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		<title>Making A Difference: Meet Julie Edgar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie Edgar is passionate. So are most activists, you might say. She is smart. So are most activists. She is able to step back and see the big picture &#8211;she...]]></description>
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		<title>PROGRESS IS (?) A COMFORTABLE DISEASE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking (author of A Brief History of Time) a few weeks ago advised his fellow earth-dwellers to begin probing the sky for another planet with livable conditions much like...]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing America’s Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Ola, Amigo! Pack your bags; we’re going to Mexico!” bubbled Dr. Franklin Peterson Comstock III, faux physician and money-maker. “Yeah, I could use a decent vacation,” I replied, figuring he’d...]]></description>
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		<title>The Pick Ax : Taking on the Right Wing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an excerpt on amazon.com of Donald Kahneman’s new book,  Thinking Fast and Slow.  Mr. Kahneman, a respected psychologist, states that decades ago sociologists felt that humans were...]]></description>
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		<title>Deborah Rogers on the Economics of Fracking, February 2nd in Kutztown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deborah Rogers, founder of the Energy Policy Forum, will speak on the economics of unconventional natural gas drilling at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Kutztown at 7 p.m. on February...]]></description>
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		<title>Shall We Dance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching the Republican presidential candidates&#8217; debates has been perversely entertaining. It is fascinating to observe the verbal pirouette of politicians trying to distance themselves from their former incarnations. Particularly guilty...]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Reading Occupies the Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a 5-4 decision on January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, ruled that the First Amendment...]]></description>
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		<title>At His Graveside in East Berlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I say you were a beast of burden touched in your brain by the most unequivocal hardships, rock bottoms and abrasive insects with stingers as lethal as the points of...]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Players &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Energy-in-Depth (EID):  The “GAS”roots &#160; ”Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”&#8211; Winston Churchill On January...]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections: A Year in Reading (2011)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tension City by Jim Lehrer Lehrer, formerly of the PBS program The News Hour, has penned one of the greatest books not only on debating, but on the rules of...]]></description>
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