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		<title>Genetic tests go mainstream</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies are marketing genetic tests direct to consumers.  Some tests can be lifesavers. But many tests return confusing results, which even doctors have a hard time interpreting.]]></description>
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		<title>Economic stimulus = just pouring concrete?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama decides that current and new grant applications at the National Institutes of Health are an effective economic stimulus. People get jobs. Inventions get invented. What's not to like?]]></description>
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		<title>Universe: Measured by New Yardstick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling cramped? New measurement says the universe is bigger than you thought. Meet the astronomers' new yardstick.]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Red Rain: Aliens or Hype?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did red rain in India carry alien bacteria? One Indian scientist thinks so.  Others say it was just spores of a common alga. Pay your money, take your choice!]]></description>
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		<title>MAD Science! Have a Laugh on Us&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A MAD look at science. Science fair projects we'd like to see, weird wonk words, and creative uses for radioactive waste.]]></description>
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		<title>Genetically Engineered Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How safe is genetically modified food? Was this test a legitimate study, or was its conclusion based on faulty methods?]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein Triumphs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 1997 19:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 100 years, scientists are still proving the old man right. Why was he able to do what others could not? The origins of scientific genius, explored by the average minds at The Why Files...]]></description>
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		<title>Sputnik&#8217;s Legacy: Good Science Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bored with space? Things were different 40 years ago, when Sputnik shook the world.]]></description>
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