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		<title>Driving while blabbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many dead? Research and real-life experience prove that people die when drivers pick up the cellphone. Even worse: texting on the road!]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea&#8217;s nukes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Underground nuclear tests have been the biggest roadblock to a comprehensive test ban. How are these explosions detected, and how reliably?]]></description>
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		<title>Mass killings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After another mass murder -- 13 dead in Binghamton, N.Y. -- The Why Files wants to know why they pull the trigger. What are the warning signs of "rampage" shootings? Can they be prevented?]]></description>
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		<title>Aggression -Another feelgood emotion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the brain, dopamine carries signals that make us eat, take drugs and have sex. New research shows that dopamine plays a key role in rewarding mice for aggression.]]></description>
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		<title>California burnin&#8217;: Are we building in harm&#8217;s way?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California's fires are a tragedy, but are human actions making them worse? What is the role of global warming and zoning? Can we build safer houses in safer locations?]]></description>
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		<title>Coral Reefs: Imagine an Ocean without them!</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2006/coral-reefs-imagine-an-ocean-without-coral-reefs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurricanes, disease and heat deliver another body blow to Caribbean coral reefs -- the centers of biodiversity, fish nurseries and guardians of shorelines.  Must we kiss coral goodbye?]]></description>
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		<title>Trees: Natural Barrier to Tsunami Waves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could something as simple, cheap and natural as a forest protect a coastline from a tsunami's titanic wave? It's looking that way...]]></description>
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		<title>Radiation and Health: What Do We know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What are the health effects of low-level radiation? How much cancer results from a small dose increase? If the hazard is small, are we wasting money on radiation protection? Lessons from Hiroshima and Chernobyl.]]></description>
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		<title>Salvage Logging: Helpful or Harmful?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2004/salvage-logging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salvage logging of forests after natural disturbances is a bad idea, ecologists warn. Evidence from a forest whacked by a 1938 hurricane show how salvage logging changes the landscape.]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming: Will Parasol Imperil Plants</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2003/global-warming-umbrella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2003 18:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we put up a giant umbrella to shield the Earth from global warming, what will happen to plant productivity?]]></description>
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