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	<title>MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory</title>
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		<title>New Wyoming Lithium Deposit Could Meet all U.S. Demand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. currently imports more than 80% of the lithium it uses, with the silvery metal winding up in batteries from cell phones to electric cars. According to a United States Geological Survey publication on lithium, “The only commercially active lithium mine in the United States was a brine operat ion in Nevada. The mine’s production capacity was expanded in 2012, and a new lithium hydroxide plant opened in North Carolina. Two companies produced a large array of downstream lithium compounds in the United States from domestic or South American lithium carbonate, lithium chloride, and lithium hydroxide. A U.S. recycling company produced a small quantity of lithium carbonate from solutions recovered during the recycling of lithium ion batteries.” The bad news? Last year virtually all of the major brine and mineral-based lithium producers increased their prices, which in turn has spurred prospecting. In the U.S. exploration has been largely centered in Nevada, but the growing worldwide market for lithium has also spurred exploration in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia and Canada. And now, the good news. University of Wyoming researchers found the lithium while studying the idea of storing carbon dioxide undergro und in the Rock Springs Uplift, a geologic formation in southwest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/05/03/new-wyoming-lithium-deposit-could-meet-all-u-s-demand/</link>
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		<title>Fractured US Intelligence Rules out Greater Cooperation with Russia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US intelligence community is in a state of disarray—most recently illustrated by the Boston Marathon Bombings—and the idea of a more structured cooperation with Russian intelligence as a direct result of this incident is a paper tiger. The mainstream US media has latched on to the idea of a new era of US-Russian intelligence cooperation as a result of the Chechen connection to the Boston bombing because this is an attractive post-Cold War idea that makes for good headlines. The reality is clearly less dramatic. The mounting US intelligence failures since 9/11 can in large part be contributed to a lack of cooperation among US agencies themselves. Adding increased cooperation on a clearly structured level with external agencies simply isn’t feasible. This idea is even trumping the blame game over Boston that will seek to determine whose intelligence failure this really was and who was responsible for the root causes of the incident: Russia or the US? Last week, police arrested 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (of Chechen origins) after a shootout that left the other suspect, his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan, dead. There are, however, varying versions of this story, some of which say the shootout was against an unarmed man. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/05/02/fractured-us-intelligence-rules-out-greater-cooperation-with-russia/</link>
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		<title>UK Ministry of Defense Deems Wind Towers a National Security Threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-plus years on, the collapse of the USSR in 1991 threatened massive Western defense budgets, bereft of a major enemy like the “Evil Empire.” Western militaries conveniently found a new global enemy a decade later following the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, and since then, they have struggled in the light of invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to adapt their strategies to cope with the new threat, making defending the “homeland” the highest priority. While the U.S. created the “Department of Homeland Security,” Washington’s less prosperous European allies have been forced to seek solutions to indigenous defense largely by themselves beyond NATO. Except that the NATO charter Chapter 5 stipulates that an attack upon a member state will be met by the entire coalition. European democracies have scrambled to define both national and European Union security issues, particularly since the global economic downturn, which began in 2008, forcing hard choices amongst European defense ministries. Furthermore, many European nations now have significant post-colonial immigration populations, ramping up security concerns, from both indigenous citizens and ongoing concerns of foreign aggression. Defending the United Kingdom’s territorial, maritime and aerial space is the primary mission of Britain’s Ministry of Defense. A laudable objective, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/05/01/uk-ministry-of-defense-deems-wind-towers-a-national-security-threat/</link>
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		<title>Oil Explorers Beware: Hackers Are Eyeing What You Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While most would think that the risks junior oil and gas companies are taking in exploring new frontiers as far away as the remote reaches of Africa are related to government instability and conflict, another risk they face is right at home and lies right beyond their network firewalls. Cyber security breaches are becoming more common place as the ranks of junior companies swell and take on new exploration venues with a great deal of energy. But at home their firewalls are not safe and hackers are being paid to find out what juicy exploration news is being discussed in their boardrooms. In Canada—home of some of the most tenacious of these exploration juniors—local media reported late last year that the internal firewall of Telvent Canada Ltd. had been breached by foreign hackers. These hackers can represent anyone from a competitor to an organized crime group to political and environmental activists. And the information they want can be anything from preliminary exploration results, merger and acquisition talks and expansion plans to geological data and technological information. All of it is valuable. All of it is sellable. According to Ernst &#38; Young, most oil and gas companies don&#8217;t have high enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/03/12/oil-explorers-beware-hackers-are-eyeing-what-you-know/</link>
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		<title>Ahmadinejad and the Resurrection of Hugo Chavez</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE, PAKISTAN &#8211; The passing of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with a formidable flurry of responses from those who admired him and those hated him. Much like our own Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto here in Pakistan, most people can only either intensely love Chavez or hate him with an equal passion. For figures like Chavez and Bhutto there is seldom any middle ground. Chavez was an extraordinary phenomenon and a force of nature, but let us not forget that he was once a coup maker before he became a coup breaker. Chavez will, however, be remembered for a very long time for having helped substantially to improve the lot of millions of Venezuelans who had been victims of an unthinking elite, an elite that now celebrates Chavez’s departure. The most amusing response to Chavez’s death came from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad may have been Chavez’s best friend in the international arena, but in many ways the two men were polar opposites. Chavez was inspired by what he termed ‘Bolivarianism’ — an ideology that he derives from Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America from the 19th century, and from an inventive interpretation of Marxist ideas. Simultaneously leftist and nationalist, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/03/11/ahmadinejad-and-the-resurrection-of-hugo-chavez/</link>
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		<title>Why Do They Hate Us Again? Oh, Right. Now I Remember.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States is the most hated country in the world, followed closely by Israel, and then by nobody. Why? Why not Ecuador? China? Russia? East Timor? The hostility puzzles many Americans, who genuinely believe their country to be a force for good, a pillar of democracy, a defender of human rights. To the rest of the world, none of this is even close. If you have lived abroad, as so very few Americans have, the explanation for the hatred is obvious: Meddling. Relentless, prideful, uncomprehending meddling, frequently military, often with horrendous death tolls. Americans, adroitly managed by a controlled press, historically illiterate, incurious, decreasingly educated, either have never heard of the American behavior that angers others, or believe it to have been inspired by virtuous motives. Nobody else thinks so. Add to unfamiliarity with the wider world the constantly inculcated assertion that America is the greatest, most wonderful nation ever to exist, a light to the world, a shining city on a hill, and you get a dangerously delusional state. Especially now. In the past, American economic and military supremacy were such that the US didn’t have to care what others thought. The times, they are a-changing. It might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/03/10/why-do-they-hate-us-again-oh-right-now-i-remember/</link>
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		<title>Peak Oil Is Almost Here and There’s No Magic To Counter It: Interview with Dave Summers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This where we stand, and it&#8217;s a fairly bleak view: Peak oil is almost here, and nothing new (with the possible but unlikely exception of Iraq) is coming online anytime soon and while the clock is ticking &#8211; forward movement on developing renewable energy resources has been sadly inadequate. In the meantime, the idea that shale reservoirs will lead the US to energy independence will soon enough be recognized as unrealistic hype. There are no easy solutions, no viable quick fixes, and no magic fluids. Yet the future isn&#8217;t all doom and gloom – certain energy technologies do show promise. We had a chance to speak with well known energy expert Dave Summers where we cut through the media noise and take a realistic look at what our energy future holds. Dr. Dave Summers &#8211; scientist, prolific writer and author of Waterjetting Technology, is the co-founder of The Oil Drum and currently writes at the popular energy blog Bit Tooth Energy. From a family of nine generations of coal miners, Summers&#8217; patented waterjetting technology enables the high-speed drilling of small holes through the earth among other applications. James Stafford: What do you foresee in our energy future? Will new extraction techniques and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/03/06/peak-oil-is-almost-here-and-theres-no-magic-to-counter-it-interview-with-dave-summers/</link>
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		<title>Russia is Back to Stay in the Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russia is back. President Vladimir Putin wants the world to acknowledge that Russia remains a global power. He is making his stand in Syria. The Soviet Union acquired the Tardus Naval Port in Syria in 1971 without any real purpose for it. With their ships welcomed in Algeria, Cuba or Vietnam, Tardus was too insignificant to be developed. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia lacked the funds to spend on the base and no reason to invest in it. The Russian return to the Middle East brought them first to where the Soviet Union had its closest ties. Libya had been a major buyer of arms and many of the military officers had studied in the Soviet Union. Russia was no longer a global power, but it could be used by the Libyans as a counter force to block domination by the United States and Europeans. When Gaddafi fell, Tardus became Russia&#8217;s only presence in the region. That and the discovery of vast gas deposits just offshore have transformed the once insignificant port into a strategic necessity. Earlier at the United Nations, Russia had failed to realize that Security Council Resolution 1973 that was to implement a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/28/russia-is-back-to-stay-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<title>Choosing the Right Oil Company to Own in 2013</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been making the point about crude oil production and capex absolutely CONTROLLING the energy space right now and through 2013 and this week&#8217;s entry is perfect to point that out again through the released quarterly reports of EOG Resources (EOG) and Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD). The action in both of these stocks in the market recently have been an oil investors&#8217; study &#8212; 2013 is all about crude production and capex for that production. Where are you getting your crude? How much is it costing you to develop? How much will it continue to cost you? When those numbers add up and the results tell a tale of efficiency and growth, you&#8217;ve got a stock that you can confidently hold. Look hard at what I mean in EOG, a recommendation of mine that&#8217;s just been tearing it up in the last six months: There was another beat in the 4th quarter, but that&#8217;s hardly what interested me in their report. It is their continuing stellar production numbers and continuing guidance for their operations in the Eagle Ford, which is turning into the most compelling play for US crude independence, even outstripping the Bakken – and EOG has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/20/choosing-the-right-oil-company-to-own-in-2013/</link>
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		<title>The End of the Shale Era: Interview with Chris Cooper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The oil and gas game can be a tricky one for junior companies, but if played right the pay-off can be massive. At a time when juniors are risking a lot in volatile venues in the Middle East and Africa, Canada&#8217;s Aroway Energy (ARW) is planting its feet firmly in homeland soil and in conventional plays. Why? Because for the smaller juniors this is not a long-term game and blowing all your capital to drill a single unconventional well in a risky frontier won&#8217;t pay off. Canada still has plenty to offer for juniors, even though you have to kiss plenty of frogs to find the prince. The end game, after all, is merger and acquisition. James Stafford: Junior oil companies have been storming the scene with some bold investments in tricky frontier areas. Where do you see this going and what will the next phase for the juniors be? Where will the action be, in conventional or unconventional plays? Chris Cooper: I am a big believer in the conventional plays. I find that the non-conventional plays are turning into more of a game for the intermediate-size companies primarily as a result of the capital that is required to exploit the resources. Horizontal wells [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/19/the-end-of-the-shale-era-interview-with-chris-cooper/</link>
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		<title>Beijing’s Pollution Alarms Neighbors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The good news for the Chinese leadership is that their fiscal policies have paid off, producing both the world&#8217;s second largest economy and the globe&#8217;s leading creditor nation in less than a generation. The less good news is that the country&#8217;s hell-bent drive towards industrialization has brought in its train a host of collateral problems, not the least of which is pollution. Last month Beijing&#8217;s air pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organization. Prior to that, the government often played down the pollution in Beijing, insisting it was merely fog, despite evidence to the contrary that was plain for all to see. Earlier this year, following public pressure resulting from hourly air-quality readings first published in 2011 by the U.S. embassy in Beijing, which Chinese authorities had previously denounced as &#8220;foreign interference,&#8221; the municipal officials took notice. On 12 January the air-quality monitor operated by the U.S. embassy in Beijing recorded a Particulate Matter PM 2.5 level of 886 micrograms a cubic meter, nearly 35 times what the World Health Organization considers safe. How bad? On 5 February flights were grounded as visibility fell to around 200 meters across Beijing. Last month Beijing&#8217;s Jiangong Hospital recorded a 30 percent spike [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/14/beijings-pollution-alarms-neighbors/</link>
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		<title>Can Leak Detection End the Pipeline Impasse? Interview with Adrian Banica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Adrian Banica, founder and CEO of Synodon - the forerunner in leak detection systems. James Stafford: Now that pipelines are the hottest topic on the oil and gas scene and have found themselves on the frontline of conflict between environmentalists and the industry, high-tech leak detection systems such as Synodon&#8217;s remote sensing technology seem to be offering a way out of the chaos. Can you put this into perspective for us? Adrian Banica: Yes. In North America alone, there are upwards of a million kilometers of transmission pipelines &#8211; and this does not even count the gathering and distribution pipelines. What we offer is attractive to both sides in this conflict: environmentalists want it and the industry can afford it. Methods for inspecting pipelines have existed for many decades. What we&#8217;re providing is a better way of doing it. Synodon&#8217;s technology offers an accurate and precise method of oil and gas leak detection. This technology detects small leaks before they become big leaks. James Stafford: In layman&#8217;s terms, how does it work? Adrian Banica: It is relatively simple. Synodon has developed a remote sensing technology that can measure very small ground level concentrations of escaped gas from an aircraft flying overhead. This &#8220;realSens&#8221; technology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/11/can-leak-detection-end-the-pipeline-impasse-interview-with-adrian-banica/</link>
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		<title>Aubrey McClendon and the Destruction of the Natural Gas Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aubrey McClendon is gone – or at least he&#8217;s on his way out from Chesapeake energy (CHK). But the destruction of the natural gas market, where he was the ringleader in the shale gas land grab and cratering well price, is his real legacy, and not likely to be recovered from anytime soon. While Aubrey will now go into a very wealthy retirement, he leaves behind a decimated market and a long road to making natural gas a true transition fuel to energy independence and a renewable future. The market failed us, failed all of us as a nation – because it couldn&#8217;t prevent McClendon and Chesapeake from poking holes randomly through Texas and Western Pennsylvania in search of shale gas and ultimately flooding the market with it, cratering the price and its profitability. And it is margins and profitability that make markets work. And while McClendon made himself the best paid CEO in the nation, he assured us that our necessary and important transition to natural gas would be made much more difficult, if not impossible: you just cannot support innovation without profits. It is not just &#8220;cheap gas&#8221; that is the answer to spurring economic growth, grow manufacturing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/07/aubrey-mcclendon-and-the-destruction-of-the-natural-gas-market/</link>
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		<title>Betting on Mediterranean Shale: 3 Plays, 1 Winner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Betting on Mediterranean Shale: 3 Plays, 1 Winner The Mediterranean has joined the shale game, but as most of Europe&#8217;s Mediterranean countries drag their feet, all eyes are on Israel, Turkey, and Algeria. For Israel, it will be a slow road without the majors. For Algeria, it&#8217;s full speed ahead, in theory—but the foreign interest is just dabbling for now due to a lack of shale infrastructure. For Turkey, the situation is more promising thanks to a renewed interest by the majors and a near-perfect blend of good governance and attractive fiscals. Here&#8217;s what the playing field looks like: Turkey Turkey is the best bet here. In Turkey, it&#8217;s all about the Dadas Shale, in which the majors have recently expressed a renewed interest, making the game immediately more promising for the North American juniors who are betting heavily on this play. The Dadas Shale is being compared to Texas&#8217; Eagle Ford shale and Oklahoma&#8217;s Woodford shale in both size and potential. What is that potential? Well, those who are investing in it say it has more than 100 billion barrels of original oil in place. While nothing&#8217;s being produced, testing is about to begin and new technology has the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/28/betting-on-mediterranean-shale-3-plays-1-winner/</link>
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		<title>Transcript: Anonymous Operation Last Resort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hacker group Anonymous on Saturday organized a cyberattack on the website of the US Sentencing Commission in retaliation for the prosecution and subsequent suicide of 26-year old free speech activist Aaron Swartz. Anonymous replaced the home page of the US Sentencing Commission website with a letter denouncing federal prosecutors and threatening the release of potentially embarrassing government &#8220;secrets&#8221;. The website appeared to have been restored to normal by late Saturday. The group also communicated their message through a video posting on YouTube: Anonymous Operation Last Resort (see video below). Transcript below: Citizens of the world, Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern. We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the “discretion” of prosecutors. We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain. We have been watching, and waiting. Two weeks ago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/27/transcript-anonymous-operation-last-resort/</link>
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		<title>Kenyan Oil, Hot and Getting Hotter: Interview with Taipan’s Maxwell Birley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenya has become the hottest oil and gas venue in East Africa since big discoveries were made in the country&#8217;s virgin oilfields last April. All eyes are on Kenya in 2013 to see how quickly&#8211;and economically they can develop those discoveries into production. Nairobi based Taipan Resources Inc. (TPN-TSXV; TAIPF-PINK) is the 4th largest acreage owner in Kenya, and is getting ready to carry out seismic on Block 2B. They recently attracted Maxwell Birley as CEO. Mr. Birley has been instrumental in discovering more than 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent in his 30-year career—much of it in Africa and Asia. James Stafford: There were some major discoveries in Kenya last year. Could you give me some colour on these discoveries that has the market thinking Kenya is now one of the hottest exploration spots on earth? Maxwell Birley: There are a couple—or 2 billion&#8211;reasons actually. First, two recent discoveries by Tullow in the Tertiary Lokichar basin of Kenya are in similar geological settings as the discoveries also made by Tullow in the Albertine Basin in Uganda, just to the west. Uganda has over 2 billion barrels, and the discoveries are similar enough that one could assume the eventual size of the resources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/16/kenyan-oil-hot-and-getting-hotter-interview-with-taipans-maxwell-birley/</link>
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		<title>The Political Implications of America’s Oil &amp; Gas Boom – James Kwak Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we begin a new year we wanted to take a look at the current energy landscape and see what the future holds for the global economy, America&#8217;s oil and gas boom, whether renewables will continue to be a favourite amongst investors and whether we should be focusing more attention on conservation and energy efficiency rather than our continuous effort to increase supply. To help us look at these issues and more we managed to speak with the well known economist James Kwak.James is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He blogs at The Baseline Scenario, which he co-founded with Simon Johnson. Simon and James have also written two books: 13 Bankers and, more recently, White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters To You. In a previous career, James worked as a management consultant and co-founded a successful software company. You can follow him at @JamesYKwak. James Stafford: What changes do you see happening to the domestic energy landscape in Obama&#8217;s second term? James Kwak: The biggest trend is obviously the domestic boom in shale gas and oil, and hence the biggest question is what will happen to it. Frankly, I don&#8217;t see anything happening to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/08/the-political-implications-of-americas-oil-gas-boom-james-kwak-interview/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Second Sexism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[University of Cape Town philosophy professor David Benatar has written a thoughtful, eminently fair-minded overview of what he calls “the second sexism.” While this will not necessarily be news for many readers of this review, still the fact that men suffer various forms of discrimination may come as a surprise to many members of the public who pick up this book. Benatar does a bang-up job thoroughly exploring sexism against males in its multifarious forms. With one prominent exception relating to male circumcision that I discuss below, the author is so unstintingly fair-minded that one cannot help but admire his determination to be utterly impartial to all parties, male, female, feminists, masculists, and everybody in between. The Second Sexism focuses primarily on a few of the most salient, and yet still somehow mostly unnoticed, examples of discrimination against males: vulnerability to military conscription, both a greater likelihood of being victimized by violence and lesser sympathy for such victimization relative to females, a deck that is stacked against men in divorce court, the far greater propensity to dish out more and harsher corporal punishment to boys, the lack of concern with sexual assault against males, male educational disadvantage, the favoring of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/04/book-review-the-second-sexism/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The End of Men — and the Rise of Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hanna Rosin, a senior editor of The Atlantic, has produced an interesting, potentially groundbreaking book based on a cover article she wrote in 2010 for the magazine she edits. The End of Men suffers from some annoying shortcomings but also has much to recommend it and is the first book of which I am aware to direct itself to what could eventually become a calamitous crisis: the failure of men to keep up with women in employment and in life. We are in the midst of a transition that to some extent has been going on for three decades or more. Women’s people skills are becoming more important in the new economy, and men’s willingness to work long hours, greater ability to lift heavy objects, and so on are becoming less critical. “Women are not just catching up anymore; they are becoming the standard by which success is measured.” The world has gotten more verbal but boys have not. It turns out that females are the stronger sex in this new world, having more self-discipline and ability to delay gratification, which happen to be the qualities most predictive of success. Moreover, women seem to have an ability generally lacking in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/04/book-review-the-end-of-men-and-the-rise-of-women/</link>
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		<title>Cannabis Papers: January 2013 Cannabinoid News Digest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just barely a month into 2013, news about cannabis and cannabinoids continues to flow at a record pace. Authors of The Cannabis Papers have been on the look out for crucial cannabinoid updates and that search has allowed them to pick some news highlights for the new year. “Will 2013 be the year of the cannabinoid?” asked Steve Young, a co-author of The Cannabis Papers. “Cannabinoids are important every year, but we anticipate seeing more cannabinoid news outside of medical journals in coming months.” Young and other Cannabis Papers writers have compiled a list of January&#8217;s most important cannabinoids news: 1. The Meaning of the DEA&#8217;s Recent Victory in ASA Vs. DEA, New Amsterdam Psychedelic Law Blog, 28 Jan, 2013 2. Marijuana Arrests Now Exceed Arrests for Violent Crime, Jason Sattler, The Compassion Chronicles, 21 Jan 2013 3. $452m US Market for Hemp Products Drives Federal Bills, Ryan Fletcher, West Coast Leaf, 13 JAN 2013 4. Depenalizing Drug Possession Offenses Associates With Lower Drug Consumption Rates Among Young People, Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 17 JAN 2013 5. Dialoguing with Dan Linn: Update on Springfield’s Cannabis Problems, Bryan Brickner, The Compassion Chronicles, 14 JAN 2013 6. Montana Next aims at 2014 by  Tom Daubert, West [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cannabis.hawaiinewsdaily.com/2013/02/03/cannabis-papers-january-2013-cannabinoid-news-digest/</link>
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