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  <title><![CDATA[Kohl's to Award Scholarships for Young Volunteers]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Kohl&#039;s Department Stores has introduced Kohl&#039;s Cares Scholarship Program which will award more than $420,000 in scholarships and prizes, ranging from $50 Kohl&#039;s gift cards to $10,000 scholarships, to more than 2,200 young volunteers who have made a positive impact on their communities.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Valentine's Day 2012: Britain's Oldest Married Couple Offers Romantic Advice on Twitter]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Lionel and Ellen, Britain’s oldest married couple have joined Twitter to share the secret of their relationship and have invited users to tweet their problems.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[God Versus Man: Archbishop of Canterbury to Slug it Out with Richard Dawkins over Evolution]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, will resume his rivalry with ethnologist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, on the question of &quot;the nature of human beings and the question of their ultimate origin&quot;.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:34:22 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama Judges 'Top Chef' Collaboration with Dallas Students]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Michelle Obama spiced things up in Dallas Friday as she judged a cooking competition with “Top Chef’s” host Tom Colicchio and White House chef Sam Kass.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:31:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[No Child Left Behind: All You Need to Know]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[What you need to know about No Child Left Behind.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:12:51 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[If You Don’t Have an Employee Wellness Framework, You’re Not An Employer of Choice]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Sickies, low productivity, workflow interruptions … the indirect costs of poor employee health are many and varied, and it’s the employer that cops it.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:12:44 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tasty Way to Promote Diversity]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Next month lunch rooms across Australia will come alive as workers delight in sharing the foods from their cultural background with their colleagues as part of a national campaign promoting diversity.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:53 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[No Child Left Behind: 10 States Receive Waivers, Raising Debate on Education Policy]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama announced Thursday that 10 states have been exempted from certain requirements of the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, allowing them the freedom to determine their own methods for raising education standards.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:02:42 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Top Business Trends of 2012: Wharton Experts Weigh In]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[What&#039;s new for 2012? Wharton faculty share insider perspectives on issues that could affect your organization and your career in the new year.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:54:04 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Strategy Accelerators: Practices that Work]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Nano Tools for Leaders® are fast, effective leadership tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes — with the potential to significantly impact your success as a leader and the engagement and productivity of the people you lead.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:47:04 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Leading Through Resistance: Why You Need Conflict]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Some leaders thrive on conflict, while others are concerned or even distressed by it. &quot;It&#039;s inevitable, so leaders need to learn to expect it, plan for it, and normalize it,&quot; says Wharton adjunct management professor Gregory Shea.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:26 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Foreign Markets: The Leadership Challenge]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[They&#039;re legendary gaffes: Parker Pens introduced its Quink pen in Spain with a translation of its English slogan, &quot;It won&#039;t leak and embarrass you.&quot; The multi-million dollar launch, in Spanish, announced that the pen wouldn&#039;t get you pregnant.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:19:54 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Indigenous action plans: they’re working!]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Five years on from the official introduction of workplace reconciliation action plans (RAPs), more than 280 organisations have signed on and several of the nation&#039;s high-profile CEOs say it&#039;s changed the way their companies do business.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:09:32 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Employers Warned to Tread Carefully When Cutting Staff]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[With more staff cuts being announced every day around the country as organisations act to stem costs in the face of economic uncertainty, a leading workplace relations lawyer has warned employers to be careful when letting staff go.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:06:20 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Miramonte Elementary School Scandals Continue to Mount]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A teacher&#039;s aide at Miramonte Elementary has been accused of sending love letters to an 11-year-old boy. The woman, who has been identified as Areceli Luisjuan has sent at least three letters to the then-fourth-grader in 2009. One such letter read &quot;when you get close to me, even if you give me the chills I like that.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:44:42 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Stanford Project: Wireless Recharging of Electric Cars While on the Move [VIDEO]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Stanford University researchers might have come up with the idea of making a electric car highway, in which magnetic fields could transmit electrical currents on highways, charging cars while they drive.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:03:41 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Doona Days or Doctor's Notes: How to Solve the $26 Billion Sickie Problem?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Some indiscriminate virus must have been around on 27 January: figures from an independent survey showed 170,000 more people than average called in sick on the work day which followed the Australia Day public holiday. Poor things.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:43:32 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[My Brilliant Career: Kim Garner, FedEx Express Australasia]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Human Capital: As MD of FedEx Express Australasia, what do you expect from your HR team? What skills and traits do you value highly in that team?]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:31:28 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[SMSFs Luring Brokers, but Education Urged]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[NMB has witnessed a spike in SMSF lending interest, though managing director Gerald Foley said brokers need to understand the complexity of these products.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:14:06 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Talking Plants Caught on Camera]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A new study at Exeter University in Britain claim to have found that plants can communicate with one another. And for the first time, the process has been captured on the camera too.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:54:53 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Recruitment of International Graduates on the Rise]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Employer demand for international graduates in 2011 increased to levels not seen since before the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, according to a new report.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:54:54 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Technology Focus: Apple Shareholders  -- Calling Al Gore’s Conscience]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Apple shareholders are preparing for the annual meeting where nobody is advocating dealing with horrendous working conditions. Where&#039;s director Al Gore in all this?]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:42:03 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Miramonte Elementary School: Second Teacher Arrested For 'Fondling' Pupils At School Where Kids Were ‘Blindfolded and Spoon-Fed Semen’]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Martin Springer, 49, was hauled yesterday from his Los Angeles classroom and arrested on suspicion of fondling two girls over a three-year period.

The latest incident follows the arrest of Mark Berndt, 61, a veteran third-grade instructor who was arrested on Monday and charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children. He remained jailed on $23 million bail, officials said.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Despite Susan G. Komen Reversal, Planned Parenthood Still Receiving Big Donations]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen said Friday they wouldn&#039;t be cutting funds to Planned Parenthood after all, but supporters of the women&#039;s health organization are still giving generous donations.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:01:47 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[New HP CEO Whitman Had $16 Million Payday]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[New Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, who takes a $1 annual salary, got stock options that could be valued as high as $16.1 million, the company’s proxy filing said.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:58:17 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Smartphone Made from Bamboo Crafted by Middlesex University Student]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A British student from Middlesex University (MU) is reportedly the chief architect behind the innovation - a smartphone encased in bamboo. The phone&#039;s body is made of four-year old, organically grown and sustainable bamboo.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:50:04 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook IPO Could Be A Windfall For California]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Facebook IPO (Initial Public Offering) has generated a lot of hype and buzz. But various Republican Legislators and financial analysts have raised concerns. Some of them do not sound all that positive, hinting that the stock value might recede to unexpected lows after some initial gains.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:29:02 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Seattle Library Turns Porn Haven for Men; Battle Between Moral Police and Civil Right Activists Begins]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A Seattle library is in news for not removing a man who watched porn movies on library&#039;s computers.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:41:02 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Files Record IPO: 5 Key Points to Ponder About Zuckerberg’s Mega Offering]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Facebook filed an IPO (Initial Public Offering) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday to raise $5 billion funds, the largest acquisition ever filed for a technology IPO.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:40:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Amazon Shares Plunge 11 Percent, Chopping Bezos Fortune by $1.6 Billion]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of e-retailer Amazon plunged as much as 11 percent Wednesday after the company reported poor results. The fall sliced more than $1.6 billion from the fortune of CEO Jeff Bezos.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:17:35 EST</pubDate>
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