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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2000 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Was Jesus a Vegetarian?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched a new ad campaign that features an image of the Shroud of Turin and the slogan "Make a Lasting Impression—Go Vegetarian." PETA explained in a statement that it "chose Jesus as its new 'poster boy' because he is widely believed to have been a member of the Essenes, a Jewish religious sect that followed a vegetarian diet and rejected animal sacrifices."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/91229/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Joshua Green</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2000 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Cooking the School Books (Yet Again)</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  This year, according to U.S. News &amp; World Report, Princeton is the best university in the country and Caltech is No. 4. This represents a pretty big switcheroo—last year, Caltech was the best and Princeton the fourth.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/89623/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Nicholas Thompson</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title> The Third Edmund Morris</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Even if you haven't cracked Dutch, you know about Edmund Morris and his semi-fictional namesake. And you probably haven't avoided a third Edmund Morris: the tireless promoter who dogs your channel-surfing. Strangely, this Edmund Morris on the gab-show circuit begs to differ with Edmund the Writer. Where Edmund the Writer can be cleareyed about his subject, calling Reagan "banal" and an "airhead," Edmund the Promoter fawns like a Reaganaut, constantly trumpeting a "great president." Whereas Edmund I claims he only made up Edmund II, Edmund III weaves tales that are flatly contradicted in Edmund I's book.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/36155/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Franklin Foer</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 8 Oct 1999 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title> Cooking the School Books</title>
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  <author>Bruce Gottlieb</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 1999 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Underpaid Soldiers?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  To justify a new increase in military pay, the Pentagon and legislators are citing a 13 percent "pay gap" between the salaries of servicemen and their civilian counterparts. Ignoring for a moment whether a dramatic increase in military pay is needed, the 13 percent figure is bogus. Even though the Congressional Budget Office debunked the statistic in March, several military representatives continue to cite it in congressional testimony.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/27449/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jonathan Chait</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 6 May 1999 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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