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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 011:33:45 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What's behind the boom in homeland-security and emergency-management majors?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The traditionally slow-moving education industry is churning out a slew of students with specialties in "mass catastrophe" and "international disaster." More than 200 colleges have created homeland-security degree and certificate programs since 9/11, and another 144 have added emergency management with a terrorism bent.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2187648/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jessica Portner</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:33:45 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How to play music like a child.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Over the last two and a half years, I traveled across the country in search of life-changing teachers and mentors from all different walks. I met race-car drivers, Indian potters, ballet dancers, rappers, research scientists, law professors, Montessori teachers, aerobatic pilots, master carpenters, and many others. The book that emerged from those travels is called Guiding Lights. It tells the stories of several of these remarkable people and the ways they transform their apprentices. And it's the basis for a series of four pieces on Slate and NPR's Day to Day in which figures from the book teach me to do something new.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2112794/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Eric Liu</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:25:49 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What a Marine drill instructor taught me.</title>
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  <author>Eric Liu</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:39:44 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What a major league pitching coach taught me.</title>
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  <author>Eric Liu</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:44:08 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What a Hollywood acting coach really teaches.</title>
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  <author>Eric Liu</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:00:46 EST</pubDate>
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