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		<title>The Fifth Modern Wonder of the World</title>
		<link>http://thisridiculousworld.com/china/the-fifth-modern-wonder-of-the-world-17042010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[all you can eat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you missed the last visit of the majestically inbred boy-king of Egypt as he was hauled about the world for all to revere.  And maybe you&#8217;ve never graced the great halls of the British Museum to look upon its chunks of Grecian monuments.  Or stepped up to the mighty pyramids and been harassed into riding a camel.  The ancients remain a mystery.
But as the wonders of the modern world are, by definition, modern, we should not be surprised to find they are not bound by the same rules of grandeur as those of the old world.  Do not expect the prides of god-kings.  Look not to towers and other singular giants.  Today ubiquity is as precious as rarity.  Globalization brings greatness to us.  And so we flock not across the g&#8230;


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		<title>The City: a poem</title>
		<link>http://thisridiculousworld.com/poetry/the-city-a-poem-23022010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen only
one true city
that cannot hide
its true citiness;
In the desert a city
cannot escape itself;
It must come out at night:
it is only practicality;
Even its religions
can only hope
to steal its reasons
for their own.
A city is not the cars dusty
wrapped in cloth
Or the style of cloth
wrapped round the people
to keep out the dust;
It is not the dust beneath it
Or the tents, cloth or stone
raised to escape it;
In the city at night
you can see it
is only a market:
two hands tender
silk for spice
batteries, milk powder
slacks or telephones.
A veiled shopper
brushes past us
Bargaining a new
veil to block the dust
or maybe the stares
the eyes of the
nine-toed man who
pauses his load
to cross traffic;
Roads are not for
driving th&#8230;


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		<title>The Long Lost Vestments of American Reason</title>
		<link>http://thisridiculousworld.com/tap/the-long-lost-vestments-of-american-reason-09022010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 68</b>

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 saviors of yesteryear dream of the good&#8217;ol days when esteem was high and church donations flowed like golden glacier runoffs in the eternal spring of global warming.
Now, though.  Now there are ten such derelict churches in a 50 kilometer radius.  Ten churches to share one imported minister of faith.  A foreigner preaching right and wrong to a small audience every tenth Sunday.  Some may say:
&#8220&#8230;


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		<title>Traces of Progress: Open Forums</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
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		<title>Breakfast of Survivors</title>
		<link>http://thisridiculousworld.com/warondreams/breakfast-of-survivors-28012010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, the four different bread products aligned so neatly on the plate is no mistake.  That &#8211; along with a cup of lukewarm tea and some soft cheese &#8211; is what you eat for breakfast after a night on a rickety train sailing south into Upper Egypt.  That is all a stomach can handle.
Our train car was in the charge of a man who had apparently had his cheeks shined along with his shoes in the last station.  We were placed in a compartment at the end of the car (first class, the only available for foreigners as a matter of security&#8230;), apart from the troupe of bulky, red-faced Russians in scandalously short shorts.  Our waiter told us we could listen to the radio, but after pressing and banging on the console, determine&#8230;


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