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	<title>News from The University of Texas at Austin &#187; Features</title>
	<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news</link>
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		<title>Critical Conditions</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/11/02/social_work-2/</link>
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		<title>Slowly I Turned</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/26/tales_fright/</link>
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		<title>Dateline China</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/19/china/</link>
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		<title>In Computers We Trust?</title>
		<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.
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Script-kiddies. Bots. Trojans. Zombies. Typosquatting. Hackers. Botmasters. This is the language of the criminals of the 21st [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/12/cybersecurity/</link>
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		<title>Taking Aim at Addiction</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/10/05/addiction/</link>
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		<title>Where Does It Hurt?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/28/pain/</link>
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		<title>The Flu Equation</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/21/influenza/</link>
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		<title>Hello, World!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/14/taylor_internet/</link>
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		<title>Missing Voices</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/09/07/employees/</link>
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		<title>Tapping Potential</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/features/2009/08/31/leadership_cobra/</link>
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