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		<title>Foot-and-mouth disease in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 15:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I see foot and mouth has raised its ugly head again, this time in Japan. (Note the fear-inducing picture of the  men in hazmat suits.) I&#8217;m British, and have lived through at least 2 foot-and-mouth scares, but it was a chance remark in an old interview I was reading that alerted me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, with all these bailouts, the fiscal crisis must be licked, no?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 11:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary North (subscribers only), an economist and historian, pointed out that the bailouts have not worked. This is not just his opinion, but the opinion of the American public  Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not believe the $787 billion stimulus package the president passed last year has helped create jobs, according to a new Pew Research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beginning of the end of the airline industry in the US? Or &#8220;why I won&#8217;t fly to the US&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Update: The Daily Kos has this comment:  Improvements in airport security have historically not worked. Yet, in response to a failed terrorism attempt, a struggling industry in a struggling economy, and the poor saps stuck as its customers, will have to deal with more restrictions imposed not because there&#8217;s any empirical support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British banks caught overextended again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia According to the British newspaper, the Daily Mail Online, Today it emerged that: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was Dubai World&#8217;s biggest loan arranger since January 2007, according to JP Morgan HSBC has an estimated £9.6billion in loans and advances to UAE customers Barclays has an exposure of around £3billion And, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atlas Shrugged revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 11:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The first part of this post is cross-posted from another blog of mine). As well as re-reading Atlas Shrugged for the next session of my Reading Group, I&#8217;ve also assigned The Fountainhead to a returnee student whose English is fluent. I&#8217;ve been creating worksheets for him, and will be posting them online, possibly here. According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 11:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via CrunchBase In a good example of journalese, the JapanProbe headline screams: Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices with a picture of an iPhone. At least one of the commenters is alert and informed, and effectively counters the title&#8217;s hyperbole: Comment by jikku 2009-05-17 18:34:27 The title of this article is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is anyone minding the store?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 01:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Mousetip to Douglas French at Mises Institute. And speaking of &#8220;enough&#8221;&#8230;.Here&#8217;s another video of Grayson questioning Geithner. Image via Wikipedia]]></description>
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		<title>Why the John Galt strategy won&#8217;t work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 11:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by sushiesque via Flickr The Mogambo Guru (TMG, as he phrase it) is a regular contributor to Bonner and Wigginson&#8217;s &#8220;The Daily Reckoning&#8221; and in a recent piece he explains why the John Galt strategy won&#8217;t work, and at the same time, why Michelle Malkin&#8216;s strategy won&#8217;t work, either: Dr. Helen Smith, who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No swine flu in Japan yet, but universities have already reacted&#8230; with panic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Completely unpredictably, out of the blue &#8230; from the ever watchful Japan Probe.]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian Weekly English-teaching resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An email recently reminded me that the Guardian Weekly (British, online newspaper) has an EFL section, including lesson plans based on GW articles. The articles aren&#8217;t too exciting, but might be useful.]]></description>
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