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		<title>Speed of Bradley Manning Trial Masks Prosecutors’ Struggles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun Rath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bradley Manning’s court-martial was already in weekend recess as of midday Tuesday, marking the third consecutive week the court has finished far ahead of schedule.]]></description>
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		<title>Armchair Travel: Take a Trip this Summer Without Ever Leaving Home</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/armchair-travel-take-a-trip-this-summer-without-ever-leaving-home/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=armchair-travel-take-a-trip-this-summer-without-ever-leaving-home</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Porzucki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer we invite you to travel with us. All summer long we'll be reaching out to authors, journalists, and thinkers to take us on a trip through books. ]]></description>
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		<title>School Year Blog: Are Standardized Tests Blocking Poor Students from Top Universities?</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/school-year-blog-are-standardized-tests-blocking-poor-students-from-top-universities/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=school-year-blog-are-standardized-tests-blocking-poor-students-from-top-universities</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Kelto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more South African universities are requiring applicants to take a math and English aptitude test. It helps them gauge students' preparedness, but may also be preventing poor students from applying.]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Plan for Inter-Oceanic Canal Across Nicaragua Echoes British Disaster of Long Ago</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/chinese-plan-for-inter-oceanic-canal-across-nicaragua-echoes-british-disaster-of-long-ago/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chinese-plan-for-inter-oceanic-canal-across-nicaragua-echoes-british-disaster-of-long-ago</link>
		<comments>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/chinese-plan-for-inter-oceanic-canal-across-nicaragua-echoes-british-disaster-of-long-ago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Woolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is planning to build a canal across Nicaragua to rival the Panama canal. The Chinese are not the first to dream of using Nicaragua as a trade route to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The World's History Editor Chris Woolf recalls a disastrous British attempt way back in 1780, at the time of the American Revolution. ]]></description>
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		<title>Geo Quiz: Summer Travel Adventures</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/geo-quiz-summer-travel-adventures/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=geo-quiz-summer-travel-adventures</link>
		<comments>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/geo-quiz-summer-travel-adventures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Kozma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you traveling abroad somewhere interesting this summer? We would love to hear about it and include you in an interactive map we're creating of summer adventures. If your summer plans take you outside the United States, and you want to participate, fill out the form here and we'll be in touch.]]></description>
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		<title>School Year Blog: What’s Keeping Students Up At Night?</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/school-year-blog-whats-keeping-students-up-at-night/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=school-year-blog-whats-keeping-students-up-at-night</link>
		<comments>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/school-year-blog-whats-keeping-students-up-at-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Kelto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students around the world share at least one thing in common -- they don't get enough sleep. But are the reasons for their sleepless nights the same, or different?]]></description>
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		<title>Record Flood Levels Feared in Central Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/europe-flood/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=europe-flood</link>
		<comments>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/europe-flood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rescue helicopters in southern Germany have been plucking families from rooftops as floodwaters continue to threaten the town of Deggendorf. Thousands of people were moved from the town after levees along the Danube and Isar rivers broke.]]></description>
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		<title>Hacker Who Exposed WikiLeaks Suspect Takes the Stand in Manning Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/hacker-wikileaks-rath/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hacker-wikileaks-rath</link>
		<comments>http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/hacker-wikileaks-rath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun Rath</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adrian Lamo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adrian Lamo, the convicted computer hacker who befriended — then some might say betrayed — PFC Bradley Manning by turning over Instant Messenger chat logs of their conversations to federal authorities, took the stand as a prosecution witness Tuesday in Manning’s court-martial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Year Blog: The Boy Who Lost His Eye During a School Beating</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/school-year-blog-the-boy-who-lost-his-eye-during-a-school-beating/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=school-year-blog-the-boy-who-lost-his-eye-during-a-school-beating</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Kelto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporal punishment was banned in South Africa in 1996. So why are so many students still being beaten in public schools?]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s for Lunch: Under Pressure from Climate Change, A Global Tour of Our Changing Lunchscape</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/whats-for-lunch-under-pressure-from-climate-change-a-global-tour-of-our-changing-lunchscape/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=whats-for-lunch-under-pressure-from-climate-change-a-global-tour-of-our-changing-lunchscape</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 19:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Thomson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s for lunch? It’s a question just about everyone on the planet asks every day, but it’s also one that most of us don’t really have to think much about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Year Blog: The Lesson Can Wait – It’s Time for the Speeches</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/school-year-blog-the-lesson-can-wait-its-time-for-the-speeches/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=school-year-blog-the-lesson-can-wait-its-time-for-the-speeches</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 19:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Kelto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students take a break from their English lesson to talk about what they want to be when they grow up. Classmates gasp with excitement, imagining life as a teacher, an engineer, of the first man on the moon.]]></description>
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		<title>Russians and Italians Will Have to Get Along in My New Bee Colony</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/russians-and-italians-will-have-to-get-along-in-my-new-bee-colony/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=russians-and-italians-will-have-to-get-along-in-my-new-bee-colony</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 14:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>April Peavey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to working in The World's newsroom in Boston, producer April Peavey has become a backyard beekeeper at her home in New Hampshire. Her package of bees included Russian and Italian bees. And their new home is in a Kenya-style top bar hive. ]]></description>
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		<title>School Year Blog: Real Men Get Circumcised, Then Wear Hilarious Hats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Kelto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many cultures have ceremonies that mark the transition from boyhood to manhood. But not all include sleep deprivation, circumcision, and a golf hat.]]></description>
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		<title>Car Bombing in Turkish Border Town Adds to Growing Tensions Between Syrian Refugees and Local Turks</title>
		<link>http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/reyhanli-car-bombing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=reyhanli-car-bombing</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Secker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week when I arrived in Reyhanli, a Turkish town on the border with Syria, I was met with an air of anxiety, anger and an unsettling chaotic calm.  An hour earlier, two car bombs had exploded, resulting in the death of 51 people.]]></description>
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		<title>School Year Blog: Six Things that South African Teenagers Learn in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Kelto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two COSAT students traveled to China for a chemistry competition. In the process, they learned a lot of lessons -- about snow, about perceptions of Africans, and about chopsticks.]]></description>
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