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	<description>Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!</description>
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		<title>The poignant, poignant pain of eating on $225 a month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently OSAP allows $7.50 a day, or roughly $225 a month, for a student food allowance. The Star is reporting on the extreme hardship this produces, and four intrepid students, risking starvation and perhaps even the odd foray into their own kitchens, are blogging their attempt to comply with this limit for three agonizing weeks.
One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1245</link>
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		<title>Blame the victim (again and again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even when the circumstances in pedestrian deaths clearly point to driver error, Toronto police don&#8217;t hesitate to point the finger at the person who wasn&#8217;t behind the wheel of the vehicle:
Sgt. Tim Burrows said the victim was crossing slightly west of the crosswalk at the intersection.
&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to determine who is at fault,&#8221; he said. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1243</link>
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		<title>Authenticity watch: the child-like child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A proud parent of a four-year-old, from a nauseating story about parents who tweet as their preschoolers:
&#8220;Roan&#8217;s all about superheroes and Scooby Doo and running around in his jammies. He&#8217;s still maintaining his child-like innocence so it&#8217;s fun to portray that sometimes.&#8221;
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		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1241</link>
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		<title>Reds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few random notes on recent red experiences:
2006 Farina Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso &#8220;Le Pezze&#8221; ($14.95, 13.5%). This is currently available at Vintages though stocks in Toronto Central are starting to get low. A good value on a $15 red, with a very fruity red berry nose with a hint of sandalwood and spice. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1236</link>
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		<title>Ontario VQA 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2008 was a rather cool summer in Ontario (though not as bad as 2009), and I was curious how the wines would turn out. The answer so far, interestingly, is pretty well, at least as far as the whites are concerned. 
The great bargain of the Ontario wine world, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, continues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1232</link>
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		<title>Ah, science.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BMJ&#8217;s Christmas issue is full of goodness as usual.
Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins
Objective: To examine the relation between coins ingested by children and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
But sadly, for it would&#8217;ve made a fine headline had the results been different,
Conclusion: There was no detectable difference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1229</link>
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		<title>Interesting example</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another woe-is-Gen Y story. In all seriousness, Canada&#8217;s poor mechanisms of getting new graduates into the workforce are an ongoing problem. But this latest story on the front page of the Report on Business isn&#8217;t particularly compelling:
Elizabeth Adams, 24, knows all about timing. She recently graduated with a fine arts degree and hoped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1226</link>
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		<title>Contagion risk (non-flu version)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business reporters fell over each other today in an effort to categorize the impact of Dubai&#8217;s announcement that it was implementing a six-month &#8220;stand-still&#8221; on the debt of the real estate arm of its conglomerate Dubai World, essentially asking debtholders to hold onto bonds past maturity. Complicating the efforts of reporters to put the story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1219</link>
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		<title>Apparently forethought isn&#8217;t one of the skills they should plan to share</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, woe. Carol Goar reports that retiring baby boomers plan to spend time volunteering, but:
But for the most part, the non-profit sector is not waiting with open arms for retired baby boomers with skills to share and time to spare.
&#8220;Logically, it should be a great opportunity,&#8221; says Michael Hall, vice-president of Imagine Canada, the umbrella [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1216</link>
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		<title>Well, THAT&#8217;ll fix the recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funding one (1) 26-week internship is now worthy of a Federal press release:
Government of Canada helps post-secondary graduate gain work experience in aquatic research
The Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute will receive $14,189 for its Aquatic Health Researcher project through the Career Focus program of the Government of Canada’s Youth Employment Strategy. This funding will help the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.snappingturtle.net/archives/1214</link>
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