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		<title>Damian Aspinall&#8217;s Extraordinary Gorilla Encounter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 03:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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The dream of Damian Aspinall of The Aspinall Foundation was to reintroduce lowland gorillas back to the wild in [[Gabon]], West Africa, in the remotest part of the rainforest where their ancestors once lived. Watch this amazing life-changing journey.
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		<title>Making a Pledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About five years ago I had a student who absolutely refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. He said it was something he felt he couldn&#8217;t be compelled to do. Legally, he was right. A student cannot be compelled to say the Pledge. However, he does have to stand because that&#8217;s considered a school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Crutchfield &#8211; Opera Conductor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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Ah-ha! Will Crutchfield argues his point during a debate in Ms. Hunley&#8217;s class period. The class was also used for research, note-filing, and practice before tournaments.
I found this photograph in the Warwick High School yearbook of 1975. A friend of mine way back then in Newport News, VA, was Will Crutchfield, who grew up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxi Driver Art Film</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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When Randy Klein was going to art school, he needed a job to support himself. His brother suggested driving a cab, and so that&#8217;s what Randy did. His experiences are the stuff of some fairly creative film making, as you can see.
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		<title>Remembering John Updike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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I found this little piece on the BBC site. It includes an excerpt from a very hard-to-find documentary called &#8220;What Makes Rabbit Run?: A Profile of John Updike.&#8221;
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		<title>John Updike has Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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John Updike, Massachusetts, mid 1960s
I can&#8217;t even begin to express my profound sadness upon hearing the news of John Updike&#8217;s passing. Back in the late 1970s when I was getting very interested in literature, Updike was the man I most wanted to be. From my point of view as a young man in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Lennon&#8217;s Laptop Commercial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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John Lennon
Almost three decades after his death, John Lennon still proves to be a popular household name as the former Beatle has suddenly appeared in a charity commercial. How amazing is that? Especially since he&#8217;s been dead for twenty-eight years..
In the commercial Lennon encourages people to donate to a campaign started by One Laptop per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Break-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This American Life can be a little corny at times, but  Ira Glass has a real talent for getting moving stories out of everyday people.
I discovered this absolutely compelling piece about Phil Collins (Against All Odds) and one of his biggest fans. Even if you are NOT a Phil Collins fan, check out this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olga Korbut: The Gymnast, Her Coach, Her Rival and the President</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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Like everyone who watched the 1972 Munich Olympics, I was quite taken with Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut — the 4-foot-11, 85-pound sprite who performed a back flip off the uneven bars, danced on the four-inch-wide balance beam, and seduced a worldwide audience with her floor exercise routine “like a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hear the World&#8217;s First Recording</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that Thomas Edison was not the first person to record sound. In 1860, about twenty years before Edison’s phonograph, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made a recording of the French folk song &#8220;Au Claire de la Lune.&#8221;  The device he used to do this was known as a phonautograph, which utilized paper [...]]]></description>
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