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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
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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>Uros Islands</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2009/04/13/uros-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peru
Lake Titicaca
 Lake Titicaca: Click to see more photosWelcome


Women in the Uros islands on Lake Titicaca wait for the morning&#8217;s load of tourists to arrive at their floating island. The 2000 Uros Islanders&#8217; main income comes from tourism.
Waiting for the tourists
Uros Islands, Lake Titicaca, Peru


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		<title>The video referee</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2009/04/11/the-video-referee/</link>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/?p=152</guid>
		<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>Buenas Intenciones en Malas Manos</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/09/14/buenas-intenciones-en-malas-manos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/09/14/buenas-intenciones-en-malas-manos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jorge Luis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Versión en español]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[La congresista Mercedes Cabanillas ha exigido la renuncia del viceministro de Gestión Pedagógica, Idel Vexler, por el contenido de los libros escolares de Ciencias Sociales distribuidos por el Estado. Desde su punto de vista, partes del texto dirigido a estudiantes del quinto de secundaria, rayan con un contrabando ideológico por la serie de inexactitudes encontradas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good intentions in bad hands</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/09/14/good-intentions-in-bad-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jorge Luis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tambien en español: Buenas intenciones en malas manos
Congresswoman Mercedes Cabanillas has demanded the resignation of the Vice Minister of Education, Idel Vexler, over the content of social studies textbooks distributed by the Peruvian state. From her point of view, parts of the text, aimed at 5th year secondary school students, come close to “contraband” ideologies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the homeless off the streets</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/09/04/getting-the-homeless-off-the-streets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/09/04/getting-the-homeless-off-the-streets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oceania]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Auckland City Council wants to clean homeless people out of the city centre. 
How could this be done… Perhaps they might provide a new homeless shelter in the city where rough sleepers can crash, get some soup, medical attention, assistance with getting back on their feet and integrated into society. 
Maybe that’s a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sport doesn&#8217;t need taxpayer help</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/08/24/sport-doesnt-need-taxpayer-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/08/24/sport-doesnt-need-taxpayer-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oceania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Team New Zealand flittered $130 million on its failure in Valencia last year, and more than a quarter of that came from the Government.
In John Key-ese, that’s equal to about 3,217,350 blocks of cheese the government could have given to hard-working families. Instead they preferred to blow the $33.75 million on a rich white man’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists: not all bad</title>
		<link>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/08/22/journalists-not-all-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreign-correspondence.com/2008/08/22/journalists-not-all-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists may be low in public esteem, but I reckon if those surveys asked respondents to rank student reporters, we’d fare even worse. 
The general aura of suspicion that often greets journalists is frequently augmented by fear (of being wildly misquoted, I suppose) when our subject hears they’re talking to a student journalist.
Either that, or [...]]]></description>
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