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	<title>Medical Health &#187; Editorial</title>
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		<title>British Columbia Should Get it Right For It&#8217;s Own Good</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2012/01/18/british-columbia-should-get-it-right-for-its-own-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always thought that  if British Columbia really had it on the ball, it would make itself over as a fisheries, forestry, and wildlife management park. In other words, British Columbia would get itself designated as a special provincial or national park, a park in which planners, ethicists, scientists, and economists would test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Israel, Palestine and Peace</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2011/05/22/obama-israel-palestine-and-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2011/05/22/obama-israel-palestine-and-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 02:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the wealthy of this world really want peace, they should help negotiate and finance Israel&#8217;s purchase of the lands Israel deems necessary to its security and continued existence. Anything less is simply and purely futile.
A political &#8220;solution&#8221; will not last. Land ownership is the answer. Ownership is clear cut, with no waffling and posturing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fisheries Turnoff</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2010/07/23/the-fisheries-turnoff/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2010/07/23/the-fisheries-turnoff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/?p=487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was watching David Suzuki&#8217;s &#8220;One Ocean&#8221; on CBC Television last night, and I was again struck by one fisheries biologist&#8217;s arrogance&#8211;his choice of words, his tone of voice, his meaning. When he spoke of forcing a smile onto his face at public meetings and inquiries, he was not only insulting his audience, he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition to Save Arizona&#8217;s State Parks</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2010/01/15/petition-to-save-arizonas-state-parks/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2010/01/15/petition-to-save-arizonas-state-parks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/?p=291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arizona&#8217;s politicians are set to close thirteen state parks. Here is a link to a petition to save Arizona&#8217;s state parks. You may sign this petition.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-arizona-state-parks
The organizers will send the petition to Governor Brewer and the state legislators on February 1st, 2010. 
You will find a slide show of Arizona hiking destinations on our Flash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Canyon State: Arizona Set to Close and Sell State Parks?</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2009/12/26/the-grand-canyon-state-arizona-set-to-close-and-sell-state-parks/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2009/12/26/the-grand-canyon-state-arizona-set-to-close-and-sell-state-parks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The world flies in and takes a long look at Arizona, the Grand Canyon State (see our Photo Gallery, our Arizona Gallery, and our Grand Canyon Trails Page). And soon after arriving in Phoenix, they fall in love with all the other gems Arizona has to offer: preserved yet accessible desert wilderness areas and wildlife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rupert Sheldrake and the Presence of the Past</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2009/08/16/rupert-sheldrake-and-the-presence-of-the-past/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2009/08/16/rupert-sheldrake-and-the-presence-of-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book, The Presence of the Past. Morphic Resonance &#038; the Habits of Nature, Rupert Sheldrake presents a valuable review of the science, religion, and philosophy of origins and change, and he gives us a promising twist on the theory of evolution. He makes field theory and the all-pervading power of habit come alive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard&#8217;s Dreams</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2009/07/30/harvards-dreams/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2009/07/30/harvards-dreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor&#8217;s book My Stroke of Insight Harvard&#8217;s new &#8220;Opiate of the Masses&#8221;? On her web page http://drjilltaylor.com/book.html, she says, &#8220;I believe the more time we spend running our deep inner peace circuitry, then the more peace we will project into the world, and ultimately the more peace we will have on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quit Sit-on-your-bottom Activities</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2009/07/28/quit-sit-on-your-bottom-activities/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2009/07/28/quit-sit-on-your-bottom-activities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quit spending money sitting down. Everybody wants your dollars and cents, and they want you to spend it in a chair&#8211;at concerts, movies, restaurants, ballets, musicals, coffee shops, meditation groups . . . 
Stay on your feet. Go for a walk or a hike. Lift weights while you watch the news. Find a good deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-tasking, Texting, and the Service Economy</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/11/06/multi-tasking-texting-and-the-service-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2008/11/06/multi-tasking-texting-and-the-service-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear all this hype on TV about how the younger generations are now experts at multi-tasking and texting and how video games help our children grow up to be surgeons. But who wants a surgeon who multi-tasks and texts? I mean neither multi-tasking nor texting contribute to a surgeon&#8217;s operating-room skills. Both multi-tasking and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Alan Greenspan Cause the Economic Meltdown?</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/10/23/alan-greenspan-probably-caused-the-economic-meltdown/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2008/10/23/alan-greenspan-probably-caused-the-economic-meltdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/2008/10/23/alan-greenspan-probably-caused-the-economic-meltdown/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am good at seeing patterns in life and in data, and I am often good at predicting (although sometimes I do not follow my own good advice), but right now I am unwilling to spend the time necessary to perhaps substantiate the following possibility: 
When Alan Greenspan decided to pop the High Tech stock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last of Brazil&#8217;s Lost Tribe</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/10/20/the-last-of-brazils-lost-tribe/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2008/10/20/the-last-of-brazils-lost-tribe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/2008/10/20/the-last-of-brazils-lost-tribe/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the news last night, the reporter called it the lost tribe, but that label seems like propaganda, given that the news report was about how Brazil&#8217;s ranchers and farmers had exterminated the tribe over a number of years&#8211;obviously the tribe was not lost to these ranchers (or to the Brazilian government, which has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Presidency: Selfish Candidates or Candidates for Selfishness?</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/02/07/selfish-candidates-or-candidates-for-selfishness/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2008/02/07/selfish-candidates-or-candidates-for-selfishness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headlines today are &#8220;Mitt Romney quits after pouring $35 million of his own money into failed campaign.&#8221; Of course, we all know that Mitt Romney was running in the Republican primary, the race in which Republican voters choose which Republican leader will run against the Democrats for the U.S. presidency. But I do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War and Immortality</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/28/war-and-immortality/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/28/war-and-immortality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent this to CTV News:
Comment re. your 27 April 2007 piece about cancer rates
During the 20th and 21st centuries, we spent a lot of money on war &#8212; World Wars I and II, to name just the big ones. If we had spent all that time, energy, money, and life on life-extension, we would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Health and Arrogant Ecologists</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/07/world-health-and-arrogant-ecologists/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/07/world-health-and-arrogant-ecologists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We cannot assert that all ecologists and environmentalists are arrogant, but I have encountered quite a few who would have made stronger contributions had they attended compulsory courses in ethics and human kindness. In fact, I believe that many of our professional conservationists have retarded our fight against global warming. If we had replaced them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming and Publish or Perish</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/03/15/global-warming-and-publish-or-perish/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2007/03/15/global-warming-and-publish-or-perish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I believe that man-made global warming is a fact, but I also know that the discovery of the rise in greenhouse gases was not a major scientific breakthrough, and monitoring the greenhouse effect has not required a vast amount of scientific smarts. 
And I wonder, If global warming brings about a major worldwide catastrophe, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rich give us delusions of immortality</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/02/28/the-rich-give-us-delusions-of-immortality/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2007/02/28/the-rich-give-us-delusions-of-immortality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/2007/02/28/the-rich-give-us-delusions-of-immortality/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The government and the media keep telling us to prolong our lives: quit smoking, exercise, eat right, get a cat and a dog, get married, quit renting, quit driving fast (fly, don&#8217;t drive), have two drinks a day, don&#8217;t drink, take a multivitamin, don&#8217;t take a multivitamin, drink green tea, drink coffee (they say it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking and Obesity</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/02/02/smoking-and-obesity/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2007/02/02/smoking-and-obesity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Medicine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicine.armed.us/2007/02/02/smoking-and-obesity/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The media keeps saying that today&#8217;s kids are obese and that today&#8217;s parents may be the first generation in history to outlive their children. Yet, in the United States and Canada, smoking and lung cancer are on the decline, which makes me wonder whether cigarettes would keep our teenagers and twenty-somethings slim, allowing them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science, Ethics, and Abuse</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/10/01/science-ethics-and-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/10/01/science-ethics-and-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicine.armed.us/2006/10/01/science-ethics-and-abuse/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the statement I gave to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and then e-mailed to President Bush:
One of my present concerns is that science (both in government and academia) attracts (and subsequently recruits) sinister political hacks and abject academic lackeys.  I recently expressed my concern to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy:
[originally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Serves You Right?</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/09/30/it-serves-you-right/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/09/30/it-serves-you-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So your grandparents passed down one or two genetic vulnerabilities and you have become ill with a genetic disease (maybe arthritis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, or breast cancer). And you know that you did not bring on your condition, you know that it is not your fault, and your doctors and friends know that much, [...]]]></description>
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