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		<title>Vizions Magazine Seeks Contributors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Digital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vizions Magazine, an online GLBTQ publication, is seeking contributors and technical staff for its website, radio show and internet newspaper. Run by QNA Media Group, LLC, the magazine launched in the spring of 2010 and is looking for new contributors, regular columnists, editors, photographers and other staff for when the magazine goes to its monthly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Boston Bans Texting While Driving, They Get It Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Boston is considering a proposal before city council that would ban texting while driving. 
I've never been a big proponent of so-called common sense laws. The question is whether this kind of ban qualifies.  Driving laws in general are enacted in the best interests of public safety.]]></description>
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		<title>Pedestrian Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike most yield-to-pedestrian mandates in other states, Mass residents are empowered to walk into the middle of the street come hell, highwater, truck or beemer. This kind of fearlessness has evolved into a culture where the pedestrian is always charging into oncoming traffic. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtual Attendance Bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society and Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I've been daydreaming of not working.  It's not exactly a unique thing to dream about being unhinged from the day to day drag of a work schedule, especially if your workday looks anything like mine.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Secks Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, MTV aired The Real World Brooklyn marathon and what surprised me is that the cast seemed very "real."  The show in the last, oh at least ten seasons, has seemed very contrived.  But this time, the over-sexed castmates came off as immature, whiny, vain and kind of stupid.  And I thought, you know, that's actually a pretty accurate reflection of the new generation of twenty-somethings.]]></description>
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		<title>Same Sex Marriage Takes Near Fatal Blow in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Nation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage advocates are holding their breath as the California high court weighs the decision whether to overturn a state ban of same-sex marriage that voters approved last November.  The same court, by a vote of 4-3, legalized same-sex marriage last year when it was held that a prohibition against gay marriage was a civil rights violation.]]></description>
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		<title>States Get Graded on Smoking Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Nation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laws]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "public health" concern isn't actually addressing the smokers, but the damage caused by secondhand smoke.  Employees who work in smoking environments, like casinos, suffer similar damage to their bodies as their smoker counterparts.  Susceptibility to lower respiratory track infections and asthma have been identified as damage from secondhand smoke, and in some cases, so has lung cancer and stroke.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Celebrate</title>
		<link>http://smartremarx.com/1135/why-we-celebrate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chanukah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of us, the month of December is a non-stop, dizzying ride of celebrations and associated travel, gift-giving, greeting card-sending, and all the like. Rarely do we stop and take a moment to think about what we are celebrating, though. Instead, we rush from one to the next and eventually hope that we&#8217;ll come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday B.S.: Deals in the New World Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shopping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a way, our dumpster diving mentality for shopping deals has plunged to an all-time, unspectacular bottom. As stores get more creative, er, desperate, for business, they are willfully ignoring their own store manuals and making all sorts of hasty new policies, like refunding you on the price difference between what you paid months ago and what the cost is now on the same item. And customers are becoming inhuman monsters, anything for a deal, dickering on a price, returning items just to buy them again for a few bucks cheaper, crowding the stores and pushing past people to grab that bargain before it’s gone.]]></description>
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		<title>Who Cares About an Oxford Comma?</title>
		<link>http://smartremarx.com/1084/who-cares-about-an-oxford-comma/</link>
		<comments>http://smartremarx.com/1084/who-cares-about-an-oxford-comma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grammar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: What&#8217;s the big deal about an Oxford comma? Answer: An Oxford comma is the third comma in a sequence of three items. I went to the grocery store to buy an apple, an orange, and a banana. The last comma in the sequence (before the conjunction &#8220;and&#8221;) is the Oxford comma. Whether you use [...]]]></description>
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