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		<title>Jew Do You Think You Are?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/jew-do-you-think-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever someone implies that anti-Semitism isn&#8217;t racism, I point out that it&#8217;s one of the few examples of discrimination that really is racism (unlike, for example, the invented thoughtcrime &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221;1 ) because the Ashkenazi Jewish population is as close as you can get scientifically to the common (and deeply flawed) notion of what a &#8220;race&#8221;&#160;is. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endangered Pink Lizards Threatened By Invasion Of Feral Goats</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/endangered-pink-lizards-threatened-by-invasion-of-feral-goats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously.]]></description>
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		<title>Always To The Swift</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/always-to-the-swift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a neat little article that sketches out why your skin colour doesn&#8217;t determine your chance of growing up to become an elite sprinter; but your genetic make-up might: There are no sprinters of note from Asia, even with more than 50 percent of the world&#8217;s population, a Confucian and Tao tradition of discipline, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jurassic Car Park</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/im-scared-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a US marine biologist on BBC Radio 4 talking about the leatherback turtles that she and her team have been tagging. Apparently an adult leatherback grows to the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Wikipedia concurs&#8212;and also points out that this makes the leatherback only the fourth largest reptile, after some crocodilians. I&#8217;m scared&#160;now.]]></description>
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		<title>Double Exposure With Cream</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/old-cafe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/old-cafe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that very &#8220;English&#8221; black-and-white print I made of a caf&#233; in&#160;Hove? This supersaturated colour medium-format slide film shot of another corner caf&#233;, taken in Argentina, is a nice counterpoint to it; even the angles of the shadows are similar. As the photographer says, the stock it was taken with came out of the&#160;freezer. Old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special End-Of-The-World Science Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/special-end-of-the-world-science-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/special-end-of-the-world-science-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, PooterGeek featured the &#8220;Exxxtreme Mini-Bears&#8221;, tiny, hardy, beautiful living creatures called tardigrades. Turns out they are even hardier than thought. Some of them can survive being sent into space. The &#8220;TARDigrades in Space project is, of course, going by the acronym &#8220;TARDIS&#8221;. How long before the BBC&#160;sues? This is also a lovely phenomenon: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tip</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/top-tip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/top-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You certainly don&#8217;t want to go walking through a field of disoriented, agitated and wet honey&#160;bees. &#8211; Richard Duplain, vice president of the New Brunswick [Canada] Beekeepers&#160;Association Unfortunately for one journalist, not everyone got Mr Duplain&#8217;s advice in time, says this&#160;story. [Thanks,&#160;Sue]]]></description>
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		<title>Pussy Pedantry</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/pussy-pedantry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/pussy-pedantry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 13:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last post prompted a reader to send me photos of her tortoiseshell cats. [Thank you!] Such a flow of cat pics is of course unconventional in cat blogging, but it gives me an opportunity to point out that it&#8217;s only some of the much rarer male tortoiseshells that are the true chimeras, mixtures from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Up</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/growing-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/growing-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE: Edited to use the version of the body text that actually makes some sense with the originally posted&#160;title.] I&#8217;m not that old, so I&#8217;m often puzzled by people who make historical pronouncements in ignorance of recent, relevant history, sometimes history that happened within their lifetimes but not mine. Of course, as Catholic dogma would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy Tone</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/04/busy-tone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/04/busy-tone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so tired with work I&#8217;m starting to have hallucinations. I&#8217;d swear Richard Dawkins starts rapping 1&#160;minute&#160;and&#160;6&#160;seconds into this YouTube video. (Christopher Hitchens throws shapes from 1:49 or thereabouts.) Go here for the&#160;torrent. [via]]]></description>
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		<title>If The Infection Don&#8217;t Get Ya, The Conflagration Will</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/if-the-infection-dont-get-ya-the-conflagration-will/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/if-the-infection-dont-get-ya-the-conflagration-will/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a good idea to take a whole slice of brie out of the fridge, allow it to reach room temperature, eat some, and then re-chill it. If you do this enough times, then, by the time you reach the end, you may well have cultured yourself a nice little dose of food poisoning. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irreligious Policemen</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/the-irreligious-policemen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/the-irreligious-policemen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not having a telly, I didn&#8217;t catch the latest from Richard Dawkins, but when I visited his Website to look for clips, I saw this photo of&#160;him: All I could think of was Michael Mann directing Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in an atheist&#160;actioner: [A convertible Ferrari screams through downtown in slow motion, reflections of streetlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophers: 2 &#8212; Scientists: 0</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/philosophers-2-scientists-0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/philosophers-2-scientists-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I found myself stuck in a room in a Cambridge college waiting to do a photo job so I took Ludwig Wittgenstein&#8217;s Philosophical Investigations down from a shelf and, as an intellectual dwarf perched on Hindsight the Giant, sneered at it. Certain things he said appear absurd in the light of certain experimental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Size Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/05/size-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/05/size-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 22:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to work for a Professor whose academic homepage listed among his interests &#8220;sperm production&#8221;. If you want evidence that female animals can be as promiscuous as male animals you should have a browse through the literature on sperm&#160;competition. In the case of ducks, that promiscuity is not necessarily the females&#8217; choice, so they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack Of The Man-Eating Stick Insects</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/attack-of-the-man-eating-stick-insects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/attack-of-the-man-eating-stick-insects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems my former employers have funded research into an amazing new drug: Scientists are developing a pill which could boost women&#8217;s libido and reduce their&#160;appetite. The hormone-releasing pill has so far only been given to female monkeys and shrews who displayed more mating behaviour and ate&#160;less. The team from the Medical Research Council&#8217;s Human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/doing-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/doing-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends have told me that my obsession with freewill and my belief that there is such a thing as evil are products of my Catholic upbringing. They are, in fact, products of personal experience and of a long, dull training in human biology. I know people who simply do not believe in evil. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Clones Send The</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/in-clones-send-the/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With their characteristically English lack of ambition, scientists from Newcastle University and KCL have applied for a three-year licence from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to make chimaeric human-cow embryos. The similarly small-minded Korean authorities have been doing their damnedest to bring low the genius of visionary Hwang Woo-suk: Seoul, South Korea (AHN) - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But Someone&#8217;s Got To Do It</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/but-someones-got-to-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/but-someones-got-to-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t be bothered to fisk that nonsense about the &#8220;future evolution&#8221; of humankind that was all over the media this week, merely dropping it into my &#8220;Pseudoscience&#8221; and &#8220;Tin Foil Hat Wearers&#8221; blog categories in passing instead. Luckily we have P Z Myers to do the job&#160;properly.]]></description>
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		<title>Two More Apologies</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/two-more-apologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/two-more-apologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the previous PooterGeek post I received an email from a reader in Dulwich who wishes to make it clear that, despite buying property there, the Thatchers never actually took up residence in her neighbourhood. I&#8217;m sorry for suggesting&#160;otherwise. I&#8217;ve also toned down the language I used about Susan Greenfield back here because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honestly, I&#8217;m Completely Straight</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/honestly-im-completely-straight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a middle-aged man then two things are going to happen to your hair soon: it&#8217;s going to fall out and it&#8217;s going to turn grey. My dad managed to escape both of these until he reached 60 years of age, but everyone accused him (unfairly) of using Grecian 2000, so he didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Says Bioinformaticians Don&#8217;t Have A Sense Of Humour?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/who-says-bioinformaticians-dont-have-a-sense-of-humour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t had time for a proper post for the past few days and I still don&#8217;t, but Leasey recommends that you explore the platypus genome by hovering your mouse pointer over the little image of a platypus on this page and reading the pop-up that appears. Genomics: an unrecognized mine of comedy&#160;gold.]]></description>
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		<title>Blonde Biology Babe</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/blonde-biology-babe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So obvious I didn&#8217;t think of her, though she probably refuses to self-identify as blonde: Hot Wheels&#160;Helena! Babes&#160;Of&#160;Biology&#160;No.&#160;3:&#160;Miss&#160;July[click to enlarge] Helena has a PhD in biotechnology and her interests include killer bugs and driving quickly but very, very safely. If she wins Miss Biology 2007 she&#8217;d like to travel around the World as an ambassador [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babes Of Biology: No. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/babes-of-biology-no-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having read an article I wrote reviewing bioinformatics courses in the UK, and despite my honest warnings, Wei applied to be a student on one I once taught on. Because the admissions office at [insert name of educational institution easily obtained by googling] failed to process her paperwork properly she had to make do with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear The Gobblers!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/fear-the-gobblers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s featured Wikipedia article reveals that velociraptors were probably covered in feathers, stupider than cats, and the size of turkeys. Once again scientific accuracy ruins a fun night out at the&#160;cinema.]]></description>
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		<title>Geek Aesthetics</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/05/geek-aesthetics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 08:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hot Wheels&#8221; Helena acquired her nickname because, despite being an Advanced Driver who can cadence-brake, control-gear, and turn into skids with the best of them, she used to get about in an ancient Mini&#160;Metro Rover&#160;100&#8212;and get me about in it when she was my Genome Campus car-sharing&#160;partner. She&#8217;s ruined the (weak) joke now by buying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mmm! Pork With All The Oily Goodness Of Roundworm</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/mmm-pork-with-all-the-oily-goodness-of-roundworm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The genetic revolution brings you a &#8220;healthier&#8221;&#160;fry-up: Geneticists have mixed DNA from the roundworm C. elegans and pigs to produce swine with significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids &#8211; the kind believed to stave off heart disease&#160;[hmmm&#8230;]. Researchers hope they can improve the technique in pork and do the same in chickens and cows. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Development Of Human Society</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/on-the-development-of-human-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once we would bond by grooming each other to remove parasites. Now we log into each others&#8217; blogs to delete spam&#160;posts.]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Social Behaviour: Theory And Fieldwork</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/01/anti-social-behaviour-theory-and-fieldwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had an excellent evening of argument. I spent it contending that, since our emergence, we human beings have been, for plausible biological reasons, fundamentally aggressive and suspicious of visibly different members of our own species. In reply it was argued that our behaviour towards others has been characterised by altruistic tendencies and trade. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abuse Of Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in biotechnology enterprise and investment in the Philippines then you need to be at this&#160;conference. [Is that okay,&#160;cs?]]]></description>
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		<title>Space Invaders</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/09/space-invaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And talking of photogenic sea life, here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day: giant rectangular fish leaping into the&#160;air.]]></description>
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