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		<title>Study: Weather, not pollution controls, had bigger role in cleaning Beijing air for Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tini Tran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — Beijing&#8217;s notoriously dirty air was cleaner during last summer&#8217;s Olympic games, but pollution levels were still much worse than at recent Olympics, despite a massive Chinese cleanup campaign, a new report said.

Athletes in Beijing faced pollution levels that were up to 3.5 times higher than those in recent Olympic cities like Athens, Atlanta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State police pilot, student hiker confirmed dead in New Mexico chopper crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Baker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA FE, N.M. — Officials said both the pilot of a state police helicopter and the student hiker he was rescuing were killed when the aircraft crashed on a snowy mountain near Santa Fe.

The officials said that Sgt. Andy Tingwall perished after retrieving lost hiker Megumi Yamamoto when the chopper struck the side of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searchers find hiker&#8217;s body after New Mexico police chopper crashes in mountain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Baker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA FE, N.M. — Searchers have found the body of a hiker who was in a state police helicopter that went down on a snowy Santa Fe mountain peak, but were still searching for the pilot.

Police Lt. Eric Garcia said Megumi Yamamoto, a University of New Mexico physics graduate student from Tokyo, was found dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First lady tells high school graduates any doubts about college are not unusual.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Superville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama used some high-profile examples — including Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor — to reassure high school graduates any doubts they have about how they will do in college and beyond are not unusual.

She mentioned her own anxieties when first starting at Princeton University, as well as the concerns of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US man who swam to Suu Kyi, prompting new charges against her, left confusion, anger back home</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-man-who-swam-to-suu-kyi-prompting-new-charges-against-her-left-confusion-anger-back-home-63026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 02:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Sudekum Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FALCON, Mo. — John Yettaw left his 10-year-old and three teenagers in southern Missouri, visited his former wife in California last month and told her he had to go to Asia to work on a psychology paper about forgiveness. That was bad enough for his ex-wife, but it got worse.

Yettaw&#8217;s unexplained swim last week across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venetia Phair, who suggested Pluto as a planet&#8217;s name, dies at 90</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/venetia-phair-who-suggested-pluto-as-a-planets-name-dies-at-90-56099/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 05:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Barr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Venetia Phair, who was 11 years old when she suggested Pluto as the name of the newly discovered planet, has died at age 90, her family said.

She died at home in Epsom on April 30, the family said; the cause of death was not disclosed. The family said a funeral would be held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s education secretary seeks parents&#8217;, educators&#8217; comments on No Child Left Behind law</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obamas-education-secretary-seeks-parents-educators-comments-on-no-child-left-behind-law-53550/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 06:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libby Quaid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is committed to the testing and school accountability at the heart of the No Child Left Behind law championed by former President George W. Bush, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.

In a speech prepared for delivery Thursday, Duncan gave the law credit for shining a spotlight on kids who need the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s education secretary to seek input on No Child Left Behind law</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obamas-education-secretary-to-seek-input-on-no-child-left-behind-law-52528/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libby Quaid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan is a man on a mission: to hear what teachers, students and parents in at least 15 states think about No Child Left Behind, the controversial education law championed by former President George W. Bush.

Duncan is visiting schools in West Virginia Tuesday, the first stop in the first steps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s education secretary seeks input on No Child Left Behind law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libby Quaid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BUNKER HILL, W.Va. — Embarking on a &#8220;listening tour,&#8221; Education Secretary Arne Duncan asked teachers, parents and students Tuesday how they would improve No Child Left Behind, the controversial education law championed by former President George W. Bush.

Duncan visited West Virginia, the first stop on a 15-state tour as the Obama administration prepares to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s education secretary seeks input on No Child Left Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libby Quaid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan is a man on a mission: to hear what teachers, students and parents in at least 15 states think about No Child Left Behind, the controversial education law championed by former President George W. Bush.

Duncan is visiting schools in West Virginia Tuesday, the first stop in the first steps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California high school and middle school teams win Energy Department&#8217;s science bowl</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 07:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha T. Metzler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — An astronomical diagram pointed a Sacramento, Calif., high school team toward victory Monday in the National Science Bowl.

The five students from Mira Loma High School recognized a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, used by astronomers to study stars, in the finals of the competition, sponsored by the Energy Department.
The team bested 66 other teams to win [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds that boogie: Researchers demonstrate that animals can &#8216;dance&#8217; to a musical beat</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/birds-that-boogie-researchers-demonstrate-that-animals-can-dance-to-a-musical-beat-46198/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Ritter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — They wouldn&#8217;t blow away the competition on &#8220;Dancing with the Stars,&#8221; but it turns out that some birds got rhythm. After studying a cockatoo that grooves to the Backstreet Boys and about 1,000 YouTube videos, scientists say they&#8217;ve documented for the first time that some animals &#8220;dance&#8221; to a musical beat.

The results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading and math: Students show improvement on national tests</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/reading-and-math-students-show-improvement-on-national-tests-42638/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libby Quaid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Kids in the U.S. are improving in reading and math, with low-achieving students making the biggest gains.

The 2008 scores come from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal test considered the benchmark of how students perform across the country. In a report issued Tuesday, reading and math scores were measured against long-term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading and math: Students improve on national tests</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/reading-and-math-students-improve-on-national-tests-42376/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libby Quaid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Kids are making strides in reading and math, though progress in math seems stalled among high school students, according to a federal report that tracked test scores going back to the 1970s.

The scores come from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, considered the benchmark of how students perform across the country. The report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion News in Brief</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/religion-news-in-brief-33707/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — State House officials say they have been inundated with protests about a policy that barred a clergyman from using the word &#8220;Jesus&#8221; in a prayer that was to open one of the lawmakers&#8217; daily sessions.

The Rev. Gerry Stoltzfoos, of the Freedom Valley Worship Center in Gettysburg, had planned to end his recent prayer [...]]]></description>
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