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	<description>working for a sustainable world</description>
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		<title>Benefit from the Natural World</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2009/02/21/benefit-from-the-natural-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benefit from the Natural World
© Richard Grossman MD, 2009
 
 There is a fountain of youth, and it may be very close to you. A remarkable new study shows a way to prolong life.
 People who live near green space live longer than those who live surrounded by treeless city. Research from England describes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More About Wild Species</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2009/02/21/more-about-wild-species/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article below may be copied or published but must remain intact, with attribution to the author. I also request that the words “First published in the Durango Herald” accompany any publication. For more information, please write the author at: richard@population-matters.org.
 
More About Wild Species
© Richard Grossman MD, 2008
 
The library of life is burning and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No on Amendment 48</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2009/02/21/no-on-amendment-48/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contraception]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article below may be copied or published but must remain intact, with attribution to the author. I also request that the words “First published in the Durango Herald” accompany any publication. For more information, please write the author at: richard@population-matters.org.
 
No on Amendment 48
© Richard Grossman MD, 2008
 
 
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Envision the Ideal Baby Food</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/09/20/envision-the-ideal-baby-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/09/20/envision-the-ideal-baby-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a food that is ideal nutritionally, is inexpensive and prevents many diseases. Wouldn’t you expect such a product to be used universally? Guess again!
Breast milk is all of the above, and more. Sadly, only one child in seven born in the USA is given just breast milk at six months of age, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haunted in India</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/02/25/haunted-in-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/02/25/haunted-in-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of Varanasi that stays with me is not the chanting and bell ringing while seven saffron-robed priests gesture with incense and flames. It is not the nine clouds of smoke as bodies are cremated on the steps beside the Mother Ganges. It is not the press of dense crowds of people-whom I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know About Contraception</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2006/09/19/know-about-contraception/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2006/09/19/know-about-contraception/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need contraception, use it; if you don&#8217;t, be a source of information for other people. For many people, particularly teens, abstinence is the ideal contraception. Since contraception is the best way of decreasing the need for abortion, most people agree that good contraceptive services are beneficial.
We have come a long way in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pick Mirena</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2006/08/31/pick-mirena/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2006/08/31/pick-mirena/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were designing a perfect family planning method, what characteristics should it have? Certainly, the method would be highly effective and safe. Probably it should be designed for women, since they are usually more interested than men in controlling fertility. It would be nice if the method also had some beneficial side effects such [...]]]></description>
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