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		<title>Extortionist holds eight million health records for $10 million ransom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Extortionist holds eight million health records for $10 million ransom

Sandra Whitley Ryals, Director of the Virginia Department of Health Professions (DHP) issued the following:

“A criminal investigation is currently underway regarding a potential security breach of the Virginia Department of Health Profession’s (DHP) Prescription Monitoring Program on Thursday, April 30. While DHP cannot comment directly on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/extortionist-holds-eight-million-health-records-for-10-million-ransom</link>
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		<title>Best Burger in New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best Burger in New York

One by one they approached the counter at Zaitzeff, a storefront in New York’s financial district, and repeated the words like a mantra. Half-pound sirloin burger. Bacon. Cheddar.

None of the seven men, still in neckties from the workday, dared order a turkey burger ($8.50 on the chalkboard menu). Nobody got the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/best-burger-in-new-york</link>
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		<title>Global Motherf*ckers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Motherf*ckers

A mythical beast known as the &#8220;grass-mud horse&#8221; has become an Internet phenomenon in China. The New York Times reported Thursday that the alpacalike creature&#8217;s Mandarin name just happens to be a very, very dirty pun. Times style rules prevent the paper from clarifying the joke, but other, less-dignified outlets explain that the phrase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The decline and fall of books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The decline and fall of books

Like so many prototypes of supposedly revolutionary inventions, the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) fails to impress. Sited in a branch of Blackwell&#8217;s in Charing Cross Road, London, the machine resembles an oversized photocopier with extra bits. Can this be part of, as a Blackwell&#8217;s executive has claimed, “the biggest change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/the-decline-and-fall-of-books</link>
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		<title>British tourist stung 500 times as bees invade French art gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British tourist stung 500 times as bees invade French art gallery

The attack took place next to the converted pigeon loft of the Ardennes Chateau in Moulidars, near Cognac, in the western Charente region.
In what witnesses described as a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock horror film, thousands of the potentially lethal bees descended on a dozen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/british-tourist-stung-500-times-as-bees-invade-french-art-gallery</link>
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		<title>No benefits for laid-off religious workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washing kids&#8217; hands can keep everyone healthy
Some people are going to fairly great lengths to avoid infection with H1N1 influenza. But a review of scientific evidence published Tuesday shows the best way to curb respiratory illnesses is to keep little hands clean. Very little hands. And very clean.
Scientists at the Cochrane Library, which reviews research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/no-benefits-for-laid-off-religious-workers-2</link>
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		<title>How We’ll Be Forced To Drive the Most Fuel Efficient Cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How We’ll Be Forced To Drive the Most Fuel Efficient Cars
With the recent developments in the auto industry and Federal government, it is clear the current administration would like to see Detroit automakers pursue building more fuel efficient vehicles. In fact, they are mandated to do so by Congress, and it is going to happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No benefits for laid-off religious workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No benefits for laid-off religious workers
Some people recently laid-off from religious institutions in Virginia said they were shocked to find the state does not offer them unemployment benefits.
Carol Bronson, who was laid off from her secretarial job at Temple Emanuel synagogue in Virginia Beach, said she was told her unemployment claim was denied because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/no-benefits-for-laid-off-religious-workers</link>
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		<title>A Field Guide To Freeway Interchanges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Field Guide To Freeway Interchanges

Everybody knows what a cloverleaf looks like — but could you identify a volleyball, a double trumpet, or a “spooey” if you drove on one in the course of your highway travels? These are among the distinctive designs that transportation engineers have conjured up to keep traffic flowing and motorists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/a-field-guide-to-freeway-interchanges</link>
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		<title>Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World
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Souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspirators, and all manner of invisible agents with power and intention are believed to haunt our world and control our lives. Why?

The answer has two parts, starting with the concept of “patternicity,” which I defined in my December [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/why-people-believe-invisible-agents-control-the-world</link>
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		<title>Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cold Water Ocean Circulation Doesn&#8217;t Work As Expected

The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete &#8220;conveyor belt&#8221; of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet.

New research led by Duke University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution relied on an armada of sophisticated floats to show that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills
A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, California.

The new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/natural-petroleum-seeps-release-equivalent-of-eight-to-80-exxon-valdez-oil-spills</link>
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		<title>Guatemalan Twitter User Arrested for &#8220;Inciting Financial Panic&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guatemalan Twitter User Arrested for &#8220;Inciting Financial Panic&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/guatemalan-twitter-user-arrested-for-inciting-financial-panic</link>
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		<title>Toilet trend gets political correctness down to a p</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toilet trend gets political correctness down to a &#8216;p&#8217;

In Japan, the job of toilet cleaning has generally fallen to the matriarch of the house. Little has changed there, it seems. What has changed is that many of those women are now asking their husbands to sit down when they urinate, and their new-age men are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/toilet-trend-gets-political-correctness-down-to-a-p</link>
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		<title>The death of 100%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death of 100%

Before the days of linguistic inflation, 100% was considered enough. But no longer, says Chris Bowlby, in a personal reflection on how language has changed.

Promising to give 110% became the norm in post-match interviews. It was a useful follow-up after, depending on the result, you&#8217;d explained why you were &#8220;over the moon&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/the-death-of-100</link>
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		<title>Most Misquoted Movie Lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most Misquoted Movie Lines

The words &#8220;Luke, I am your father&#8221; are familiar to millions of fans of the George Lucas films.
They are widely believed to have been uttered by Darth Vader when he confronts Luke Skywalker in the Empire Strikes Back - but in fact they do not feature in the film. 

Second place in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/most-misquoted-movie-lines</link>
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		<title>Shrinking Glaciers Redraw Europe&#8217;s Borders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shrinking Glaciers Redraw Europe&#8217;s Borders

Global warming is shrinking Europe&#8217;s alpine glaciers with such dramatic acceleration that Italy and Switzerland must now redraw their mountain borders, says a proposed law approved by the lower house of the Italian parliament at the end of April.

Running for 463 miles, mostly along the arc of the Alps, the demarcation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/shrinking-glaciers-redraw-europes-borders</link>
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		<title>Your Blood Cells Are Crawling Inside You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your Blood Cells Are Crawling Inside You

White blood cells, the immune system&#8217;s &#8220;soldiers&#8221; for your body, actually crawl along your blood vessels to find their way to infection and injury sites, new research shows.
The cells move like millipedes, creating many minute legs that adhere to the endothelial cells lining blood vessel walls, said researcher Ronen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/your-blood-cells-are-crawling-inside-you</link>
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		<title>US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T
The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates.

Budget office figures released Monday would add $89 billion to the 2009 red ink &#8212; increasing it to more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/us-red-ink-rising-even-higher-to-18t</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Most Common Ingredients in Fast Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 Most Common Ingredients in Fast Food

Order a meal in any fast-food restaurant, and you&#8217;ll likely walk away with a sandwich, fries and a drink. If you had to identify the ingredients of this meal, you might list beef (or chicken), lettuce, tomato, cheese, ketchup, bread, potatoes and soda. Not complicated, right? Wrong.
Burger and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chickenmcnugget.com/2009/archive/top-10-most-common-ingredients-in-fast-food</link>
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