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		<title>Lost and Found</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-127-lost-and-found</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to Mass every Sunday with my father throughout my childhood, and even said evening prayers with him until I was a teenager. Then I went to college, and promptly stopped all of it. Sure, when I was home I&#8217;d attend regularly but, on my own, my faith &#8212; which had never really matured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Time For Love</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/making-time-for-love</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=14145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you asked my husband, I think he&#8217;d say that my most irritating quality is my desire to just do &#8220;one more thing&#8221; before bed, trying to squeeze in one more errand into an already packed day and generally just being resistant to all unstructured downtime. I&#8217;m a go-go-go kind of gal. Sitting and &#8220;relaxing&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtues Big and Small</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/virtues-big-and-small</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/virtues-big-and-small#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Flash]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[college education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce rates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually write about news events and the latest research, but virtue is all around us -- and our best chance of character development comes in our relationships with our families. So here's your to-do list for the day]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtue of Fun</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/the-virtue-of-fun</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/the-virtue-of-fun#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Flash]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[enjoying yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[having fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work-related stress]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study suggests that some 30% of Americans has trouble relaxing and putting work aside to enjoy vacation &#8211; and a handful of us suffer from more acute &#8220;leisure sickness&#8221; and &#8220;weekend headaches&#8221; from our attempts at fun. Reports the Wall Street Journal Only 53% of working Americans say they come back feeling rested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divorce Ceremonies</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/divorce-ceremonies</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/divorce-ceremonies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[break-up]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you plan a wedding, you might select the specific readings or poems to commemorate your love at the ceremony. You&#8217;ll invite friends and family to witness the event, sanctify the union and celebrate your commitment. There might even be a wedding planner to get all the details in place. In Japan, that&#8217;s one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Unplug?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/time-to-unplug</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/time-to-unplug#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back Tara Parker-Pope wrote a New York Times piece about the high toll of technology over-dependence that&#8217;s worth mentioning: With immediate access to information and online storage galore, are we getting more impatient&#8230; and more forgetful? Typically, the concern about our dependence on technology is that it detracts from our time with family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are You? (an excerpt from Generation WTF)</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-126-who-are-you-an-excerpt-from-generation-wtf</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-126-who-are-you-an-excerpt-from-generation-wtf#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are your values? And do you live them every day? These may seem like simple questions, but some honest introspection can lead to big changes in your day-to-day choices about work, volunteering, money and relationships. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Opinions of Others</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/the-opinions-of-others</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/the-opinions-of-others#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, I blogged about new research that found, when searching for a relationship partner, we tend to gravitate toward people who are like us &#8212; because we&#8217;re looking for approval from our peer-group&#8230; and perfect strangers. The conclusion was that social information cues matter: We don&#8217;t live in a vacuum, and community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtues of a BFF</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/the-virtues-of-a-bff</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/the-virtues-of-a-bff#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Flash]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[behvaior supports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best friends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life long friends]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a &#8216;tween and teenager, I had two best friends. The three of us were our own little clique &#8212; inseparable and bonded in a sisterly way. Having two best friends instead of one caused some problems, sure, because there was often a tension between who was closest to whom, but generally, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look for a Partner Your Friends Will Like</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/look-for-a-partner-your-friends-will-like</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/look-for-a-partner-your-friends-will-like#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future partner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage success]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Opposites attract, right? Wrong. It&#8217;s one of the myths marriage and family sociologists love to shatter: While Hollywood has romantic notions of maids in Manhattan finding love among the affluent, the truth is that assorative mating&#8211;the idea that we pair up with people quite similar to ourselves in terms of education, race, class and religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying, Not Trying and OK Either Way?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/trying-not-trying-and-ok-either-way</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/trying-not-trying-and-ok-either-way#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Childbearing outside marriage is on the rise, with some 40% of all births to unwed mothers. And more than half of unplanned pregnancies occur among women who were not using any form of contraception the month they conceived. Were all of those women just being careless? Nope. According to new research, led by Julia McQuillan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generation WTF</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-125-generation-wtf</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-125-generation-wtf#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=13680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How do I stop procrastinating? Where do I find a meaningful relationship? How do I ace a job interview? What do I do with a roommate who hates me? And what am I really working toward in my life &#8212; what&#8217;s my purpose? If you are between the ages of 18 and 25, then chances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust Your Hormones</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/trust-your-hormones</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/trust-your-hormones#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a plot of a future James Bond movie: The evil female character is lulled into trusting Bond after he spikes her drink with oxytocin, a brain hormone that gives her the warm-and-fuzzies. When her partner in crime realizes what&#8217;s happened, he drops the antidote-testosterone-into her mouth and she&#8217;s off to attack the world once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Women&#8217;s Magazines May Be Harmful to Your Relationship</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/why-womens-magazines-may-be-harmful-to-your-relationship</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/why-womens-magazines-may-be-harmful-to-your-relationship#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing about the repetition in men&#8217;s magazines earlier this week made me look back at my research on men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s magazines from more than a decade ago. A few points to note: 1) Repetition isn&#8217;t anything new in the gendered magazine world. Cosmopolitan has been doing it for ages. In the January 1990 issue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superficial Inadequacies</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/superficial-inadequacies</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/superficial-inadequacies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gawker recently reported that Men&#8217;s Health magazine was recycling cover stories &#8211; and selling readers nearly identical covers &#8211; with messages of physical inadequacy. Men&#8217;s Health has four topics that it routinely features, Gawker proves with terrific graphics: &#8220;Six Pack Abs,&#8221; &#8220;Lose Your Gut,&#8221; &#8220;Get Back in Shape&#8221; and &#8220;Flat-Belly Foods.&#8221; In an age of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Not Too Busy</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/youre-not-too-busy</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/youre-not-too-busy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you&#8217;re too busy to read a good book, have a quiet hour with your spouse or go to the gym five days a week? You&#8217;re not, you just choose to spend too much of your time on unimportant and less rewarding activities, argues Laura Vanderkam in her book, 168 Hours: You Have More Time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Cash and Values</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/cold-cash-and-values</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=13605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Relationships experts often tell young couples that as things get &#8220;serious&#8221; it&#8217;s important to have some conversations about money. But what exactly should you talk about during that conversation? Are you going to lay down your W-2s and 1099s to compare numbers? Are you going to have amorphous discussions about money that are really more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Gender Gap</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/the-new-gender-gap</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years I&#8217;ve written about the increase in women&#8217;s college and professional school graduation rates. But never have I seen the data so starkly displayed as it is on Prof. Mark J. Perry&#8217;s blog, Carpe Diem. He rightly notes that There are hundreds, if not thousands, of University and College Women&#8217;s Centers across the country, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spare Us the Halfalogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientific American has a fun podcast on one of the more irksome elements of modern life: Hearing half of the inane conversation of a fellow passenger on mass transportation. Researchers have found that it is more distracting to listen to half of a conversation &#8212; dubbed a halfalogue &#8212; than it is to listen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sending a Message You Don&#8217;t Care</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/sending-a-message-you-dont-care</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/sending-a-message-you-dont-care#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a BlackBerry or an iPhone. I know, I know, it&#8217;s absurd that I&#8217;ve gone this long without the pacifier-tether that is a handheld device. So when I complain about friends and family who use these gadgets at dinner, the theater, in meetings and beyond, I usually get written off as a Luddite. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Ideas Have Sex</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/when-ideas-have-sex</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/when-ideas-have-sex#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was predisposed to like this piece in Scientific American based on its title alone: When Ideas Have Sex: How free exchange between people increases prosperity and trust But it&#8217;s not just a provocative title. The parallel between the benefits of intermixing genes to create new life and the benefits of sharing ideas to create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Singles Revisited</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-123-catholic-singles-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-123-catholic-singles-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=13553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is being single a vocation within the Catholic Church? Can one be called to a single life &#8212; not the Sacrament of Marriage, not the Sacrament of Holy Orders &#8212; as a vocation in and of itself? Last month I wrote a piece asking and answering these questions, and Busted Halo readers had a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Results from Bad Habits?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/good-results-from-bad-habits</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reading this in the midst of a stressful day at the office, here&#8217;s some good news: When you go home to do what I know you&#8217;ll probably do &#8212; drink, smoke, use drugs and binge eat &#8212; you are actually triggering a biological response in your body that helps prevent depression. Hello Oreos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simulated Ethics</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/simulated-ethics</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guys, just an FYI: Next time a simulated image of a woman asks you to make a moral or ethical choice about sexual infidelity, know that your decisions might be impacted by whether she&#8217;s real-looking or not. Huh? Yep, welcome to cutting-edge social science. According to a study by researchers at the Indiana University School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charity Morality</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/charity-morality</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered why, after you give a small gift to a charity, you get a request for another gift almost immediately? Or how all these charities find you &#8212; even though you&#8217;ve just moved a few weeks earlier? Writes Ann Kadet in the Weekend Journal When your favorite nonprofit isn&#8217;t busy saving the whales, chances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organization Kids Nine Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the buzz around Elena Kagan&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court last year, New York Times columnist David Brooks likened her to the Organization Kids he researched at Princeton back in early 2001: He wrote She seems to be smart, impressive and honest &#8212; and in her willingness to suppress so much of her mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declining Morality?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/declining-morality</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Out recently from Gallup: Americans are three times more likely to describe the current state of moral values in the United States as &#8220;poor&#8221; than as &#8220;excellent&#8221; or &#8220;good.&#8221; Americans&#8217; assessment of U.S. morality has never been positive, but the current ratings rank among the worst Gallup has measured over the past nine years. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You A Little Bit Married?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-103-are-you-a-little-bit-married</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-103-are-you-a-little-bit-married#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=10980</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt, 29, and his girlfriend, Kelly, 28, have been dating for four years and living together for two. They were both raised Catholic, attend Church occasionally, and joke about &#8220;living in sin&#8221; and being &#8220;semi-married.&#8221; Kelly told me she was OK moving in with Matt because she just assumed that this was a step in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Delay Be a Virtue?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/can-delay-be-a-virtue</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How much does this statement describe you? &#8220;I usually make decisions as soon as possible.&#8221; Is that extremely or moderately characteristic of your behavior? Or extremely or moderately uncharacteristic of your behavior? If you delay on making decisions, you&#8217;ll get points toward a higher procrastination score on the Lay Procrastination inventory (PDF). But according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Americans Exceptionally Individualistic?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/blogs/are-americans-exceptionally-individualistic</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=12155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a terrific post on one of my favorite sites, Sociological Images, we learn that our assumptions of American individualism aren&#8217;t really that accurate. If you define individualism as “gives priority to personal liberty” then, Claude Fischer, at Made in America, concludes “There is considerable evidence, ” he writes, “that Americans are not more individualistic [...]]]></description>
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