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<description>As the ball drops on 2008, we pause to take a minute to remember the best, and worst, of the past year, with a little help from these biting and flattering lists.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 13:48:02 CDT </pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[  Top New Chefs: Read 'Em &amp; Eat! ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Food &amp; Wine has posted its Best New Chef awards for 2008. Look for their profiles in the July issue, but take a peek at the winners here:

    Jim Burke: owner of James, a modern Italian restaurant in Philadelphia's Bella Vista neighborhood.
    Gerard Craft: owner and chef at Niche in St. Louis, where bacon and eggs sandwich and braised pork belly top the menu.
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        <pubDate> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:58:24 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  The World's Least    Sexy Lads  ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[It takes more than comb-overs and beer bellies to make the world's 100 unsexiest men list. The Boston Phoenix factors behavior into its list of oh-so-fugly gents. A peek at who snagged the top (dis)honors:

    Roger Clemens: baseball (and steroid?) star.
    Spencer Pratt: Heidi's smarmy boyfriend on The Hills.
    Larry Craig: backpeddaling, bathroom-busted congressman.
    Tom Cruise: movie star turned Scientologist wingnut.
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        <pubDate> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:40:57 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Homemade Ad Tops Best List]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The best ad of 2007 cost 12 bucks to make. The winner of the Doritos Super Bowl commercial contest took best ad honors in USA Today's poll of ad pros and couch potatoes. And that wasn't even the most authentic or irreverent item on the list. The winners are:

    Best Ad: Doritos
    Best Viral Video: Dove's Evolution
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        <pubDate> Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:28:53 CST  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ The Most Useless Words of 2007]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Do you roll your eyes every time a newscaster calls a coincidence a &quot;perfect storm&quot;? Cringe the thousandth time a teenager invokes &quot;random&quot;? The faculty at Lake Superior State University shares your vexation. Here are some selections from the school's list of words and phrases to be &quot;banished&quot; for &quot;Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness&quot; in 2007:

    &quot;Perfect Storm&quot;
    &quot;Webinar&quot; (web seminar)
    &quot;Waterboarding&quot;
    &quot;Organic&quot;
    &quot;Wordsmith&quot;/&quot;Wordsmithing&quot;
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        <pubDate> Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:00:51 CST  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Most-Traded Music, Movies and TV Shows of 2007]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Forget box office numbers and Billboard charts: Wired reveals what people were really into last year by probing the action on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The year's most-traded files:

Songs:


    Shop Boyz, &quot;Party Like A Rock Star&quot;
    Akon, &quot;I Wanna Luv U&quot;
    Sean Kingston, &quot;Beautiful Girls&quot;

Movies:


    Resident Evil: Extinction
    Pirates of The Caribbean: At World's End
    I Now Pronounce You Chuck &amp; Larry
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        <pubDate> Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:28:15 CST  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ 2007's Top 10 Scientific Findings]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[What were the most important scientific findings of 2007? LiveScience gives you the top 10:

    Climate change: The IPCC issued its strongest warning yet that humans are causing global warming.
    Arctic melting: Two studies found retreating arctic ice.
    Extreme weather: Global warming is contributing&mdash;specifically hurricanes and heat waves.
    Alternative energy: Biofuels&rsquo; futures are uncertain as researchers uncovered pros and cons for gasoline&rsquo;s successors.
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        <pubDate> Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:45:00 CST  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ The Best Unsung Books of 2007]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Looking for a read off the beaten path? NPR asks two literary bloggers&mdash;Laura Miller of Salon and Mark Sarvas of The Elegant Variation&mdash;for the best works, fictional or factual, that were overlooked by mainstream book-review sections in 2007.

    The Farther Shore, by Matthew Eck: &quot;A new kind of military novel&quot;
    Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseille, by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop: The last work of the legendary Argentine experimental novelist
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        <pubDate> Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:07:00 CST  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Best, Worst Celeb Do-Gooders]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From Angelina Jolie (nominated as a UN Goodwill Ambassador) to Madonna (the Malawian adoption controversy), these stars topped a Reuters poll that asked: Who gave the best&mdash;and worst&mdash;name to &ldquo;celebrity humanitarianism&rdquo; in 2007? 
The best:

    Angelina Jolie
    Bono
    Desmond Tutu
    Bill Gates
    Bill Clinton
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        <pubDate> Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:45:00 CST  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ 'US Americans' Love Videos]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[With small-screen stars ranging from ditzy beauty queens to potty-mouthed pint-sized landlords, Americans increasingly gathered around the YouTube watercooler in 2007. They racked up 100 billion views on various video sites, ABC News reports. Cultural commentators liken the phenomenon to cavemen swapping tall tales around campfires, but 78% of us do it at work.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:54:32 CST  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Rolling Stone Picks 2007's Best]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Rolling Stone has picked its top 100 songs of 2007, and they span the genres from country to disco. The top 10:

    &quot;Roc Boys&quot;&mdash;Jay Z
    &quot;A Few Words in Defense of Our Country&quot;&mdash;Randy Newman
    &quot;Umbrella&quot;&mdash;Rihanna
    &quot;D.A.N.C.E&quot;&mdash;Justice
    &quot;Four Winds&quot;&mdash;Bright Eyes
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        <pubDate> Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:30:03 CST  </pubDate>
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