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		<title>Libya: Where to from here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed resolution 1973 that authorized the enforcement of a no-fly zone over Libya (Full text from the Guardian]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2011/03/20/libya-where-to-from-here/</link>
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		<title>Failure of Isolationism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A poll by the University of Washington grouped respondents&#8217; answers to a series of questions based on their stated affinity to the Tea Party &#8212; and came to some disturbing conclusions. (Keeping in mind that the sample size in this poll was too small to be representative of the Tea Party movement nationwide) What disturbed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2010/09/17/inherent-contradiction/</link>
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		<title>Land of the Absurd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With a title like this, I could very well write about the Palin/Beck rally participants that descended on my city this weekend&#8230; But instead I&#8217;ll stick to the (hopefully) less-polarizing topic of cupcakeries. I&#8217;m not entirely sure when the fad of cupcake-focused bakeries began sweeping America. National Geographic says: The gourmet cupcake trend really took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2010/08/29/land-of-the-absurd/</link>
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		<title>TheJapanShop&#8217;s Hiragana eBook for Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently received an email that owners of the thejapanshop.com published their first Kindle ebook, a beginners&#8217; level Japanese language text called &#8220;Hiragana, the Basics of Japanese.&#8221; They&#8217;ve asked mailing list subscribers to download the book (available for free here at least for the moment) and review it on Amazon&#8217;s website. I haven&#8217;t loaded the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2010/08/12/thejapanshops-beginners-hiragana-ebook-for-free/</link>
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		<title>Realities of Demographics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When looking at the world, analysts tend to focus on factors that can be changed &#8212; Worldviews, political institutions, counter-narcotics, pollution, military spending, education, etc. Even statistics such as the availability of natural resources can often be offset by importing the needed goods. However, it&#8217;s population patterns that leave an indelible mark on a country&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2010/06/11/realities-of-demographics/</link>
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		<title>Sweetgrass: Off the Ranch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a typical summer filled with high-cost blockbuster productions, the documentary &#8220;Sweetgrass&#8221; was a welcome break from the normalcy of film. Described by the Washington Post as &#8220;part documentary, part western and part anthropological study,&#8221; it is the un-narrated story of Montana sheepherders who take their herd up the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains for summer grazing &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2010/05/28/sweetgrass-off-the-ranch/</link>
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		<title>Expanded Bike-Sharing Program Will Link DC, Arlington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of car-sharing is no newcomer to the DC region &#8212; Massachusetts-based Zipcar opened its DC office in 2001, and Seattle-based Flexcar was also in the area (before its merger with Zipcar). However, bicycle-sharing for commuters (as opposed to tourists) hasn&#8217;t been as quick to catch on. SmartBike DC is a self-service public bike [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2010/05/25/expanded-bike-sharing-program-will-link-dc-arlington/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Event: ASEAN and the Obama Administration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ASEAN and the Obama Administration: Views from the Region SPFUSA Asian Voices Seminar Series Monday, March 30th, 2009 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (lunch will be served) The Cosmos Club Powell Room 2121 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. (business attire required) Speakers Bambang Harymurti, Corporate Editor-in-Chief, Tempo (Indonesia) Mr. Bambang Harymurti is Corporate Editor-in-Chief of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2009/03/29/upcoming-event-asean-and-the-obama-administration/</link>
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		<title>Technological Degradation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why system developers tend to take a good (or at least passable / workable) system and make it completely unusable. It seems as though every time they&#8217;re tasked to create a new build, they sit down with a list of features and try to incorporate them into the new system without addressing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.little-wings.com/wordpress/2009/03/28/technological-degradation/</link>
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		<title>I Lego NY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Times: Abstract City Blog By Christoph Niemann &#8220;During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York&#8230;.&#8221; (Niemann creates a series of highly-imaginative NYC-related [...]]]></description>
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