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		<title>Perhaps the best chips around</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Beginnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to get this blog up and moving again. Stay tuned. Filed under: General<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasrains.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7708000&amp;post=183&amp;subd=thomasrains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do I Really Think Britney Sucks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do I not like Britney's music because I think she has no talent, or do I not listen to her music because I'm a straight white man, and straight white men don't listen to Britney? If the answer is the former, great. Issue solved. I can comfortably argue against the quality of her music without fearing that I'm covering for something and furthering inappropriate gender stereotypes. But, if the issue is the latter, what can I do to solve that problem and stop perpetuating the unfounded notion that straight white men can't listen to commercially synthesized pop music?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasrains.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7708000&amp;post=174&amp;subd=thomasrains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read, Read, Read, Read, Read and Read Some More</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[안녕하세요! If you think it&#8217;s easy learning how to read, go try and learn how to read a new alphabet. For the past six weeks, I have been taking a beginning Korean language class. It reminded me how challenging it was when I was four, five, six and seven-years-old as I learned to read before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasrains.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7708000&amp;post=160&amp;subd=thomasrains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Buses the Answer for Birmingham&#8217;s 280?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham, Alabama might want to look to Bogota, Colombia for some ideas on how to deal with its Highway 280 congestion.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasrains.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7708000&amp;post=144&amp;subd=thomasrains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing Borders and Escaping North Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little over a week ago, Mike Kim, founder of Crossing Borders and author of Escaping North Korea, was on the Daily Show. Kim has done some amazing work, and I can&#8217;t wait to read the book. In the U.S. we all hear bits and pieces of how Kim Jong Il has brainwashed his citizens, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasrains.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7708000&amp;post=103&amp;subd=thomasrains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Modern, Energetic (and Greening) Seoul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seoul has the highest population density of any city in the world, or so I have read in the various guidebooks we have laying around. To put that in perspective, here are some easily accessible numbers from Wikipedia: Seoul Population Density: 44,597/sq mi (17,219/km2) New York City Population Density: 27,264/sq mi (10,527/km2) Atlanta Population Density: 3,921/sq mi (1,514/km2) Birmingham [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasrains.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7708000&amp;post=71&amp;subd=thomasrains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea First Impressions From Our Seoul Neighborhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After arriving in Seoul and being greeted by my wife at Incheon airport on Saturday evening, the jet lag I originally felt deep at my core has subsided. I&#8217;ve been getting up around 7:30-8:00 in the morning and going to bed around 10:00 when I can barely keep my eyes open. In the late afternoons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasrains.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7708000&amp;post=54&amp;subd=thomasrains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teach For America Blogs</title>
		<link>http://thomasrains.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/teach-for-america-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent two incredible years teaching in a middle school in the Mississippi Delta as a Teach For America corps member. The word &#8220;incredible&#8221; here has several meanings. My first year was incredible in its difficulty, while my second was incredible in the impact it had on my view of the world and my life. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasrains.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7708000&amp;post=47&amp;subd=thomasrains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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