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    <description>How to live through disasters.</description>
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  <title>The Survivalist returns!</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  "Cascading consequences" is one of those elegant phrases that disaster planners use to refer to very bad stuff happening later on—hypothetical events that only occur as a result of other events and are therefore very difficult to predict and even more difficult to plan for. It's not the initial head-on collision, but the divorce resulting from the affair precipitated by the sense of worthlessness fueled by the lost job clinched by the rude insubordination fed by the frustration from the lateness from the traffic jam caused by the head-on collision.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2159166/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>David Shenk</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:25:05 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How to survive a disaster.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In a matter of months, bird flu will probably show up somewhere the United States. A few wild geese will test positive for the H5N1 strain, along with a farm cat or two. Grave precautions will be issued, followed by a flurry of safety assurances from the White House and Tyson farms. CNN and Leno will make a great day of it. Poultry sales will fall off for a few months. It won't mean much.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2148772/entry/0/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>David Shenk</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:49:22 EST</pubDate>
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