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		<title>Critical Conditions</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/11/02/social_work-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Office of Public Affairs</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No one is more aware of our nation's social problems than the people who spend much of their time working with individuals, families, organizations and communities to address society's chronic problems.
What do they think is the biggest social concern of our time? Is it poverty, crime, domestic violence, immigration law, health care or juvenile delinquency? Is it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowly I Turned</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/26/tales_fright/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/26/tales_fright/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Sinn</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Communication]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Liberal Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of English]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Douglas Bruster]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe exhibition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Richmond Garza]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[From Out that Shadow]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ghost stories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Halloween stories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harry Ransom Center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Josh Gunn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Gunn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Molly Schwartzburg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Garza]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom Garza]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=10679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ VIDEO

Halloween: The word itself evokes images of grinning jack-o-lanterns, costumed trick-or-treaters and otherworldly creatures drifting through the night.

 Watch a video of professors reading their favorite spooky passages. (Video opens in new window in OnCampus.)

In celebration of this spooky holiday, scholars throughout The University of Texas at Austin reveal their favorite spine-tingling tales of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dateline China</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/19/china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/19/china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Geisler</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories from The Office of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China study abroad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Communication]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cultural exchange]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[foreign correspondent training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[journalism abroad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[People's Republic of China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reporting China: A Foreign Correspondent's Workshop]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[School of Journalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tracy Dahlby]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=10773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She was photographed near the Great Wall as if she were a celebrity. She dined on chicken feet, dog and donkey meat for a story she was doing on exotic foods. She mastered the art of eating with chopsticks. And she frequently found herself haggling with shopkeepers along the streets of Xi'an.
That's how 20-year-old journalism [...]]]></description>
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<utnews:identifier>10773</utnews:identifier>
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		<title>In Computers We Trust?</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/12/cybersecurity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/12/cybersecurity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Clippard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories from The Office of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=10477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Reading this story may make you want to move to a small cabin in the woods, hide your cash under the mattress, destroy your computer, cut up your credit cards and throw your cell phone in the garbage.
***
Script-kiddies. Bots. Trojans. Zombies. Typosquatting. Hackers. Botmasters. This is the language of the criminals of the 21st [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Aim at Addiction</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/05/addiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/05/addiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Green</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[brain donor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Liberal Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Natural Sciences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of American Studies]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[dopamine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drug prevention]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hitoshi Morikawa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kim Fromme]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lori Holleran Steiker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mark Smith]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[microarray]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[morphine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[opium]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[preventionist]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[R. Dayne Mayfield]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[School of Biological Sciences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[School of Social Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Section of Neurobiology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UT Experience!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=10232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The work of a group of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin revolves around a central question:
"Why can drugs hijack the brain to such an extent that people ruin their lives, lose everything they have simply to get more of the drug?"
That's the question posed by R. Adron Harris, an alcoholism researcher and [...]]]></description>
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<utnews:identifier>10232</utnews:identifier>
<utnews:post_name>addiction</utnews:post_name>
<utnews:post_slug>addiction</utnews:post_slug>
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		<title>Where Does It Hurt?</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/28/pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/28/pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Neff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories from The Office of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Pharmacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eun-ok Im]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pain management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pain treatment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[School of Nursing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scott Strassels]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=9376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's talk about pain.
Dull, sharp, aching, gnawing, stinging, nagging, throbbing, pounding, shooting, stabbing, radiating, searing, tearing, pinching, suffocating, splitting, crushing, wrenching, I-can't-stand-it-anymore agonizing pain.
The fact is pain is often undertreated in this country and many people suffer unnecessarily, say University of Texas at Austin researchers.

Dr. Scott Strassels of the College of Pharmacy wants people to [...]]]></description>
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<utnews:identifier>9376</utnews:identifier>
<utnews:post_name>pain</utnews:post_name>
<utnews:post_slug>pain</utnews:post_slug>
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		<title>The Flu Equation</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/21/influenza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/21/influenza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Clippard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories from The Office of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Communication]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Natural Sciences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of Advertising]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[infectious disease]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[influenza]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lauren Ancel Meyers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LeeAnn Kahlor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[McCombs School of Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Damien]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[School of Biological Sciences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Section of Integrative Biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=9746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new H1N1 flu is spreading like a wildfire across the globe. It's the first flu pandemic the world has seen since 1968, and many people are holding their breath. Whether or not swine flu will leave a massive amount of destruction in its wake or smolder along like a typical seasonal flu is a [...]]]></description>
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<utnews:identifier>9746</utnews:identifier>
<utnews:post_name>influenza</utnews:post_name>
<utnews:post_slug>influenza</utnews:post_slug>
<utnews:year>2009</utnews:year>
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		<title>Hello, World!</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/14/taylor_internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/14/taylor_internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Susswein</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories from The Office of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bob Taylor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Liberal Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Natural Sciences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[computer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of Psychology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Graduate School]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LBJ School of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=9703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Texas alum had vision for the Internet that changed the world
It was the mystery of the human brain that first sparked Bob Taylor's interest in computers nearly a half century ago.

Bob Taylor earned his master's degree in experimental psychology at The University of Texas at Austin in 1964.

Before Taylor initiated the ARPAnet project (the precursor [...]]]></description>
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<utnews:identifier>9703</utnews:identifier>
<utnews:post_name>taylor_internet</utnews:post_name>
<utnews:post_slug>taylor_internet</utnews:post_slug>
<utnews:year>2009</utnews:year>
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		<title>Missing Voices</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/07/employees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/07/employees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Mueller</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories from The Office of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[A+ Federal Credit Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bad boss]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christa Semko]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dell EmployeeStorm]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[employee voice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Burris]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[good boss]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google 20 percent time]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[management research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mary Gray]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[McCombs School of Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[worst boss ever]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=9245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a scene in an episode of the television series "The Office" in which the incompetent boss Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) tries to impress his supervisor by sharing employee ideas from a suggestion box, which he claims to sort through regularly. The first item he reads aloud: "What should we do to prepare [...]]]></description>
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<utnews:identifier>9245</utnews:identifier>
<utnews:post_name>employees</utnews:post_name>
<utnews:post_slug>employees</utnews:post_slug>
<utnews:year>2009</utnews:year>
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		<title>Tapping Potential</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/08/31/leadership_cobra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/08/31/leadership_cobra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Blair</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Community Engagement Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories from The Office of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Austin Independent School District]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[COBRA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Community of Brothers in Revolutionary Alliance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Division of Diversity and Community Engagement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Institute for Community University and School Partnerships]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Foster]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Verbally Outspoken Individuals Creating Empowered Sistas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VOICES]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=9248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Yes, he's a black man, and he's an inspiration to me, but not even just that&#8212;he's fair," Willyam "BJ" Winston says of Barack Obama. "He targets all races that live in the U.S. He's trying to be a global icon, and I admire that."
Winston, a 17-year-old senior at McCallum High School in Austin, is recounting [...]]]></description>
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