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		<title>Sports local digest: US Olympic women&#8217;s water polo team has Bay Area flavor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Stanford star Brenda Villa and ex-Cal All-America Heather Petri are headed to their fourth Olympics as seven players with Bay Area ties were named Thursday to the U.S. women&#8217;s water polo team. Coach Adam Krikorian announced his 13-player U.S. team that includes Melissa Seidemann of Walnut Creek and Annika Dries. Both players took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters Sports Schedule at 0600 GMT on Friday, May 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters sports schedule at 0600 GMT on Friday (times GMT): &#8211; - &#8211; - ATHLETICS SHANGHAI &#8211; Chinese high hurdler Liu Xiang will be the main focus of attention at the Shanghai Diamond League this weekend with his nation hoping he can show he is on course to regain the Olympic title he gave up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports in Brief: Finland downs U.S. hockey at worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Joensuu&#8216;s winning goal with nine seconds left lifted Finland past the United States, 3-2, on Thursday for a place in the semifinals of the hockey world championships in Helsinki. Joensuu opened the scoring at 13 minutes, 27 seconds in the second period, before the Anaheim Ducks&#8217; Kyle Palmieri scored 20 seconds later. Bobby Ryan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lieutenant governor remains mum on Internet wagering and sport betting in &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTIC CITY — At the East Coast Gaming Congress here on Thursday, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno sounded more like she was on the campaign stump than simply speaking to gambling-industry executives. Guadagno, a fill-in for Gov. Christie, dodged all questions regarding Internet gaming and sports betting at the gathering in the new Revel Casino. Instead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Brown, Godfather of Go-Go, Dies at 75</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cause was multiple organ failure as a result of sepsis, Tom Goldfogle, his manager, said. Known as the godfather of go-go, and almost invariably dressed, onstage and off, in a slick black suit, fedora and shades, Mr. Brown was as much a celebrity on the streets of Washington as any national politician. With steady, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A star-studded season for Jersey Shore music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTIC CITY &#8211; This sizzling summer at the Jersey Shore is primed to be the most packed with big-name headliners in many years. That&#8217;s particularly true in Atlantic City, partly because of the big splash by the Revel casino on the Boardwalk, which doesn&#8217;t have its official grand opening until next weekend, when Beyoncé comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music review: Andreas Delfs, Nelson Freire and the National Symphony Orchestra</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delfs whipped up the opening of the Haydn into a romantic frenzy. The work’s classicism came through in how the piece kept dwindling down to combinations of one or two voices — something the conductor emphasized with dramatic pauses, or by keeping the music playing at a mere flicker, damped down to almost nothing. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Godfather of Go-Go Music Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The so-called “Godfather of Go-Go” Chuck Brown died Wednesday (5/16) after suffering from pneumonia at a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.  He was 75.   Brown was a music legend among fans in the nation’s capital.    Singer and guitarist Chuck Brown, along with his band The Soul Searchers, pioneered Washington’s Go-Go movement in the 1970s.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donna Summer &#8212; Music City Memorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donna Summer&#8216;s family has scheduled a public memorial for the Disco Queen &#8212; and TMZ has learned, it will take place next Wednesday in Nashville. Donna and her family moved to Nashville in 1994 &#8212; and sources tell TMZ, Donna&#8217;s family chose the city specifically because it was her home and was always extremely close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message in the music: Here for NATO, new voices plan 3 concerts &#8211; Chicago Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By THOMAS CONNER tconner@suntimes.com May 17, 2012 6:42PM Reprints NEW YORK, NY &#8211; MAY 01: Tom Morello (C) of the rock band Rage Against the Machine marches with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators during a May Day rally on May 1, 2012 in New York City. Demonstrators have called for nation-wide May Day strikes to protest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA Announces 2012 Space Technology Research Fellowship Grants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 &#8212; /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; NASA has selected the 2012 class of Space Technology Research Fellows. Forty-eight students will receive graduate student fellowships from NASA&#8217;s Space Technology Program to pursue master&#8217;s or doctoral degrees in relevant space technology disciplines at their respective institutions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Through the Space Technology Research Fellowships Program, NASA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A contemporary space in the new Barnes Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, all eyes are focused on the Parkway as the Barnes Foundation marks the opening of its new building and the arrival of its extraordinary art collection to Philadelphia. Of course the biggest change for the Barnes — founded in 1922 by Albert C. Barnes as an art and education institution — is its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Space Odd Couple: Japanese Rocket, Korean Satellite</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chester Dawson JRT attended the Japanese space agency’s rocket launch in southern Japan early Friday. The second of two dispatches: Japan’s rocket launch early Friday was news here primarily because it was the first (and so far only) mission bearing a non-Japanese satellite in its cargo hold. European Pressphoto Agency An undated handout photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Private Ship to the Space Station, and Wine, Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In space, how quickly does grape juice turn to wine? Two California high school students hope to find out soon. Their experiment is one of 11 aboard a rocket scheduled to blast off early Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to the International Space Station. “We think it’s going to ferment faster,” said Max Holden, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House begins talks on presidential election bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the House of Representatives is yet to formally begin deliberating the presidential election bill, factions at the House have begun wrangling over the minimum requirements for political parties to be allowed to nominate candidates. Major factions at the House, namely the Democratic Party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Golkar Party, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion polls give few clues to Egypt presidential election</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[18 May 2012 Last updated at 02:22 ET By Jon Leyne Middle East correspondent, BBC News, Cairo Former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq (pictured on posters) has seen his poll numbers jump in recent weeks For what is probably the first time in Egyptian history, no-one knows who is going to be leading this country in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel becomes target in Egypt&#8217;s presidential race</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIRO: Israel has become a punching bag for politicians vying for votes in Egypt’s presidential election, playing on popular antipathy in Egypt toward its neighbor, but the realities of office are likely to ensure a 33-year-old peace treaty is not jeopardized. Officials in Israel have watched Egypt’s political turmoil with increasing wariness after the downfall [...]]]></description>
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