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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #73</title>
            <description> Kiss of Death (1947): An armed robber (Victor Mature) sets up a hit on his accomplice through the DA&apos;s office. Mature then proceeds to go after the giggly, psychopathic hitman (a young Richard Widmark).* Karl Malden makes brief, but...</description>
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            <title>H1N1 Death Rate Holds Steady</title>
            <description> The latest update from the World Health Organization reveals the number of swine flu cases worldwide at 77,201—a nearly 50% increase from the June 22nd update. Deaths total 332 (up from 113) for an unchanged mortality rate of 0.43%....</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:44:27 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>And Now...Diprivan</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Sources are now&nbsp;implicating propofol (Diprivan; sanofi-aventis) in Michael Jackson's death.&nbsp;TMZ reports that police recovered the anesthesia inducer at Jackson's rented home. And ABC News interviewed Jackson's nutritionist, Cherilyn Lee, who stated that the singer asked her for Diprivan,&nbsp;by trade...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:28:37 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Dr. Murray&apos;s CPR Technique Explained by Attorney</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ The 911 call for Michael Jackson revealed that the singer's hired physician, Conrad Murray,&nbsp;performed CPR (ie, chest compressions)&nbsp;on&nbsp;a bed. Because anybody who's familiar with CPR knows that the procedure&nbsp;should be&nbsp;performed on a hard flat surface (so that chest compressions...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:44:36 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #72</title>
            <description> Middlemarch (1994): If you can&apos;t get through the book (I&apos;m talking to you, English majors), then watch the BBC mini-series—a highly faithful adaptation of George Eliot&apos;s novel (written by Andrew Davies of Pride and Prejudice fame). Dorothea Brooke believes...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:08:07 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Michael Jackson: Rampant, But Consistent, Speculation on Cause of Death</title>
            <description>Michael Jackson overdosed on Demerol (meperidine), according to numerous posts on the web, including those at TMZ—the go-to site for bottom-feeders of entertainment news. The web site also reports that Jackson received daily shots of the morphine analog, possibly for...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:11:05 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Duke Engineers Test Catheter Prototype for Brain Tumors</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Delivering chemotherapy to brain tumors is particularly challenging because of the blood-brain barrier (BBB),&nbsp;the collection of&nbsp;tight junctions between endothelial cells in cerebral blood vessels. When intact, these protective junctions prevent the passage of a number of substances—including chemotherapeutic molecules—from...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:21:40 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>WHO: H1N1 Update</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Thanks to&nbsp;vigilant laboratory testing&nbsp;(at least in part)&nbsp;for H1N1, the number of swine flu cases worldwide has increased by nearly 90% in the last 11 days. The World Health Organization reports a total of 52,160 cases of H1N1 disease (up...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:45:09 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #71</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Damned Don't Cry!&nbsp;(1950): A 40-something Joan Crawford still rocks a body as a ruthless, faux socialite. Nothing—and I mean nothing—detracts from Crawford, thanks mostly&nbsp;to&nbsp;a B-movie supporting cast. Still it's a brave star who's willing to receive an on-camera beating...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:57:15 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #70</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ When it debuted in 1991, Billy Bathgate—based on the novel by E. L. Doctorow—was generally faintly praised (Vincent Canby)&nbsp;or soundly panned (Roger Ebert). Perhaps the lukewarm reception had something to do with overblown expectations and rumors of production troubles...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:14:23 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Caution for Today: GBS Risk With Old Swine-Flu Vaccine</title>
            <description><![CDATA[While drugmakers&nbsp;create a vaccine against the currently pandemic swine-flu virus (H1N1 S-OIV 2009), neurologists are advised to monitor the safety of such inoculations, should&nbsp;they be implemented. The caution is founded on&nbsp;a higher-than-expected&nbsp;rate of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)&nbsp;in vaccine recipients during the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:15:41 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>WHO: Not-So-Deadly Swine Flu Now Pandemic</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ After&nbsp;forecasting a swine flu pandemic for a good month or so, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now given the&nbsp;H1N1 virus official&nbsp;level 6&nbsp;status. What this means is nothing particularly new: A pandemic occurs when a novel influenza virus causes...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:45:52 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #69</title>
            <description> The comedy and gravity of global espionage are explored in Our Man in Havana (1959), Carol Reed&apos;s adaption of the Graham Greene novel. A humble vacuum cleaner salesman in prerevolutionary Cuba, Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) adds to his income...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:08:08 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Neurospecific Protein Key to Brain Degeneration in Huntington&apos;s</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Although the gene responsible&nbsp;for&nbsp;Huntington's disease (HD), a&nbsp;dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder, was detected more than 10 years ago, the mechanism of its brain-specific pathology has remained elusive. Now investigators at Johns Hopkins&nbsp;reveal, in&nbsp;an elegant series of cell-line experiments, how the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:49:49 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>National Review Investigates Macy Foundation and IOM</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ In the National Review, conservative journalist Mary Claire Kendall questions the influence that the private Josiah Macy, Jr, Foundation&nbsp;has on&nbsp;the&nbsp;nonprofit Institute of Medicine&nbsp;(IOM). At stake, evidently, is the Foundation's interest in removing all sources of commercial funding for physicians'...]]></description>
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