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		<title>Census</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/25/850/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But reasoned arguments are unlikely to change Harper's mind. Like all right-wing politicians, he harbours an ingrained antipathy to anything that resembles government intrusion in people's lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Gusher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the potential consequences of technological mistakes, we need to start thinking seriously about the implications of &#8220;never.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Miracles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the program's most graphic image, the surgeons at Sick Children's Hospital cracked Mike's chest open from armpit to armpit, like a flip-top cigarette pack. They lifted out a soggy mass of dark red tissue dripping blood.<br />
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Then they carefully lowered in a pair of soft pink lungs donated by a young woman who had died in a car accident.]]></description>
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		<title>Explanation</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/04/835/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday July 4, 2010
No column this week
By Jim Taylor
Let me tell you about my past week&#8230;.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;On Monday, I flew to Edmonton. On Tuesday, I led an all-day session on my Eight-Step Editing program, for a group of Alberta government staff. On Wednesday&#8230; well, Wednesday deserves a paragraph of its own.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;My daughter Sharon and I set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciliation</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/06/27/831/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I feel for the pain of those who suffered abuse, private truth-telling is not the way to achieve reconciliation. Aboriginal and white populations need to tell their stories to each other &#8211; face to face, heart to heart.]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/06/20/827/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until medical science makes it possible for males to become pregnant, to carry a fetus within our bodies, to pump its blood with our hearts, to process its wastes with our livers and kidneys, and to put our own survival at risk for its sake, we men have no business making decisions for pregnant women.]]></description>
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		<title>Asbestos</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/06/13/823/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Canadians are surprised to find that asbestos &#8211; like tobacco &#8211; has never been banned in Canada despite known risks. ]]></description>
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		<title>Summits</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/06/06/819/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take 500,000 ordinary working people. Divide by seven world leaders. One prime minister or president turns out to be worth 71,428 of the rest of us. ]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic life</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/05/30/815/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 07:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a rough analogy, DNA is like the operating system for my computer. In effect, Venter simply replaced the bacteria's Windows operating system with a Linux system.]]></description>
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		<title>Cryonics</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/05/23/811/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 07:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ohio Appeals Court ruled that David and Darlene must now dig up their brother's body, decapitate it, and deliver the head for freezing in liquid nitrogen.]]></description>
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