agitok  Sangma  on  Friday reiterated  that the Congress should support Sharad Pawar as  the next Prime Minister.

&#8220;We  should  make  all  efforts  to  form  non-Congress,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rescuers scour ocean after at least 9 die when Haitian migrant boat sinks off Fla.; 16 saved</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/rescuers-scour-ocean-after-at-least-9-die-when-haitian-migrant-boat-sinks-off-fla-16-saved-62923/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/rescuers-scour-ocean-after-at-least-9-die-when-haitian-migrant-boat-sinks-off-fla-16-saved-62923/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Kay</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DANIA BEACH, Fla. — Rescuers searched the open Atlantic off Florida for more possible survivors or victims Thursday after a boat overloaded with Haitian migrants capsized and sank a day earlier, killing at least nine people.

Sixteen people survived and it was unclear how many more might be missing, U.S. Coast Guard Capt. James Fitton said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union agreements keep Boston Globe alive, but newspaper&#8217;s future uncertain</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/union-agreements-keep-boston-globe-alive-but-newspapers-future-uncertain-56746/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/union-agreements-keep-boston-globe-alive-but-newspapers-future-uncertain-56746/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 08:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Lavoie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — While a tentative agreement between the owner of The Boston Globe and its largest employees union may keep the newspaper alive for now, the long-term future of the 137-year-old Globe is still uncertain.

The Globe reported on its Web site Wednesday that the proposal calls for employees in the Boston Newspaper Guild to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Obama&#8217;s updated budget, policy ambitions could collide with slow recovery</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/analysis-obamas-updated-budget-policy-ambitions-could-collide-with-slow-recovery-56686/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/analysis-obamas-updated-budget-policy-ambitions-could-collide-with-slow-recovery-56686/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 07:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Barack Obama&#8217;s budget, unveiled with fanfare, fails to deal with his biggest money problems.

A molasses-slow economic recovery will make it hard to find the huge sums he&#8217;ll need to reach his biggest goals — fixing health care, confronting climate change and overhauling the tax system — without much deeper cuts than he&#8217;s proposing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan should play attacking hockey to win Asia Cup</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pakistan-should-play-attacking-hockey-to-win-asia-cup-54883/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pakistan-should-play-attacking-hockey-to-win-asia-cup-54883/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 20:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI - Pakistan&#8217;s hockey experts believe that the team will have to revert to the old style of playing attacking hockey to win the Asia Cup title in Malaysia.



Pakistan is one of the seven teams competing in the 2009 Asia Cup which will get underway in Kuantan (Malaysia) Saturday.


After finishing a poor fourth place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lanka President invites UN chief to see Tamil refugee status</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/lanka-president-invites-un-chief-to-see-tamil-refugee-status-54688/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/lanka-president-invites-un-chief-to-see-tamil-refugee-status-54688/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLOMBO - Sri Lanka&#8217;s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited U N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to visit the island nation to see for himself the situation in the camps where Tamil refugees are lodged.

Rajapaksa&#8217;s invitation came during a telephonic conservation on Wednesday amid concerns over the fate of an estimated 20,000 civilians trapped in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;If you like him, you like him. If you don&#8217;t, he doesn&#8217;t care.&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/if-you-like-him-you-like-him-if-you-dont-he-doesnt-care-48446/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/if-you-like-him-you-like-him-if-you-dont-he-doesnt-care-48446/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 07:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Litke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It&#8217;s never a good thing when the man of the moment needs a publicist to tell people he isn&#8217;t talking.

But that&#8217;s exactly what happened Friday outside Jeff Mullins&#8217; barn on the backstretch at Churchill Downs. The trainer of 3-1 morning-line favorite I Want Revenge has said little during the week leading up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Branding Perez: The world&#8217;s most famous celeb-watcher, now one himself, has eye on an empire</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/branding-perez-the-worlds-most-famous-celeb-watcher-now-one-himself-has-eye-on-an-empire-41283/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/branding-perez-the-worlds-most-famous-celeb-watcher-now-one-himself-has-eye-on-an-empire-41283/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Carlson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Perez Hilton is still poking fun at celebrities. But as a blogger, radio host, author and now highly publicized advocate of gay rights, he&#8217;s also become one — and not just as a famous person, but a powerful and wide-reaching brand.

Still, Hilton, whose recent 31st birthday party drew the likes of the [...]]]></description>
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