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	<description>Bananas, Los Angeles, and Transit Geekery</description>
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		<title>Photo Forensics and a Family Mystery &#8211; Solved.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This photo has been in my family for years. It depicts my grandfather, Morris Koeppel (left, in glasses), in front of the clothing store he owned in the 1930s. The picture has been around for years, but I&#8217;ve never known where the store actually was. I had always thought it was in Manhattan, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It took over ten years to get this story published&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;ve been obsessed with Robert Garside &#8211; who ran around the world, only to find that nobody believed him &#8211; for over a decade. I wrote the first version of this story in 2005, but it never got published, mostly because the story drove me a little bit insane. Proving that Robert Garside ran around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After some weird and entirely avoidable database migration issues, I&#8217;m slowly rebuilding the site. Links and pictures are mostly broken; content and text are in fairly good shape. Hopefully all will be well soon.]]></description>
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		<title>LA DWP and sock-puppet vendor fall in love over winter wind crisis response&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LADWP proudly tweets a link to a story (below) that claims that it handled crisis communication perfectly during the windstorm last January. It even takes a dig at So Cal Edison for not doing the same. So, as a DWP customer, let&#8217;s set the record straight: - DWP&#8217;s Twitter updates and communications were a joke. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh Air Listeners, Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Dan Koeppel&#8217;s blog. For my latest writing about bananas, please check out my recent story in The Scientist. If you&#8217;re looking for a copy of my book, and Amazon is sold out, I sell signed copies direct at retail cost (plus shipping.) Chinese, Thai, and Korean editions also available. Japan is coming soon. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Parade 2011 info is online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The event is Saturday and Sunday May 21 and 22, 2011, with a prologue on Friday, May 20. To learn what the Big Parade is, how to join it, why you can do it, and where we&#8217;ll go, visit the official Big Parade website. To keep updated, join practice walks, and ask questions, visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My story nominated for a James Beard Foundation award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unexpected and cool. The story is a good read, if I say so myself, especially if you&#8217;re visiting my site for the first time via my appearance this morning on Chicago Public Radio&#8217;s Worldview program this morning. The main feature concerns the state of banana innovation. I dream of supermarkets where many delicious varieties of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just for Kids: How Bananas Came to America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a special post, excerpted and modified from my book, designed for kids, visiting from The Mini Page, a syndicated feature published in over 500 newspapers every week. Lorenzo Dow Baker: Banana Pioneer Bananas were available in the United States immediately following the Civil War. But they were a luxury item, like caviar, consumed more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just for Kids: The World&#8217;s Most Important Bananas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a special post, excerpted and modified from my book, designed for kids, visiting from The Mini Page, a syndicated feature published in over 500 newspapers every week. There is no place on earth where bananas are more important than Uganda. Uganda grows eleven million tons of the fruit each year. That counts out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Banana Reading, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Duplantier’s magazine &#8211; almost entirely devoted to bananas &#8211; is absolutely inspiring. Neotropica, published out of Costa Rica, is now two issues old. It is a feast of banana-related information, covering the fruit’s politics, culture, and economics &#8211; past, present, and future. I can’t say enough about what a detailed, compelling, and well-put together [...]]]></description>
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