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		<title>World Without End</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul D Zimmer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In midnight waters one hundred miles off the western coast of Africa, a mountain of clouds glowered on the horizon, lightning rending the darkness in a fierce display. Our boat, forty feet of wood and fiberglass in four thousand miles of ocean, stalled in its course, the sails flagging in the vagarious winds of the approaching storm. Tossed around by huge rolling swells, the ship pitched and yawed in spite of my frantic attempts to steer, turning slow circles as the wind died completely. It was quiet now, save for the creaking of the hull and the halyards clanging the mast like a broken bell. The radar showed a two-mile wide red swath tracking across the range lines, moving inexorably closer with every sweep.  I didn't like what I saw on the screen, but looking up at the real thing was far worse. I distracted myself with the sails instead and managed to catch enough breeze to get back on course—directly into the storm, as it happened.]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeologists Officially Declare Collective Sigh Over &#8220;Paleo Diet&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul D Zimmer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT- In a rare display of professional consensus, an international consortium of anthropologists, archaeologists, and molecular biologists have formally released an exasperated sigh over the popularity of the so-called "Paleo Diet" during a two-day conference dedicated to the topic.]]></description>
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		<title>A Sense of Wonder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul D Zimmer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years before he was stabbed to death on Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii, Captain James Cook paced the sands of the Tahitian shoreline, his eyes scouring the horizon for clouds that would ruin his carefully planned mission. Nearly a year prior in 1768, he had set sail from Plymouth with the goal of observing the transit of Venus across the face of the sun, a task commissioned by the Royal Society of London. HMS Endeavour had traveled over 14,000 miles for this event, and Cook was understandably nervous of things going afoul. In fact, considering that their viewing equipment had been stolen weeks before and only returned after tense negotiations, the mood on the beach that morning was a decidedly anxious one. The captain looked toward the east where the sun was just beginning to rise, and waited.]]></description>
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		<title>A Hundred Years of Paulitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul D Zimmer]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hangovers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so maybe it's only been 30 years, but the joke doesn't really work without the "hundred." And for the record, I don't care what you think. It's my birthday and l will make as many terrible literary puns as I please.

Thirty years old. Damn. Just think of all the sandwiches I've eaten in that time. It's kind of humbling.]]></description>
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		<title>The Harrowing of Halfmoon Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul D Zimmer]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Halfmoon Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I used to be crazy, now I’m Pinhead,” is not a reassuring phrase to hear under the best of circumstances, and especially so when you find yourself in the dark of a primitive campsite deep in the forests of Central Florida. Of course, more troubling than the words themselves was the knowledge that the person who had said them, "Pinhead," actually lived out there in the pines, far beyond the reach of what passes for normal society in Florida. In the hands of a ragged stranger that just appeared out of the darkness, that statement was horror incarnate.]]></description>
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