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		<title>How To Protect The Future</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/how-to-protect-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/how-to-protect-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The earth is our home &#8212; our only home. So far as anyone knows, there is no other place in the universe hospitable to human life. If we ruin the earth as a place suitable for humans, we are lost. In 2000 the United Nations organized a massive study to assess the condition of planet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President-elect Obama recommits to closing Guantánamo and ending torture</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/president-elect-obama-recommits-to-closing-guantanamo-and-ending-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/president-elect-obama-recommits-to-closing-guantanamo-and-ending-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[US President-elect Obama said in an interview on Sunday that he will take &#8220;early action&#8221; on closing the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay and ensuring that the USA does not resort to torture. He told the CBS programme 60 Minutes on Sunday: &#8220;I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantánamo, and I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN adopts key economic, social and cultural rights instrument</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/un-adopts-key-economic-social-and-cultural-rights-instrument/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/un-adopts-key-economic-social-and-cultural-rights-instrument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The international community has taken a step towards strengthening human rights protection, particularly for the world&#8217;s most marginalised people, with the adoption of a key United Nations instrument.
Amnesty International has welcomed the adoption by consensus of the &#8216;Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights&#8217; by the Third Committee of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tipping the balance</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/tipping-the-balance/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/tipping-the-balance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are they environmental doom-mongering, journalistic hype or the straw that breaks the camel&#8217;s back? William Laurance examines the complexities of tipping points - those small changes in a natural system that can sometimes provoke sudden and irrevocable collapse. Tipping points abound in nature - you can hardly go anywhere without tripping over them. Nature is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Nothing Day Confronts the Economic Meltdown</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/buy-nothing-day-confronts-the-economic-meltdown/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/buy-nothing-day-confronts-the-economic-meltdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ As we run out of money, resources and wilderness, and the planet keeps heating up, maybe it&#8217;s time to confront the root cause of our global crisis: overconsumption by the most affluent one billion people of the world. On November 28 why not confront your own consumption by going on a consumer fast for 24 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheat yields could halve says scientist</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/wheat-yields-could-halve-says-scientist/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/wheat-yields-could-halve-says-scientist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yields of non-organic wheat could fall from an average of 9 tonnes a hectare to 4 tonnes a hectare sometime between 2040 and the end of this century, as the planet runs out of phosphorus, a key part of the fertiliser needed to grow non-organic crops.
85% of the known deposits of phosphorus are in four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Maize Disturbs Immune System of Young and Old Mice</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/gm-maize-disturbs-immune-system-of-young-and-old-mice/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/gm-maize-disturbs-immune-system-of-young-and-old-mice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Genetic Engineering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New research add to the weight of damning evidence against the safety of GM food . The Italian government&#8217;s National Institute of Research on Food and Nutrition has just published a report online in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry documenting significant disturbances in the immune system of young and old mice that have been fed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run Cars on Green Electricity, Not Natural Gas</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/run-cars-on-green-electricity-not-natural-gas-2/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/run-cars-on-green-electricity-not-natural-gas-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8220;With the dramatic increase in oil prices earlier this year translating into higher prices at the gas pump in the United States, concerns over U.S. dependence on foreign oil are once again part of the national discussion on energy security,&#8221; writes Jonathan G. Dorn in a recent Earth Policy Institute release, &#8220;Run Cars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transition Report: A Glimpse of Our Green Future</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/transition-report-a-glimpse-of-our-green-future/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/transition-report-a-glimpse-of-our-green-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Climate solutions = jobs. That is the headline from a new report released this week by Duke University&#8217;s Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness.
Manufacturing Climate Solutions builds upon an expanding body of evidence that demonstrates how a transition to green energy could create a massive wave of new jobs.
Joining Environmental Defense Fund in sponsoring this report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Shepherd in Final Preparations as the Whale Killers Set Sail</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/sea-shepherd-in-final-preparations-as-the-whale-killers-set-sail/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/sea-shepherd-in-final-preparations-as-the-whale-killers-set-sail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Whales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4016</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a matter of days, Sea Shepherd will depart for its 5th Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Musashi. Our ship, the Steve Irwin, is in final preparations as we get ready to head south to confront the illegal Japanese whalers, who are currently on their way to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. In the meantime, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nadler Introduces Resolution Opposing Possible Bush Pardons of His Own Subordinates for Crimes He Authorized</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/nadler-introduces-resolution-opposing-possible-bush-pardons-of-his-own-subordinates-for-crimes-he-authorized/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/nadler-introduces-resolution-opposing-possible-bush-pardons-of-his-own-subordinates-for-crimes-he-authorized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a resolution, hot off the presses from Jerrold Nadler, Chair of the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee: H.RES.1531, &#8220;Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President of the United States should not issue pardons to senior members of his administration during the final 90 days of his term of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violent dispersal of peaceful demonstration of health workers by the Zimbabwe police</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/violent-dispersal-of-peaceful-demonstration-of-health-workers-by-the-zimbabwe-police/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/22/violent-dispersal-of-peaceful-demonstration-of-health-workers-by-the-zimbabwe-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Front Line is seriously concerned by reports received of violent police repression of a peaceful demonstration of health workers at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, on 18 November 2008. The march had been organised by health workers from Harare Central and Parirenyatwa Hospitals to protest against the collapse of the public health system. They had planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The inconvenient truth about food</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/the-inconvenient-truth-about-food/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/the-inconvenient-truth-about-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4013</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Food and farming will be in crisis unless governments take global action to create secure ‘food plans&#8217;, according to new research to be launched at the UK Soil Association&#8217;s conference in Bristol on 18 November 2008. [1] The report, An inconvenient Truth about Food, based on research by City University London states that the current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA to Act on Petition to Regulate Nanomaterial Products as Pesticides</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/epa-to-act-on-petition-to-regulate-nanomaterial-products-as-pesticides/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/epa-to-act-on-petition-to-regulate-nanomaterial-products-as-pesticides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nanotechnology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC-  Acknowledging the critical need for in-depth review of products utilizing nanotechnology pesticides, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened a 60-day public comment period in response to a petition filed by the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) which demands the agency stop the sale of numerous consumer products with nano-silver. In the Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run Cars on Green Electricity, Not Natural Gas</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/run-cars-on-green-electricity-not-natural-gas/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/run-cars-on-green-electricity-not-natural-gas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the dramatic increase in oil prices earlier this year translating into higher prices at the gas pump in the United States, concerns over U.S. dependence on foreign oil are once again part of the national discussion on energy security. Combined with the growing understanding that carbon emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Maize Reduces Fertility &#038; Deregulates Genes in Mice</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/gm-maize-reduces-fertility-deregulates-genes-in-mice/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/gm-maize-reduces-fertility-deregulates-genes-in-mice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Genetic Engineering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4010</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Comprehensive long term studies commissioned by the Austrian government reveal that mice fed GM maize produced fewer and smaller litters with many genes affected compared to controls. Austrian scientists carried out long term studies that showed GM maize fed to mice significantly reduced their fertility over three to four breeding cycles within one generation [1]. Similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stealth GMOs - time to TAKE ACTION</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/stealth-gmos-time-to-take-action/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/stealth-gmos-time-to-take-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Genetic Engineering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumer pressure and scientific concerns have largely kept GM foods and crops out of Europe. But millions of tons of GMOs enter Europe each year in the form of GM animal feed. Unlike GM foods meant for humans, these &#8220;stealth GMOs&#8221; do not have to be labelled and remain hidden from consumers. 
 
In the face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfinished Business for America: Torture crimes of high level civilians and generals</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/unfinished-business-for-america-torture-crimes-of-high-level-civilians-and-generals/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/unfinished-business-for-america-torture-crimes-of-high-level-civilians-and-generals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently released reports confirm that the United States still has very important unfinished business with regard to torture. Civilians at the highest levels of government as well as military generals have committed crimes. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger, and documents from 2003 and 2004 provide further evidence that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ – friend or foe of the US?</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/nz-%e2%80%93-friend-or-foe-of-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/nz-%e2%80%93-friend-or-foe-of-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[NZ Election 2008]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prismwebcastnews.com/?p=4006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Auckland, New Zealand - New Zealanders should be seriously alarmed at the prospect of the National-led government damaging the country&#8217;s relationship with the United States over its stance on climate change. In a surprise speech to a Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles (1), US President-Elect Barack Obama has thrown down the gauntlet to global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Circularity of Life:  An Essential Shift for Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/the-circularity-of-life-an-essential-shift-for-sustainability/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/the-circularity-of-life-an-essential-shift-for-sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND, CA, - Jane Cull, founder and lead consultant of Life’s Natural Solutions, an educational consultancy in Sydney, Australia, applies the theories of living systems to describe the shift in worldview now taking place that is key to our future survival. In her new digital book, The Circularity of Life: An Essential Shift for Sustainability, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bee learning behaviour affected by consumption of Bt Cry1Ab toxin</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/bee-learning-behaviour-affected-by-consumption-of-bt-cry1ab-toxin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerns over bees, especially the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) have rarely been higher. Although there are few hard data there is a general consensus that both solitary and social bee populations are declining and that recently the still-mysterious colony collapse disorder (CCD) has dramatically worsened this situation. No definitive cause for CCD has yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warnings of Further Deterioration to Humanitarian Conditions in the Gaza Strip</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/warnings-of-further-deterioration-to-humanitarian-conditions-in-the-gaza-strip/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/warnings-of-further-deterioration-to-humanitarian-conditions-in-the-gaza-strip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, United Nations agencies and all international humanitarian organizations, to immediately intervene and exert pressure on Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to reopen border crossings of the Gaza Strip, whose closure has caused further deterioration to living conditions of approximately 1.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutant strain of antibiotic-resistant E. coli found in the UK</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/mutant-strain-of-antibiotic-resistant-e-coli-found-in-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/mutant-strain-of-antibiotic-resistant-e-coli-found-in-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Soil Association is calling on the Government to issue guidelines that will limit the veterinary use of the most modern penicillin-type antibiotics. This is necessary to prevent the spread of a serious new superbug. Recently released minutes of a Government committee [1] reveal that Ministers have been briefed about the emergence on a British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the world prepared for Synthetic Biology?</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/is-the-world-prepared-for-synthetic-biology/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/is-the-world-prepared-for-synthetic-biology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are the first undergraduate student team presenting a project at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition that is exclusively focused on investigating the ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social (E3LS) issues attached to synthetic biology. We are very excited and feel fortunate to be allowed to add this facet to iGEM. Two of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warning: Huge Financial Entities Being Formed Not Healthy For U.S. Economy</title>
		<link>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/warning-huge-financial-entities-being-formed-not-healthy-for-us-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://prismwebcastnews.com/2008/11/20/warning-huge-financial-entities-being-formed-not-healthy-for-us-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tremane Barr</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On September 17th Dean Lawrence Velvel of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, wrote an essay on the growth and effect of unregulated, uncontrolled corporate gigantism over the last 50 years. The article was especially pertinent to the events then unfolding because, though the economic disaster engulfing us occurred because of huge size, even [...]]]></description>
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