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		<title>Economic stimulus = just pouring concrete?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Life during the &#8220;other&#8221; Big Bang!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did the arrival of 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons of space junk start the formation of organic molecules roughly 4 billion years ago? "Could be," says a new study from Japan...]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient cities: A new plan for sprawl?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archeologists thought Middle-Eastern cities grew through remote "daughter" villages. But a new study of  a big city in ancient Syria, shows that new settlements formed closer to town.
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		<title>Lovable Loot: Vaunted Vase Heads &#8220;Home&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Museum returns a priceless classic vase to Italy. What's at the root of obtaining ancient loot? Where should we draw the line? Does it make sense for big museums to keep artifacts, or should it all go back to source countries?]]></description>
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		<title>Bookin&#8217; science: Best of the batch.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If (gasp!) the subject is too big for a Whyfile, hit the books. Here, we review four great science books, on evolution, environment, fighting nature, and discovering motherly love.]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Wizard Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Teller helped invent the hydrogen bomb, then pushed missile defense. By public advocacy and secret research, he changed the 20th century.]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Invented: When, Why and How?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who invented writing? And for what purpose? A tale of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and the Maya. What happens when pictograms are not enough...]]></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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