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	<title>Eric Riess</title>
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		<title>The New Jounali$m</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from a &#8216;Wall Street Journal&#8217;  interview with Randy Michaels, the CEO of the Tribune Companies. It reflects an attitude that will send a chill down the spine of local journalists everywhere and explains why these newspapers will never succeed as a group and will hopefully be sold off to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Eco-Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are among the legions of Americans looking for the  best way to rescue the planet from ecological disaster, Fred Pearce&#8217;s &#8220;Confessions of an Eco-Sinner&#8221; is a must read.
While Pearce is based in England and his examples and specifics are tailored to the experiences of that country, his investigations are enlightening for anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericriess.com/the-real-eco-story/</link>
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		<title>Finding Your Vocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it really this easy? I went to a Commonwealth Club lecture recently by Craig Nathanson, a coach and author, who&#8217;s main theme was to encourage people over 40 to find work that is not just a paycheck, but is a vocation -something that is fueled by an inner passion.
It was one of those lectures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericriess.com/finding-your-vocation/</link>
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		<title>Brains in Crises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Strauch wants Baby Boomers to stop worrying about their &#8217;senior moments.&#8217;
Her latest book, &#8220;The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain,&#8221; attempts to explain what&#8217;s going on when middle-age men and women walk from one room to another but can&#8217;t remember why.
You&#8217;ll be happy to know that there are a raft of scientists and psychologists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericriess.com/brains-in-crises/</link>
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		<title>Greek Debt 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually comment on national and international news but this week I  ran into an explanation of the whole Greek debt mess that helped me understand what&#8217;s going on.
In case you haven&#8217;t been following the news I&#8217;ll add some background. The world&#8217;s financial markets have been in an uproar over the last month [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericriess.com/greek-debt-101/</link>
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		<title>Decisions, Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How We Decide&#8221;, a fascinating book by Jonah Lehrer, is another is the long line of texts trying to explain to the general public how our brains work.
Lehrer uses real life examples to illustrate science, helping us understand the split-second decisions made by NFL quarterbacks, airline pilots, and even soldiers in combat situations.
A good portion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericriess.com/decisions-decisions/</link>
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		<title>Small Town Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I live in a small town. It&#8217;s the kind of place where clocks don&#8217;t really matter. We have a small shopping area with a pharmacy, which includes the post office, two restaurants, a grocery store, real estate office , a bank and a hardware store &#8211; not to mention the gas station across the street.
Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericriess.com/small-town-living/</link>
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		<title>Ending Overeating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally finished one of those books sitting next to my bed. &#8220;The End of Overeating&#8221; by David Kessler, MD.
Dr. Kessler,was the former head of the FDA before returning to the Bay Area for a short stint as head of the Medical Center at U.C. San Francisco. The fact that he&#8217;s currently the center of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericriess.com/ending-overeating/</link>
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		<title>Real Estate Roulette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A huge percentage of Hawaii real estate owners were investors just flipping property. Like other vacation destinations such as Florida, Arizona or Las Vegas, Hawaii property values got clobbered over the last three years.
What sold for well over $1million in 2007 is now priced at $600,000 thanks to the large number of foreclosures and short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericriess.com/real-estate-roulette/</link>
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		<title>The Joint is Jumpin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a variety of reasons many people see Hawaii as the &#8216;canary in the coal mine&#8217; &#8211; a predictor of what&#8217;s to come for the nation&#8217;s economy.
So, I thought I&#8217;d check in with some friends there and see what the future may hold for the mainland. Hawaii has been hit hard by the bursting real [...]]]></description>
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