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		<title>Bin Laden&#8217;s death will change nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/02/bin-ladens-death-will-change-nothing-especially-among-the-youth-of-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/02/bin-ladens-death-will-change-nothing-especially-among-the-youth-of-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 04:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bin Laden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death of Osama Bin Laden deprives Islamic fundamentalist terrorism of a key symbol but its impact will be rather more obvious in the Western media than either in the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists, or in the military ventures and systematic restrictions on civil liberties.]]></description>
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		<title>Rundle: the world changed this week. And it&#8217;s only Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/29/rundle-the-world-changed-this-week-and-its-only-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/29/rundle-the-world-changed-this-week-and-its-only-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cablegate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the diplomatic correspondence of an entire nation can be loaded onto a memory stick, then security is only as good as the least 'dependable' individual in the whole chain.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: Voters rate Joe on banks, and we want to get closer to China</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/15/essential-voters-rate-joe-on-banks-and-we-want-to-get-closer-to-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/15/essential-voters-rate-joe-on-banks-and-we-want-to-get-closer-to-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia-US alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=186013</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More of us want to get closer to China than the United States, Essential Research's new poll shows. And there's strong support for gay marriage as well.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey says: Voters recognise that China is the main game</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/15/crikey-says-voters-recognise-that-china-is-the-main-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/15/crikey-says-voters-recognise-that-china-is-the-main-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia-US alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Hawke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US alliance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=185884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australians, it seems, are well aware that their governments must operate in a far more multi-polar world than in previous decades. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keep praying, Louisiana</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/16/crikey-says-keep-praying-louisiana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/16/crikey-says-keep-praying-louisiana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=146070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A presidential speech from the Oval Office usually falls into one of two categories: the commander-in-chief is responding to an immediate crisis, or he's trying to change the dynamic of an ongoing one.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>California&#8217;s water wars rage on</title>
		<link>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/end-californias-water-wars</link>
		<comments>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/end-californias-water-wars#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California lawmakers have approved several bills that could significantly change the state’s troubled water system, fueling hopes that a generation of feuds over the state’s most vital and overexploited natural resource might soon be over.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brown pelicans are back, baby: birds defy extinction</title>
		<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33860070/ns/us_news-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33860070/ns/us_news-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pelicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago, the brown pelican was on the brink of extinction. Thanks to a ban on DDT and preservation of nesting sites, they're back. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vale Les Paul, symbol maker of rock</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/vale-les-paul-symbol-maker-of-rock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/vale-les-paul-symbol-maker-of-rock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dunlop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fender Stratocaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gibson Les Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guitars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memphis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nashville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obituary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rolling Stones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Beatles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Les Paul, one of the seminal figures of rock n roll history, has died at age 94.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>US investors keep the blinkers on</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/us-investors-keep-the-blinkers-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/us-investors-keep-the-blinkers-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wal Mart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[walmart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/14/us-investors-keep-the-blinkers-on/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the third time in 10 days American markets and investors have received a reminder of the fragile state of the current recovery and market boom, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>High-ranking defectors spill the beans on Scientology</title>
		<link>http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/#story_anchor</link>
		<comments>http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/#story_anchor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church of Scientology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david miscavige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=68903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientology leader David Miscavige is the focus of a special report from the <em>St. Petersburg Times</em> in which former executives of the Church of Scientology, including two of the former top lieutenants to Miscavige, have come forward to describe a culture of intimidation and violence.]]></description>
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		<title>Bulldozing the burbs</title>
		<link>http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/06/19/bulldoze-the-burbs/</link>
		<comments>http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/06/19/bulldoze-the-burbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professor david flint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[town planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban decay]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=68895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Razing declining neighborhoods doesn’t seem to be a priority right now for the Obama administration, but Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser thinks it should be. In fact, Professor Glaeser argues that some cities just aren’t going to come back.]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican drug cartels recruit young men for murder-for-hire rings</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/23killers.html?_r=1&#038;src=twt&#038;twt=nytimes</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/23killers.html?_r=1&#038;src=twt&#038;twt=nytimes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug cartels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=68891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the minds of many Americans, the Rio Grande divides Mexico, a corrupt land where drug cartels have the upper hand, from the US, a nation of law and order, where the authorities keep criminal gangs in check. But in reality, the border is much more blurred. ]]></description>
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		<title>Viral movie marketing: one giant practical joke</title>
		<link>http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-district19-2009jun19,0,4768186.story</link>
		<comments>http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-district19-2009jun19,0,4768186.story#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aliens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=68214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Viral movie marketing campaigns rely upon a temporary suspension of disbelief. After initial confusion wears off, as the operating principal goes, people will agree to play along with what is essentially a massively scaled practical joke. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bargain hunting with Bill Clinton</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/magazine/31clinton-t.html?_r=1&#038;hpw</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/magazine/31clinton-t.html?_r=1&#038;hpw#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[former presidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[souvenirs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=63369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton loves to shop. In a crafts store in Lima, Peru, he hunts for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He moves across shelves of wooden carvings, jewelry and sculptures as he searches for something distinctive to bring home to the Secretary of State. ]]></description>
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		<title>Man without fingerprints confounds US customs</title>
		<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-27-fingerprints_N.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-27-fingerprints_N.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 05:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fingerprints]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=62228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An estimated one in 50 people around the world lack matchable fingerprints. One cancer patient's fingerprints were so eroded by the medication he was taking that the US authorities couldn't let him into the country. ]]></description>
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		<title>Roll on recession: the fashion industry is ready for you</title>
		<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/fashion-economy</link>
		<comments>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/fashion-economy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 06:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frugality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=61517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year the boom that began in the 1980s ended with breathtaking rapidity and finality. Luckily, a contingent of people at the heart of fashion have been readying for post-crash style for years...]]></description>
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		<title>Jonas brothers need to cross over before tweens tire</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/arts/music/25jonas.html?hp&#038;ex=&#038;ei=&#038;partner=</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/arts/music/25jonas.html?hp&#038;ex=&#038;ei=&#038;partner=#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 06:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ageing population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop sensations the Jonas Brothers need to cross over, and fast. The tween market is fickle and allegiances come and go faster than ever. The band needs to strike before its core fans — young girls — “age out” of the experience.]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t afford a $66K glass Artichoke lamp? Try $12 sheep&#8217;s milk soap instead</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124165938081394419.html</link>
		<comments>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124165938081394419.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 05:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard hit luxury stores are getting creative, banking on people to continue being just a little self-indulgent -- say, splurging on a fancy garden trowel instead of a chandelier.]]></description>
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		<title>Does improving fuel efficiency encourage people to drive more?</title>
		<link>http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/05/22/does-increasing-fuel-efficiency-make-people-drive-more/</link>
		<comments>http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/05/22/does-increasing-fuel-efficiency-make-people-drive-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 05:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you reduce the need for a fuel, you also reduce its cost, thereby increasing demand. So mandating cars that use less petrol will make driving cheaper, encouraging people to drive more, right?]]></description>
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		<title>The top ten firms lobbying Washington on climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-20-climate-change-lobbying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-20-climate-change-lobbying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 06:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new analysis of Senate disclosure records shows that more than 880 businesses and interest groups registered to lobby on climate change in the first quarter of 2009 — up more than 14%.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama ushers in new era of fuel efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/19emissions.html?hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/19emissions.html?hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 06:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama announces tough new nationwide rules for automobile emissions and mileage standards, embracing standards that California has sought to enact for years over the objections of the auto industry and the Bush administration.]]></description>
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		<title>Plug in hybrids too hyped?</title>
		<link>http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/news/2009/05/plugins0506</link>
		<comments>http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/news/2009/05/plugins0506#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 05:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The value and effectiveness of plug-in technology is being questioned, even as President Obama pledges to have 1 million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015. ]]></description>
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		<title>What Thatcher could teach Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1895561,00.html?xid=rss-topstories</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1895561,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 20:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thatcher's true genius was her relentless focus on making policy in support of a remarkably prosaic goal: to let middle-class folk feel that hard work would be rewarded in a better future for their children. ]]></description>
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		<title>Throw Obama&#8217;s cash for cars plan on the scrap heap?</title>
		<link>http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/17/would-cash-for-clunkers-be-good-or-bad-for-the-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/17/would-cash-for-clunkers-be-good-or-bad-for-the-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's plan to offer cash towards a new car if people promise to send their old one to become scrap metal is pitched as a win for the economy and the environment. But is it wrong on both counts?]]></description>
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		<title>Dyer&#8217;s Real Economy wrap: Grim news for German growth, Cruise industry sinking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/dyers-real-economy-wrap-grim-news-for-german-growth-cruise-industry-sinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/dyers-real-economy-wrap-grim-news-for-german-growth-cruise-industry-sinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's the German word for spin? ... German growth looking grim ... More deals for air travellers? ... Cruise lines are sinking ... Read the fine print on housing news ... How do you solve a problem like Japan? ... Chock biscuits sales fall, Big pizzas up ... Oroton shows them how it's done ... CK suffers.]]></description>
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