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		<title>Lake Manyara, at long last</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/lake-manyara-at-long-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me think&#8230;  Where did I leave off? Did I tell you about the stars?  Oh.  My.  God.  The stars.  On the night before the day we went down into the crater we saw stars like you don&#8217;t ever see stars.  If I mentioned them before they bear repeating.  The whole sky half-glowed with them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=415&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gone again?  But you just came home!</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/gone-again-but-you-just-came-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family tradition is to spend the Fourth of July in Ellsworth Maine, and so that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m going.  When I return I&#8217;ll try to pick up where I left off if anyone&#8217;s still interested in my trip by that time.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=413&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Crater</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Olduvai we spent the night at the Sopa Lodge on the rim of the collapsed volcanic caldera called Ngorongoro.  After our dinner we walked outside on the path back to our room and the whole sky was filled with stars, stars like you never see them back at home.  I wanted to cry, seeing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=344&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Came from Here</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/we-came-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vive42</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hominids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olduvai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 6:30 in the morning we left Arusha with our driver and headed for Olduvai Gorge, site of the Leakey excavations which uncovered some of the most famous early hominid ancestor skeletons. We all came from here, I kept thinking as I looked out the windows into Tanzania.  It was warm and green.  Pastoralists in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=314&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arrival in Arusha</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/arrival-in-arusha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vive42</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some part of me has always doubted places like Africa or India or China actually exist.  I even made up stories in my head about it.  For instance, all of us could be inside a spaceship travelling through interstellar space for generations, and the only way to keep us sane was to create a fiction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=300&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Voted!&#8221;  Special Edition</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/i-voted-special-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vive42</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Khazei]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Coakley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I became one of the very few voters who came out for the primary to decide the one D and one R who will go up against each other in the special election for the Massachusetts senate seat left vacant by the late Ted Kennedy.  Turnout was slim but against my better judgement I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=296&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MIT Loves Balloons, MA Senate Race the Rise of Evo Morales</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/mit-loves-balloons-ma-senate-race-the-rise-of-evo-morales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vive42</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insect queens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Coakley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In returning to my hunt for conspiracies I started in my home city of Boston in Story One, with MIT&#8217;s successful completion of a DARPA sponsored mission to locate 10 red balloons. Not wanting to leave the safe womb of my home state I chose Story Two about the Massachusetts senate race where Attorney General [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=294&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kidnapped by Dwarves</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/kidnapped-by-dwarves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this quickly, as I do not have much time.  I have been kidnapped by a dwarf suicide bomber who is demanding that I spend all my spare writing time finishing her short story.  She is likely not to let me return to you until this Saturday, when for better or for worse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=292&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>89 year old Nazi on Trial, Blogs Under Attack, and Super Earths</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/89-year-old-nazi-on-trial-blogs-under-attack-and-super-earths/</link>
		<comments>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/89-year-old-nazi-on-trial-blogs-under-attack-and-super-earths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vive42</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conspiracies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aliens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bloggest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diapers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it ever too late to seek justice for one of the perpetrators of the greatest crime in recent history?  Story One, about the trial of a sickly 89 year old former Nazi says no and scolds you for even asking the question. Story Two is about blogs.  Apparently, some far more successful blogs than this one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=288&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scary Skunky Weed, Ludicrous Nuclear Waste Disposal, Gays Invade America</title>
		<link>http://threenewstories.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/scary-skunky-weed-ludicrous-nuclear-waste-disposal-gays-invade-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vive42</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bbc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today starts out with a story about a dangerous drug which may lead users to psychosis.  No, I&#8217;m not kidding, and no, this isn&#8217;t the 1950s but  Story One comes from the bbc and warns of the dangers of, you guessed it, particularly strong Marijuana which someone told the beeb is known as &#8220;skunk&#8221;.  Sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threenewstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10096560&amp;post=285&amp;subd=threenewstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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