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	<description>Thoughts on what it means to be human in today's world</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fix the FDA</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/fix-the-fda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting little story in the NY Times online edition today about a letter the head of the FDA wrote to Congress asking for money [F.D.A. Chief Writes Congress for Money, by Gardiner Harris, NYT, March 14, 2008]:
&#8220;After being pummeled for weeks on Capitol Hill over the president’s budget, Food and Drug Commissioner Andrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Snooping in Your Medical Files?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State health regulators in California have uncovered what appears to be a hotbed of snooping at one of the premier medical institutes in the state &#8212; UCLA Medical Center. What started as one employee illegally viewing the personal medical records of patients including Farah Fawcett and Britney Spears has turned into a pool of 68 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing Your Right to Vote</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/losing-your-right-to-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have the right to vote? Maybe, and then again, maybe not. Following the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold the requirement that voters must present IDs to vote, several states are now attempting to go further. Not only must you prove who you are, but you must prove that you are a citizen.
Sounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greater Tragedy in Myanmar/Burma</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/the-greater-tragedy-in-myanmarburma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the cyclone wasn&#8217;t bad enough, now the Burmese people have to suffer the double tragedy of lack of aid. It isn&#8217;t that the aid isn&#8217;t out there, it&#8217;s that their own government won&#8217;t give it to them.

As a note before I continue: I must admit to having to look up why some people call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Being a Platypus</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/on-being-a-platypus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eammasuoka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be hard being a platypus. All your friends laugh at how funny you look and now you have to face up to the fact that your genes are just plain wierd too&#8230;.

Several news sites are reporting results form the platypus genome project today (BBC, CNN, NPR, Science Daily; the actual study is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mildred Loving (1939 - 2008)</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/mildred-loving-1939-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eammasuoka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Who was Mildred Loving, you ask? Mildred Loving was one of the most important civil rights activists during the 1960s though she had no wish to become an activist at all. In 1958, Mildred Loving and her husband Richard were arrested for getting married. Yes, married. Mildred was black and Richard was white, and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Belles Shows the Problems of Breeding, Not Racing</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/eight-belles-shows-the-problems-of-breeding-not-racing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a sad day for the Kentucky Derby when they had to put down the second place horse, Eight Belles, on the track after the filly broke both front ankles after the race. Some people are stunned, others are angry. We can argue about whether horse racing is a good or bad sport, whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MDR-TB: Why this bowl of letters is important.</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/mdr-tb-why-this-bowl-of-letters-is-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study just published in the British Medical Journal indicates that the number of cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has increased dramatically in recent years in the UK. While we here in the US might not care much, we should. It is only recently that the UK has become a center of immigration; we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Oxygen in Water = Bad News for People</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/no-oxygen-in-water-bad-news-for-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several news sites as well as Science Daily are running articles describing new research from global climate scientists that indicates an increase in &#8220;oxygen depletion zones&#8221; in the world&#8217;s oceans. What&#8217;s an oxygen depletion zone and what&#8217;s it mean to you? Read on&#8230;

An oxygen depletion zone is an area where water warms to the point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Discovered</title>
		<link>http://inreshumanus.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/new-hemorrhagic-fever-virus-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new arenavirus associated with hemorrhagic fever has been discovered deep in the foothills of the Andes in Bolivia, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that you shouldn&#8217;t care. Hemorrhagic fever viruses are often lethal infections and quite a few new ones have been discovered in the past decade. The appearance of these viruses has important ramifications [...]]]></description>
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