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	<description>Vivek Bhatia's thoughts on Design, Science, and Business</description>
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		<title>Opportunity in a Bad Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 05:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downturn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US and global economies are hungover from the last several years of risky-lending parties in the finance world. As a result, companies are cutting down on costs by downsizing staff or minimizing the scope of any projects that don&#8217;t directly generate profit (such as R&#38;D or Marketing projects).
We all know that emotional decisions are often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Sexy Websites</title>
		<link>http://www.pixelspring.com/sboard/index.php/2008/09/how-to-make-sexy-websites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexy websites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I started making websites profesionally. After a lot of toiling, I discovered the key to making sexy websites: read, read, read! I always do my best work after having read many design blogs and articles, so I want to share the wealth with y&#8217;all (and thus hopefully make your learning curve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adjusting to Globalization: Why is the US Falling Behind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times article, "It's a Flat World, After All," Thomas L. Friedman writes:

    "These are some of the reasons that Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, warned the governors' conference in a Feb. 26 speech that American high-school education is "obsolete." As Gates put it: "When I compare our high schools to what I see when I'm traveling abroad, I am terrified for our work force of tomorrow. In math and science, our fourth graders are among the top students in the world. By eighth grade, they're in the middle of the pack. By 12th grade, U.S. students are scoring near the bottom of all industrialized nations. . . . The percentage of a population with a college degree is important, but so are sheer numbers. In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor's degrees as the U.S., and they have six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. In the international competition to have the biggest and best supply of knowledge workers, America is falling behind.

    "We need to get going immediately. It takes 15 years to train a good engineer, because, ladies and gentlemen, this really is rocket science. So parents, throw away the Game Boy, turn off the television and get your kids to work. There is no sugar-coating this: in a flat world, every individual is going to have to run a little faster if he or she wants to advance his or her standard of living."

While I agree with Friedman about the worldâ€™s flatness and the danger of America becoming mediocre, I disagree with his message that we must work harder. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not afraid of hard work. My objection lies in the fact that Mr. Friedman's recommendation reflects our society's short-term mentality that working "harder" (by studying for more hours, sleeping less, etc.) will get us ahead; what he critically neglects to discuss is the consequences of "working harder": the increased stress and drastic decrease of quality of life that is becoming a reality for today's students.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of Keeping your Computer On at Night</title>
		<link>http://www.pixelspring.com/sboard/index.php/2007/09/computer-on-at-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us frequently leave our computers on overnight for many reasons: the convenience of not having to wait for our computer to start in the morning, the backup program that runs in the wee hours, or the hope that your dream girl (or guy) will send you an IM while you&#8217;re dreaming. But how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bugs and the Color of Fruit in Yogurt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What makes the strawberries in Stonyfield&#8217;s Strawberry yogurt have a dull red color, rather than the vibrant, intense red found in regular strawberry yogurt like Dannon? The answer appears to be the absence of a common yogurt food coloring, carmine, derived from ground-up beetles. Sure, this fact might make you freak out, but hey &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Bollywood&#8217;s Chak De</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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I just watched Chak De, a newly released Bollywood movie about the women&#8217;s national Indian field hockey team. Usually, I really dislike watching Hindi movies because most of the ones I&#8217;ve seen have been awfully cheesy and were poor imitations of film from Hollywood. But, I liked this one quite a bit. Admittedly, it had [...]]]></description>
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