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<title>Medical mess</title>
<description><![CDATA[Republicans, Tea Party protesters, Fox News and other conservatives fighting against universal health care callously dont care that 47 million &quot;working poor&quot; Americans have no medical insurance. The right wing would do utterly nothing to help the...]]></description>
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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:58:07 -0500
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<title>Science: Enriching human life</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- At the start of the 1900s, human life expectancy averaged 48 years, partly because of a tragic rate of childhood deaths. Today, the average American lifespan is almost 80 -- a magnificent improvement produced chiefly by scientific adva...]]></description>
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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Potpourri</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Remember Herb Pauley, who was Kanawha Countys longest-serving magistrate when he retired in 1988. (He was a Democratic political figure -- while his brother, Kermit, also a magistrate, was a Republican.) Today, Pauley is retired at Myr...]]></description>
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<title>Dishonor:  WVU fans taint state</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, a sports movie titled &quot;The Express&quot; depicted West Virginia University fans as obnoxious goons throwing trash and screaming insults during a game. The 2008 film triggered protest from West Virginians who felt their state had been un...]]></description>
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:45:00 -0500
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<title>The Charleston Gazette -- Self-harm: Peculiar U.S. politics</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Many Europeans are puzzled by a strange American pattern: Fiery opposition to programs that help average families. &quot;Why do people vote against their own interests.&quot; was the opening of a BBC television analysis of Americas cur...]]></description>
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Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes</title>
<description><![CDATA[IN his State of the Union speech, President Obama criticized members of the U.S. Supreme Court, who were present, for ruling recently that corporations and unions have the same First Amendment rights of political speech that others enjoy.The Tillman Act of...]]></description>
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Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:13:49 -0500
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<title>Culture shift: Dont ask, dont tell</title>
<description><![CDATA[American morality keeps evolving, usually catching up with forerunning trends in other advanced democracies.  A half-century ago, it was a felony to be gay in West Virginia and most other states. Homosexuals were sent to prison under biblical-sounding &quo...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Smears</title>
<description><![CDATA[American politics hinges greatly on slanted, unfair, distorted, attack ads tainting campaign rivals.Remember the &quot;Willie Horton&quot; spots that accused presidential nominee Mike Dukakis of coddling black rapists. Dukakis lost.Remember the &quot;Swift...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Prisons: Crammed past limits </title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Absurdly, statistics seem to imply that West Virginians are 10 times more criminal than they used to be. Back in the 1970s, the Mountain State averaged 1,000 prison inmates - but now the number in cells is 6,300 and its projected to pa...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Drug horror</title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1998, only 21 West Virginians died of drug overdoses. In 2006, the body count was 460 - 22 times worse.  Such horrifying data was found a couple of years ago when Gazette and West Virginia Public Radio reporters jointly dug through state and federal med...]]></description>
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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:40:29 -0500
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<title>Historic: Battlefield battle</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Troubling questions have been raised, and West Virginians need answers.A North Carolina anthropologist who worked to preserve Logan Countys 1921 Blair Mountain battlefield on the National Register of Historic Places says state official...]]></description>
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Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Sickening: State nicotine addiction</title>
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<title>The Charleston Gazette -- Chemical safety: More oversight</title>
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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Short takes</title>
<description><![CDATA[THE House of Representatives passage of cap-and-trade legislation was a wake-up call for many West Virginia politicians. It showed how far the campaign against coal has gone - and how successful it has been.  But the states elected officials are fighting b...]]></description>
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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:09:55 -0500
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<title>Trust: People sick of knifing</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Despite Americas unemployment and other agonizing troubles, President Obama was firm, intelligent, reasonable and trustworthy Wednesday night as he prescribed more recovery plans in his State of the Union address. &quot;Obama plays gro...]]></description>
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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Trickery: More political games</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Remember when conservative activist James OKeefe posed as a pimp and asked ACORN aides to help him start a bordello. OKeefe made a secret video of his visits to offices of the agency that helps slum families. His film became a smash hit playing repeate...]]></description>
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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Pro-death</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the dark past, virtually every government put people to death for various criminal, political or religious reasons. For example, Italys Papal States had an official executioner, Giovanni Bugatti, who dispatched 516 people in the 1800s.Today, however, al...]]></description>
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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:45:00 -0500
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