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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[From NPR: The award-winning staff of NPR's Science desk brings you the week's best in Science News.  Hosted by Joe Palca and Christopher Joyce who will take you  inside NPR's Science Desk...]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Major Revisions</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The EPA studies the Chesapeake Bay water and makes moves to better manage the U.S.'s largest estuary. Also one new study shines light on why some people just can't loss weight, while another suggests that children with Autism may also suffer from poor motor skills.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:23:25 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The EPA studies the Chesapeake Bay water and makes moves to better manage the U.S.'s largest estuary. Also one new study shines light on why some people just can't loss weight, while another suggests that children with Autism may also suffer from poor motor skills.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Ice Heats Up and Leaves Fall Down</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:40:02 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Carbon, You Are My Shinning Star</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:22:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Accolades and Millstones</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:32:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Frogs Find Love and Other Modern Marvels</title>
      <description><![CDATA[NASA orchestrates a major collusion on the Moon, neuroscientists find that it takes the human brain about half a second to process speech, some Australian frogs' mating calls jump a few octaves higher, and cap-and-trade may not be the perfect answer to regulating greenhouse gas emissions after all.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:29:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>As the World Turns</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Causes behind this week's geologic tragedies are investigated. Also, NASA needs a plutonium fix, the hominid family tree finds a long lost relative, and some fun bird noises during intimate moments. NPR's Science Desk delivers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:43:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Causes behind this week's geologic tragedies are investigated. Also, NASA needs a plutonium fix, the hominid family tree finds a long lost relative, and some fun bird noises during intimate moments. NPR's Science Desk delivers.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Looking Forward, Looking Back</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite its urgency, climate diplomacy is slow going in New York at the UN. Thanks to growing global demand for refrigerators and air conditioners HFC's, a low profile greenhouse gas, may soon be causing large problems for the atmosphere.  Three new studies show that the Moon is covered with a very thin film of water and another new discovery in China of a mini T-Rex, called Raptorex, reveals information about the famous dinosaur's evolutionary history.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:19:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Despite its urgency, climate diplomacy is slow going in New York at the UN. Thanks to growing global demand for refrigerators and air conditioners HFC's, a low profile greenhouse gas, may soon be causing large problems for the atmosphere.  Three new studies show that the Moon is covered with a very thin film of water and another new discovery in China of a mini T-Rex, called Raptorex, reveals information about the famous dinosaur's evolutionary history.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Problems Solved In Unexpected Ways</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A proposal for NASA regarding a nautical mission to sail the super cold nitrogen seas of Saturn's moon of Titan surfaces; a surprising new study claims to have cured color blindness in mature male squirrel monkeys shocks the neuroscience community, one researcher attempts to predict disastrous tipping points, and DNA cracks down on illegal poaching by testing fancy boats and hunks of meat.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:08:15 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Space Travel and Ancient Threads</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This week NPR's science desk explores Hubble's future and views pictures from space. Ancient Georgian textiles are uncovered, Congress tries to bury carbon and the kilogram is reweighed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:32:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This week NPR's science desk explores Hubble's future and views pictures from space. Ancient Georgian textiles are uncovered, Congress tries to bury carbon and the kilogram is reweighed.]]></itunes:summary>
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