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	<title>Roaming Around with Peter Rice</title>
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		<title>El Salvador election post mortem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A followup on an issue we covered a few months back: El Salvador&#8217;s elections, recently concluded in favor of the leftist FMLN party. Here&#8217;s the take from the Washington Post.
And an analysis piece The New York Times did just before the election.
Now it&#8217;s just a waiting game, to see if Mauricio Funes is really the Obamaesque [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/el-salvador-election-post-mortem.html</link>
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		<title>Taking an ego hit for Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOMETIMES, IN A RELATIONSHIP, all your partner really wants is for you to validate his or her feelings and admit you&#8217;re part of the problem.
I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s why Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who understands a thing or two about contentious close relationships, finally acknowledged this week that America&#8217;s &#8220;insatiable&#8221; appetite for drugs doesn&#8217;t help our neighbors to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/taking-an-ego-hit-for-mexico.html</link>
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		<title>Laughing at (or with) Española</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do women in Española take two pregnancy tests?
Because they want to be for sure for sure.
Funny, right? Hilarious, in fact. Española, New Mexico is one of those places in America that is so unique that it&#8217;s developed its own genre of joke. In this case, the unique part is a local linguistic affinity for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/laughing-at-or-with-espanola.html</link>
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		<title>Drug Violence Gets Weird, Heads North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Good luck, friends. 
It just keeps getting worse.
First came the recent news that Mexican authorities had caught a guy known as El Pozolero. A technicrat in a Tijuana drug cartel, he earned the nickname by dissolving the bodies of over 300 cartel enemies in acid.
And the situation in Juarez and Chihuahua gets more depressing by the hour. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/drug-violence-gets-weird-heads-north.html</link>
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		<title>How to be a Third Wave Masculinist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Time to get hip to the third wave times.
So there I was, back in college, when several of my liberal and progressive female friends dressed up as prostitutes and danced a jaw-dropping little number with an excerpt of the Moulin Rouge soundtrack blaring in the background.
Truly, feminism died that night, I told one of my friends later.
Not so, she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/how-to-be-a-third-wave-masculinist.html</link>
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		<title>The View from New Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Sandia Mountains: Yes, they really are that beautiful.
The Land of Enchantment, they call it. The Land of Entrapment, the smart asses call it.
Yet who can argue? After nearly a year and a half bombing around Mexico and Costa Rica and all points in between, I find myself back in New Mexico in the middle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/the-view-from-new-mexico.html</link>
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		<title>Worshiping at the church of Keillor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Garrison Keillor, delivering the News From Lake Wobegon
ST PAUL, MINN.  &#8212;  The legendary public radio show A Prairie Home Companion comes off as an exercise in spontaneity. But sounds can deceive. The scripts are tight, the music is well coordinated, and all the segments are planned to a tee to meet a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/worshiping-at-the-church-of-keillor.html</link>
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		<title>On Gross Bugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is a native Costa Rican, well, bug.
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COSTA RICA IS KNOWN FOR ITS BIODIVERSITY, but this never really sunk in for me until a little piece of it flew into my ear.
Being midnight, I was sleeping more or less peacefully at the time. I woke to hear the buzzing of some anonymous tiny insect in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/on-gross-bugs.html</link>
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		<title>Que? Yo? Preocuparme?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Today&#8217;s blog post is basically these two pictures. One is Alfred E. Newman, the MAD Magazine mascot. The other is Maikol, a student at the school I&#8217;ve been volunteering at.
Is it just me? No, it&#8217;s not. He&#8217;s dead on. Here, all this time, I thought Alfred E. was just a figment of some crazed artist&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/que-yo-preocuparme.html</link>
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		<title>Death by Strangulation in the Forest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 This is the inside of a tree, if you can believe it.
Bird meets fig. Bird eats fig. About an hour later, while flying, bird, ahem, releases fig remains. Fig remains land on top of a tree, where the division of branches has created a kind of bowl where leaves and twigs accumulate and [...]]]></description>
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