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	<description>Broken Atlas is the virtual woodshed of Christopher Frey, a Toronto-based journalist who writes on culture, economics and technology in a globalizing world.</description>
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		<title>African Mixtape, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s followed the rise of K’naan, M.I.A. and grime MCs like Tinchy Stryder, but there’s been some pretty exciting, forward-looking music coming out of the developing world and its diasporas over the past few years. Stuff like eight-bit Afrikaaner rave-rappers Die Antwoord.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/02/23/african-mixtape-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye, Babylon King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out BA contributor Tyler Stiem's awesome essay on Liberia, "Goodbye, Babylon King", in the current issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/02/16/goodbye-babylon-king/</link>
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		<title>Chernobyl Stalker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The people most affected by the explosion of Reactor Four on the morning of April 26,1986, soon learned that the event known as Chernobyl was predicted by a feature film made seven years earlier. Stalker, by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, explored the limits of our technical power against the backdrop of a mysterious force that can only be approached on foot, by forest "stalkers" who have learned to accept its risky gifts. Today, real stalkers live inside Chernobyl's official 30-kilometre Exclusion Zone and secretly strip the dead city of its valuables. A film by Donald Weber.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/02/16/chernobyl-stalker/</link>
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		<title>Blister Pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China almost bankrupted Rome through its aesthetic craving for imported silks, and wrenched the British Empire apart with the chemical high of costly teas. Now the West faces a metaphysical addiction to its “toys.”]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/02/15/blister-pack/</link>
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		<title>Carpet Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short film by Donald Weber—an insider's glimpse at red carpet culture and paparazzi during the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/02/09/carpet-culture/</link>
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		<title>Comrades in Invention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russians have for decades fashioned functional objects from such cast-off items as forks, plastic bottles and onion bags. Collector Vladimir Arkhipov sheds light on the artful labours collected in his archive of "post-material folklore".]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/02/09/comrades-in-invention/</link>
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		<title>Bangers and No Crash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese robber threatened to blow up a restaurant with sausages, disguised as explosives, strapped to his body.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/02/04/bangers-and-no-crash/</link>
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		<title>The DPR of Denim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got a notion for a business and need a foreign partner? Looking to out-source production to a country where the wages are cheap and the workers so compliant they'll break into choreographed flag-waving teams? Consider North Korea.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/01/28/the-dpr-of-denim/</link>
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		<title>The Road to Jijiga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it's never been recognized by the international community, Somaliland broke away from Somalia during the civil war. Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, a bombed-out ghost town only fifteen years ago, is now thriving. But across the border in Ethiopia there's trouble. Somali Ogadenis are still fighting their own, doomed war of secession. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/01/23/the-road-to-jijiga/</link>
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		<title>An Outsider’s Archi-tour of Gaudí&#8217;s Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can’t seem to walk three blocks in Barcelona without running into a Gaudí masterpiece — though by masterpiece we're referring to scale. In architecture, as in cities, grand has more than one meaning.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokenatlas.com/2010/01/23/an-outsider%e2%80%99s-archi-tour-of-gaudisbarcelona/</link>
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