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		<title>Querying and submitting manuscripts</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/querying-and-submitting-manuscripts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spent 2 hrs replying to aspiring authors, all confused and frustrated by the process of querying and submissions; most are p&#8217;d off by literary agents. Sample concern: the time it takes for a literary agent to review submitted material, whether partial or full.
It can take well over a year for an agent to review a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1794&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold War&#8217;s unintended consequences</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/cold-wars-unintended-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some day I&#8217;ll tell you how I used to cross the Cold War borders of various Eastern Bloc countries, including Soviet Russia, armed with &#8230; a chocolate bar. 
Meanwhile, enjoy this interesting, if sad tale of Cold War&#8217;s unintended victims&#8230; the Red Deer:
Ahornia inhabits the thickly wooded mountains along what once was the fortified border [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1791&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle in trouble in Norway</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/amazons-kindle-in-trouble-in-norway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon.com]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not the first group to complain about Amazon&#8217;s vice-like grip on the Kindle, not to mention its supporting services and customer information, but the Norwegian Consumer Council is able to impose fines against any company trading illegally in Norway, and believes that Amazon might just fit the bill.Click here to find out more!
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		<title>Fluorescent mice</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/fluorescent-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists create green, fluorescent mice:

&#8220;One of the activities that our researchers have conducted at the Rotyan Institute is producing green mice. In this project, a specific gene is inserted into the stem cells of a fetus,&#8221; Dr. Hamid-Reza Tayyebi said.  &#8220;The gene has a characteristic that allows it to change colors to purple when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1787&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chomsky: End of Christianity</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/chomsky-end-of-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drawing a distinction between “stories” and “non-stories” in the media and academia, Chomsky pointed out that the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago was followed six days later by the “end of Christianity” through the defeat of liberation theology. This occurred when elite units of the army in El Salvador, trained by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1783&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-American Europe</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/post-american-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European think-tank:
[...] a study on Monday called &#8220;Toward a Post-American Europe,&#8221; based on wide-ranging interviews and research conducted in the 27 E.U. member states. In it, the authors make a clear appeal to European leaders: This &#8220;fetishization&#8221; of the trans-Atlantic relationship must stop, write Jeremy Shapiro and Nick Witney. It is high time that Europe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1781&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would I lie to you?</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/would-i-lie-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deception]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Couple of interesting studies:
This study set out to investigate the type of media individuals are more likely to tell self-serving and other-oriented lies, and whether this varied according to the target of the lie. One hundred and fifty participants rated on a likert-point scale how likely they would tell a lie. Participants were more likely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1779&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Corporations collect intelligence on Canadians</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/us-corporations-collect-intelligence-on-canadians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the US, a new model of law enforcement has emerged in which police, military, security contractors and large corporations are collaborating on intelligence gathering.
“I am sure the data [US] companies collect on Canadian citizens is routinely shared with their headquarters in the United States,” he said. “Is consumer information being collected in Canada that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1778&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>H1N1 vaccine, conspiracy, or savior?</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/h1n1-vaccine-conspiracy-or-savior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from a transcript of a conversation with [BIG PHARMA] executive, offices in Canada.
Exec: I won&#8217;t be vaccinating my children with the H1N1 vaccine.
Why?
EXEC: Because I still have questions about its safety.
What worries you, specifically?
EXEC: [BIG PHARMA company that makes the vaccine] received the [Canadian] government&#8217;s guaranteed exemption from liability.
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		<title>Baron von Hügel&#8217;s letters</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/baron-von-hugels-letters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picked up a book from my local used books store: Letters from Baron von Hügel to a Niece.
This one is intensely, if overwhelmingly spiritual. A letter or two a day just about does it for me.
&#8220;I wonder whether you realise a deep, great fact? That souls &#8211; all human souls &#8211; are deeply interconnected? That, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1769&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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