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		<title>Who Is More Thoughtful—Obama or Romney?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/16/who-is-more-thoughtful-obama-or-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Frank, M.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s announcement of his support for gay marriage and Romney&#8217;s reaction to the revelations that he bullied a gay classmate in prep school offer vivid examples of the differences between how the two candidates think — and, ultimately, govern. People mistrust people who take time to think before they speak, which accounts for some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15747&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the Lab: How to Make Group Projects Successful</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/16/lessons-from-the-lab-how-to-make-group-projects-successful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Murphy Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Science]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ideas.time.com/?p=15767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever been a part of a team in a workplace, you know that coordinating with even a single other person can quickly get, well, complicated. Now imagine having hundreds, even thousands of &#8220;teammates,&#8221; all with a hand in the same project. This kind of megacollaboration is becoming the norm in many scientific fields, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15767&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Obama Hasn&#8217;t &#8216;Lost&#8217; the South</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/15/why-obama-hasnt-lost-the-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Meacham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[north carolina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, perhaps the most striking tactical story of the 2008 presidential campaign was the surprising reaction to Barack Obama in the American South. As a native of the region, I was long skeptical about the Illinois Senator’s viability in the Old Confederacy and thus about his national viability. (PHOTOS: Inside Barack Obama&#8217;s World) He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15603&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Hollywood Men Trying to Gross Us Out?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/15/are-hollywood-men-trying-to-gross-us-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Christakis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Bale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Shadows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Depp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Winslet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the story is written of how Hollywood flipped off heterosexual women, Exhibit A will be Brad Pitt’s beard. Remember when he started appearing in public with the icky nesting material and debris in his facial hair? That benign eccentricity signaled the beginning of A-list actors masquerading as homeless men. Skeevy celebrities with greasy, uncombed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15517&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Just Facebook&#8217;s Co-Founder Who&#8217;s Trying to Dodge Taxes</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/15/its-not-just-facebooks-cofounder-who-is-trying-to-dodge-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Liu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eduardo Saverin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. citizenship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ideas.time.com/?p=15599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Young billionaire Eduardo Saverin has always had clever lawyers. He famously sued his Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to win official co-founder status. Now, just ahead of Facebook’s IPO and the expected pop in the value of his shares, Saverin has renounced U.S. citizenship. On advice of counsel, he’s established residency in Singapore, where there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15599&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity or Chef? You Can&#8217;t Really Be Both</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/15/celebrity-or-chef-you-cant-really-be-both/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Ozersky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taste of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthony bourdain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curtis stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dan abram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food network star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morimoto]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ideas.time.com/?p=15636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I asked Tom Colicchio, Top Chef’s lead judge and one of the most visible of American chefs, about the Braiser, the all-celebrity-chef news site that launched Monday, he cut me off before I could even finish the question. “I hate that phrase,” he said. “It makes no distinction between a chef who is on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15636&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Edwards Trial: Tawdry Testimony, But Was There a Crime?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/14/john-edwards-trial-tawdry-testimony-but-was-there-a-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Case Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bunny Mellon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kate Edwards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rielle Hunter]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ideas.time.com/?p=15487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The cringe-inducing low point of the John Edwards trial so far was when a campaign aide testified about an airport encounter between Edwards and his breast-cancer-stricken wife. Reacting to a National Enquirer report that he was having an affair, Elizabeth Edwards “collapsed in a ball” in a parking lot then got up, tore off her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15487&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Former U.S. Senator John Edwards leaves the federal court house in Greensboro</media:title>
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		<title>Do Black Women Really Want to Be Fat?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/14/do-black-women-really-want-to-be-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noliwe M. Rooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alice Randall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ideas.time.com/?p=15176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are 4 out of 5 black women obese simply because they want to be? According to an opinion piece by novelist Alice Randall that recently appeared in the New York Times, the answer is yes. Randall says that in addition to fatty foods and poor eating habits, the music and poetry in black culture lionizes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15176&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoons of the Week: May 5–11</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/11/cartoons-of-the-week-21/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>
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			<media:title type="html">May 5-11</media:title>
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		<title>What Do We Do About Poor Science Scores? Take Kids Outside</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/11/what-do-we-do-about-poor-science-scores-take-kids-outside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew J. Rotherham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, so let’s start this column with a nod to my 9th-grade science teacher, Bruce Butler, who lit a spark in me by making geology and environmental science fun, interesting — and rigorous. I still think of him whenever I’m out hiking or fishing and come across some geological curiosity. He went [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15165&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quiz: What&#8217;s Your Parenting Style?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/quiz-whats-your-parenting-style/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/quiz-whats-your-parenting-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[attachment parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[See TIME&#8217;s May 21 cover story, &#8220;The Man Who Remade Parenting&#8221; MORE: TIME&#8217;s Complete Coverage on Attachment Parenting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14877&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Feminism Begat Intensive Mothering</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/how-feminism-begat-intensive-mothering/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/how-feminism-begat-intensive-mothering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feminism and motherhood have long been cast as feuding sisters, one always attempting to undermine the other. In this calculation, women had to choose between the independence, education and self-expression of the feminist path and the nurture, sacrifice and child-centricity of the family path. The more feminist a woman is, the less appetite, it has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14871&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Breast-Feeding Isn’t the Bugaboo</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/why-breastfeeding-isnt-the-bugaboo/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/why-breastfeeding-isnt-the-bugaboo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique Browning</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Badinter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Conflict]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ideas.time.com/?p=14915</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Conflict, a provocative new book that was a best seller in Europe and is predictably making waves in the U.S., leading French intellectual Elisabeth Badinter argues that women have become newly enslaved by biology — more specifically, by their breasts. The ideological pressure to nurse a child — in the name of all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14915&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Science Behind Dr. Sears: Does It Stand Up?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/the-science-behind-dr-sears-does-it-stand-up/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/the-science-behind-dr-sears-does-it-stand-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health & Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life & Style]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[brain damage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excessive crying]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to argue with William Sears&#8217; success. A man whose multiple books have sold millions of copies and been translated into 18 languages is clearly onto something. But it&#8217;s not so hard to argue with his science. One of the central warnings in Sears&#8217; work is that babies who cry too much — even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14880&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of an Accidental Attachment Parent</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/confessions-of-an-accidental-attachment-parent/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/confessions-of-an-accidental-attachment-parent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Schrobsdorff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m pretty sure that wearing both your children for most of the day for several years counts as attachment parenting. But I&#8217;m here to tell you that, at least in my case, it wasn&#8217;t some kind of premeditated choice. Really, I was just trying to go grocery shopping. Putting the toddler in a backpack and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14812&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parents Do What’s Right for Them, Not for the Kids</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/parents-do-whats-right-for-them-not-for-the-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/parents-do-whats-right-for-them-not-for-the-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Warner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We like to think that the choices we make early on as parents — cry it out vs. co-sleeping, stroller vs. sling and so on — reflect deep truths about what’s best for our children. But they don’t. What these decisions do reflect, however, whether we want to admit it or not, are pretty deep-seated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14814&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Detached Dad’s Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/the-detached-dads-manifesto/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/the-detached-dads-manifesto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Thornburgh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates of attachment parenting might claim that their approach places demands on both genders, but we fathers know the truth. Regardless of our best intentions as equal partners, attachment parenting is really attachment mothering. It’s the mother who has to keep constant vigil over her diet while pregnant to ward off suboptimal fetal intelligence. She’s the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14816&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Life of Dr. Bill Sears</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/the-life-of-dr-bill-sears/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/the-life-of-dr-bill-sears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Sears has gained a loyal following among moms who parent in the extreme. But his personal life informs his philosophy as much as his professional expertise<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=15012&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Peter Bohler for TIME</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Dr. Sears examines a young patient during a routine visit in his office in Southern California. Sears is mostly retired, but he spends two afternoons per week at his practice.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>One Family&#8217;s Experiment with Attachment Parenting</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/one-familys-experiment-with-attachment-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/one-familys-experiment-with-attachment-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Pickert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erica Kain, in many ways, epitomizes the complexities of attachment parenting. She was committed to raising her children by the movement&#8217;s principles, even if she didn’t call herself an “attachment parent” or obsess over The Baby Book by Dr. Bill Sears. “With Dr. Sears, you don’t have to have read the book,” says Kain. “It’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14960&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Timothy Archibald for TIME</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA["I had one friend who had kids before me. She was not vaccinating. She was doing the attachment parenting things. I hold her in very high esteem. I felt she had kind of blazed the way. She helped guide me through the natural childbirth experience. So I was following her lead initially. That’s the way things are handed down now. We notice how a friend is doing it and I admire the way she does other things."<br>
<i>From left to right: Genevieve, age 4, Caroline, age 2, and Amelia, age 6, in her mother, Erica's arms at a Safeway in Walnut Creek, Calif.</i>]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Will Black Voters Punish Obama for His Support of Gay Rights?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/09/will-black-voters-punish-obama-for-his-support-of-gay-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/09/will-black-voters-punish-obama-for-his-support-of-gay-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Touré</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say the arc of history bends toward justice. If that’s true, then as a nation, we’re having a hard time bending on the issue of gay rights. But this week will be remembered as a historic turning point, because President Obama threw political caution to the wind and came out as the man who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=14951&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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