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		<title>Postcards From Tomorrow Square &#8211; a Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Escape List: Postcards From Tomorrow Square by James Fallows *Editor&#8217;s Note: The Escape List originally existed as a separate identity from TRW. However, as busy readers and watchers we thought we ought to include some exposure for the various China-related (defined as broadly as we decide) media we have ingested and try to put [...]
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		<title>Safety When Driving: Wal-Mart, China, and the American Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 2.02 Finally, America&#8217;s own version of the Chinese fire drill is over. Close the doors. Time to move on. But in the wake of so many changes, as the anxiety and rage of all sides subsides, it is natural to wonder: what is America? What kind of a place [...]
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		<title>Dear Republican State Senate Candidate Who Mailed Propaganda to China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Republican State Senate Candidate Who Mailed Propaganda to China, A red rectangle, yellow shapes, a straightforward simple slogan… so imaginative, so fresh! How impressed I was when handed your envelope; how happy I was that someone had thought to send me mail. I felt a swelling urge to announce my support for something. But [...]
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		<title>The Long Lost Vestments of American Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 68 In the dark corner of a far away forlorn church stand these three forgotten souls. Bruised, dirty, chipped and abandoned they doze like wallflowers in the shadows as patrons play hooky for every reason but lack of sin. In their bright vestments creased with dust the saints and [...]
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		<title>Traces of Decline: Guns in Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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