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Food is one thing every living organism has in common.  We all have to eat food to survive whether we like it or not.  When I saw the Food RSS Feed in the Washington Times, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  Would I find recipes, new restaurants, or just interesting stories?  It turns out that I found each of these three things in the feed.  In the article Finding a cake up to tea, the author gives the recipe for a royal almond torte and chocolate butter-cream frosting.  I’m getting hungry already.  Now if you’re a chocolate lover, this next article is the one you should be reading.  New heaven for chocoholics introduces a new restaurant called Co Co. Sala where the food of focus is chocolate!  Now my taste buds are really watering.  Personally, I thought the article Science supersizes crops was pretty interesting.  It discussed how scientist are experimentally making crops that are more resistant to weed and insect killers.  Recently I saw a greenhouse in Disney World that was conducting experiments very similar to the ones in the article.  They had giant lemons and tomato trees growing.   It was really cool to see those and the many other scientifically altered plants. 

When I read this assignment, my first thought was “What’s an RSS feed, and what in the world am i supposed to do?”  Well, i found out that an RSS feed is something you can subscribe to from a popular news website, such as the Los Angeles Times.  I started looking threw all their RSS feeds and subscribed to a couple, but the one that really caught my eye was Movie Reviews.  I love watching movies so this is a feed that interests me.  Most of the reviews are at a reasonable length, which is good because i don’t want to start day dreaming while I’m reading.  Some reviews described the actually movie better than others.  One such review written by Jan Stuart was on ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’.  This review immediately drew my attention because of the movie’s star actor, Brendan Fraser.  I recently saw him promoting his new Mummy movie in Orlando.  Stuart did a good job describing the movie without giving away to much of the story.  I definitely want to go see it now.  Another movie I thought I wanted to see was ‘Mamma Mia’, but after the review it got from Kenneth Turan, I’m not so sure.  He was harsh on this play turned movie, but it’s good to know there’s a person who’s not just feeding you a line to get you to go out and spend money. 

            Blogs take up just a small section of the World Wide Web.  For a person’s blog to be noticed out of the many other blogs out there, it must be attractive in looks and style, it must be organized well, and it must have articles with eye catching titles.  Luckily for me, I found three blogs that fit this description: Chasing My Voice, Have At It, and iThink. 

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    Completely opposite of McCain and Clinton, Obama opposed the use of military force in Iraq from the start (The Candidates on Iraq, 2008; Iraq, n.d.; Elections, barack-obama, n.d.).  At the time, he commented that he was okay with some wars; just not “a dumb war.”  He prophesied that even a victorious war would last an unknown amount of time, cost an unknown amount of money, and have many unknown penalties (Presidential, Barack Obama, n.d.).  He voted in favor of the war spending bill and supports phased redeployment of U.S. troops.  He was also against Bush’s plan of sending additional troops to Iraq, and at one point called for troops to be withdrawn starting at the end of 2006 (Iraq, n.d.).  In September 2007, he released a plan that would completely redeploy all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2009 (The Candidates on Iraq, 2008). 

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