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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:31:20 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>National Articles</title><subtitle>National Articles</subtitle><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/atom.xml"/><updated>2008-08-19T18:00:33Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Mexico’s Military Invasion Of The United States Border</title><category>politics</category><category>Politics - National</category><category>government</category><category>state department</category><category>illegal drugs</category><category>illegal immigration</category><category>border agents</category><category>patrol</category><category>smuggling</category><category>cartel</category><category>military</category><category>mexico</category><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/8/19/mexicos-military-invasion-of-the-united-states-border.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/8/19/mexicos-military-invasion-of-the-united-states-border.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-08-19T17:50:02Z</published><updated>2008-08-19T17:50:02Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[We usually get to the airport for our flight a couple of hours early. Long lines indicate that we have found the right boarding gate. We walk through a metal detector. Travel bags are scanned and sometimes opened and checked. Our belts and shoes are often the subject of much scrutiny and review.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>America’s Best Days--Gone or Yet to Come?</title><category>politics</category><category>rasmussen public opinion poll</category><category>america</category><category>best days</category><category>alexander tyler</category><category>Politics - National</category><category>rome</category><category>roman empire</category><category>476 A.D.</category><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/7/22/americas-best-days-gone-or-yet-to-come.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/7/22/americas-best-days-gone-or-yet-to-come.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-07-22T13:57:50Z</published><updated>2008-07-22T13:57:50Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[In a Rasmussen telephone poll taken recently, voters were asked whether America's best days were ahead or behind it. In the poll's findings, 32% of those polled thought that the nation's best days were yet to come. However, more than 50% of Americans thought that the country's best days were already in the past.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The Bear Rules The Stock Market In 2008</title><category>finance</category><category>stock market</category><category>bear</category><category>bull</category><category>2008</category><category>dow jones</category><category>equities</category><category>indices</category><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/7/8/the-bear-rules-the-stock-market-in-2008.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/7/8/the-bear-rules-the-stock-market-in-2008.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-07-08T18:58:28Z</published><updated>2008-07-08T18:58:28Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Most major international stock indices are dropping fast. In fact, stock markets in Asia, the United Kingdom, and Europe have all now seen the fury of the bear. A bear market is generally defined as a drop of twenty percent from the market's previous high. Indeed, it was only last October, when all of these global stock markets were about twenty percent higher than the levels of today.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Hubble And James Webb Search For The Edge</title><category>science</category><category>space</category><category>james webb</category><category>hubble</category><category>telescope</category><category>nasa</category><category>first light</category><category>universe</category><category>Science-Space</category><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/6/20/hubble-and-james-webb-search-for-the-edge.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/6/20/hubble-and-james-webb-search-for-the-edge.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-06-20T23:19:19Z</published><updated>2008-06-20T23:19:19Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Its price tag was 500 million dollars in 1990. It certainly was a lot of money to pay for a telescope that circled the Earth and could not focus. A faulty mirror on the Hubble was the reason the expensive space telescope could not see. The Hubble would quickly become an object of ridicule and the subject of numerous jokes on late night television.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The Phoenix Mission Replaces Hollywood In Martian Exploration</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/6/10/the-phoenix-mission-replaces-hollywood-in-martian-exploratio.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/6/10/the-phoenix-mission-replaces-hollywood-in-martian-exploratio.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-06-10T23:46:45Z</published><updated>2008-06-10T23:46:45Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Mars is a planet that has received considerable attention from Hollywood over the years. For decades, in the mid to late 20th century, Hollywood would produce movie after movie depicting Martians as little green men who were nasty Earth invaders. Sometimes men from Mars simply sported green face paint, but they almost always wore a jumpsuit of some type.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The Pentagon's Battle Plan Is To Go Green</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/5/30/the-pentagons-battle-plan-is-to-go-green.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/5/30/the-pentagons-battle-plan-is-to-go-green.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-05-30T22:20:44Z</published><updated>2008-05-30T22:20:44Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[The vote was 324-84 as the United States House of Representatives recently approved legislation allowing the Justice Department to sue members of OPEC . The House bill blames OPEC for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices. In effect, it says that gas and oil prices in America are too high and that OPEC should therefore produce more product.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Disappearing Bees, Dying Bats, And Endangered Polar Bears</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/5/21/disappearing-bees-dying-bats-and-endangered-polar-bears.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/5/21/disappearing-bees-dying-bats-and-endangered-polar-bears.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-05-21T00:22:05Z</published><updated>2008-05-21T00:22:05Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[There are several stories of science and nature that have been featured in the national news over the last few months. For scientists, an explanation for disappearing bees and dying bats still remains elusive. The risk to the polar bear is a function of continued global warming with the potential for its extinction still over a century away.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Fighting The Next War With Insects And Sharks</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/5/7/fighting-the-next-war-with-insects-and-sharks.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/5/7/fighting-the-next-war-with-insects-and-sharks.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-05-07T00:13:26Z</published><updated>2008-05-07T00:13:26Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[There is a long history of the use of the honey bee in war. Roman catapults, with bee hives as projectiles, unleashed the fury of angry bees on an advancing enemy. Bee hives booby trapped to topple over with trip wires were used to the advantage of both sides during battles in World War I. In Vietnam, the Viet Cong often used sabotaged Apis dorsata nests against the American soldier.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>A Campaign Of Government Change Should Include Compstat</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/4/25/a-campaign-of-government-change-should-include-compstat.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/4/25/a-campaign-of-government-change-should-include-compstat.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-04-25T23:55:28Z</published><updated>2008-04-25T23:55:28Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[I have watched the same question posed to Barrack Obama in several debates now. It is not a question based on the "change" sign that appears everywhere as the platform slogan of his campaign. No, this dubious debate question concerns why he does not wear a flag pin on the lapel of his suit.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>A Congestion Tax Will Not Save The Planet</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/4/8/a-congestion-tax-will-not-save-the-planet.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/national/2008/4/8/a-congestion-tax-will-not-save-the-planet.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-04-08T22:49:58Z</published><updated>2008-04-08T22:49:58Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[It's an election year in the United States. The politicians of both major political parties continue to outline their initiatives for their first Presidential term in office. Democratic candidate Barrack Obama outlines a long list of new spending promises under the slogan "Yes we can". Meanwhile, Republican John McCain wants to continue spending on the Iraq war well into the future. In the Congress, there is no desire to cut federal spending and the dubious practice of spending "earmarks" continues without any real reform.]]></summary></entry></feed>