<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine</title><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/</link><description>You can lead a person to knowledge but cannot make them think!</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 17:44:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 04:18:44 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Why do cultures always name red before they do blue?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Yet amongst all cultures, the historic and pre-historic record seems to show that&nbsp;people named and identified the colors in a specific order: black and white, then red, green and/or yellow, blue, brown, then finally a smatter of purple, pink, orange, or gray]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/03/11523084-why-do-cultures-always-name-red-before-they-do-blue</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/03/11523084-why-do-cultures-always-name-red-before-they-do-blue</guid><category>science</category><category>evolution</category><category>vision</category><category>eyes</category><category>color-perception</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 17:44:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>No 'God Spot' In Brain, Spirituality Linked To Right Parietal Lobe</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/23/11356463-no-god-spot-in-brain-spirituality-linked-to-right-parietal-lobe</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/23/11356463-no-god-spot-in-brain-spirituality-linked-to-right-parietal-lobe</guid><category>science</category><category>brain</category><category>spirituality</category><category>neuropsychology</category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:10:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit3C01BEB6-54BC-D0E3-CFD6-065AAF5C20D3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="82" width="112" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit3C01BEB6-54BC-D0E3-CFD6-065AAF5C20D3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="112" height="82" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>IRS Complaint Filed Over Bishop's Obama-Hitler Comparison  | NBC Chicago</title>
<description><![CDATA[A formal complaint has been filed with the Internal Revenue Service following a local bishop's&nbsp;recent homily comparing President Barack Obama's policies to those of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/20/11308677-irs-complaint-filed-over-bishops-obama-hitler-comparison-nbc-chicago</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/20/11308677-irs-complaint-filed-over-bishops-obama-hitler-comparison-nbc-chicago</guid><category>politics</category><category>president-obama</category><category>church</category><category>hitler</category><category>au</category><category>separation-church-state</category><category>tax-laws</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:50:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Did Humans Invent Music? </title>
<description><![CDATA[Did Neanderthals sing? Is there a "music gene"? Two scientists debate whether our capacity to make and enjoy songs comes from biological evolution or from the advent of civilization.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/18/11267306-did-humans-invent-music</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/18/11267306-did-humans-invent-music</guid><category>science</category><category>music</category><category>evolution</category><category>singing</category><category>humans</category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:58:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Zombie Shooting Targets Popular With Doomsday Preppers At National Rifle Association Exhibition</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Hollywood-inspired zombie craze - featuring blood-soaked ghouls rising from the dead to attack the living - has extended to gun enthusiasts. At the huge NRA exhibition, vendors displayed zombie targets, zombie bullets, zombie paint coating for guns and zombie patches for a sh&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/16/11227494-zombie-shooting-targets-popular-with-doomsday-preppers-at-national-rifle-association-exhibition</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/16/11227494-zombie-shooting-targets-popular-with-doomsday-preppers-at-national-rifle-association-exhibition</guid><category>us-news</category><category>nra</category><category>parenting---family</category><category>zombies</category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:49:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit24BAA830-9851-76F4-9A0C-FA564D655942.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="82" width="112" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit24BAA830-9851-76F4-9A0C-FA564D655942.jpg&amp;width=120" width="112" height="82" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The rise of atheism in America </title>
<description><![CDATA[How many atheists are there?It depends on your definition of the term. Only between 1.5 and 4 percent of Americans admit to so-called "hard atheism," the conviction that no higher power exists. But a much larger share of the American public (19 percent) spurns organized religion &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/13/11190004-the-rise-of-atheism-in-america</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/13/11190004-the-rise-of-atheism-in-america</guid><category>religion</category><category>atheism</category><category>religious-right</category><category>non-belief</category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit610C4769-A6D4-8D66-8F9B-87697EF0D8F9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="145" width="145" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit610C4769-A6D4-8D66-8F9B-87697EF0D8F9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Drug Testing For Child Support Measure Killed In Iowa</title>
<description><![CDATA[According to the Register, "some Democratic senators openly laughed as Chelgren made the proposal." Chelgren withdrew his amendment, but he still has a drug testing for state welfare provision that will be debated Friday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/13/11184014-drug-testing-for-child-support-measure-killed-in-iowa</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/13/11184014-drug-testing-for-child-support-measure-killed-in-iowa</guid><category>politics</category><category>iowa</category><category>child-support</category><category>drug-testing</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:07:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Why Hilary Rosen Is Right | The Nation</title>
<description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s no doubt that Rosen, a CNN contributor and Democratic political consultant, made a gaffe in providing such a juicy sound bite. But her message&mdash;in context&mdash;was right on.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/13/11181962-why-hilary-rosen-is-right-the-nation</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/13/11181962-why-hilary-rosen-is-right-the-nation</guid><category>politics</category><category>war-on-women</category><category>womens-issues</category><category>ann-romney</category><category>hilary-rosen</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:35:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritEDE0E5A8-64D5-2283-7388-A6481E47400F.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritEDE0E5A8-64D5-2283-7388-A6481E47400F.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Rod Roddenberry: Are We Evolved Enough for Replicators?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine the day when you can go to Amazon or an app store and buy the digital model, download it to your 3D printer and create the desired object yourself. It doesn't seem possible. But the day is coming. Which leads me to ponder the implications of this new supply-and-supply mar&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/11/11150149-rod-roddenberry-are-we-evolved-enough-for-replicators</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/11/11150149-rod-roddenberry-are-we-evolved-enough-for-replicators</guid><category>science</category><category>future</category><category>science-fiction</category><category>advancement</category><category>3d-objects</category><category>replicators</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:33:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>iBrain can 'read your mind'; enlists Stephen Hawking | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News</title>
<description><![CDATA[A team of California scientists have developed the&nbsp;world's first portable brain scanner, and it may soon be able to "read a person's mind," playing a major role in facilitating medical breakthroughs.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/09/11108916-ibrain-can-read-your-mind-enlists-stephen-hawking-the-sideshow-yahoo-news</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/09/11108916-ibrain-can-read-your-mind-enlists-stephen-hawking-the-sideshow-yahoo-news</guid><category>science</category><category>stephen-hawking</category><category>ibrain</category><category>brain-scanner</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:13:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit97EFBAB1-7DCB-E66A-413D-EC853D949F0F.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit97EFBAB1-7DCB-E66A-413D-EC853D949F0F.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Airborne power generator to produce energy at 1,000 feet</title>
<description><![CDATA[Wind farms could become a thing of the past if a blimp-like power generator takes off.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/11000105-airborne-power-generator-to-produce-energy-at-1000-feet</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/11000105-airborne-power-generator-to-produce-energy-at-1000-feet</guid><category>science</category><category>energy</category><category>wind-farms</category><category>environmental-impact</category><category>power-generator</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:46:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit510F2D6A-FD92-49EE-8D93-A13EB439DA65.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="84" width="87" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit510F2D6A-FD92-49EE-8D93-A13EB439DA65.jpg&amp;width=120" width="87" height="84" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction </title>
<description><![CDATA[Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids and supervolcanoes, but the more-likely scenario, according to Nick Bostrom, a professor of philosophy at Oxford, is that we humans w&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/10999892-were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/10999892-were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction</guid><category>science</category><category>extinction</category><category>human-race</category><category>advancements</category><category>probability-theory</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:34:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit603C83D4-5857-5FDA-BAB5-4779F18B8845.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="330" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit603C83D4-5857-5FDA-BAB5-4779F18B8845.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="99" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Ancient sound waves sculpted galaxy formation </title>
<description><![CDATA[Sound waves that rang out in the early universe sculpted its structure.&nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/02/10985819-ancient-sound-waves-sculpted-galaxy-formation</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/02/10985819-ancient-sound-waves-sculpted-galaxy-formation</guid><category>science</category><category>universe</category><category>dark-energy</category><category>cosmological-constant</category><category>sound-waves</category><pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2012 18:57:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Trayvon Martin Shooting: Voice Experts Claim Teen's Cries, Not Zimmerman's, Can Be Heard On 911 Call</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Orlando Sentinel&nbsp;consulted two voice experts&nbsp;to try to settle the debate, and both came to the same conclusion: The cries could not have come from George Zimmerman.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10962648-trayvon-martin-shooting-voice-experts-claim-teens-cries-not-zimmermans-can-be-heard-on-911-call</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10962648-trayvon-martin-shooting-voice-experts-claim-teens-cries-not-zimmermans-can-be-heard-on-911-call</guid><category>us-news</category><category>crime</category><category>shooting</category><category>trayvon-martin</category><category>george-zimmerman</category><category>neighborhood-watch</category><category>voice-analysis</category><pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 03:47:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit2D9B29CD-73A4-DD8F-B9C4-48D7C64CEF03.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="82" width="112" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit2D9B29CD-73A4-DD8F-B9C4-48D7C64CEF03.jpg&amp;width=120" width="112" height="82" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Rhode Island Guardsman died saving Afghan girl </title>
<description><![CDATA[After the news of a U.S. soldier charged with murdering Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, the story of Spc. Dennis Weichel of the Rhode Island National Guard bears telling.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/28/10909176-rhode-island-guardsman-died-saving-afghan-girl</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/28/10909176-rhode-island-guardsman-died-saving-afghan-girl</guid><category>us-news</category><category>rhode-island</category><category>heroes</category><category>u-s-military</category><category>war-in-afghanistan</category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:46:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritDB232E55-6051-6770-72AA-392B980E36DF.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="68" width="120" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritDB232E55-6051-6770-72AA-392B980E36DF.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Andrea Yates Could Be Released From Psychiatric Hospital to Attend Church - ABC News</title>
<description><![CDATA[Andrea Yates, the Houston mom who in 2001&nbsp;drowned her five young children one-by-one in the bathtub, might soon be allowed to leave the state psychiatric hospital where she is being treated for mental illness to attend church.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/28/10908351-andrea-yates-could-be-released-from-psychiatric-hospital-to-attend-church-abc-news</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/28/10908351-andrea-yates-could-be-released-from-psychiatric-hospital-to-attend-church-abc-news</guid><category>religion</category><category>mental-illness</category><category>andrea-yates</category><category>postpartum-depression</category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:21:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritE2CC7129-FB24-0585-C6CF-A4E0D40D5182.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="116" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritE2CC7129-FB24-0585-C6CF-A4E0D40D5182.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="93" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Does Telepathy Conflict With Science?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Recently, journalist Steven Volk was surprised to discover that leading skeptical psychologist Richard Wiseman has admitted that the evidence for telepathy is so good that &ldquo;by the standards of any other area of science, [telepathy] is proven.&rdquo; Mr. Volk goes on to writ&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/28/10903575-does-telepathy-conflict-with-science</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/28/10903575-does-telepathy-conflict-with-science</guid><category>science</category><category>brain</category><category>esp</category><category>psi</category><category>telepathy</category><category>psychic-phenomena</category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:42:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Adopted or abducted? </title>
<description><![CDATA[From Australia to Spain, Ireland to America, and as recent as 1987, young mothers say they were &ldquo;coerced&rdquo;, &ldquo;manipulated&rdquo;, and &ldquo;duped&rdquo; into handing over their babies for adoption. These women say sometimes their parents forged consent documents,&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10886812-adopted-or-abducted</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10886812-adopted-or-abducted</guid><category>world-news</category><category>adoption</category><category>catholic-church</category><category>childbirth</category><category>unwed-mothers</category><category>maternity-homes</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:22:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritA137BBFB-75B7-8EC7-ECF7-4F38509884FE.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritA137BBFB-75B7-8EC7-ECF7-4F38509884FE.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>In Secret Documents, Anti-Gay Marriage Group Looked To Divide Gays, Blacks</title>
<description><![CDATA[The leading opponents of same-sex marriage planned to defeat campaigns for gay marriage by "fanning the hostility" between black voters from gay voters and by casting President Obama as a radical foe of marriage, according to confidential documents made public in a Maine court to&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10886457-in-secret-documents-anti-gay-marriage-group-looked-to-divide-gays-blacks</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10886457-in-secret-documents-anti-gay-marriage-group-looked-to-divide-gays-blacks</guid><category>politics</category><category>homosexuality</category><category>same-sex-marriage</category><category>gays</category><category>campaign-finance</category><category>nom</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:56:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit97DD2E5A-8AB5-9D9E-4E73-C4114E9328F3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="83" width="125" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit97DD2E5A-8AB5-9D9E-4E73-C4114E9328F3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Dallas Mom Cut 1-Year-Old's Throat, Police Say</title>
<description><![CDATA[A woman cut her child's throat with a kitchen knife Monday morning and was taken into custody a short time later, Dallas police said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10886010-dallas-mom-cut-1-year-olds-throat-police-say</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/27/10886010-dallas-mom-cut-1-year-olds-throat-police-say</guid><category>us-news</category><category>crime</category><category>mental-health</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:16:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Can Drinking Make You Conservative? and Other Questions About the Political Brain | Chris Mooney | Politics News | Rolling Stone</title>
<description><![CDATA[When the scientists collated the results, it turned out that, on average, the higher the subject's blood alcohol level, the more likely he or she was to express conservative opinions. This was true of liberals and conservatives alike;&nbsp;both groups&nbsp;appeared to shift to th&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/26/10872680-can-drinking-make-you-conservative-and-other-questions-about-the-political-brain-chris-mooney-politics-news-rolling-stone</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/26/10872680-can-drinking-make-you-conservative-and-other-questions-about-the-political-brain-chris-mooney-politics-news-rolling-stone</guid><category>politics</category><category>conservatives</category><category>alcohol</category><category>liberals</category><category>drinking</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:49:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritAF562651-8810-A6BD-0241-1049F721F4A6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="75" width="75" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspiritAF562651-8810-A6BD-0241-1049F721F4A6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="75" height="75" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title> BBC - Future - Science &amp; Environment - Will we ever... talk to the animals? </title>
<description><![CDATA[History is littered with celebrity animals who have communicated with human scientists, with varying degrees of success.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/26/10871800-bbc-future-science-environment-will-we-ever-talk-to-the-animals</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/26/10871800-bbc-future-science-environment-will-we-ever-talk-to-the-animals</guid><category>science</category><category>animals</category><category>communication</category><category>dolphins</category><category>sign-language</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:40:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Eugene Robinson:  Trayvon Martin and dangerous times for black men</title>
<description><![CDATA[For every black man in America, from the millionaire in the corner office to the mechanic in the local garage, the&nbsp;Trayvon Martin tragedy&nbsp;is personal. It could have been me or one of my sons. It could have been any of us.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10815231-eugene-robinson-trayvon-martin-and-dangerous-times-for-black-men</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10815231-eugene-robinson-trayvon-martin-and-dangerous-times-for-black-men</guid><category>us-news</category><category>crime</category><category>racism</category><category>trayvon-martin</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:24:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit3E97D2B0-F7C3-3BB5-1BDD-9007B2AE034E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="60" width="90" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit3E97D2B0-F7C3-3BB5-1BDD-9007B2AE034E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="90" height="60" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Ducklings Reunited by White House Security Guards </title>
<description><![CDATA[It turns out there is a way to make it past the high-security gates and onto the White House's front lawn.&nbsp; You just have to waddle and quack your way through.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10813768-ducklings-reunited-by-white-house-security-guards</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10813768-ducklings-reunited-by-white-house-security-guards</guid><category>us-news</category><category>white-house</category><category>ducks</category><category>security-guards</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:30:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Pennsylvania School Drug Tests: Girl, 11, Sues District Over Student Policy</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10798836-pennsylvania-school-drug-tests-girl-11-sues-district-over-student-policy</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10798836-pennsylvania-school-drug-tests-girl-11-sues-district-over-student-policy</guid><category>us-news</category><category>lawsuits</category><category>aclu</category><category>drug-testing</category><category>constitutional-rights</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:22:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit70B84545-BD17-88D9-EB1B-010104C2FA09.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="82" width="112" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=americanspirit70B84545-BD17-88D9-EB1B-010104C2FA09.jpg&amp;width=120" width="112" height="82" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>