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		<title>U.S. House passes health care bill</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/07/u-s-house-passes-health-care-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Needing 218 votes to pass, HR 3692 was just passed 220-215.
Democrats voted 219 yea, 39 nay.
Republicans voted 1 yea, 176 nay.
C-SPAN said the 1 Republican vote in favor came from Louisiana Congressman Joseph Cao (LA-2).
UPDATE: AP now reports on the vote.
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		<title>Stupak passes: prohibits abortion coverage</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/07/stupak-passes-prohibits-abortion-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The night is still young in the U.S. House as they are debating and voting on the government-run health care plan. But some good news for now &#8211; the Stupak amendment has passed:
A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private schools in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/07/private-schools-in-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could improved educational opportunities help to &#8220;defang&#8221; the Taliban in Pakistan? Here is an interesting story that highlights the growing number of private schools in the country:
Pakistan is seeing a surge in private schools, a trend some find hopeful in a country where the government education system is decrepit and the other alternative is religious [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>N.Y. Journal: Two cultures coming together</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/07/n-y-journal-two-cultures-coming-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To honor the coming of the Ecumenical Patriarch&#8212;the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church&#8212;to  the United States, the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) in New York City is displaying sacred texts and icons from the Orthodox tradition.
The colors are brilliant&#8212;more vivid than they ever appear in books where writers talk about the rigidity of medieval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rants! &amp; Raves! 11.7</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/07/rants-raves-11-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mickey McLean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Watercooler Chatter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, Rants! &#38; Raves!, your weekly opportunity to sound off about the week past.
Remember the rules:

A Rave! is something that happened during the past week that you’re pleased about and is signified by the word “Rave!” and/or an appropriately peppy emoticon (see Website Help to learn how to use emoticons, aka “smileys”).
A Rant! is something [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Whirled Views 11.7</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/07/whirled-views-11-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mickey McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning!
On this day in 1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman to be elected to Congress.
Welcome to our daily (except Sundays) open thread, where you, the commenters, choose the topics of conversation.
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		<slash:comments>102</slash:comments>
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		<title>Friday Funnies 11.6</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/06/friday-funnies-11-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mickey McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for a look back at the news of the week, colorfully illustrated by some of the best editorial cartoonists in the business: Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Breen, Michael Ramirez, Scott Stantis, and Gary Varvel.
This creative cadre of cartoonists offer a unique, colorful, often humorous, and sometimes poignant (as is the case in the one [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unemployment above 10%</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/06/unemployment-above-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mickey McLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since April 1983 the unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent, which translates into 16 million people without jobs.
The Labor Department announced today that the jobless rate has risen from 9.8 percent in September to 10.2 percent. There was a net loss of 190,000 jobs in October, more than economists expected.
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s response to Fort Hood</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/06/obamas-response-to-fort-hood/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/06/obamas-response-to-fort-hood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Belz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama gave his condolences to those at Fort Hood in the wake of the shootings yesterday &#8211; but he came under critique for spending several minutes on national television giving a &#8220;shout-out&#8221; to a Congressional Medal of Honor winner at the conference he was attending and then name-dropping others before finally commenting on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Maine marriage vote matters</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/06/why-maine-marriage-vote-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/06/why-maine-marriage-vote-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Segelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Emily Belz reported Wednesday, Maine voters this week repealed that state’s law legalizing same-sex marriage.
For supporters&#8212;and opponents&#8212;of traditional marriage, the vote is important for a number of reasons.
First, money didn’t make the difference. According to Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, groups such as Stand for Marriage Maine (supporting traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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