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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>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>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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		<title>Selling the poor, helping the poor: No contradiction?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By marketing to billions of lower-income people, business can do well by doing good: Affordable green goods for "the base of the pyramid" could improve lives and cut environmental damage.  Could this work?]]></description>
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		<title>Toddler&#8217;s &#8220;vocabulary explosion,&#8221; explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A toddler suddenly begins to learn 10 words a day. Does this reflect some innate genius for language, or could it have a less dramatic explanation? New research de-glamorizes the vocab explosion.]]></description>
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		<title>Barbecue season approaches: What&#8217;s so great about open fire?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 21:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ancients used fire to cook, smelt metal and make pots. It provided warmth, protection against animals, and became a social focus. Fire changed who we are. Could this explain the enduring allure of fire?]]></description>
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