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		<title>Underneath America&#8217;s Unreasonable Obsession Over Muslims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something is out of place, excessive in the brouhaha over Muslims that is dominating the airwaves and the internet right now. Many of us, myself included, think we should not be paying so much attention to Terry Jones, the pastor of the small Gainesville, FL Christian church who was planning to burn a Koran tomorrow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2521</link>
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		<title>Sunlight Shines as Source of Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month Science magazine devoted a special issue to alternative energy, focusing on the potential of each source—biomass, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar, wind and nuclear—to meet the energy demands of humanity around the globe. On pages 786-787, a remarkable graphic by reporter Adrian Cho summarized the data and put the subject in perspective. It made clear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2517</link>
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		<title>Can Psychosis Be Averted? Psychiatrists Investigate Early Treatment of Schizophrenia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Schizophrenia has long been a diagnosis of irreversible deterioration. Eugen Bleuler, the Swiss psychiatrist, gave the condition its name in the early years of the last century, but before then it had been known as dementia praecox—early-onset dementia—implying relentless mental decline. All through the 20th century, schizophrenia was deemed incurable, although antipsychotic drugs might improve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2513</link>
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		<title>With Time All But Run Out, Obama Pushes Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Labor Day, President Obama finally turned to focus on jobs. So far this year, other items have dominated the agenda: financial reform, the BP oil leak, the Afghanistan war, the Middle East peace process. Now, less than two months before the mid-term elections, the president has begun to address the main issue on most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2508</link>
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		<title>Gene May Increase Amassing of Debt By Young Adults</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month&#8217;s Scientific American Mind ran an article on research showing that young adults with a variant of the enzyme MAO-A in their brains carry, on average, up to 16% more credit-card debt than those with another form of enzyme. Although that&#8217;s not a huge effect, the story is interesting because of the enzyme implicated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2504</link>
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		<title>Teachers to the Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Current education policy has moved away from No Child Left Behind, President Bush&#8217;s program, which emphasized standardized tests, to Race to the Top, President Obama&#8217;s initiative, which continues the testing but adds a focus on individual teachers and students. Like most Americans concerned about the future of our nation and the upcoming generation of students, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2499</link>
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		<title>ALS Syndrome May Result From Repeated Blows to the Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have found that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease) may result from repetitive trauma to the brain. The disease characteristically begins with muscle weakness and lack of coordination. People have difficulty getting out of chairs, climbing stairs, and sometimes swallowing. Slowly, inexorably, the paralysis spreads up and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2490</link>
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		<title>Science Rejecters Choose Their Facts or the Lack of Them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Less than half of Americans accept as fact that humans descended from ape-like primates, according to a survey by the National Science Foundation in 2006. People like me wonder about these deniers of science. How do their minds work? Not only does evolution seem self-evident, since many animals of different species are so much alike—think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2486</link>
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		<title>Our Government As All-Watchful and Everywhere Powerful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, the NY Times ran a story on the Obama&#8217;s administration&#8217;s covert war on al Qaeda. But war is not the right word. What the reporters described is a clandestine Special Forces campaign. The reporters wrote that the CIA has become a paramilitary organization, conducting attacks with missiles and other weapons, and the Pentagon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2479</link>
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		<title>Mosquitoes as Vectors of Malaria Vaccine, Not Malaria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vaccination usually involves injecting someone with a dead or weakened microbe for the purpose stimulating the development of immunity. A similar thing happens when a malaria-infected mosquito bites a human. The mosquito injects a form of the malaria parasite, called a sporozoite, into the person&#8217;s blood stream. Only, the human usually doesn&#8217;t become immune but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markpine.us/?p=2474</link>
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