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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; Politics and History</title>
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		<title>Save the Frogs Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/04/save-the-frogs-day-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Save the Frogs Day. Over 2000 species are threatened with extinction....]]></description>
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		<title>Rocks I Have Loved: Two Photos for Earth Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been going through old photos to pick out some that might be appropriate for an album (or maybe a series of blog posts), tentatively entitled, "Rocks I Have Loved."  It struck me this morning how well that metaphor suits Earth Day....]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of International Women&#8217;s Day in Nepal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four months after I gave birth to my son in Nepal, I celebrated my very first International Women's Day in 1988 in Gunjanagar, a village in western Chitwan District. It was also Gunjangar's first time to organize an event for that day.  I describe the scene in Sacred Threads, my ethnographic memoir-in-progress....]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Conjunctions</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/strange-conjunctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within 24 hours, Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger die, and Steve Jobs announces the iPad (which &#8212; menstrual jokes aside &#8212; may or may not revolutionize how we interact with the written word). I&#8217;m too busy trying to meet end-of-month writing deadlines to meditate on these odd conjunctions.  And perhaps writing is the best way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Haiti Links</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/more-haiti-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my Martin Luther King Day post, here are some more links that expose mainstream media bias and deepen historical and political understanding of Haiti:...]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons From Dr. King on Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard enough to comprehend the scale of disaster in Haiti. What's harder is this: to stand by and watch hate, ignorance and greed breed on human suffering like maggots....]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Turkey: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/wild-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike my stepfather and his clan, numerous cousins, the son I spawned, and many friends; I don't usually look at wild animals and think: meat.  Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), indigenous to North America, have become a recent exception....]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Lessons in Food Storage</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/10/ancient-lessons-in-food-storage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I loved best about teaching high school social studies was shaking up students' perceptions of history.  And one of my favorite lessons was in Ancient History.  I'd bring in a a jar of beans and a potato with so many sprouts it looked like an octopus (the fact that I always found one in my cupboard could have doubled as a cautionary lesson in the domestic arts)....]]></description>
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		<title>Local Communities Promote Vultures</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/local-communities-promote-vultures/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/local-communities-promote-vultures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For International Vulture Awareness Day, I highlight some exciting community initiatives on two endangered vulture species I posted on last spring: The California Condor and White-Rumped Vulture....]]></description>
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