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		<title>Middle East Revisited: Israelis-Palestinians</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2012/02/07/peace-israelis-palestinians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aggression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ariel Sharon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently some Israelis are proposing the annexation of territories, captured in 1967, which lie on the Israeli side of the wall. Ariel Sharon , as Prime Minister, once assured that the barrier had been built solely to prevent military incursions. Imbued &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2012/02/07/peace-israelis-palestinians/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=875&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Sapling</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2012/01/20/the-lost-sapling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scrapbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secular vs. Nonsecular]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arabian Peninsula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Qur'an]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I saw a beautiful Umbrella Magnolia tree, and purchased a two-foot sapling to plant in my yard. The spot that I chose had weed saplings all about, but I neglected to mark mine. In the spring I &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2012/01/20/the-lost-sapling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=781&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Encounters of the Cancer-Nature Kind</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2011/11/22/encounters-of-the-cancer-nature-kind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apoptosis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider these  hypotheses formed from and described alongside what is my take of their supportive microbiology. I. Apoptosis is a natural, double-fail-safe mechanism. When a cell is injured and potentially dangerous to its organism, the apoptosis mechanism should turn (here &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2011/11/22/encounters-of-the-cancer-nature-kind/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=580&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Time You Won Your Town the Race</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2011/08/30/the-time-you-won-your-town-the-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[athlete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franziska Rochat-Moser]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Spring of 1995 with the Boston Marathon two or three days away, Wellesley College held a conference allowing the press, students and the public to meet élite, women runners who had gathered from around the world to take &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2011/08/30/the-time-you-won-your-town-the-race/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=438&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom (III): Illuminating Ghostly Conclusions</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2011/06/02/freedom-iii-illuminating-the-ghostly-conclusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some examples: Smoking tobacco contributes to a number of lethal diseases, but acts so slowly as to leave the connection unconvincing. For years, I sought a missing insight that could cut through the fog concealing this drug&#8217;s real impact, but &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2011/06/02/freedom-iii-illuminating-the-ghostly-conclusion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=268&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of Lost Memories (Chapter 4):  Prague Revisited</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2011/04/28/in-search-of-lost-memories-chapter-iv-prague-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 28th 1970, I flew into Vienna on what happened to be an Austrian holiday. The next day I hitched my way out to the Czechoslovak border, crossed it and caught a train for Prague. To my surprise, aboard &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2011/04/28/in-search-of-lost-memories-chapter-iv-prague-revisited/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=307&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Biochemical-Industrial Complexes</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2011/04/08/the-biochemical-industrial-complexes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation that a military-industrial complex, led by interests within the government, the military and those industries supplying the military, could stray from the original intent of national defense towards private interest. &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2011/04/08/the-biochemical-industrial-complexes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=41&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crops for the Insatiable Appetite</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2011/02/15/crops-for-the-insatiable-appetite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In season, pollen grains containing trillions of genetically engineered gametes slip across boundaries into small, private farms where they have their way with local daughter gametes. Far from offering to pay child support, one large agribusiness insists instead upon receiving &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2011/02/15/crops-for-the-insatiable-appetite/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=46&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Delivered; Message Lost</title>
		<link>http://outonatwig.com/2011/01/25/justice-delivered-message-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Alan Weitzler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that a particular right is both worthy of judicial support and in need of it. The details of codification take on an importance equal to that of the right itself, because the final draft is responsible to the entire &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2011/01/25/justice-delivered-message-lost/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=45&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of Lost Memories (Chapter 3): Cradles of Civilization</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On arrival in Istanbul (early January 1970), I went to a nearby pension and contacted Cengiz. A day later he and I were in a dolmus (pronounced as dolmoosh), and off to find a place for me near Taxim (Square). &#8230; <a href="http://outonatwig.com/2011/01/07/in-search-of-lost-memories-chapter-3-cradles-of-civilization/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outonatwig.com&#038;blog=21119901&#038;post=44&#038;subd=outonatwig&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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