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        <title><![CDATA[  Time's 10 Best Mothers Ever... ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[No one's perfect, but some moms get pretty close&mdash;even if they do have control issues, out-of-wedlock kids, or a little drug habit. Time picked these winners for going against the grain. 

    Dumbo's mom: for giving her child wings
    The moms of The Joy Luck Club: for caring a bit too much
    Gaia, or Mother Earth: for the skies and the fields
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 17:35:32 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ ... And 10 Worst]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[If an ounce of mom is worth a pound of clergy, as they say, these mothers would topple the scales. Time lists its all-time worst moms:&nbsp;  

    Mom on Futurama: for bringing her cut-throat business sense home
    Mother in The Wall: for making Pink a baby forever
    Mrs. Robinson: for not backing off after bedding poor Dustin
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 17:34:35 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Has It Gone, Or   Just Gone Online?  ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The Oxford English Dictionary&mdash;the 3-volume one with the magnifying glass&mdash;has ditched its hard copy and gone digital for good, which makes one &quot;bookish middle-class&quot; writer nervous. &quot;Other totemic college books could go out of style, maybe,&quot; Virginia Heffernan writes in the New York Times. But &quot;the OED was forever. Wasn&rsquo;t it?&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 17:06:40 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Male Nudity? Cue the Nervous Laughter]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Penises are in the Hollywood spotlight these days, with both Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the new Harold &amp; Kumar offering full-frontal male nudity. They&rsquo;re guaranteed to get a nervous laugh because there&rsquo;s still an uncomfortable shock to seeing one on the big screen, writes Laura Hodes in the Chicago Tribune. &quot;It is almost a permanent adolescent reaction that is built into American movies,&rdquo; says one film prof.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 16:30:19 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Recruiters Draw Students From Abroad, for a Price]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[More American universities are using recruiting agents to draw foreign students, and those middlemen are reaping the benefits&mdash;from both sides. One Chinese student paid $3,000 to a company that &quot;suggested Ohio University might be the best for me,&quot; unaware that OU pays the company a $1,000 commission per student, the New York Times reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 15:46:59 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  America's Most Haunted ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Your local graveyard may be creepy, but mazelike mansions and murderous history make up LifeScience&rsquo;s list of the most haunted places in America: 

    Winchester Mystery House: More than 100 rooms and staircases leading nowhere fill this San Jose, Calif., mansion, built by its paranoid owner to ward off ghosts.
    Amityville Horror: The NY site where a son said demons possessed him to kill six family members.
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 15:31:20 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Mega-Brand Rollout Revives Ol' Blue Eyes]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Ol' Blue Eyes is still doing it his way&mdash;or his heirs' way, to be more precise. Frank Sinatra's family has inked a deal with Warner Music Group to ensure the singer's return on the 10th anniversary of his death: A postage stamp and new CD and DVD collections are coming out, as is a digital resurrection of the Pack Master turned ad pitchman, the Los Angeles Times reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 14:59:22 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Sundance   Abuzz With   Bug Porn ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[For those unclear about the birds and the bees (the actual ones), the Sundance Channel is screening &ldquo;green porno videos&rdquo; on its website, reports Mother Jones blogger Jen Phillips. The series features Isabella Rossellini, breaking out of her usual indie cocoon, carrying out the mating rituals of the snail, bee, and praying mantis, among others.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 13:35:08 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Curses! 9 Totally Unlucky Films ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Even dramas and spy movies can turn into disaster flicks, either during or after the final wrap. The Los Angeles Times takes a close look at 9 accursed movies.  

    Quantum of Solace: Anything but peaceful, the disaster tally included one lake-submerged Aston Martin, one stabbed technician, and a totaled Alfa Romero. Is it the work of SPECTRE? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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        <pubDate> Sun, 11 May 2008 12:25:55 CDT  </pubDate>
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