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      <title><![CDATA[It Takes a Village | Local organizations help young parents in need]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Editor's note: The following article was written by UTW's youngest intern, Andrea Mayes, who recently finished a fine summer at the paper. Andrea is a senior at Jenks High School (see "Meet Our Intern," June 21-27, Vol. 21, No. 52).

Surely there are few who haven't heard the statistics: Teen pregna... By Andrea Mayes.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Truth and Politics | How is truth faring in Washington in 2009]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many of us are cynical about promises made by politicians. "Campaign promises are made to be broken" is a venerable truism of American politics. There are "truth-in-advertising" laws against misrepresentation by private businesses, but no such protections apply to political speech.

Why do politicia...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Can We Afford Education? ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than 50 million children across America returned to school this fall, a good thing, so now is a good time to consider how much we spend on public education and whether we're getting good value for that money. This big-picture view is disheartening.

How much does K-12 public education in Americ... By Dan Lips.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brand X? | Tulsa is what it is, no matter how we package it.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A bad habit of a lot of city sprucing efforts is a tendency to deny who we are and have been.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Legal Fiction | Here Come the Judges &ndash; How are we supposed to vote on these if we know nothing about them? Enquiring minds ask questions to make informed votes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I could have been a judge, but I never had the 
            Latin for the judging. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far 
            as being a judge was concerned." Thus spoke park bench 
            philosopher E. L. Wisty, alter ego of the late great Peter Cook. By Michael D. Bates.]]></description>
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