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		<title>American? The Incredible Burden of a Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the proper name to refer to people from the United States?  There are some people who disagree on what to call us because they point out that the first two words of our country&#8217;s name &#8220;The United States&#8221; reflect our political organization and the last two words &#8220;of America&#8221; reflect the geographic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homework Helpers . . . The Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her head hangs low and her honey-colored hair dangles in her face. She drags her roller backpack drags against the pavement and as she approaches me, her thumpity-thump is her hello.
&#8220;How was your day?&#8221; She rolls her eyes at me. &#8220;How annoying,&#8221; she says, &#8220;you know I&#8217;m not done yet.&#8221; She points her head toward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets to Speaking Spanish Like a Native</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve been dutifully studying the textbooks, slaving over the audio-cassettes, stopping strangers on the street to practice. You freeze, though, when someone asks you for directions in Spanish.
HELP!
You probably need some tips on how to keep yourself going on the road to fluency. Here are 7 pointers to improve your Spanish.
1. Keep Yellow Post-Its.
Learn those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Flashbacks: Groovy Duds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Say CHEESE!&#8221;
A grin the size of a crater stretched over my face. My Afro sprouted from my head like a neatly-trimmed bonsai tree. My long neck was buried under a forest green turtleneck like a tortoise shell, and my eyebrows plucked pencil thin, were drawn into quarter moons. The official &#8220;say cheese&#8221; picture for high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrants Straddle Two Worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it might seem that immigrants are assimilating more slowly today than in the past, we may fail to recognize the rules have changed. What if newcomers no longer follow the traditional expectations of &#8220;love it or leave it&#8221;or &#8220;when in Rome, do as the Romans do?&#8221;These phrases ring of another time when adapting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Indian Wedding: Get Me to the Mandap on Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get Me to the Mandap on Time
Introduction
The minute I received my friends&#8217; emerald green wedding invitation urging me to come to Bangkok for a three-day Indian wedding, I threw caution to the wind.  I rushed on-line to buy a ticket from Thai Airways.  Then reality sank in. Was it really a nonstop 17-hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Remembering Veterans, FDR, &amp; the  38th Parallel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to visit war memorials for the same reason I like cemeteries. When I think of war memorials, I donâ€™t  think of marble statues, gushing waterfalls, or fountains shooting into the sky. I think of them more like pages of a history book.  They are ways our nation interprets the people and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Have More Culture Than in our Yogurt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is It Any Wonder How We Get Enormous?  We Eat An Enormous Breakfast
Burger King now offers a new breakfast sandwich called The Enormous Omelet Sandwich which is eggs, sausage, bacon and cheese on a bun.  This sandwich totals 730 calories and 47 grams of fat which even beats the Whopper, which has 700 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 14:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I worked for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in New York City as a college intern in 1981,  I had the job of interviewing refugees when they first came over to the U.S. from  the Bangkok refugee camps where they had lived for years.  Some of them were large families.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fine Art of Talking to the Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, an article by the New York Times News Service reported how young people are using cell phones to make fake phone calls.]]></description>
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