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	<title>Sarah T. Schwab</title>
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	<description>The Writings of Sarah Schwab.</description>
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		<title>Tax will not solve obesity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since children, most have been warned that too much sugar &#8211; especially in soda &#8211; causes cavities. Recent studies, however, prove that too much sugar-laden beverages may cause an even bigger risk: cancer.
Last month, University of Minnesota published a study in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, suggesting that people who drink as few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarahtschwab.com/2010/03/08/tax-will-not-solve-obesity/</link>
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		<title>Solitude amongst the loneliness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manhattan&#8217;s a good place to be lonely.
That&#8217;s because &#8211; even amongst the vast throng of blurry faces &#8211; most people are alone here. Most nurture some compulsion to forget this fact. They work and shop to forget. And eat too. They do things too much to forget: drinking and smoking, snorting, popping and praying, working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarahtschwab.com/2010/03/01/solitude-amongst-the-loneliness/</link>
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		<title>Having the &#8220;can do&#8221; attitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During World War II, while American men were off at the front, the government created Rosie the Riveter, with her flexed muscle and &#8220;We Can Do It&#8221; motto to encourage women into the work force. Today, women are marching into the workplace in even larger numbers and taking a sledgehammer to the remaining glass ceilings.
Women&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarahtschwab.com/2010/02/25/having-the-can-do-attitude/</link>
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		<title>Another type of background check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you a tall, fair-skinned, healthy and educated woman? Well! Then you&#8217;re a &#8220;prime candidate&#8221; to earn thousands of dollars!
This proposal caught my attention last February when I came across a Facebook ad that read: &#8220;Women, want to make $6,000 in one month? Donate your eggs!&#8221; Because I was a typical poor college student, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarahtschwab.com/2010/02/25/another-type-of-background-check/</link>
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		<title>Purple band-aids and silly things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Princess and the Frog Disney band-aids cover many of my fingertips. It started last week. I bought them because they were purple and pretty. They conceal the ugliness underneath.
I do this when I’m overwhelmed: bite my nails until they’re a bloody mess. The state of my fingers has always mirrored my emotions.
“No bite,” Mark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sarahtschwab.com/2010/02/19/purple-band-aids-and-silly-things/</link>
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