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		<title>Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart On Boston&#8217;s July 4 Celebration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of bad weather, Bostonians are more than ready to celebrate clearing skies -- and Independence Day. Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart talks with WBUR's Steve Brown about what to expect from this year's concerts on the Charles River Esplanade.]]></description>
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		<title>Elderly Driver Causes Crash In Natick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Officials say an 83-year-old woman drove her car through the front of a Natick liquor store this morning, pinning the 51-year-old cashier behind the counter.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/03/elderly-driver-causes-crash-in-natick</link>
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		<title>Boston Police Punished In Steroid Probe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleven Boston police officers were punished as the result of an internal investigation on steroid use inside the department.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/03/police-steroids</link>
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		<title>Fossil Hunters Uncover Rare Dinosaur Skin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have found a rare fossil of dinosaur skin from a hadrosaur that died about 66 million years ago in what is now North Dakota.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/03/fossil-hunters-uncover-rare-dinosaur-skin</link>
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		<title>Military Says U.S. Soldier Captured In Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An American soldier is missing and believed kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said Thursday. If confirmed, it would be the first such incident since U.S.-led coalition forces invaded the country eight years ago.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/03/afghanistan-soldier</link>
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		<title>Judge Asks Why Prosecutors Released Photos Of Arrested Boston Lawmakers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to explain why photos and other information were released in connection with the arrests of former Sen. Dianne Wilkerson and Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/boston-corruption</link>
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		<title>First U.S. Casualties Reported In Afghanistan Push</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the Marines reported their first casualties from the massive effort to reclaim the Helmand River valley from Taliban control.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/afghanistan-us-casualties</link>
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		<title>Psychiatric Units Across Mass. Face Shut Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community hospitals across Massachusetts have closed or are considering closing their psychiatric units and some of Boston's teaching hospitals are worried about how they'll keep their psychiatric units afloat. Dr. Paul Summergrad, head of the psychiatry department at Tufts Medical Center, explains why the problem is so acute. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/mental-health-care</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court Closes Deeply Divided Term</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the close of the term, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are fleeing Washington for their summer teaching gigs. And as the words of the court's opinions settle into law books, a picture is emerging of a conservative court on a slow but steady march to the right. 
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		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/conservative-court</link>
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		<title>Medicare Drug Coverage Saves And Loses Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers looked at the issue in a new study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. They studied another recent expansion of health care, when, in 2006, Medicare started paying for prescription drugs for seniors for the first time. The researchers found that people did spend more on drugs, but those who had little to no drug coverage reduced what they spent on going to doctors and hospitals. 
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		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/medicare-drug-coverage</link>
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		<title>Boston Symphony Orchestra Kicks Off Tanglewood Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra open the Tanglewood season this weekend with Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” among others, but Morning Edition critic-at-large Ed Siegel has beaten them out to the Berkshires. 
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		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/tanglewood-preview</link>
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		<title>Green Energy Co. Makes For An Unexpectedly Noisy Neighbor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports on how a new solar panel factory at Fort Devens is causing an unexpected problem for its neighbors. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/evergreen-solar</link>
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		<title>U.S. Army Ends Backpack Contract With New Bedford Factory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Workers have been fighting to keep open a New Bedford factory that makes military backpacks. The factory is still closing at the end of this month, but perhaps not for the reasons workers and lawmakers have thought. WBUR's Bianca Vazquez Toness reports. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/factory-closing-2</link>
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		<title>Mental Health Cuts Put Strain On Melrose Emergency Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[State budget cuts in mental health and substance abuse prevention programs are putting a strain on one town's emergency room-- and its police department. WBUR's Fred Thys reports. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/mental-health-er</link>
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		<title>Mass. Has Second-Lowest Adult Obesity Rate In Country, Study Finds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer has details on a new report showing that Massachusetts has the second-lowest rate of adult obesity nationwide.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/01/adult-obesity</link>
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		<title>Mass. Unveils Ocean Management Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the state is unveiling what it calls a landmark ocean management plan, which would set up zones for off-shore wind farm development, while making other areas off limits. Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles joined WBUR to talk about the plan.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/01/oceans-management</link>
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		<title>Boston Archdiocese Cuts Benefits Of Sick, Retired Priests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Archdiocese has admitted that within two years, it won't have the money to pay for the care and housing of its elderly and sick priests, unless major changes are made. As a result, starting Wednesday, those priests are having their benefits cut. WBUR's Monica Brady-Myerov reports. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/priest-pensions-2</link>
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		<title>Is Boston.com The Jewel In The Globe&#8217;s Crown?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In all the talk about the Boston Globe, Boston.com hardly gets a mention. But the shining success is financially relatively healthy and may prove the cornerstone of a turnaround strategy for any future owner of the Boston Globe. WBUR's Curt Nickisch reports. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/boston-dot-com</link>
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		<title>U.N. Backs Ousted Honduran President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tensions continue to rise in Honduras two days after a military coup ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who says he plans to return to Honduras on Thursday. The newly installed administration of Robert Micheletti says he will be arrested if he does. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/us-honduras</link>
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		<title>Lawmakers Urged To Restrict Elderly Drivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports that state law makers heard testimony today urging them them to put restrictions on older drivers. WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/elderly-driving-2</link>
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