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      <title>Burger King agrees to $3.26B buyout by 3G Capital</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Burger King Holdings Inc., America's perennially No. 2 hamburger chain, said Thursday that it is selling itself to little-known private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26 billion.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Earl threatens East Coast with weekend pounding</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hurricane Earl packed winds near 125 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Canada on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:33:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S. sues controversial Arizona sheriff in civil-rights investigation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Justice Department officials say Maricopa County's Joe Arpaio failed to turn over documents in a probe of his agency's immigration enforcement operations. Among his tactics are 'sweeps' of immigrant-heavy neighborhoods.The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced it had sued Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, for failing to turn over documents in a probe of whether his aggressive operations against illegal immigrants had violated civil rights.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:23:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Stocks edge higher after jobs, housing reports</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &amp;#8212; Stocks edged higher Thursday after reports on housing, manufacturing and jobs indicated the economy continues to grow, albeit slowly.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Retailers report surprising August sales gains</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sales rise 3.3% at major chain stores compared with a year earlier. Back-to-school promotions and other deep discounts help boost figures, an analyst says.After a difficult month that raised fears that the economy could plunge into another recession, the nation's retailers offered a glimmer of hope Thursday by posting surprisingly solid August sales figures.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Kia recalling Soul, Sorento autos for wiring fix</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kia Motors is recalling about 35,000 Soul and Sorento vehicles to fix wiring in the interior lighting panels that could lead to fires.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S. employers push rising cost of healthcare onto workers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new survey shows a family health plan in 2010 averages $4,000 a year, up 14% from 2009. Meanwhile, the average employer contribution to a family plan hasn't increased at all.Strained by rising healthcare costs and the sour economy, U.S. employers are pressing workers to shoulder the added burden alone as employees pay higher insurance premiums and more out-of-pocket expenses for their medical care.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:19:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Bernanke says Fed had to let Lehman fail</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Loaning money to the financial-services giant would have meant 'billions of dollars in losses' for taxpayers, the Federal Reserve chairman tells a panel investigating the financial crisis.As a scholar of the Great Depression, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Thursday he knew the failure of Lehman Bros. in 2008 would be an economic disaster. But he believed there was no way to save the investment bank without a huge loss of taxpayer money.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Oil rig on fire after explosion off Louisiana</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thirteen workers jump to safety after an explosion on the offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The company, Mariner Energy, says the site's seven active wells have been 'shut in' and are not leaking.Another offshore oil facility caught fire Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, sending 13 workers into the water to be rescued by boat, and sending enough petroleum into the water to create a mile-long by 100 foot wide sheen, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Hurricane Earl approaches East Coast</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia declare states of emergency, and the evacuation of the Outer Banks is underway.Powerful Hurricane Earl spun toward the East Coast on Wednesday, driving tourists from North Carolina's vacation islands and threatening to bring damaging winds and waves to the Atlantic seaboard through Labor Day weekend.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Organic strawberries are better &amp;#8212; in some ways &amp;#8212; researchers say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[They have more antioxidants and vitamin C than their conventional counterparts, a study says. But they come up short by other measures &amp;#8212; potassium and phosphorus, for example.Consumers who buy organic fruits and vegetables because they think they're tastier, more nutritious and better for the environment are getting at least some of what they're paying for, according to a study published online Wednesday.]]></description>
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      <title>Book Review: 'A Journey: My Political Life'</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tony Blair covers the Iraq war, George W. Bush, Princess Diana and more in his wide-ranging and frank biography.Former British prime minister Tony Blair's memoir &quot;A Journey: My Political Life&quot; is a political biography of unusual interest.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>As U.S. deaths in Afghanistan rise, military families grow critical</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some families of service members killed in the war say the rules of engagement protect Afghan civilians at the expense of American troops. U.S. combat tolls have peaked this summer.Bill and Beverly Osborn still can't bring themselves to erase the phone message from their son Ben. He had called from Afghanistan in June to assure them that he was safe. Four days later, he was killed in a Taliban ambush.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Discovery Channel hostage crisis ends with gunman's death</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[James J. Lee, who was protesting what he said was the network's promotion of overpopulation, was fatally shot by police after taking three people captive at the company headquarters in Maryland.Police shot and killed a gunman after he took three people hostage Wednesday afternoon at the Discovery Channel's headquarters here, officials said.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Danny Trejo, a lethal talent</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The veteran actor brings a career's worth of bad-guy swagger to a good-guy role in 'Machete,' Robert Rodriguez's new satiric-exploitation flick.The veteran actor brings a career's worth of bad-guy swagger to a good-guy role in 'Machete,' Robert Rodriguez's new satiric-exploitation flick.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S. charges Pakistan Taliban leader in CIA deaths</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hakimullah Mahsud is the head of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a group the U.S. affidavit alleges was also behind the killing of former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto and attacks on NATO supply lines.The Justice Department has charged Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mahsud with two counts of conspiracy for his alleged role in planning a December 2009 suicide attack in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Apple to offer 99-cent TV show rentals on revamped box</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The new service will initially offer only shows produced by ABC Television Group and Fox Filmed Entertainment. Other studios are reluctant to join in.Apple is taking a bite out of online TV rental prices, in part to try to revive its Apple TV product that never caught on with consumers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S. sues former execs of failed credit union WesCorp, alleging fraud</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Robert Siravo and Thomas Swedberg are accused of adding millions of dollars to retirement payouts for themselves and other top brass. They and 14 others are also accused of breach of duty.A federal agency is accusing two former executives of a giant failed credit union in Los Angeles County of fraud for their roles in adding millions of dollars to retirement payouts for themselves and other top brass at the financial institution.]]></description>
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      <title>Cairo planning to fine-tune the call to prayer</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The government decrees that the now-'chaotic' call by thousands of men must instead be delivered by one muezzin broadcast over a system linking 4,500 mosques. 'It'll never work,' one veteran prayer caller says.Sandals in alleys, keys scraping locks, the holy men are the first ones up, opening mosque doors and clicking on microphones, their cadences crackling across the sleepy city, summoning the faithful to another day of struggle and grace.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Environmentalists stunned by failures of key measures in Legislature</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Activists expected big gains, but a ban on plastic grocery bags, another on a chemical used in baby bottles and a bid to boost alternative energy fell short in the face of heavy industry opposition.Environmentalists were counting on big gains in Sacramento this summer, with a governor eager to burnish his green credentials in his final months in office. But by the time the legislative session ended at midnight Tuesday, those hopes had fizzled.]]></description>
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      <title>Mexico's crackdown on organized crime is working, Calderon says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In his state of the nation report, President Felipe Calderon notes the arrests or killings of drug kingpins and efforts to clean up police. He also touts job gains and other economic improvements.Fresh off this week's capture of a notorious drug lord, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared Wednesday that his sustained assault on organized crime and efforts to clean up the police were paying off.]]></description>
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      <title>'A Journey: My Political Life' by Tony Blair</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Journey]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S., Iraqis mark end of combat under cloud of pessimism</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iraqi politicians, security officers and civil servants, as well as a senior U.S. military officer, speak of daunting and dangerous challenges.In a crystal-chandeliered palace once occupied by Saddam Hussein, American and Iraqi leaders gathered Wednesday for the latest ceremony to herald an independent, democratic Iraq.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>3 bomb blasts at Shiite procession in Pakistan kill at least 28, injure 200</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The attacks occur during a march by the religious minority through the streets of Lahore in a traditional mourning ceremony honoring a holy figure. Sunni Muslim groups have frequently targeted Pakistan's Shiites.Three bomb blasts tore through a Shiite Muslim procession Wednesday in Pakistan's second-largest city, Lahore, killing at least 28 people and wounding 200 others, authorities said.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina battle hard in first Senate debate</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Candidates discuss hot topics from the economy to climate change to abortion. Boxer gives scathing critiques of Fiorina's record as Hewlett-Packard CEO and Fiorina calls Boxer 'bitterly partisan.'Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and her Republican opponent Carly Fiorina met in a contentious first debate Wednesday that seethed with disputes over their records and covered a broad range of issues from the economy to climate change to abortion rights.]]></description>
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      <title>Discovering Seoul, one subway stop at a time</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[American Charles Usher has an ambitious blog project to describe the intricacies of Seoul subway stops, all 477 of them. He wants to find the unique hidden in the urban landscape.The question has popped into the minds of most subway commuters, only to vanish amid the chaos of the workaday rush: &quot;What if I just got off here?&quot;]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Prospective terrorism case against detained Yemenis is closed</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two men arrested after flying from Chicago to Amsterdam are released and will not be charged. Tests on luggage initially showed possible traces of explosives, but that was later ruled out.Two Yemenis who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam, where they were arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, were released Wednesday, Dutch officials said.]]></description>
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      <title>Man accused of fraud may get life in prison under California's three-strikes law</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The stiff penalty is rarely used against white-collar criminals. Timothy Barnett is charged with 23 felonies for allegedly tricking five people into unknowingly granting him title to their homes.Timothy Barnett spent nearly five years in state prison for a 1990s foreclosure rescue scam in which he conned homeowners out of tens of thousands of dollars. Now, prosecutors say, he has been at it again, targeting residents in the same South Los Angeles neighborhood he fleeced before.]]></description>
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      <title>Cricket betting scandal rocks Pakistan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cricket is considered the national glue of Pakistan, and accusations that Pakistani players were involved in spot-fixing during a game against England have roiled the nation.In a nation pummeled by stifling poverty, homegrown militancy, and most recently, epic flooding, the game of cricket is supposed to serve as salve, a getaway from Pakistan's daily diet of trauma and crisis.]]></description>
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      <title>Obama says time ripe for Mideast peace accord</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Meeting separately with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, on the eve of Israeli-Palestinian talks, he calls on them to seize the moment to craft a two-state plan.President Obama began a new effort Wednesday to coax Israelis and Palestinians toward peace, telling Middle East leaders on the eve of renewed negotiations that with sustained American help, a comprehensive deal can be sealed within a year.]]></description>
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      <title>New York Muslim leaders defend Islam</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[They decry the vitriol aimed at a planned Islamic center near ground zero.Arrayed on the steps of City Hall, New York Muslim leaders Wednesday condemned the ugly rhetorical attacks aimed at Islam and its followers amid a national furor over a planned Islamic center two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.]]></description>
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      <title>A sharp drop in illegal border crossings reported</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The overall undocumented population also declines, a Pew Hispanic Center study says. Experts cite the recession and tougher border enforcement.At a time when illegal immigration has returned to the political spotlight, figures released Wednesday show a sharp decline in the number of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. border, in what researchers are calling the &quot;first significant reversal&quot; in 20 years.]]></description>
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      <title>Reid, Angle seize on old gaffes in Nevada's Senate race</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and GOP rival Sharron Angle have sparred over controversial remarks. Focusing on the past works for Reid but not as well for Angle, one observer says.Sharron Angle is not running against only Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. She is also running against herself.]]></description>
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      <title>Prescription diet drug raises risk of heart attack, stroke</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sibutramine, which alters brain chemicals to suppress appetite, carries risks for users with a history of cardiovascular disease. One doctor says it should be pulled off shelves.The prescription diet drug sibutramine, sold under the brand name Meridia, should be taken off the market because it raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes in some patients, the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said Wednesday. Those risks, published in January on a government clinical-trials website and now in full in the journal, outweigh the modest benefits of the medication, said Dr. Gregory D. Curfman, the journal's executive editor and lead author of an editorial that accompanied the study.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Metformin reduced the development of lung tumors in mice by more than 70%. Clinical trials on humans for lung, breast and prostate cancer are being organized.A growing body of evidence suggests that the widely used diabetes drug metformin can reduce the risk of cancer, researchers said Wednesday.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Officials of Hamas, which claimed responsibility for the drive-by shooting, accuse the Palestinian Authority of raiding the homes of 250 Hamas members. An authority official denies the allegation.As Israeli and Palestinian leaders opened peace talks Wednesday in Washington, tensions heightened back home in the aftermath of a shooting attack that killed four Israelis a day earlier.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 'Burn Notice' actor reflects on the horror franchise that launched his career.The 'Burn Notice' actor reflects on the horror franchise that launched his career.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miranda Lambert leads the first round of CMA Awards nominations with five. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Any Trekkie worth his or her salt can tell a a Romulan from a Vulcan, much less a mugatu from a horta.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[But lawmakers defeat a proposed ban on plastic grocery bags in the waning moments of the 2010 session.California lawmakers passed wide-ranging public compensation reforms inspired by the Bell municipal salary scandal in the waning hours of the 2010 legislative session, but a closely watched, first-in-the-nation ban on plastic grocery bags was defeated Tuesday night.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA['A Thief Catcher,' which features Charlie Chaplin in one of his first screen appearances, is the centerpiece of the festival.'A Thief Catcher,' which features Charlie Chaplin in one of his first screen appearances, is the centerpiece of the festival.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miranda Lambert made history Wednesday morning when she was nominated for nine CMA Awards, the most for a female country music artist. Miranda Lambert made history Wednesday morning when she was nominated for nine CMA Awards, the most for a female country music artist.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino says the Venice Film Festival lineup is &quot;one of the most wildest, cool, eclectic lineups&quot; he's ever seen. Quentin Tarantino says the Venice Film Festival lineup is &quot;one of the most wildest, cool, eclectic lineups&quot; he's ever seen.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[George Clooney plays a laid-back assassin in Anton Corbijn's minimalist thriller.George Clooney plays a laid-back assassin in Anton Corbijn's minimalist thriller.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On the eve of her first debate with Carly Fiorina, the three-term Democrat reminds a San Francisco audience of her antiwar stance and liberal positions on the environment and economy.On the eve of her first debate with Republican Carly Fiorina, Sen. Barbara Boxer outlined her rationale for reelection Tuesday, vowing to hold President Obama accountable for bringing troops home from Afghanistan, defending California's efforts to regulate emissions and reiterating her five-point plan to boost the nation's economic recovery.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 30-second spot criticizes Brown's record as mayor of Oakland. It's an unusual strategy for a Republican in a Democratic stronghold but reflects her financial power.Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman has begun airing a fifth attack ad against Democratic rival Jerry Brown, this one a Bay Area-focused effort that criticizes his tenure while mayor of Oakland.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[People with a genetic predisposition to obesity can reduce their risk of being overweight by being physically active, researchers conclude.Even people with a strong genetic predisposition to obesity can offset their risk of being overweight by being physically active, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine .]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Canton: &quot;Let's just keep this in mind Jim -- you did not invent 3D. You were fortunate that others inspired you to take it further.&quot;]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Even if a patient has already been diagnosed with breast cancer, the surgery can reduce risk of dying, finds a study of women with two common breast cancer genes.Preemptive removal of breasts or ovaries in women with two common breast cancer genes can sharply reduce the risk of contracting cancer and dying, even if a woman has already been diagnosed with breast cancer, a new study confirms.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The show's hush-hush opening skit adds luster to Fallon's showbiz image. Even Springsteen is on board. The show's hush-hush opening skit adds luster to Fallon's showbiz image. Even Springsteen is on board.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[NBC can claim bragging rights for the highest rated of the four airings by the broadcast networks on this rotation of the Emmy Awards wheel. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Takers1 It was a photo finish at the top of the box-office chart this weekend, as final numbers showed that heist film &quot;Takers&quot; pulled in just slightly more money than horror movie &quot;The Last Exorcism.&quot;]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Do you want to know what secret weapon Jon Stewart used to claim Emmy victory for &quot;The Daily Show&quot; as best variety series for an unprecedented eighth time in a row? Roland Martin's ascot. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The HBO host lost all four of his Emmy bids on Sunday night. ]]></description>
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      <title> Al Pacino, Claire Danes celebrate their Emmy wins at HBO's star-studded post-party</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The stars from HBO's series and movies mingle on Emmy night. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The real-life Grandin is a palpable presence at the ceremony too. HBO's critically acclaimed &quot;Temple Grandin&quot; told the remarkable real-life story of the bestselling author and groundbreaking agricultural scientist who struggled early in life to learn to cope with autism before the disease was widely known.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[First-timers win big, among them ABC's 'Modern Family,' which takes six awards in its debut season. The TV academy, criticized for years as staid and out of touch with what viewers actually watch, swept in a new era Sunday night with a live-across-the-nation Emmy show that handed a total of six prizes to ABC's first-year &quot;Modern Family,&quot; including best comedy, as well as trophies to first-time winners Kyra Sedgwick of TNT's &quot;The Closer&quot; and Archie Panjabi of CBS' &quot;The Good Wife.&quot;]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sweating too much can be more than just a damp drag. Though drugstore remedies help most, for some there are stronger options, including pills, Botox and even surgery.Summer temperatures make some people glisten and others drip, but, regardless, most of us want ways to dry off.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recent research suggests that mind-wandering may be important and that knowledge of how it works might help treat such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and schizophrenia.The resting brain is anything but idle &amp;#8212; that simple proposition would be clear if you could peer into Mike Mrazek's noggin as he putters around his kitchen preparing his daily morning feast of scrambled eggs, oatmeal and fresh fruit.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I took glucosamine and chondroitin for about seven months. I had gotten little relief for my back pain, but I was willing to continue it to see if eventually it would help. Around that time, I had blood work done and found that my cholesterol had jumped from under 200 to 239. I had made no changes in lifestyle or diet other than these supplements. I haven't taken any since.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Malfunctioning brain activity can be differentiated in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and PTSD, studies show.A series of studies published in recent years suggests that in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, the default mode network, that curious pattern of brain activity that ramps up when we daydream, works differently than it does in healthy control subjects.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Political analysts who wanted the Democrat to press Meg Whitman hard now express admiration for his ability to stay even in the polls.Democrat Jerry Brown is running for governor, but voters in California might not know it. Since winning the primary in June, he has spent almost nothing, has rarely appeared on the campaign trail and has yet to air a single ad against Republican rival Meg Whitman.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new study underscores calls for better guidelines on protecting kids from brain trauma.The number of children in the U.S. seeking emergency medical care for concussions incurred playing competitive sports more than doubled in the five years leading up to 2005, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The actor will reunite with &quot;Machete&quot; costar Michelle Rodriguez in a new indie called &quot;Skinny Dip.&quot;]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The film, directed by Anton Corbijn, is set on the continent, has mostly European actors and draws from European cinema.The first sequence of &quot;The American,&quot; like much of the rest of the movie, contains scarcely any dialogue. The scene unfolds in the snowy emptiness of Sweden, where Jack ( George Clooney) is hiking with Ingrid (Irina Björklund), a woman whose history with Jack isn't revealed.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The filmmaking technique has largely catered to the hard-core gaming community but there's a push to develop more sophisticated stories and technology that appeal to a broader audience.Video-game playing has become a mainstream activity, but gamer culture isn't quite opening up at the same pace.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[GOP Senate candidate will tour Israel over Labor Day weekend and meet 'a number of people at high levels' of government. The trip could draw the attention of some Jewish voters.Republican Senate nominee Carly Fiorina has maintained a vigorous pace on the campaign trail this summer, but at the traditional kickoff to the general election she is heading to Israel for what her aides describe as a &quot;personal trip.&quot;]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Sweetgrass&quot; is an unexpectedly intoxicating documentary, unexpected because it blends high artistic standards with the grueling reality of one of the toughest, most exhausting of work environments.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The writing and directing team behind 'Lilo &amp; Stitch' creates a sweet coming-of-age story set in ancient Viking times. &quot;How to Train Your Dragon&quot; has taken the age-old story of a teenage boy sorting through his fundamental life issues -- fit in, figure out self, get the girl, don't disappoint Dad -- set it in ancient Viking times and still managed to give it a thoroughly modern spin. A millennium later and this kid would head an Internet start-up or have a reality show on cable. For now, he's just a misfit in Ugg boots. Ingenious.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Also reviewed: 'The Harimaya Bridge,' 'Harmony and Me,' 'West of Pluto' Irish playwright Conor McPherson's agreeably melancholy, spooky and romantic &quot;The Eclipse&quot; -- his third film as writer-director -- gets the most out of assorted hauntings. There's the case of widowed woodworker Michael (Ciarán Hinds), a glum sort with two kids who not only mourns for his wife but begins to see terrifying visions of his still-alive (but in failing health) father.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[John Cusack and his buds travel back to 1986 to find politically incorrect jokes and nonstop humor. Who doesn't have fun in a hot tub? Or hasn't tested, at least once, the more-bodies-more-fun principle?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two insiders take a remarkably unblinking look at the tussles and triumphs of Disney's revival of animated film in the 1980s and '90s. Hard as it is to believe today, it was not so long ago that animation in general and Disney animation in particular were art forms given up for dead. Things got so bad that in 1984 the studio, which had been kick-started into success by &quot;Snow White&quot; almost half a century earlier, ingraciously booted its beleaguered artists off the lot and onto bleak rented premises.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Marco Bellocchio's film recounts how the dictator locked away a woman who was politically inconvenient. One of the most surprising things about watching the wrenching &quot;Vincere,&quot; the story of Ida Dalser, Mussolini's secret wife and his first-born son, Benito, is that when the relationship went sour and Ida just wouldn't let it rest, that Il Duce just didn't have her killed.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Director Atom Egoyan's attempt to pull off a psychosexual thriller about a woman scorned ends up more puzzling than thrilling. &quot;Chloe&quot; is a conundrum. Envisioned as a psychosexual thriller about a woman scorned, director Atom Egoyan's latest puzzle is just puzzling, little more than a messy affair with mood lighting, sexy lingerie, heavy breathing and swelling, um, music.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA['How to Train Your Dragon' MPAA rating: PG for sequences of action and some scary images and brief mild language]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA['Vincere' MPAA rating: Not rated]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA['Hot Tub Time Machine' MPAA rating: R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use and pervasive language]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[SOUTHERN CARIBBEAN A room with a view If you book Royal Caribbean's &quot;7 Night Southern Caribbean Cruise&quot; through eCruises.com by Feb. 28, you'll get upgraded to a balcony room. Aboard Adventures of the Seas, you'll glide over azure waters and disembark onto no fewer than five of the region's most attractive islands.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[She dreamed of being a bejeweled samba dancer at the annual party. So how did she end up in a frumpy white suit and tricorn hat?It was near midnight and the rain-drenched streets had already stained my white satin slippers. A Napoleon-style hat, adorned with golden beads and white plumage, was perched precariously atop my head. Stepping delicately in my soggy shoes, I gripped my ruffled lace pant legs to keep them from dragging on the wet cobblestones.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Visiting Barcelona, Málaga and Granada, a mom learns to just let the fun happen for her kids, husband and herself.My husband, Tony; my daughter, Callie, 15; and son Zeke, 12, and I spent 10 days traveling in Spain in July. Callie had been living with a family there for three weeks before we met her in Málaga, on the country's sunny southern coast. From there, we traveled to Ronda and Granada before settling in Barcelona for five days. It was a lot to fit into a 10-day trip, but I had it all mapped out. Day by day. Hour by hour.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A family happens upon adventures small and large in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium.We're packing the mobi for a madcap trip across Europe to see as much as we can in 18 days. If this trip goes badly, it's our daughter's fault. This is her idea, pitched from her apartment in downtown Antwerp during a call months earlier.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tag along with a Metro-riding native who visits parks, restaurants, galleries and other favorites, all for less than $20 a day.Boasting posh restaurants, luxury boutiques and a flock of millionaires who indulge in them, Moscow is considered one of the most expensive cities on the planet. Just take a walk through the rows of tinted Range Rovers and Bentleys parked behind the Bolshoi Theatre and you'll understand why this is the city that hosts the conspicuously named Millionaire Fair.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A casual trip from Corfu, Greece, to Sarande, Albania, is more delightful and history-filled than you might expect.Somewhere on Earth there must be a cheaper, easier, more exotic cruise, packed with even more beautiful sights and filled with more history, providing even tastier food, but for now, I'm happy to settle on this one: Ionian Cruises' daily excursion from Corfu, Greece, to Sarande, Albania.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you go THE BEST WAY TO MOSCOW From LAX, Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Delta, British and Swiss offer connecting service (change of planes) to Moscow. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $602.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Thai center plucks dozens of the animals from brutal labor camps and shelters them in a tranquil setting while offering interaction with visitors. You might get close enough to hear them purr.It was, unquestionably, the best $2.55 I've ever spent on vacation.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Readers weigh in on places that let them down but also share some pleasant surprises.You know those destinations you feel obligated to visit but don't really want to? Travel section readers do. We asked them to tell us about some of the places they were certain weren't right for them, and here's what they said. Sometimes, the destination was a wonderful surprise; other times, not so much. Read more online at latimes.com/placeswehate .]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When President Obama announced plans in April to spend $13 billion in federal stimulus funds on developing high-speed rail in America, he invoked the usual role models -- Japan, China and France -- as examples of fast-train culture. He also praised another more surprising, high-speed-rail s...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:03:14 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[DIJON, France -- While world-famous for its mustard and its wine, the medieval city of Dijon has the reputation of being the best-kept secret in France. About five centuries ago, Dijon was the capital of the vast Burgundy region that was ruled by dukes who made the city the center of arts and ...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[\&quot;Let's have coffee while we wait,\&quot; Olivier Greber said, extending an offer I couldn't pass up, even though I'd already had breakfast. The chance to test my skiing abilities on the Vall&amp;#233;e Blanche glacier above Chamonix energized me, but stubborn flu symptoms tempered my eagerness. Two d...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[THE BEST WAY TO CHAMONIX From LAX, connecting service (change of plane) to Geneva is offered on Lufthansa, Air France, KLM, British, United, Continental and Swiss. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $580. TELEPHONES To call the numbers below from the U.S. dial 011 (the international ...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shopping in Europe can be fun but not if you let it overwhelm your trip. I like to shop smart, spending my time and money efficiently. Based on three decades of travel, here are my top tips for shopping in Europe. -- Shop in countries where your dollar goes further. Shop in Turkey, Morocco, Po...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[THE BEST WAY TO LISBON From LAX, connecting service (change of planes) to Lisbon is offered on Continental, KLM, Air France and Lufthansa. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $525. TELEPHONES To call the numbers below from the U.S., dial 011 (the international dialing code), 351 (coun...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Arriving in a new European city is exhilarating at any time of day, but I have always been more intrigued by the first nightfall. Dusk, to be precise. It's that time -- as the sun descends and the shadows of buildings inch forward ominously -- when you take one last squint at your guidebook and t...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This year when you sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, think about tulips, windmills and wooden shoes. Think about a town in Holland where, for a brief golden moment in the early 17th century, people of disparate faiths could worship as they saw fit -- French Huguenots, Roman Catholics, Jews, Qua...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[One thing does lead to another. Last spring, I was obsessed with cleaning my garage; a week later, I had scheduled a trip to Berlin. As I admired my handiwork, I eyed an old cedar chest along one wall, and I realized I hadn't looked inside since 1988. I hadn't wanted to. After all, it was fill...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The sunlit French landscape sliding by my car window captured my attention: crumbling stone walls, tidy farmhouses with red-tile roofs, mile upon mile of low hills and rolling ridges covered with leafy green vineyards. \&quot;You know what you're seeing?\&quot; my guide asked. \&quot;The real thing; what Nap...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a day of sun, surf and sand, it's good to sink into an old- fashioned bed steps from Newport's pier.&quot;It's nice to know there are still some quaint and out-of-the-way places even in the O.C. The location offers good access to lots of iconic SoCal sites,&quot; says reader Caitlin Tusher of Placentia, in her nomination letter.]]></description>
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