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		<title>Urban student reflects on experiences with India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How is it that I first fell in love? Well, it’s funny you ask, because I wasn’t looking for anything serious at the time. She was attractive, full of color and gorgeous people. She had great taste in music and produced some stunning and hilarious pieces of cinema. But it wasn’t until I started reading more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photoessay; Urban school sends students and faculty on an educational trip to India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maharajas. The Taj Mahal. Colorful saris, bindis, henna-dyed hair and flowers. Call centers, skyscrapers, the most expensive house in the world. Some of the largest slums in Asia, children without shoes, contaminated water, and emaciated elderly. Affluence and poverty, power and oppression, globalization and deeply ingrained traditions. India is a country of contrast and contradiction, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/top-stories/2012/02/22/photoessay-urban-school-sends-students-and-faculty-on-an-educational-trip-to-india/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t flip out: Urban tries a new approach to classes and homework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a warm Monday evening. Birds were swooping and chirping outside my windowsill. The net of the basketball hoop was swaying in the breeze. I was thinking of all the videogames I could be playing. Unfortunately, I had missed a day of school and had to do both my homework and somehow reconstruct the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/opinions/2012/02/17/dont-flip-out-a-new-approach-to-classes-and-homework/</link>
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		<title>Storify: Reaction to Ninth Circuit&#8217;s ruling that Proposition 8 is &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scroll down to see a &#8220;Storify,&#8221; curated by Assistant Multimedia Editor David Immerman from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media sources. The topic: How people across the country are reacting to the Feb. 7 ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Proposition 8, which forbids same-sex marriage, is &#8220;unconstitutional.&#8221; []]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/news/2012/02/13/ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals-ruling-on-proposition-8-its-unconstitutional/</link>
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		<title>Opinion: There&#8217;s brilliance behind the mashup genre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Internet and modern digital technology, a new genre of music has caught the attention of music aficionados and can now be found on a growing number of teen iPods.  Defined by urbandictionary.com as “cutting and pasting samples and loops from two or more popular tracks to form a new track, often forming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/arts/2012/02/12/opinion-theres-brilliance-behind-the-mashup-genre/</link>
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		<title>Editorial: Death of Paterno reminds us to end child abuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s tough to turn on the television these days without hearing the name of Joe Paterno, former Penn State head football coach, who passed away at age 85 on Jan. 22 in the aftermath of a child sex abuse scandal. What we do not see every other day on ESPN’s Sports Center or on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/opinions/2012/02/11/editorial-death-of-paterno-reminds-us-to-end-child-abuse/</link>
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		<title>Debates act as battlefield for GOP presidential candidates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the nation’s attention focuses on the upcoming debate among Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul on Feb. 22, each candidate has been both the victim and victimizer when it comes to the harsh rhetoric, personal attacks, and stinging criticisms that have characterized the Republican primary debates. After seven debates throughout January [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/news/2012/02/11/debate/</link>
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		<title>Video gallery: Urban students and teachers reflect on India trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In these videos, Urban students and teachers share challenging, surprising and inspirational moments from their December 2011 trip to India in an effort to share experiences with the larger Urban, national and global communities. Senior Cole Larsen discusses the uncomfortable attention he incurred based on the color of his skin. Cody Siler (‘13) recounts a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/news/2012/02/11/video-gallery-urban-students-and-teachers-reflect-on-inspirational-challenging-moments-in-india/</link>
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		<title>Review: New book helps teens confront cancer, mortality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” This quote from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” was the inspiration for the title of John Green’s latest novel, “The Fault in Our Stars.” When I first heard about &#8220;Fault,&#8221; I did not want to read a book about cancer. That sounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/arts/2012/02/09/review-new-book-helps-teens-confront-cancer-mortality/</link>
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		<title>Urban&#8217;s Lautze on Month of Understanding: Make it a permanent state of being</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After math teacher Richard Lautze burst into the spotlight during Urban’s Jan. 3 all-school meeting with an impassioned speech about the Month of Understanding, The Urban Legend sought an even deeper explanation of what “understanding” entails for our community. He encourages Urban students to take the Month of Understanding to a new level — that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/verbatim-opinions/2012/02/08/urbans-lautze-on-month-of-understanding-make-it-a-permanent-state-of-being/</link>
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