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		<title>10-year-old gives birth to a baby boy in Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ardie-Anna Pitkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unnamed Mexican girl gave birth to a baby boy on October 22. Delivered by Caesarian Section, he weighed in at 3.3 pounds. According to Puebla Mexican State law, where the young mom is from, the minimum age that a woman can undergo an abortion is 12 years old. Girls under 12 can only undergo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fort Hood Suspect Needed the Help He Provided Other Soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Balthazar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fort Hood massacre left 13 people dead and 30 people wounded. What is most shocking about the massacre is that the man responsible for the massacre was a major and psychiatrist down at the post. Major Nidal Malik Hassan worked at the post in order to relieve the soldiers of their fears and return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Racism Still Alive and Well in America?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nkeya Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City, where about 40% of the population is of color, is seeing a rise in hate crimes. A noose was found in a post office near Ground Zero. The police said the post office noose was discovered Thursday by postal employees, dangling from a lamp post near the lower Manhattan post office. Building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentrification in Brooklyn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann-Quette Wade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is gentrification? Gentrification is the upgrading of an urban and often economically challenged neighborhood. It usually results in the displacement of lower income families because they are not able to compete with the more affluent class that is trying to replace them. We explored our local Downtown Brooklyn shopping area [Fulton Street], to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aliens in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Temple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigrants are the key to the infrastructure of the United States. They have helped our country develop in areas such as labor and diversity. Would it be fair to just decide to rid our nation of them? Isn&#8217;t America supposed to be the land of the immigrants? Recently the United States government has decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My life in the school system</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Talon Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Talon S. Taylor. I am 13 years old and I was born on November 30, 1993. As of February 2006, I became a home-schooled student. My main career goal is to become a successful Graphic Artist. I also have interests in Astrophysics â€“ [which is the study of objects and matter outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wants to know why people cheat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Samuel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who wants to know why people cheat? Do you ever wonder why your significant other, no matter how much love is involved, will still cheat on you? You can give someone everything in the world and yet still this person can find a way to not be faithful. This may not go for everyone as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disney World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jasmine Tronchin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In life, every person either has, had, or wished for a place they believe anything can happen, and come true. When little kids are young, they all have secret, magical places that they believe are real. In my own life, I know that I have believed in magical places before, and still do. The one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in the Workplace: The Fight for Respect</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Talia Bravo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexual harassment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women have gone from being viewed as desperate housewives to key players in the corporate world. In this competitive world women have to become experts at being on top of their game to prove that they are equal if not more qualified than men. At the same time they must maintain a certain level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In 2007 Stereotypes Still Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nadya Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite an age of political correctness in the U.S. most people still stereotype people based on race, according to a survey at World Journalism Preparatory School. The 11-question survey answered by 25 students showed that 92% of students make assumptions about a person&#8217;s intelligence, culture and other abilities. The survey included many questions about topics [...]]]></description>
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