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		<title>Wine Drinkers Of The World, Unite &#124; Christopher Hitchens &#124; Slate &#124; 18th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2008/05/wine_drinkers_of_the_world_unite.html</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hitchens</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Reprint of classic column from 2008. Waiters should not pour your wine. &#8220;The vile practice of butting in and pouring wine without being asked is the very height of the second kind of bad manners. Not only is it a &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/wine-drinkers-of-the-world-unite/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reprint of classic column from 2008. Waiters should not pour your wine. &#8220;The vile practice of butting in and pouring wine without being asked is the very height of the second kind of bad manners. Not only is it a breathtaking act of rudeness in itself, but it conveys a none-too-subtle and mercenary message: Hurry up and order another bottle. Imagine this same tactic being applied to the food&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>An Exercise In Intimidation &#124; John MacArthur &#124; Harper&#039;s &#124; 16th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://harpers.org/blog/2013/05/in-boston-an-exercise-in-intimidation/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John MacArthur</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[President Kennedy&#8217;s assassin was caught without locking down Dallas. Why the over-reaction in Boston? &#8220;Governor Patrick has signaled future terrorists that when they attack American targets they will likely get twice the bang for their buck. Not only will they &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/an-exercise-in-intimidation/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[President Kennedy&#8217;s assassin was caught without locking down Dallas. Why the over-reaction in Boston? &#8220;Governor Patrick has signaled future terrorists that when they attack American targets they will likely get twice the bang for their buck. Not only will they kill and maim innocents in the immediate vicinity of the bombs; they’ll have the added satisfaction of seeing millions of free people cowering far from the scene of the crime&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Aboriginals &#124; Michael Finkel &#124; National Geographic &#124; 17th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/aboriginal-australians/finkel-text</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Finkel</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Portrait an Aboriginal village, and of its matriarch, Batumbil. &#8220;She does not like sand flies and she has no qualms about killing them. But she does believe she’s related to them.&#8221; Diet includes sea turtle, dugong, tree worms. &#8220;During the &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/australias-aboriginals/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Portrait an Aboriginal village, and of its matriarch, Batumbil. &#8220;She does not like sand flies and she has no qualms about killing them. But she does believe she’s related to them.&#8221; Diet includes sea turtle, dugong, tree worms. &#8220;During the two weeks I’m in the bush, two people are eaten by crocodiles, a seven-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy. I express my grief about this to Batumbil, but she remains unperturbed. These things happen&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why Are We Not Much Better At Parenting? &#124; Stuart Armstrong &#124; Practical Ethics &#124; 15th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/05/why-are-we-not-much-much-much-better-at-parenting/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Armstrong</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We’ve come a long way, as a species. We’re better at many things than we ever were before – not just slightly better, but unimaginably, ridiculously better. We’re better at transporting people and objects, we’re better at killing, we’re better &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/why-are-we-not-much-better-at-parenting/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;We’ve come a long way, as a species. We’re better at many things than we ever were before – not just slightly better, but unimaginably, ridiculously better. We’re better at transporting people and objects, we’re better at killing, we’re better at preventing infectious diseases, we’re better at industrial production. But in some areas, we haven’t made such dramatic improvements. And one of those areas is parenting&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Mr Wesson Goes To Church &#124; Martin McClellan &#124; Medium &#124; 15th May 2013</title>
		<link>https://medium.com/editors-picks/27b1859065a</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin McClellan</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure what genre to assign this to. Satire? Whimsy? Anyhow, it&#8217;s a very nice piece of writing, inspired by a new Arizona state law stipulating that no weapon collected during a buyback program can be destroyed. &#8220;When does life &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/mr-smith-goes-to-washington-mr-wesson-goes-to-church/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Not sure what genre to assign this to. Satire? Whimsy? Anyhow, it&#8217;s a very nice piece of writing, inspired by a new Arizona state law stipulating that no weapon collected during a buyback program can be destroyed. &#8220;When does life begin for a gun? Is it first casting, first barrel boring, first test fire? Is it before the gun is formed when the metal is mined, or the carbon fiber manufactured? The Bible is mostly silent on firearms&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bill Gates: ‘Death Is Something We Really Understand&#8217; &#124; Ezra Klein &#124; Washington Post &#124; 17th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/17/bill-gates-death-is-something-we-really-understand-extremely-well/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Klein</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Interview. Health care in the developing world. &#8220;When you’re running a poor country health-care system, you can’t treat a year of life as being worth more than, say, $200, or else you’ll bankrupt your health system immediately. But here&#8217;s the &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/bill-gates-death-is-something-we-really-understand/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Interview. Health care in the developing world. &#8220;When you’re running a poor country health-care system, you can’t treat a year of life as being worth more than, say, $200, or else you’ll bankrupt your health system immediately. But here&#8217;s the good news: If you spend less than 2 percent of what rich countries spend, but you spend it on vaccinations and antibiotics, you get over half of all that healthcare does to extend life&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review: &#8216;Edmund Burke&#8217;, By Jesse Norman &#124; John Gray &#124; New Statesman &#124; 16th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2013/05/reviewed-edmund-burke-philosopher-politician-prophet-jesse-norman</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Nominally a review of Norman&#8217;s biography of Burke, but largely given over to a stinging critique of Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s Conservatism. &#8220;By insisting that economic progress must come before anything else, she turned social institutions into more or less efficient means &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/review-edmund-burke-by-jesse-norman/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nominally a review of Norman&#8217;s biography of Burke, but largely given over to a stinging critique of Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s Conservatism. &#8220;By insisting that economic progress must come before anything else, she turned social institutions into more or less efficient means of achieving whatever is presently desired. Institutions ceased to be places in which people could find meaning and became mere tools&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Humble Hero &#124; Anonymous &#124; The Economist &#124; 18th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21578041-containers-have-been-more-important-globalisation-freer-trade-humble</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Shipping containers delivered a huge boost to globalisation by cutting the time taken to load and unload cargo. &#8220;In 1965 dock labour could move only 1.7 tonnes per hour on to a cargo ship; five years later a container crew &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/the-humble-hero/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Shipping containers delivered a huge boost to globalisation by cutting the time taken to load and unload cargo. &#8220;In 1965 dock labour could move only 1.7 tonnes per hour on to a cargo ship; five years later a container crew could load 30 tonnes per hour. This allowed freight lines to use bigger ships and still slash the time spent in port.&#8221; Journey times halved, cargo was secure from pilferage, dock workers lost their bargaining power ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Survivors &#124; Ben Faccini &#124; Aeon &#124; 16th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/ben-faccini-street-children/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Faccini</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[On the lives of street children, and the conflicting emotions they arouse within us. So well done as to be almost unbearable. &#8220;They’re forced to exist in a world parallel to ours, and, out there, in their other world, in &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/survivors/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[On the lives of street children, and the conflicting emotions they arouse within us. So well done as to be almost unbearable. &#8220;They’re forced to exist in a world parallel to ours, and, out there, in their other world, in their bus stations and gutters, in the filth and vileness of their refuse dumps, they survive as best they can, with the same emotions we all share. We diminish ourselves by refusing to look them in the eye&#8221; ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How The Case For Austerity Has Crumbled &#124; Paul Krugman &#124; New York Review Of Books &#124; 16th May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/06/how-case-austerity-has-crumbled/?pagination=false</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Krugman</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[After the financial crash of 2008, rich countries tried to restore growth with government spending. Not enough, but they had the right idea. Why did they reverse course in 2010, cut spending and worsen their recessions? Answer: a few economists &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/how-the-case-for-austerity-has-crumbled/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[After the financial crash of 2008, rich countries tried to restore growth with government spending. Not enough, but they had the right idea. Why did they reverse course in 2010, cut spending and worsen their recessions? Answer: a few economists — Kenneth Rogoff, Carmen Reinhart, Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna — swayed elite opinion with arguments for austerity which were as persuasive as they were wrong]]></content:encoded>
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