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		<title>If New York City Loses Diversity, the Terrorists Have Won</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are certain things that I missed out on growing up in New York: a backyard to play in, central air-conditioning, personal space, getting a driver&#8217;s license before age 30&#8230; But even when I was sweating uncomfortably, awkwardly sandwiched between strangers on a packed subway train during my 3-hour daily commute to high school, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=831</link>
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		<title>My Dad&#8217;s Crazier Than Your Dad: A Scientific Inquiry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art as a public expression of family dysfunction can go in a number of directions:  righteous indignation, raunchy rebellion, and weepy martyrdom are among these. Occasionally, someone actually transcends shock value and does something noteworthy. I went to see “My Dad is Crazier Than Your Dad” last Friday for opening night of the NYC Fringe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=832</link>
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		<title>Haiti Volunteer Network Breaks 13,000 Twitter Followers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m proud to say that the information exchange we created for people wanting to volunteer skills and services to help support rebuilding Haiti (from wherever they are) is still very much alive and active. There are constantly new posts and offers on the website from around the world &#8211; and the twitter feed broke 13,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=827</link>
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		<title>Shackling Pregnant Women &#8211; When Will it Stop?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I was shocked into muteness to find out that incarcerated women sometime suffer the practice of giving birth in shackles? Really? In the United States? In the post-antebellum United States (as in the Civil War, not Lady Antebellum)? I first found out about it nearly a decade ago, when I met Kemba Smith [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=823</link>
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		<title>May the Hottest Team Win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turns out that the World Cup finalists are also the two prettiest teams (as determined by this survey from a dating site for Beautiful People only. They would know.) We&#8217;re all winners! Especially when they swap shirts. Some of the African players should have ranked much higher (ahem, Ghana, hello?) but this is entertaining nonetheless. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=818</link>
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		<title>What Doesn&#8217;t Kill You Makes You Completely Neurotic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York has plentiful daily plagues and irritations, some of which are lethal, but most are just nuisances. They have given New Yorkers a well-deserved rep for being neurotic. I Googled &#8220;neurotic New Yorker&#8221; (with the quotes) and came up with no less than 219,000 results. Who wouldn&#8217;t be a psychosomatic bundle of stress with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=817</link>
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		<title>Back in the Saddle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For better or for worse, I have left the city of Atlanta, GA and am now back in New York City. I am glad to be back. This is home. The shoe fits. I plan to stay. Atlanta was a great adventure. It required me to drive, which was no small feat. As I explained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=816</link>
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		<title>John Mayer: The Bad Boy of Easy Listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honestly, I'm wondering if John Mayer isn't relying on his scotch-addled media antics to save him from what would otherwise be an inevitable fate of evaporating into the easy listening airwaves]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=813</link>
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		<title>Social Media Analogies for Print People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike print, you can't edit a social media-based web site until it is perfect. Since much of it's evolution depends on how users behave and what types of content they share, you have to accept more of a role of jazz composer than orchestra conductor.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=811</link>
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		<title>Please Cast Ray Liotta as Rod Blagojevich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ray Liotta was on television last night. I thought to myself, dang, I would love to see him cast as Rod Blagojevich (a man, who along with John Edwards, proves that maintaining the hairstyle of an 80s teen movie heartthrob can only bring a lifetime of scandal and disappointment). Apparently, I am not alone in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shardasekaran.com/?p=804</link>
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