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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 010:51:02 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What is on the other side of Siberia? The Jewish Autonomous Region.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  BIROBIDZHAN, Russia—The first time I logged on to the official Web site of the Jewish Autonomous Region, its home page featured an article called "Twenty Facts About the Jewish Face." I later realized that it was fed to the JAR site at random via a link from a Moscow-based Jewish-book site, but the article's appearance seemed fated, for it spoke to the basic question raised by the JAR: What is a Jew? A Jew is his face, said the article, which was lighthearted for the most part, written by a Jewish woman for a Jewish readership. A Jew is eyes wide open in eternal surprise, large ears tuned to the sounds of the world, and a large nose, which evaded functional explanation and as a result took up points 3 through 5 in this 20-item list. The last fact stated simply that the human habit of determining another's tribe by his face is hard-wired—which, to a Russian reader, was very much a "fact about the Jewish face."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236079/entry/0/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Masha Gessen</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:51:02 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Despite the one-child policy, millions of Chinese citizens don't know how to have sex without getting pregnant.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  BEIJING—The first time Hu Jing tried to have sex with her college boyfriend, there was a technical difficulty. "We knew we had to use a condom," she said. "But we didn't know how."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2234600/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Michelle Tsai</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:47:23 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Sri Lanka shows what it looks like to win a war on terror.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka—As I almost dozed off admiring the verdant landscape—a lush tableau of thick jungle and terraced paddy fields that calls to mind Raiders of the Lost Ark—a soldier rapped his knuckles against the car window and ordered us to pull over. After a quick search, we were back on our way. Three or four military checkpoints later, we arrived at the port city of Trincomalee. Buddha statues and bell-shaped stupas gave way to gas stations displaying the visages of Vishnu and Jesus.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2234459/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Lionel Beehner</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:11:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What I learned from my global surf-and-turf challenge.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  If you ever find yourself surfing the Arctic Ocean, here's a tip: Don't borrow a wet suit from a Norwegian. Those people have massive feet. The wet-suit boots I borrowed are so loose that my toes feel as if they're soaking in a bucket of ice water.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2234016/?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=2190" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2190" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Francis Slakey</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:18:12 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How one company of Marines is helping to bring Afghan insurgents home.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  NAWA, Afghanistan—The Marine commander leaned forward, gazing intently at the bearded district governor.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2232552/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Vanessa M. Gezari</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:12:34 EST</pubDate>
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