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		<title>Scraps of ancient textiles found</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flax, the basis for linen, was spun and dyed, and lost in the mud. More than 30,000 years later, microscopic flax fibers provide the first cord in archeological history.]]></description>
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		<title>Brit astronomers reveal sizzling cosmic tryst!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A planet newly found in the southern sky is perilously close to its star, orbiting in less than 1 Earth day. Within 10 years, this planet may force a new understanding of star-guts.]]></description>
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		<title>Fertilizing the ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Earth warms, we may need huge geoengineering projects to fight climate change. Would adding iron to fertilize ocean plants withdraw enough carbon dioxide to slow warming? Could the plan backfire?]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrate eating &#8212; and food.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrate eating -- and food. Hungry: Is that your "food clock" ringing? Why does a fruitfly need to smell? How does bitter taste to you? And could eating MSG make you fat?]]></description>
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		<title>Running short of copper, phosphorus, rare elements</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without phosphorus fertilizer, millions would starve. A shortage of copper -- and electricity -- could short-circuit our economy. Without many obscure elements, we would not have LCDs and cell phones. Should we act to prevent future shortages?]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The candidates are skirting issues related to environment, energy and science policy. Heard promising plans for greener energy, solid science advice, or coping with the decline of oil? We neither...]]></description>
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		<title>Hungry? History has lessons for improving farm productivity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After World War II, the “green revolution” sparked an explosion in farm output in developing countries. With soaring food prices and  spreading food riots, what can we learn from the green revolution?]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring invading trees: New system tested in Hawaii</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawaii is the world's capital of biological invasions. A new airborne gadget measures how bad the situation has become; offers aid in fighting weedy trees.]]></description>
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		<title>Reprocessing nuclear fuel: A cure that&#8217;s worse than the disease?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Nevada waste dump 20 years late, deadly radwaste still piles up. Would removing the plutonium for new fuel aid proliferators or help with waste storage? The debate continues.]]></description>
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		<title>Political equation (1) Election + science = ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Use a cellphone? Love nature? Fear cancer? Then how can you hate science? Epidemics, environment, technology: We've got questions for the marathoners running (still?) for prexydent.]]></description>
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