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		<title>A Letter From the Scientific Front- Mind Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vague new academic discipline creates a bonafide new-media star. When Jack Arkush was a child, he would sometimes accompany his father downtown, where William Arkush was a mid-level advertising executive for the Kenner Agency. &#8220;He worked on campaigns for sporting goods, for eyewear,&#8221; Arkush says. &#8220;General-interest stuff that didn&#8217;t interest me.&#8221; What interested the younger Arkush, as it turned out, were the elevators in his father&#8217;s office building. &#8220;The first time he took me to work, we walked into the lobby, and there were two elevators waiting,&#8221; Arkush says. &#8220;We stepped into one. As the doors closed, I saw people filing into the one across the way. We started to rise first, but when we got to the twentieth floor, where he worked, the people who took that other elevator were already there.&#8221; Most people would accept that outcome with equanimity, if not indifference. Jack Arkush was different. He felt it as an injustice. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t bother me that we didn&#8217;t get to the twentieth floor first,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It bothered me that I didn&#8217;t understand exactly why we didn&#8217;t get there first.&#8221; Today, Arkush—a portly, bearded man of fifty-eight—doesn&#8217;t have that problem. He works on the second floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Thanksgiving Parade, Freon, Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of states represented by marching bands in this year&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade: 5 :: Number of people saved by this year&#8217;s parade Grand Marshal, Janelle Welks, when that van went off of Pier 8 in June: 7 :: Number of candidates for next year&#8217;s mayoral race who will be marching in the parade: 3 :: This year&#8217;s balloons: Farley, a tin soldier, Batman, the Haddon Bros. Meats Tom Turkey :: Number of elves used for the penultimate Santa float: 12 (8 on the float and 4 alternates) :: An upcoming episode of the Discovery Channel series Mythbusters is scheduled to explore the myth that rock candy stored in the back of a refrigerator will absorb free-floating freon molecules and, if ingested, result in a &#8220;serious high.&#8221; This urban legend is believed to have originated with local late night horror tv host Count Film-Ula during a spirited 1978 broadcast. :: Due to a change in their membership’s male/female gender ratio from 19:1 in 1968 to 1:3 in 2006, the 39th annual Sadie Hawkins Day Dance, held as a fundraiser by the Westside Independent Business Owner’s Group (WIBOG) on the third Saturday of every November, will feature a bachelorette auction [...]]]></description>
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