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	<title>The Mind of Kim</title>
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	<description>The thoughts and opinions of an average teenage girl.</description>
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		<title>Space Travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) &#8212; NASA&#8217;s plans for returning people to the moon &#8212; an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 &#8212; includes establishing a permanent outpost that would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars.
NASA wants permanent moon base &#8211; CNN.com

This article is about how the government wants to establish an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=31&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/space-travel/</link>
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		<title>Quarterback Apologizes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) &#8212; Michael Vick&#8217;s frustrations with fading playoff hopes and unexpected insults from home fans caused him to flash an obscene hand gesture on Sunday.
SI.com &#8211; NFL &#8211; Vick apologizes for obscene hand gesture to fans &#8211; Monday November 27, 2006 4:19PM

This article is about a football player Mike Vick and how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=30&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/quarterback-apologizes/</link>
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		<title>Global Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
Report: Global warming killing species &#8211; World Environment &#8211; MSNBC.com

This article is about how global warming is creeping up on us sooner than scientists had thought.  Due to this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=29&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/global-warming/</link>
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		<title>What a Shame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky (AP) &#8212; One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping an Iraqi girl last spring and killing her and her family pleaded guilty Wednesday and will testify against the others
Soldier pleads guilty in Iraq killings &#8211; CNN.com

This article is about how four U.S. soldiers raped a 14 year old girl and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=28&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/what-a-shame/</link>
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		<title>Nickel and Dimed pg. 1-121</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book is about how the author, Barbara Ehrenreich, goes about understand poverty.  She is a writer that thought of the idea that a journalist should live the life of a person living full time in poverty to see how these people make it in life. They would see if making today&#8217;s minimum wage is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=27&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/11/12/nickel-and-dimed-pg-1-121/</link>
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		<title>College for Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story, written by Wesley Shumar, is about how colleges are using marketing to make their college look good, rather than focus on the actual educational qualities of the school.  One reason stated in the story of why schools are focusing more on advertising their schools as an image not by education is that &#8220;colleges [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=26&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/college-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>Hunger as Ideology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story, written by Susan Bordo, is about how people in today&#8217;s world view men and women&#8217;s eating habits.  Susan Bordo believes that &#8220;we live in a time in wihch mass imagery has an unprecedented power to instruct&#8221;.  This is true.  People all around the world are looking to the media to see what the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=25&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/hunger-as-ideology/</link>
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		<title>The Culture of Argument in a Chicago Neighborhood Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story was about a woman named Julie Lindquist.  She is a bartender at a bar called the Smokehouse.  Here she records people&#8217;s conversations so she can study them.  From her research she realizes that no matter what class you are a part of, once you are in the bar everyone is the same.  She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=24&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/the-culture-of-argument-in-a-chicago-neighborhood-bar/</link>
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		<title>Follow the guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) &#8212; A dormitory elevator that pinned and killed an Ohio State University freshman was overloaded, said authorities who have not determined whether the extra weight caused a malfunction.
Elevator that killed student overloaded &#8211; CNN.com
This article is about how a college freshman was killed by being pinned by a dormitory elevator.  The elevator [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=23&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/follow-the-guidelines/</link>
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		<title>Attack of the Stingray &#8211; Again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Florida (AP) &#8212; An 81-year-old man was in critical condition Thursday after a stingray flopped onto his boat and stung him, leaving a foot-long barb in his chest in an accident similar to the one that killed &#8220;Crocodile Hunter&#8221; Steve Irwin.
Man in critical condition after stingray attack in boat &#8211; CNN.com

This article is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimmeryrose.wordpress.com&blog=388812&post=22&subd=shimmeryrose&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://shimmeryrose.wordpress.com/2006/10/24/attack-of-the-stingray-again/</link>
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