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    <title>Slate Magazine - How They Do It</title>
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    <description>Lessons for the U.S. from abroad.</description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:03:44 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Meet Harun Yahya, the leading creationist in the Muslim world.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  I was startled by how quickly the phone call came. I'd just sent an e-mail to Istanbul to see whether Islam's leading creationist would be available for an interview. I would soon fly to Turkey for a 10-day fact-finding trip with the International Reporting Project, and I had one free day. Would Harun Yahya, the scourge of Richard Dawkins and founder of a global media empire, be free to talk?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2233122/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Steve Paulson</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:03:44 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Why are other countries better at conducting elections than we are?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The presidential election is drawing to a close in the time-honored fashion—with widespread concern over voting irregularities from both parties. Last week, John McCain and the Republican National Committee accused ACORN, a community-organizing group, of generating phony voter registration cards in at least eight states. On Monday, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that Michigan's voter-removal program violates federal law. And in Palm Beach County, Fla., thousands of ballots went missing during a local judicial race, prompting comparisons to the 2000 recount. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, we are not better at running elections now than we were eight years ago.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2202580/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Juliet Lapidos</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:39:20 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Europe deals with immigration.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  MADRID, Spain—It wasn't so long ago that Spain was considered one of the most immigrant-friendly countries in the world. In 2005, the nation's European neighbors looked askance when the Spanish government instituted an amnesty program that granted residency papers to more than 500,000 foreigners. It was a potential first step to acquiring Spanish citizenship and, by extension, an EU passport. That wasn't the only chance non-EU citizens had to settle in the country through legal channels: The government has also allowed businesses to recruit for so-called hard-to-fill positions—ranging from medical technician to domestic worker—by hiring abroad. Last year, more than 200,000 foreigners arrived in Spain this way. Upon arrival, newcomers both legal and illegal could access Spain's health care system at no cost by registering at the local town hall.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2201909/entry/0/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Alexandra Starr</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:17:51 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Europeans love warrantless wiretaps.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  For Europeans, scolding the Bush administration for everything from Guantanamo to the Iraq War to secret CIA prisons has become a full-time job. But when it comes to the American scandal over President Bush's warrantless wiretaps, there's been a curious reaction from the other side of the Atlantic: silence. Where is the European outrage?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2136147/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=9054" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=9054" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
  <category>how they do it</category>
  <author>Eric Weiner</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:39:50 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Why does Korea lead the world in cloning research?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The Chopstick Theory of Scientific Supremacy goes like this: Koreans eat with narrow, metal chopsticks. Nabbing grains of rice with slippery, steel sticks requires a surgeon's dexterity. That's why Koreans have mastered extraordinarily precise "micromanipulation" of eggs and embryos required for stem-cell and cloning research. Westerners with their clunky forks—and even other Asians with their thick, grippy wooden chopsticks—can't hope to compete with the dexterous Koreans.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2128361/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>David Plotz</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:15:49 EST</pubDate>
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