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		<title>Have we eaten ourselves into a Swine Flu pandemic?</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2009/04/30/have-we-eaten-ourselves-into-a-swine-flu-pandemic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED &#8211; 2 MAY
As the risk of a Swine Flu pandemic increases, we should think about how it came about, and what we could do to prevent similar crises in the future. The financial meltdown lead politicians to consider systemic changes – will the swine flu outbreak do the same for the food production industry?

Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four worlds in one city</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2009/04/23/four-worlds-in-one-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Peru archives
The high life
You don’t see the typical guide book Peruvian &#8211; indigenous, dark-skinned and dressed in brightly coloured woven fabrics &#8211; at the gym in downtown Lima. Here, the average exerciser looks distinctly European, a combination of natural attributes and money: relatively tall and fair-skinned with an unnaturally high proportion of blondes.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The video referee</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2009/04/11/the-video-referee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2009/04/11/the-video-referee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New revelations about the death of Ian Tomlinson highlight the benefits of this media-saturated society, while Bob Quick&#8217;s embarrasing mistake shows its dangers. 
When a man died at the anti-G20 protests in London at the beginning of this month, it seemed an open and shut case. Ian Tomlinson died of a heart attack; police had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption versus development</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/12/30/corruption-versus-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/12/30/corruption-versus-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cop is in a huff when he pulls over the carload of tourists. He stands in the cold dusk air on the main road into Arequipa scanning the registration and insurance documents. Fernando, riding co-pilot and the only local in the car, answers the questions for the non-Spanish speaking driver. They assume he’ll just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An idea that would give a Minuteman a heart attack</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/06/15/an-idea-that-would-give-a-minuteman-a-heart-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/06/15/an-idea-that-would-give-a-minuteman-a-heart-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oceania]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If factories can pick up and move overseas when they want, then why can’t workers? That’s what the US Socialist Worker Party’s candidate for the Presidency, Roger Calero, reckons. 
I interviewed Calero a few weeks ago and, on the whole, our perspectives on world affairs were so far apart that I sometimes wondered if we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dow on Dioxins</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/04/17/dow-on-dioxins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/04/17/dow-on-dioxins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you conduct a credible study? Well, if you’re looking into the effects of a company’s practices, it might look a little more kosher if that company doesn’t fund the research.
This story in today’s Herald reports on a Dow-funded study into the health effects of a Dow weed-killer factory in Taranaki.
The study concluded that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trading with China</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/04/15/trading-with-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/04/15/trading-with-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Winston Peters holds up his little &#8220;No&#8221; placard, it makes me want to say &#8220;yes&#8221;. It&#8217;s a knee-jerk reaction, but I can&#8217;t help it.
So I say that this free trade deal with China is not the end of the world as we know it.
I can&#8217;t help thinking that more than a few of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False passport? You&#8217;re grounded!</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/03/21/false-passport-youre-grounded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/03/21/false-passport-youre-grounded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sentence: six months home detention
The crime: coming to New Zealand on a false passport, and using a false name (and, one would presume, false documentation) to apply for citizenship and a New Zealand passport.
Now, I&#8217;m no Sensible Sentencing Trust fanatic, but to me this story just doesn&#8217;t add up.  
A Ukranian guy who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexing up the recession</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/03/20/sexing-up-the-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/03/20/sexing-up-the-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do Elliot Spitzer and Ben Bernanke have in common?
Greg Palast reckons that Spitzer aggravated important people with his meddling in the affairs of banks which were throwing around cash at sub-prime mortgages.
Have a look at this story and ask yourself how the media got wind that Spitzer was throwing around cash at expensive hookers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I report. You decide</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/03/18/i-report-you-decide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/03/18/i-report-you-decide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m all for the wee guy sticking it to the big bully… but I think we need to remember that the wee kid isn’t always spotless (or even particularly good) himself.
I am of course referring to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his aggravation of the United States.  The super power has rampantly mixed itself [...]]]></description>
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