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		<title>The Spirit of Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is a call to us, a call of service,&#8221; Dorothy Day once said, &#8220;that we join with others to try to make things better in this world.&#8221; This phrase gave rise to the title of Robert Coles&#8217;s 1993 book, The Call of Service, a meditation on the meaning of voluntary service — the kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration: How Do We Fix a System in Crisis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Immigration has always been a subject of heated debate in America. But the issue reached a flash point after a controversial Arizona statute was passed in April 2010 taking a tough — some say too tough — stand on illegal immigration. The measure required that immigrants carry documentation at all times. It also gave law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/500</link>
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		<title>A Clear Day Over Los Angeles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone once quipped that there&#8217;s nothing like autumn in Los Angeles when throngs of tourists come to watch the smog change colors. If the line is funny it&#8217;s because there&#8217;s more than a little truth to it. Smog is what I expected to see some weeks ago when I took to the skies with my pilot friend, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/488</link>
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		<title>Hangovers and Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love reading people&#8217;s tweets and status updates on New Year&#8217;s Day. A mixture of hangovers and hope — and wacky resolutions. For me, the start of a new year is as good a time as any to reflect on the importance of staying grounded in the present, in the now. Here&#8217;s a line by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/483</link>
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		<title>A Favorite Holiday Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting into the holiday spirit by making glögg, one of my favorite holiday traditions. Here I&#8217;ve brought together cinnamon, cloves, cardemon, ginger, orange peel, and other spices and let them soak in vodka for a couple of days. Next the booze will be sifted, mixed with red wine and a little sugar, heated and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/478</link>
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		<title>Icon Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eight of my photos from Burning Man appear in this month&#8217;s issue of Icon, the British architecture and design magazine, together with a nicely written piece by Charlie Hailey titled &#8220;Burn After Building.&#8221; Read more about the issue here. Here&#8217;s a preview of the spread:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/475</link>
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		<title>The Still and Secret Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of talk of revolution in 2011, especially in connection with the Arab Spring and the continuing Occupy Wall Street protests. The word revolution conjures up images of political violence and social turmoil, of insurgent militias and defiant chants, of street barricades made from overturned vehicles and ragged crowds armed with makeshift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/53</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Nice That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I was interviewed by It&#8217;s Nice That about my Burning Man photography. It&#8217;s Nice That is a beautiful and well-curated art magazine and website based in London. The interview appeared along with about a dozen of my photographs. Since it was edited for length, I&#8217;m including the complete exchange below. You&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/457</link>
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		<title>Is the Nobel Peace Prize Overtly Political?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question is often asked: how political is the Nobel Peace Prize? I view it as an inherently political award, and I think Alfred Nobel intended it that way. That&#8217;s why he left it to the Norwegian parliament to elect the committee that picks the winners each year. Given that the laureates are chosen by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/450</link>
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		<title>Who Will Win the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced tomorrow. Some leaders of the Arab Spring uprisings are favored to win it this year. But based on the way the Norwegian Nobel Committee has been selecting its winners in recent years, I don&#8217;t think that will happen. I&#8217;m pulling for long-shot Ellen Johnson [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/443</link>
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		<title>Steve Jobs Has Died</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The news just broke that Steve Jobs has died. It comes as a bit of a shock. I never met him, but like millions of people the world over I was the beneficiary of his brilliant mind and unique vision. I&#8217;ve been using Apple computers for most of my professional life and rarely has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/428</link>
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		<title>Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wangari Maathai, the environmental and political activist from Kenya, passed away on Sunday. She was one of the most remarkable figures I've covered as a journalist, a woman of extraordinary courage and dignity]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/420</link>
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		<title>Burning Man 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've just posted a new set of 100 photographs from Burning Man 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/411</link>
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		<title>John Taylor Gatto on Beating the System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Taylor Gatto&#8217;s career as a school teacher began in 1965 when he borrowed his roommate&#8217;s teaching license and began working as a per diem substitute in New York City. He went on to become the city&#8217;s Teacher of the Year three years in a row and then New York State Teacher of the Year. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/396</link>
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		<title>Extraordinary Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The late British economist Robert Theobald once asked me, "of all the people you have interviewed over the years, who left the deepest impression?" I came up with a half-dozen names. To my surprise, all of them were women.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottlondon.com/blog/archives/387</link>
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