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	<title>Busted Halo &#187; Mary Beth Ellis</title>
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		<title>More than a Horse, of Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2004 17:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smarty Jones, your 2004 Kentucky Derby champion, is God&#8217;s Horse. Seabiscuit for the new milleniumYou see a horse like that and a story like this maybe once in a lifetime. Twice, if you&#8217;ve seen Seabiscuit. Smarty came to the party with a trainer, a jockey, and a couple of owners who had never been to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God and the Sports Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2004 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[belmont stakes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a victory in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 5, 2004, Smarty Jones will have captured horseracing&#8217;s most elusive prize—the Triple Crown. No horse has done it since 1978. Certainly a prayer or two is in order. So maybe it&#8217;s not surprising that Smarty was recently blessed by a Philadelphia priest. &#8220;I asked the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Week Hook-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[one nighter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pop quiz, which is the biggest sin? A) Missing Mass on Easter Sunday B) Because you were out until five in the morning on Holy Saturday C) Hooking up with a person you&#8217;d known for under an hour who was wearing a sunvisor. Inside. Backwards. At night. All glory, laud, and honor That is correct: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boldly Going Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2004 18:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[space travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw Mars last night, a tiny spark of crimson in an expanse of frosty black. It&#8217;s tough to miss. First red planet to the right. I saw the moon too, half-crecented and fully lit. You can&#8217;t miss the moon, either. We have touched both now, one with human hand, the other with the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Virgin Mary and Disposable Diapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birth of a baby]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s a boy,&#8221; my brother-in-law said with great shock as he stood before a roomful of nail-biting family members and friends. The stunned pandemonium that followed shook the desk clerk, the cleaning service, and the poor woman who just wanted to use the maternity ward bathroom. We&#8217;d been expecting a girl. Right from the moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope and Glory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crystal Ball v. Gore On the evening of the 2000 election, I sat before Judith Regan Live watching a psychic make a prediction about the outcome. &#8220;We won&#8217;t know who won for a few weeks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It will be a virtual tie. It will come down to one state, and it will be very, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holding the Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are certain things one simply does not announce about oneself upon meeting a marriage-eligible member of the opposite sex. Such as: &#8220;I&#8217;ve refrained from sexual intercourse because my body is a Temple of the Holy Ghost, and you?&#8221; My name is Mary Beth, and I&#8217;m a virgin by day, sealed fountain by night (Song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourteen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In November of 2002, baseball&#8217;s all-time hits leader had the following conversation with the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig: &#8220;Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball,&#8221; Pete Rose said during the meeting, which concerned the lifetime ban that prevents him from assuming what many think is his rightful place in baseball&#8217;s Hall of Fame. &#8220;But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Birthday Karma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, are you like me? You know?screwed? I am one of those poor unfortunate souls born in that ungodly space between Thanksgiving and Martin Luther King Day. Jesus picked a terrible birthday for Himself. If you love your future children, please don&#8217;t conceive them in March or April. They will be forever doomed to combination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Young Woman Reconsiders Her Wayward Halloween Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m dumping the box of Halloween costumes out on the floor last night, and� there wasn&#8217;t much there. I don&#8217;t mean there wasn&#8217;t a great deal to choose from&#8211;we&#8217;re talking about fourteen year&#8217;s worth of costumes here�but� there wasn&#8217;t much there. For a person who recently passed four Halloweens in northern Indiana�a region that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where No Faith Has Gone Before</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[space]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ALF says hello In the middle of the American desert, mankind cups his ear to the cosmos: several highly powerful satellite dishes constantly scan the skies, searching for extraterrestrial radio contact attempts in the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ) project. We&#8217;ve certainly done our share of talking: Every signal broadcast ever is currently zipping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to the Rush I Knew</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rush limbaugh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh died last week. In a way. The Rush I knew?my principled companion for three hours a day?is in some very serious legal trouble, under investigation for illegally purchasing painkillers. I never expected perfection from Rush? but I did expect more of him. As I do the President, I hold Rush to a higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hook Up Time at Notre Dame</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chastity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dorms]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tom wolfe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the year 2000,&#8221; writes Tom Wolfe , novelist and Grand Poobah of non-fiction, &#8220;in the era of hooking up, ?first base&#8217; meant deep kissing (tonsil hockey), groping, and fondling; ?second base&#8217; meant oral sex; ?third base&#8217; meant going all the way; and ?home plate&#8217; meant learning each other&#8217;s names. Getting to home plate was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[red pollard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have heard this story: it&#8217;s about a good man, a complex man who had the world at his feet, then watched it drop away; who gave generously, lived loudly, and died forgotten and in pain. Extra weight Before he jockeyed the great Seabiscuit, the gorgeously literate Johnny &#8220;Red&#8221; Pollard brooded much and saved little. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fatherly Gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[appliance parts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I talk to my father, the conversation usually sounds like this on my end: &#8220;Hi, Dad.&#8221;&#8220;Yes. Thank you.&#8221;&#8220;I know.&#8221;&#8220;Yes, the Bengals certainly do suck.&#8221;&#8220;No….Look, is Mom around?&#8221; Division of laborMy mother is the emotional matrix of the family; all news, all announcements of parental displeasure, all verification of travel plans are transmitted through her. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pedestal Toppling Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2003 19:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sammy Sosa&#8217;s seven-game suspension for bat corking ended last week, amidst much snickering and two very respectable singles. He refers to the incident in which his bat shattered, revealing a chunk of cheating squirreled into the base of his Louisville Slugger, as &#8220;the accident.&#8221; Oh. I wasn&#8217;t aware that the cork had burrowed its own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sound Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[file sharing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lest we forget? When the Cincinnati Bengals were in the 1988 Super Bowl (yes, really), a local radio station cobbled together rousing stadium anthems with such audio gems as &#8220;The Who-Dey Rap,&#8221; and the mix was broadcast every day at 5 p.m. &#8220;Get those tape recorders ready,&#8221; I remember the DJ saying. &#8220;?Welcome to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grieving Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2003 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The space program is so flatly braided into my life that I use it as an alarm clock. When an orbiter (for that is the proper, NASA-ized name for the part of the space shuttle that carries astronauts about the earth) returns to Kennedy Space Center at the end of a mission, it rips two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to talk about anger right now,&#8221; one of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s advisors is reported to have said as he fled a Baghdad government building. Whole world&#8217;s angry these days, isn&#8217;t it? I suppose I could use the war as an excuse for going 45 through the McDonald&#8217;s parking lot, but we&#8217;re all adults [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[baby cousin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blinding light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broad shoulders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dive bomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grandparents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[siblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[towering view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ultimate family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My baby cousin Kaitlyn issues from small stock. Her father is short, her mother even shorter, and her grandparents no towering giants. Her eighteen months on this planet have been populated by people who talk soft, walk tiny, and lift low. Imagine then Kaitlyn&#8217;s reaction to my brother-in-law, who is six foot seven. Her father [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cool Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to break one of my own writing rules here, and turn to Hollywood for wisdom: &#8220;Why,&#8221; said George Burns, representing God, &#8220;is it so easy to believe in that movie about exorcism, and not believe in me? All she did was spit out some pea soup, and suddenly everybody&#8217;s talking about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thirteenth Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2003 19:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[War began on my thirteenth birthday, alien blue tracer fire arcing over the minarets and round curving buildings of Baghdad. I sat cross-legged on the couch with an open notebook in my lap, not studying for final exams. There were too many journalists swearing comically into gas masks for such things. Since then Between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping Through the Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I lifted my head off the pillow: The clock read 12:27 AM. I pumped one fist in the air: Yes! I had done it. I had?avoided New Year&#8217;s Eve. This, then, was rock bottom. It was even worse than New Year&#8217;s Eve 1997. That was four days after a tonsillectomy. I had cradled my throbbing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Nuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since moving to Florida, I have gained thirteen pounds. Perhaps it&#8217;s the stress of the move. Perhaps I&#8217;m scared and alone and subconsciously seek to fill the void with food. Perhaps it&#8217;s the fact that for the past six months I have been, on a somewhat regular basis, eating an entire pizza then falling directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hairy Christmas to All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2002 19:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When did this happen? Sometime between donning my grade school uniform and slapping on my work uniform, toting up another day on the Advent calendar became not a cause for celebration but a very good reason to wince. Another day closer. Another day of failing to get it all done. The Christmas cards are complete, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ditch the Gyrating Elvis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2002 19:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gift giving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing like cheap impersonal crap for Christmas, is there? A buddy of mine once worked at a company that at the corporate Christmas party proudly presented to each and every employee�an extension cord. Well, hoop de holly. At least it beat the previous year&#8217;s gift, which was a wall clock featuring the company logo. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Riot Required</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2002 19:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas gifts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember all that news footage of mothers beating one another over the head in a mad rush to snag the Must-Have, Hot Gift Of The Year, the one their children are whining for and will tire of approximately four seconds after opening it? I haven&#8217;t seen one this year. It doesn&#8217;t exist. Nice, huh? Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Radio Contact</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was young and na�ve and honestly thought that little girls who could not add or subtract in their heads could grow up to become astronauts, I presented significant sums of allowance to NASA Line , an 1-900 number that allowed the dialee to eavesdrop on Houston-astronaut chatter during space shuttle missions. Occasionally a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Sandman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something wrong here. It&#8217;s December, and I am not only jacketless, but wearing shorts. I lived four years in South Bend, Indiana�December is loss of sensation in the lower extremities. The lights started going up here in Cape Canaveral a week before Thanksgiving, the citizens hanging tinsel in sandals and tank tops. They twined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Long Distance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Beth Ellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crossing over]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Edward]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Talked to any dead friends or relatives lately? John Edward says he does it all the time. You&#8217;ve probably heard of Edward, who hosts the syndicated Crossing Over. A self-described &#8220;medium,&#8221; he stands in a gallery of audience members eager to receive messages from loved ones who have died. Some have been informed of foul [...]]]></description>
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