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<title>Proposed excavations may rewrite NE history</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2809_Proposed-excavations-may-rewrite-NE-history.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[History will be re-written. If the proposed archaeological site in Garo Hills, excavated in 1992 is to be believed as one of the biggest cities, a religious centre cast out of mighty Bramaputra River from the fourth century AD. Some scholars believe that Wadagokgre in West Garo Hills was an ancient kingdom of Kamrupa. 

 

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<pubDate>Wednesday, 23 July 2008 03:41:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>We can make a difference</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2787_We-can-make-a-difference.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anybody who has been on railway platforms in a reasonably big Indian city might have noticed a surprisingly large number of unaccompanied children. They are the children who have been abandoned, have run away from abusive homes, were orphaned or simply got lost. And as it is when children fall through the cracks, these kids have become drug addicts, are abused, sexually or otherwise. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 9 July 2008 03:04:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hegel, I Hardly Knew Ye</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2773_Hegel-I-Hardly-Knew-Ye.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[How one book leads to another, and sometimes back to ourselves.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 7 July 2008 01:32:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Printer's Devil</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2667_The-Printers-Devil.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The printing press changed the way we saw the book forever.  Now, with the Internet the book is once again changing shape, but perhaps not as out of touch with its roots as we might first think.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 17 March 2008 03:34:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Clash of Cultures</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2594_Clash-of-Cultures.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's interesting to compare attitudes to cricket's disciplinary processes by Asian teams and by the Australian team.

Or maybe the authority of the ICC is stronger for the Australian's than Asian countries. Then again maybe it's about the culture of the two nations]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 14 January 2008 02:58:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Greatest Desire</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2580_The-Greatest-Desire.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The modern urge to blog is as old as the printed word.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 10 January 2008 12:56:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Compost Mortem</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2501_Compost-Mortem.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[When you go, go green.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 30 October 2007 10:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lies like beauty, depend upon the eye of the beholder – Part I.</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2426_Lies-like-beauty-depend-upon-the-eye-of-the-beholder-Part-I.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The intellectual underpinning of Hindutva and Hindu Nationalism rests on some very shaky grounds. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:11:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>DO YOU KNOW THIS?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2375_DO-YOU-KNOW-THIS.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 10 July 2007 09:15:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oh! What a world?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2342_Oh-What-a-world.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The world we live in is a great place to be. Wouldn't it be nice to occasionly read or hear about how good it is to be in this part of this part of the Universe? No, why do that, it's much better to know about other peoples misfortunes?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 7 June 2007 02:07:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Combat Art in Iraq</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2271_Combat-Art-in-Iraq.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[War's come and go these days with CNN footage. Combat Artist Steve Mumford travels  to Iraq to paint the war and tell a story with his paintings. Caleb Schaber talks with Steve in this exclusive.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:28:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Are we all actually being thieves and cheats?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2199_Are-we-all-actually-being-thieves-and-cheats.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[There's good and bad in all of us. Let's look into the mirror and see whose face we see.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:06:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Barista Experience: Life Behind the Bar</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2198_The-Barista-Experience-Life-Behind-the-Bar.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Working behind the counter at a cafe is a very social experience. I am frequently asked what it's like to work at a cafe, make drinks, and interact with the other baristas and regular customers. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 March 2007 11:48:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Politics, Religion, and the American Café</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2173_Politics-Religion-and-the-American-Café.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Within the last decade, café patrons have begun to utilize the café setting as a place for discussion of religion and politics. This behavior is no longer a trend seen only in urban cafés. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:42:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Miracle Diet Helps Shed Unwanted Success</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2152_New-Miracle-Diet-Helps-Shed-Unwanted-Success.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[New scientific breakthrough yields amazing results]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 February 2007 06:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Australia and its Native People</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2118_Australia-and-its-Native-People.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[This article was written after an Australian holiday of six weeks, which took place in November 2004. Rather than a result of extensive research, it is largely about my subjective impression of Australia and its people. By no means does it claim to be an expert essay, but is rather intended as a starting point for discussion. I would welcome feedback from people with more inside information available to them – including and especially people living in Australia!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 27 February 2007 06:02:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ignorance Inc. - The HALFTIME FLUSH Phenomenon</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2074_Ignorance-Inc---The-HALFTIME-FLUSH-Phenomenon.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Starting at about 8:00 p.m. this past Sunday, the amount of toilet water flowing through U.S. waste management systems was about equal to the water that spills over Niagara Falls for seven minutes – over 314 million gallons.  Such is the "Halftime Flush" phenomenon.  We'll have some fun with that and learn some other bizarre facts about Super Sunday.  C'mon in!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 9 February 2007 10:17:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Koran vs. Terrorist Sects</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2066_The-Koran-vs-Terrorist-Sects.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[When 'religions' become foot-holds and a means of and for the advent of wars, we need to step back and take a look at the enemy's beliefs versus those of our own before we launch attacks. 'Religions' replace 'politics' with Terrorists, and we must understand what they, themselves, don't seem to understand. Or is it all the other way around?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 14 February 2007 02:02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Honey, let's go on vacation and buy a baby!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_2009_Honey-lets-go-on-vacation-and-buy-a-baby.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Celebrity adoption... trend or political statement?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 29 October 2006 01:42:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pop Tart: Too Thin?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1990_Pop-Tart-Too-Thin.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[No such thing as too thin?  Not accoring to several goverments who decied that some models are just too thin to walk the runway.  A victory for 'normal' women or is the government finding new ways to censor artists?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 23 September 2006 09:50:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pop tart: Walk the Runway</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1987_Pop-tart-Walk-the-Runway.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's not just a show... it's a phenomenon!  Project Runway takes over cable, the fashion world and my television.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 16 September 2006 04:09:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CNN = Celebrity News Network?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1977_CNN-=-Celebrity-News-Network.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of CNN’s recent headlines indicated Brooke Shields has accepted a face-to-face apology from Tom Cruise for his extremely public criticism of her decision to use anti-depressants to combat the severe post-partum depression she experienced after giving birth to her first child.  It was a real CNN Headline.  The marriage of our celebrity watching culture to our addition to 24 hour cable news has produced a nasty child.  That child is the fact that insignificant celebrity chatter becomes cable news headlines which drone on for days.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 4 September 2006 02:37:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cream or Crap?  Which pop stars have proven themselves real "talents"?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1971_Cream-or-Crap-Which-pop-stars-have-proven-themselves-real-talents.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The dust of the pop music scene of the 90s has settled and now, ten years later, we have clear “winners.”  The cream has finally risen to the top with the rest of the fluff and filler falling away.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 27 August 2006 10:29:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Celebrity Divorce Virus -- Is it Catching?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1966_Celebrity-Divorce-Virus----Is-it-Catching.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The celebrities that Get married on TV always want to get divorced in private.  Why do the rich and famous insist on living their lives completely opposite  of the rest of us?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 20 August 2006 10:03:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dog the Bounty Hunter</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1958_Dog-the-Bounty-Hunter.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I’m not ashamed of my love for this show.  Not only do I watch it, I DVR it so I can watch it again later.  You should watch it too.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 9 August 2006 07:51:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pop Tart -Mel's Meltdown isn't Unique</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1953_Pop-Tart--Mels-Meltdown-isnt-Unique.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[So Mel Gibson is a bigot.

Is he really any more screwed up than the rest of Hollywood?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:53:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pop tart - Are YOU a part of the interent revolution?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1933_Pop-tart---Are-YOU-a-part-of-the-interent-revolution.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I need My Space.
Are YOU a part of the interent revolution?
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<pubDate>Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:58:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pop Tart - It’s not the cell phone’s fault. It’s the inconsiderate idiots talking into them.</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1928_Pop-Tart---Its-not-the-cell-phones-fault-Its-the-inconsiderate-idiots-talking-into-them.html</link>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pop Tart - Enjoying life as a nobody</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1915_Pop-Tart---Enjoying-life-as-a-nobody.html</link>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:02:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Arctic Monkeys)</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1862_Whatever-People-Say-I-Am-Thats-What-Im-Not-Arctic-Monkeys.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[You can almost feel sorry for Franz Ferdinand. Two years in the limelight and barely three months since being described as UK's biggest rock band in Rolling Stone, the spotlight has shifted back from Glasgow to Sheffield.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 6 May 2006 09:58:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A look at Singaporean music scene</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1861_A-look-at-Singaporean-music-scene.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Singapore rock, for the hardcore scenester is largely disappointing, for like a Frank Kafka novel (whilst lacking the literary polish), it’s a perennial case almost there. The most telling example would of local punk pop band Pug Jelly who after the heights of opening before Canadian rock princess Avril Lavigne and her fiancé, Derek Whibley’s Sum 41, almost faded into the obscurity of the indie punk scene.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 6 May 2006 09:54:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Social Work: The Road To Redemption</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1860_Social-Work-The-Road-To-Redemption.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A story detailing the plight of a family and the social workers who help them out.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 4 May 2006 09:51:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hustle and Crawl</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_1859_Hustle-and-Crawl.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Help your kids get a headstart on the hard knock life with the new Pimpfants clothing line.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 4 May 2006 02:33:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Give Us A Break</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_974_Give-Us-A-Break.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[This story was written to be published on the day of the opening of the Exhibition. Shane Keen is a great friend of mine and publishing this article gave him the due credit he desevred for actually doing something about the issues youth face today. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 1 February 2005 10:30:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fashion on the Fairways</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_655_Fashion-on-the-Fairways.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ITS not so long ago that loud, collar-less shirts and colourful trousers wouldnt have got you further than the locker room. But times have changed. Todays new breed of Tour professionals are changing the image of the game. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 16 September 2004 06:45:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Russians dance in the streets</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_648_Russians-dance-in-the-streets.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Every Saturday at 8 p.m. Pushkinskaya Street in Russian city 
Rostov-on-Don turns into a dance pavilion. It is full of people. Dozens come to watch an exotic Cuban dance, Salsa. People dance in rain and in sun, forgetting age and human complexes
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<pubDate>Sunday, 12 September 2004 11:23:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Poet Fled: And he is still far from home</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_631_The-Poet-Fled-And-he-is-still-far-from-home.html</link>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:34:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kathleen's Kookery</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_535_Kathleens-Kookery.html</link>
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<pubDate>Monday, 12 July 2004 05:18:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Review of the 'Big Gay Out' Festival</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_532_Review-of-the-Big-Gay-Out-Festival.html</link>
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<pubDate>Monday, 12 July 2004 11:48:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Personal Choice of Smoking Marijuana</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_523_The-Personal-Choice-of-Smoking-Marijuana.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[So what? I smoke pot. Think about it, out of all the after work activities, there are about a bazillion other things that I could be doing that are worse than getting high. I am a tax paying citizen. I have a full-time job in the mental health field. I attend college full time and carry a 3.5 GPA. And yes, I smoke marijuana. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 8 July 2004 10:59:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What's in a Name?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_516_Whats-in-a-Name.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not one to usually drone on about my personal problems and label it journalism, this is one problem that affects a large amount of us at sometime in our lives. Having been with my boyfriend for five years this month, the idea that I may be with him for life seems to be becoming ever more evident. I dont mind this: being an independent, know-my-own-mind, even (gasp! heaven forbid!) a feminist kind of gal, I still believe in marriage and all that goes with it...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 6 July 2004 12:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kathleen's Kookery</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_494_Kathleens-Kookery.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I took over this recipe from my mother-in-law, who passed away nine years ago.  She made this for Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinner, and it was always the high point of the meal for me.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 22 June 2004 10:47:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Alexandra and I</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg is a strange city. A friend of mine, who comes from another South African city, often remarks on the way that Joburg seems to be made up of a strange patchwork of urban and suburban areas that makes no sense in terms of town planning. An industrial area may be surrounded by either residential or commercial areas. Business and commercial areas appear out of nowhere and, every now and then, an affluent residential area sort of sneaks up and roosts in the middle of it all.

<DIV style='float:left; margin: 5px' class=divclass><IMG SRC="http://www.thecheers.org/eng/article_pictures/482/936.jpg"><BR>A typical Johannesburg scene</DIV>

One of Johannesburgs stranger occurrences is the township. These were segregated areas where black residents of the city were allowed to live back in the days of Apartheid and, to this day, they are still the province of the countrys majority. No whites (or at least incredibly few) call a township home, and these places have become bastions of a bastardized Afro-European culture that has become the norm for large sections of the black population. African custom and European culture clashes here, gets all mixed up in the big boiling pot of humanity and (with a large seasoning of American culture for flavour) is brewed into the lifestyle of the average black South African. They are, to many white citizens of the country, alien places.

I said that no whites call townships their home but, once upon a time, I came close. It was a long time ago, in a place called Alexandra.
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<pubDate>Sunday, 20 June 2004 08:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Men like women</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_465_Men-like-women.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The new frighteningly ON thing in todays metropolitic urban world are men who more and more want to be like women. Metro-sexuality is the name of the game, ladies and gentlemen. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 18 June 2004 01:50:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kathleen's Kookery</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_426_Kathleens-Kookery.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing that is near and dear to my heart - and my waist line, Im sorry to say - its cooking. I can cook almost anything. And a lot of it, I unfortunately cook without a recipe. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 11 June 2004 06:01:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What's in a Name?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_419_Whats-in-a-Name.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[When the first truly democratic election in South Africa in 1994 was won by the African National Congress (ANC) and Nelson Mandela stepped into the Presidential position after many long years of isolation on Robben Island, everyone was pretty sure that things were set for a big change. But none expected to go to bed in one place and wake up in another Yet millions did.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 9 June 2004 06:43:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A Generation Lost</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_401_A-Generation-Lost.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Everyday the American media blasts reports of pre-teen and teenaged violence. Papers report grade school kids getting expelled for threatening their teachers,and teenagers serving life sentences for drive-by shootings. Yet day after day parents are told disipline by spanking is considered child abuse and to tell a child \"no\" for any reason is creating a negative living enviornment. Parents are held at arms length of child abuse allegations anytime. Yet, we cannot understand why the parents lose intrest in parenting and the kids themselves lose intrest in life itself.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 4 June 2004 09:04:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Driving Miss Crazy</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_396_Driving-Miss-Crazy.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[South Africa is a country that, in recent years, has become more and more attractive to visitors from overseas. In fact, the countrys tourism industry is booming, with travelers arriving every day by the plane-load. And they all come with their minds crammed full of the preconceived ideas that the brochures and travel agents expound. These ideas are pretty much shot down, however, somewhere between the airport and their hotel. See, most visitors to sunny South Africa come in via Johannesburg International Airport and, in getting to wherever their eventual holiday destination might be, a good number have to experience driving on the roads of Johannesburg.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:03:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Celebrating the Couch Potato</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_383_Celebrating-the-Couch-Potato.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ah, the couch potato, that icon of American pop culture values. Isn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t that the life? Why would anyone want to exert extra energy to be productive when you can simply plop down on the couch in front of the telly and enjoy all that delicious snack food and a cool one. Why worry about a yard that needs mowing, a sink full of dishes or that overflowing garbage can. They will all be there tomorrow or even next week - you can take care of them then, or not.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 3 June 2004 05:30:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Not Even Some Wafer-Thin Ham, Barbara?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_315_Not-Even-Some-Wafer-Thin-Ham-Barbara.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has seen The Royle Family will remember this scene. The grandmother of the family repeatedly offers her grandsons new girlfriend  a vegetarian  wafer-thin ham. The grandmother cant comprehend vegetarianism and seems to think that because the ham is thin it doesnt really count as meat.          

 
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<pubDate>Sunday, 16 May 2004 01:26:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hair of the Dog</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_301_Hair-of-the-Dog.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ahh, spring. It's a lovely little season. The flowers are blooming, the birds are chirping, and every living thing is trying to mate. Speaking of mating, that reminds me of another tradition of spring that has long since past me by as it is clearly for the younger crowd. I am of course referring to PROM!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:35:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Very Fit or Very Fat in Western Society?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_282_Very-Fit-or-Very-Fat-in-Western-Society.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The ideal of thinness gives way to the idea that it is acceptable to be obese. As the numbers of overweight people grow, has the tide been turning on not only approval but the image of beauty?
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 27 April 2004 01:55:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Modeling: A View to Remember</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_255_Modeling-A-View-to-Remember.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am more then a pretty face! And this is what it feels like on the opposite side of the camera.  Somewhere in our world a new star is born at this very moment, while you and I read this composition.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:57:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>My son wants to get married, so we are going window shopping for a wife</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_197_My-son-wants-to-get-married-so-we-are-going-window-shopping-for-a-wife.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It may be 2004, but educated women in Hyderabad, India are stll selected for marriage based on what they look like, the colour of their skin and much they can give in dowry.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 31 March 2004 02:33:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Best Selling Help</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_193_Best-Selling-Help.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Are we so desperate for advice? Is where any help in between those soft and hard covers with promising slogan-like titles? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 30 March 2004 06:09:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hip, Hip Hurray!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_176_Hip-Hip-Hurray.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be a hippie in todays times?  Does the word have any relevance for the modern free spirit?  Courtney Sunday explores.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 23 March 2004 01:08:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Racism in Germany</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_175_Racism-in-Germany.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is there really so much racism in Germany, or is that just a prejudice?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 23 March 2004 01:10:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Three wives and a Score of children, the African way ...</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_160_Three-wives-and-a-Score-of-children-the-African-way-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine having several women you are required to call "Mother," not because they gave birth to you, but because each is your fathers wife. According to the African tradition of polygamy, this makes every one of them your mother. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:54:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Impact of Indian TV Channels on Pakistani Culture</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_143_Impact-of-Indian-TV-Channels-on-Pakistani-Culture.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nowadays, at home a mother is not going to scold you for coming late at home, but rather when you demand her to change the channel to something good, first she denies you. When you change the channel yourself, stubbornly, testing her reaction, the experiment shows that she will recall upon all the verses from the Quran and all the ethical values from the Sunnah  the way Muslims' Prophet (PBUH) lived his life  for not denying what a mother says. In other words, she will do any thing possible to make you race from that room.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:40:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Vanity in America</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_131_Vanity-in-America.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Every year Americans spend billions of dollars to be beautiful.  As a culture, we spend this money on everythimg from houses and clothes to cars and fad diets. And all of this, just to be "beautiful."]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:04:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>My Name is Andy, and I'm...SOBER!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/article_129_My-Name-is-Andy-and-ImSOBER.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[As strange as this may sound, Ive never done drugs. Ive had plenty of friends that could hook me up if I so desired, but Ive had no need to smoke, shoot, or snort anything out of the ordinary. I didnt even start drinking alcohol until I was twenty-three years old.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:10:34 GMT</pubDate>
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