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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day in Karachi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s guest post is by VARANGALI, a San Francisco-based consultant and one-time regular at othermatters.org. One of my favorite educational experiences came while studying abroad. Specifically, sitting in a pizzeria on the coast of Normandy with friends, eating the thinnest pizza margarita I have ever had, topped with an egg, sunny side up. Sometime [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=922&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; America the Itinerant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 14:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Fridays. This is originally a VARANGALI piece from 14 Nov 2006. drive, he sd - Robert Creeley, &#8220;I Know a Man&#8221; There is a vein that runs deep in the American psyche, one that binds self-knowledge to flight. It is Huck Finn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=520&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Saturdays. This piece was originally posted by VARANGALI on 27 Oct 2006. I do not feel how to pray. Fear I never did. Prostate and bent, haggard and wincing, wrinkled and furrowed, sweated and sweating – knew the pain and knew the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=369&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Exploit Women and Win a Nobel!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Saturdays. This piece was originally posted by VARANGALI on 18 Oct 2006. Given the opportunity to fight against poverty and hunger women turn out to be natural and better fighters than men. Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank founder and recipient of the Nobel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=352&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoning the Rational (The Power of Positive Thinking)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Place your hand on your heart and say… “I admire rich people!” “I bless rich people!” “I love rich people!” “And I&#8217;m going to be one of those rich people too!” T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth We live in a self-help world. We have to think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=335&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Emperor&#8217;s Few Clothes</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/02/13/the-emperors-few-clothes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US trade deficit … was financed by a steady sale of American assets &#8211; stocks bonds, real estate, and, increasingly, whole corporations to foreigners. Paul Krugman Economic indicators that catch our eye tend to be short- or medium-term ones: unemployment, inflation, budget deficit, etc. Since such indicators tend to be cyclical (unemployment goes up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=326&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Whole Foods v. the Local, Organic Farmer</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/02/03/retread-whole-foods-v-the-local-organic-farmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Saturdays. This piece was originally posted by VARANGALI on 10 Oct 2006. Proponents of the organic food movement often argue that organic goods are not expensive-–-it is conventional produce that is artificially inexpensive. Organic foods seem elitist only because industrial food is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=319&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Africa Diaries: Of Atrocities and Religion</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/01/30/the-africa-diaries-of-atrocities-and-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal For many, religion is by definition the purveyor of injustice: by legislating morality, it declares abhorrent certain behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs. Given fervor and authority, such behaviors are often repressed society-wide, introducing the possibility of state-sponsored atrocity. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=317&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Africa Diaries: Is Your Wife a Man or a Woman?</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/01/23/the-africa-diaries-is-your-wife-a-man-or-a-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brits mock the Americans. The Americans laugh at the French. The French have their Polish jokes. And the list goes on, but it ends at the Ghanaians. The Ghanaians don’t have any jokes. Ghanaians smile like it’s the national pastime. I’ve never been around so smiley a people – they must go to sleep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=313&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Africa Diaries: Sidi Santa</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/01/04/the-africa-diaries-sidi-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Window shopping for electronics in Fes (you’d be surprised how expensive irons can be in Morocco), I came across this gem: the Muslim Santa Claus. (click the thumbnail for a larger picture) I want to be horrified, I really do. But I can’t, it’s just too ridiculous. The Santa is decked in Moroccan attire, driven [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=305&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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