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		<title>September 11, 2001—3,286 Days Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless our memories fail us, there are important dates—happy and sad—carved into our personal lives. You might depict them as psychic scars or tattoos. A birthday, a day when someone in our lives died, a particular anniversary, a memorable date—perhaps when a relationship began or ended, have a way of continually emerging for reflection. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waking Up In A Contentious World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas DeGloma has written an interesting article in the summer issue of The Hedgehog. It has an intriguing title—“Waking Up in a Contentious World.”
The article begins with an account of the March 2008 four-day gathering in Silver Spring, Maryland, of over one hundred veterans of the wars in the Middle East. The event was called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Spy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I saw a clip on CNN that featured news about spying. The woman being interviewed described a number of fancy spy devices that anyone can purchase. No CIA or FBI credentials are required, for example, to buy called Spyglasses.
Here’s how the glasses work. They’re equipped with a hidden video camera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General McChrystal&#8217;s Dismissal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[High Noon At The White House
Before going to bed two nights ago, I visualized General Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, in mid-air on his flight back home to meet President Obama at the White House. I then peeked in on Mr. Obama readying himself for bed. I wondered if either [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.figtreenotes.com/figs/?p=217</link>
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		<title>The Q &#038; A Interview—Cheers And Down The Hatch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite magazine and newspaper formats is the Q &#38; A—the question and answer method of getting information from people.
Each month The Progressive magazine does a four page Q &#38; A. The comments from a variety of guests are always interesting. In the May issue, for example, Ed Asner, actor and social justice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.figtreenotes.com/figs/?p=216</link>
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		<title>Keeping An Eye On The Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhinos And Media Moguls
I’ll bet you didn’t know that the first day of May is Save the Rhino Day. Well, it is, or it was. It’s a day set aside each year to educate people about rhinoceroses—a day to call for support efforts to save the mammoth, horned animals from extinction.
If you’ve paid attention to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.figtreenotes.com/figs/?p=215</link>
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		<title>To Turn On The Lights—But Remain In Darkness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Red Bud &#38; The Dogwood In Coal Country
If you’re driving through West Virginia these days, you will, if you are paying attention, see the mountains sprouting green, spotted with purplish-pink large shrubs or small trees. These reddish splashes of color are Red Bud, one of my favorite spring blossoms.
Appalachia’s landscape is marked with hollows— [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.figtreenotes.com/figs/?p=214</link>
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		<title>In Pursuit Of Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is The Glass Half Full Or Half Empty?
I suspect all of us have had the experience of going into someone’s bathroom and finding reading material next to the toilet. In fact, it’s a rare occasion, when I close the bathroom door behind me, not to find books and reading matter lodged in a basket or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.figtreenotes.com/figs/?p=213</link>
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		<title>Do You Really Want To Talk Truth To Power?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bob &#38; Ray Show—Then And Now
Are any of my readers old enough to remember the Bob and Ray Show that aired on radio years ago? In case you don’t, they were comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. I loved to listen to them do clever spoofs and parodies, satirizing radio and television interviews in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.figtreenotes.com/figs/?p=212</link>
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		<title>Breaking News—Exclusive Interviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faithful readers of Notes From Under the Fig Tree know that I study the news media—printed as well as radio and television. Right now I’m reading “Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy” by Alex S. Jones. 
Here’s a tidbit from that excellent book: “Do you eat sensibly? Based on our national [...]]]></description>
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