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		<title>Vook is made for the iPad</title>
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I just bought Alice in Wonderland from Vook, a website that sells multimedia books (price: $2.99). When you view a &#8220;vook&#8221;, you don&#8217;t just read text as you would on a Kindle, you get video on the side explaining aspects of the book, the location, the author&#8217;s biography, a history of the place. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2010/03/10/vook-is-made-for-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Five-Hour Bolognese Sauce</title>
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I have made this 5-hour bolognese sauce many times. It&#8217;s perfect for cold evenings or for dinner companions who have a robust appetite.The reason I&#8217;m posting this online is my dinner guests always ask for the recipe and I&#8217;m tired of printing it out. Now, I can just point them to this article.
5-HOUR BOLOGNESE SAUCE
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		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2010/02/19/five-hour-bolognese-sauce/</link>
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		<title>Why you should throw out your bathroom scale</title>
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Bathroom scales are useless. Worse, they are dangerous to your emotional well-being. If you own one, here&#8217;s why you should toss it out.
(1) Weight is nothing more than a convention used by humans on Earth to denote the the force they are exerting &#8212; in this case, on a bathroom scale &#8212; due to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2010/02/04/why-you-should-throw-out-your-bathroom-scale/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolution: Simplicity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While others are making lists of New Year&#8217;s resolutions, I have only one: simplicity. I used to make lists of resolutions. It seemed comforting and the thing to do. But lists of resolutions have become nothing more than yet another to-do list in a world of too many things to do. What&#8217;s needed isn&#8217;t another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2010/01/02/new-years-resolution-simplicity/</link>
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		<title>Airplane terror suspect is son of former Nigerian minister</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Nigerian man, Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, who was arrested in Detroit after setting off an incendiary on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, is the son of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a former Nigerian minister who,  until recently, was a director of Nigeria&#8217;s oldest bank. Mutallab belongs to a very prominent and wealthy Nigerian family. What is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/12/26/airplane-terror-suspect-is-son-of-former-nigerian-minister/</link>
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		<title>17th Century Christmas music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Christmas carols, especially the traditional ones from 19th century England. But if you want to go farther back in time and listen to 17th century Christmas music, make sure you get these songs from the album &#8220;Angels and Shepherds&#8221; (in MP3 format) recorded by the Netherlands Bach Society (Nederlands Bachvereniging). Among the composers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/12/24/17th-century-christmas-music/</link>
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		<title>John Cheever on fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Cheever is my favorite writer. His short stories are masterpieces. Here is what he says about fiction (from The Paris Review Interviews, Vol III):
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. One never puts down a sentence without the feeling that it has never been put down before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/12/17/john-cheever-on-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Amsterdam-Paris high speed train just got faster: 3 hours 18 min</title>
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What used to be a 4 hour plus train ride is now only 3 hours and 18 minutes. The Thalys TGV between Paris and Amsterdam is finally running at its intended speed. After many years of incompetent bumbling around, the Netherlands railway authority and the Dutch government finally got their act together. This comes years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/11/29/amsterdam-paris-high-speed-train-faster-3-hours-18-min/</link>
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		<title>Shopplr&#8217;s recent favorites: gorgeous paper goods from Felt and Wire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently on Shopplr, the online paper goods store, Felt &#38; Wire shop: www.feltandwireshop.com. Featuring beautiful notebooks, greeting cards, wrapping paper, note cards, and more.

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		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/11/16/shopplrs-recent-favorites-gorgeous-paper-goods-from-felt-and-wire/</link>
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		<title>Republican National Committee&#8217;s insurance policy covers abortions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Salon: This news comes by way of Politico&#8217;s Meredith Shiner and Jonathan Allen, who appropriately point out the obvious conflict here: &#8220;The party’s own platform calls [abortion] &#8216;a fundamental assault on innocent human life.&#8217;&#8221; The RNC didn&#8217;t opt out of abortion coverage, though, even though that is allowed by Cigna, its insurer. Worse yet, though, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/11/13/republican-national-committees-insurance-policy-covers-abortions/</link>
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		<title>Mac Book against background of San Francisco</title>
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Another view of Mac Book on glass table, originally uploaded by Esme_Vos.
Lovely day in the city, I am about to work on my Mac Book.
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		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/11/12/mac-book-against-background-of-san-francisco/</link>
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		<title>US companies not benefitting from Iraq reconstruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;American companies are not seeing much lasting benefit from their country’s investment in Iraq. Some American businesses have calculated that the high security costs and fear of violence make Iraq a business no-go area. Even those who are interested and want to come are hampered by American companies’ reputation here for overcharging and shoddy workmanship, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/11/12/us-companies-not-benefitting-from-iraq-reconstruction/</link>
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		<title>Former Bush Administration officials now raking in big bucks in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you surprised? The Financial Times reports that senior officials from the Bush administration are now leading reconstruction projects in Iraq.
Senior Bush administration figures including Zalmay Khalilzad, former US ambassador to Baghdad, and Jay Garner, the retired general who led reconstruction efforts immediately after the war, are leading a new business push into Iraq. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/11/10/former-bush-administration-officials-now-raking-in-big-bucks-in-iraq/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s new on Shopplr: Pierre Marcolini chocolates and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest on Shopplr in case you&#8217;ve missed it:
Pierre Marcolini: my favorite chocolatier
Apple opens store (finally) in Paris
Look cool, get warm in this cozy Vivienne Westwood Anglomania coat
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		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/11/09/new-on-shopplr-pierre-marcolini-chocolates-and-more/</link>
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		<title>Norman Fischer on the spirituality of art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Spirituality of Art:
Imagination draws its energy from a confrontation with desire. It feeds off desire, transmuting and magnifying reality through desire&#8217;s power. Fantasy does the opposite; it avoids desire by fleeing into a crude sort of wish-fulfillment that seems much safer. Fantasy might be teddy bears, lollipops, sexual delights, or superhero adventures; it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rosecantine.com/2009/11/08/norman-fischer-on-the-spirituality-of-art/</link>
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