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                    <dc:subject>Medical emergencies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mule packing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mules</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bison hunts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hunters</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:39:20Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/you-better-watch-out-thats-for-sure">        <title>You better watch out, that's for sure</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/you-better-watch-out-thats-for-sure</link>        <description>Jaime O'Neill takes a sardonic look at the psychology behind Christmas carols like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jaime O'Neill</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Christmas carols</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jaime O’Neill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Santa Claus is Coming To Town</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:31:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14131">        <title>It’s good to be impassioned!</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14131</link>        <description>Jim Stiles confesses he’s mad as hell and wishes
more people would feel the same.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jim Stiles</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmentalists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>protest</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:53Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15429">        <title>Bumper stickers are a serious thing</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15429</link>        <description>The writer's avocation is bumper-sticker
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                    <dc:subject>Western Culture</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:46:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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much like us they are.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Penelope Grenoble O'Malley</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:44:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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80 years in Grand Canyon; Agoura Hills, Calif., day laborers;
"Metronatural" in Seattle; driven to crime in fancy cars</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Betsy Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rocky Mountain News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Boulder
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                    <dc:subject>Halloween</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>streakers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Naked Pumpkin Run</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jazzmin Jenkins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aaron Dew</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laurent "Maverick" Gaudreau</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grand Canyon hiking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>octogenarians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Flagstaff Daily Sun</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elderly outdoorsmen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Agoura
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                    <dc:subject>Calif</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:36:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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New Mexico gossip column; a really hungry – and thirsty
– bear cub; mammals on the grille; python vs. electric
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                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lake Powell</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>reservoirs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rich Ingebretsen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Terry Bell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Glen Canyon National
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                    <dc:subject>Glen Canyon Institute</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Geraldine Perkins</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lincoln County News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sherrill
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                    <dc:subject>Carrizo</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:34:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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fashion accessories; bra-shopping with "the girls"; Black Gold
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                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cell phones</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>plane flights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>obnoxious passengers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jerry Brown</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>San Francisco Chronicle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Boy
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                    <dc:subject>Hong Kong</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Marcia Hensley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robyn Hensley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>roasting
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                    <dc:subject>Madagascar hissing cockroach</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jared Gold</dc:subject>        
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murder; Dick Cheney shoot-alike; gun dealers in the West; Dakota
Sioux Scrabble</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Betsy Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mormon crickets</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>entomologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Reno Gazette-Journal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Patrick Lorch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>biologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cricket swarms</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>insect migrations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>insect behavior</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tucson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>desert</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>saguaro</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cactus transplanting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cactus Rescue Crew</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Margaret
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in Wyoming; obsolete Earth First! Bumper stickers; 100-year-old
retiree dies; Butte’s new tourist attraction is a
pit</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Betsy Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>roadkill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>deer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal
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                    <dc:subject>landfills</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>composting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ravalli Republic</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ravalli County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana Department of Transportation</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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is not for dummies; scrap metal thieves get creative; dream home
turns nightmare; St. George, Utah, gets expensive; military
recruiters get desperate</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Betsy Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>off-road vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>accidents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gary Mertle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Umberto Cheli</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineshafts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>abandoned mines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Suzuki Samurai</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Greg Pringle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yuma Sun</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Denver Post</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>high-occupancy
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                    <dc:subject>unusual punishments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>eBay</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tillie the Dummie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>scrap
met</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:36Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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motorists’ tricks; warning to Mr. Cheney; Vogue tackles
global warming; Alaska retools its image</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Betsy Marston</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>San Francisco</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dogs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Norcal
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                    <dc:subject>methane digester</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dog poop</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fecal technology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mark Watters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>motorists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drivers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>high-occupancy vehicle lanes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rush hour</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cheryl
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                    <dc:subject>Dick Cheney</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>shooting accidents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Secret Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>guns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>glob</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:33:17Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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Easy" makes newspaper’s life hard; world’s biggest
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                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Trinidad</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stanley
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                    <dc:subject>New York Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sex-change operations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>transsexuals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gender
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                    <dc:subject>Marci Bowers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>obituaries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>the Oregonian</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>state mottos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>contests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Baur</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Randy Yearout</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Val Rapp</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Mullin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New
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price; hot real estate in ski country; water fights in L.A.; Bill
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                    <dc:subject>Salida</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bongo Billy’s
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                    <dc:subject>humorous signs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>unattended children</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wall Street
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                    <dc:subject>Western real estate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranches</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Don Lucas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rick Schroder</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Carole King</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Leo Hindery Jr.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>monster homes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aspen Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vail
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                    <dc:subject>housing prices</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sk</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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Surrender; high-country heifers; Miss Nevada speaks out; womb is
not a car seat; miniature cows; 65-year-old marriage in Cedaredge,
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                    <dc:subject>Western odd news</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>house fires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cruelty to
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                    <dc:subject>Luciano Mares</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fort Sumner</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cows</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>slaughterhouses</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mickey’s Packing Plant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Great Falls</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>incredible animal stories</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Del Morris</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal rescues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aspen Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>unusual cows</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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