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		<title>Five Minutes for Fifty Bucks</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/five-minutes-for-fifty-bucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat BOSTON- College students have found a new way to get money by hardly even lifting a finger. Students, among others, go to the Research Blood Component to give their blood in exchange for money. “College students make up about 60% of the incoming people,” said Jeff Powers, Resident Nurse at RBC, 320 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=198&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low-income housing initiatives continue in Boston</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/low-income-housing-initiatives-continue-in-boston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat -Daily Free Press- Published: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 The Boston Redevelopment Authority is trying to create more affordable housing at the same time as Harvard University’s housing developments in Allston have slowed due to the economy, BRA Director John Palmieri said at Harvard University Graduate School of Design on Monday. The BRA [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=196&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans Slowly Coming Out of Its Katrina Slump</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/new-orleans-slowly-coming-out-of-its-katrina-slump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iris picat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bayou]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat NEW ORLEANS- New Orleans is slowly rebuilding itself as a tourist destination, four years after Hurricane Katrina, but the Bayou Swamp may not be here to witness it. “We have ten years to try and save [the swamp] because if not they will be gone. We will be showing sharks instead of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=203&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Charitable Memory</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/a-charitable-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iris picat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drew Olanoff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melanie Mitchell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat BOSTON-Drew Olanoff got a stranger’s Twitter name tattooed on his forearm in the name of charity. “[The tattoo is] a constant reminder that there are amazing people out there who will do equally amazing things for good causes,” said Olanoff, 29, the man who got the tattoo. Twitter is a social network [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=190&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Gorilla Birthday Celebration</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/a-gorilla-birthday-celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iris picat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Park Zoo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat               BOSTON- Little Joe, a 16-year-old gorilla, celebrated his birthday, Monday, with streamers and snacks, at the Franklin Park Zoo, sitting among his likes and visitors.             “We try to get children to draw emotional bonds to animals,” said John Linehan, president and CEO of Franklin Park Zoo, explaining why they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=175&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Growing Fundraiser</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/a-growing-fundraiser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iris picat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat             BOSTON- Mustache growers and designers congregated at O’Brien’s Pub, Monday night, for 826 Boston’s launch party of their first annual mustache-a-thon.             “It’s a glorious tradition,” said Ethan Warren, an intern at 826, who explained that it has been done before by other 826 chapters around the nation.             826 is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=159&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Bis, with Some Extra Spice</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/halloween-bis-with-some-extra-spice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Passion Plunge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat             REVERE- Hundreds gathered in costume today, on snowy Revere Beach, to brave the frosty ocean for the 11th annual Passion Plunge.             For this event, “you don’t have to be a super athlete, you just need to be willing to show your courage,” said Robert Johnson, President and CEO of Special [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=139&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">deserving pride</media:title>
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		<title>Boston Tattoo Parlors are Sticking Around</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/boston-tattoo-parlors-are-sticking-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iris picat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allston Tattoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regeneration Tattoo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat             BOSTON- The recession is taking a bite into tattoo parlors, but many students remain just as eager for body art and help keep Boston tattoo shops afloat.             “College kids still come because they aren’t all that concerned with what they’re spending money on,” said Brian Hemming, tattoo artist from Regeneration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=131&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Crush on Obama&#8211;Political Commercialization at its Finest</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/a-crush-on-obama-political-commercialization-at-its-finest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iris picat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[boston inauguration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat   BOSTON- People are spirited over the new president, and now that inauguration day has arrived, they are sporting all kinds of attire to show their loyalty. In some cases, with the invention of the Obama cookie, this means chomping his head off.                       “I can’t remember such an enormous amount of products [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=104&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s View on Race, If Any</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/childrens-view-on-race-if-any/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boston's Children Museum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat BOSTON- Janice Allen led the Children Inspirational Freedom Choir at Boston’s Children Museum at 1 p.m., Monday, to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. day. “It is important that the youth keep the dream alive,” Allen said. In a room filled with bright red, yellow and green chairs stood family members and bystanders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=108&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intoxicated Male Sleeps on Wrong Couch</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/intoxicated-male-sleeps-on-wrong-couch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat   BOSTON- Dominic Dallesandro, 18, of Weymouth was charged with breaking and entering in the night time, Saturday, when officers woke him up from his slumber, in the wrong person’s apartment.  Dorchester officers responded to a complaint at 10 Harbor Point Blvd. at about 6:15 a.m.             The daughter of the complainant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=98&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>StuVi 3 ‘years away’</title>
		<link>http://ipicat.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/daily-free-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans suffer with building freeze By Iris Picat -Daily Free Press- Published: Friday, December 5, 2008 While construction is set to finish in June 2009 on Student Village Phase II, the construction freeze has postponed plans for Phase III indeterminably, Boston University officials said. StuVi2 is currently in the latest phase of a long-term plan going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=88&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The European Commission&#8217;s Proposal to a Secure and Sustainable Energy System</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat BOSTON- All nations are striving for a more sustainable future, what is the E.U.’s contribution? Greenpeace doesn’t think it has enough changes in mind. “We have to do more, be more ambitious, and be even bolder to avoid the risk of energy disruption in the future,” said the E.U’s Energy Commissioner, Andric [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=80&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eyewitness Report of a Boston Street Performer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat I strolled out of the Government Center metro stop pleasantly surprised by a man playing the blues on his saxophone. He was encircled by a curious assortment of people. He never looked up but tilted his head ever so slightly when the money thrown in his cap jingled. Some people did so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=64&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s on YOUR Mind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Iris Picat Barrack Hussein Obama strode onto stage last night in Grant Park, Chicago, to give a victory speech to thousands of blissful supporters, after winning by a long shot with 364 electoral votes. The “road ahead will be long, [the] climb will be steep (…) [but] never have [I] been more hopeful that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipicat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4865397&amp;post=67&amp;subd=ipicat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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