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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Art of Genetic Manipulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor - Editor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arius Elvikis

The Farm
by Alexis Rockman
(2000)
Incredible advances are being made in genetics and biotechnology.  Crops are altered to be easier for farmers to grow; bacteria are altered to produce specific substances or break down others; and animals are beginning to be custom-tailored to yield more meat or aid in disease research.  These are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nightswimming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Barrett Hathcock
She had called.
It was the night before the first day of junior year, a Sunday, a day normally reserved for lunch with the grandparents, minimal yard work for his mother, and an evening spent grilling hot dogs with his father in the driveway of his Belhaven rental, where he had lived since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Sexually Suggestive Poems</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/threesexuallysuggestivepoems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Carl Miller Daniels
Tommies Bathingby John Singer Sargeant(1918)
ozone
ballsy guys will say darn near anything
to darn near anyone.
ballsy guys get a lot of
action in the bedroom.
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		<title>Infidel:  The Harrowing Tale of My Wikipedia Edit</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/infidel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifton - Editor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Clifton Smith 
When surfing the Web recently for info on writer/infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali, I notice that her Wikipedia entry contains many &#8220;citation needed&#8221; notices.
Good Samaritan that I try to be, I decide to try to improve the quality and reliability of this Wikipedia entry. 
Better Samaritan that I try to be, I decide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love on the Run</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kyle Shelton

“Do you have a problem with nudity?” Laura asked.
“Nudity? Um…I guess as a general concept, no, I don’t have a problem with it,” I replied.
“We’re not doing porn, if that’s what you’re thinking!” Laura said. “I mean, it’s not porn, so don’t worry about that. I mean, if one of the contestants starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angels at Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Candace Ramsey
He wouldn’t be a man
if he didn’t look right through me,
because that’s what men do to me.
Their boyish eyes look where my face usually is.
What do they see?
Certainly not enough of what they’re used to.
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		<title>Sample encounters with female Homo sapiens, Phoenix,  Arizona (ca. 2000 CE)</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/sample-encounters-with-female-homo-sapiens-phoenix-arizona-ca-2000-ce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clifton - Editor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Clifton Smith

  Girl at Piano
by Roy Lichtenstein
(1963)
Adolescent  female twenty-somethings who wear loads of pink and leave deep scratches down  your back
  Grown-up  girls who&#8217;ve seen every Disney cartoon and can sing each song in chronological  order
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		<title>Analysis of Boys and Girls in America</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/theholdsteady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Hust
With the release of Boys and Girls in America, Craig Finn, talk-singing front man of The Hold Steady, unveils the latest chapter in his ongoing story of drugs and  redemption. This release, the band&#8217;s  first for Vagrant records, finds the New York rockers picking up right where  they left off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Document is Rated X for Aberrational Honesty: Arguments for Ignoring MPAA Ratings</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/mpaa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Clifton Smith 

Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. 
&#8212;Bertrand Russell, 
&#160;&#160;&#160;Marriage and Morals 
 &#160;&#160;&#160;(1929)

Ahead, I will discuss documentarian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Jordan: Sublime Stuff</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/chrisjordan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arius Elvikis

Chris Jordan
 Intolerable Beauty
&#8220;Cell phones #2&#8221; 
PlasticatastropheHalf a year ago I read an article on the North Pacific Gyre, an immense, high-pressure area of the ocean between the west coast and Hawaii.  The waters within were doldrums; few ships sailed through because the winds didn’t blow.  The ocean just swirled there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTF</title>
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		<comments>http://sicmagazine.org/mtf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Julie Nagoshi
Lost my high powered job, six figures out the door.
MAN, my employer used to love me.
Fired me for taking an unwarranted leave of absence.
Unwarranted or unexpected.
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		<title>The Nation Formerly Known as Belgium?</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/belgium/</link>
		<comments>http://sicmagazine.org/belgium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Roz Fuller
Chocolate and beer. To have tasted the Belgian variety of these treats is to count yourself among the lucky. Believe it or not, they may be all that’s left of a strained Belgian national identity.
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		<title>Eleventh Winter: To Sea</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/winter/</link>
		<comments>http://sicmagazine.org/winter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Craig Nagoshi
This season&#8217;s tempests blustered you out
To sea, by the flash of fire
That consumed and passed those about
You.
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		<title>Four Poems about Theater</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/theaterpoems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Caitlyn Conlin

Oh, so you saw it
I saw a play today
I saw it
Did you think?
I saw a play I saw it
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		<title>Analysis of Autumn of the Seraphs</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/pinback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Hust
The likeability of Pinback does not seem to come to one immediately; but after enough listens, it is nearly unavoidable.  The same can be said of their newest release, Autumn of the Seraphs. 

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		<title>An Editorial Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Hust and Clifton Smith

This exchange took place between our contributor Jonathan Hust and co-editor Clifton Smith. It concerns Jonathan&#8217;s addition of a &#8220;Current Must-Hear Shortlist&#8221; to his Review of Autumn of the Seraphs, also featured in this issue. The list includes five additional albums and a numeric rating; it prompted the following editorial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How can one ratio, ration an experience&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/mydogsam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Craig Nagoshi
How can one ratio, ration an experience,
Rationalize its essence
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		<title>Song Analysis Correspondence (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/lyricstwo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Hust and Clifton Smith
This is the second part of an ongoing correspondence.
Jonathan, 
Why should we bother with all of this song scrutiny? What possible good could all of this extra thinking amount to? Isn&#8217;t it enough to like whatever we like as long as it doesn&#8217;t hurt anybody?
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		<title>Staging Science in Life of Galileo</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/galileo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Trevor Helminski
Collaborator:  Clifton Smith
  

  Galileo Galileiby Ottavio Leoni
(1624)
Life of Galileo by German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898&#8211;1956) is a major attempt to dramatize both the life of a great scientist and a crucial episode in the biography of science.
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		<title>The Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña</title>
		<link>http://sicmagazine.org/virgin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rick Engelmann
 
Entrada from the Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña
My wife Sally and I are Spanish language students in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and have been here since the first of July, 2007.  I do not pretend great wisdom, or extraordinary insight.  On the contrary, I am living the wonderfully relaxed life of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Logic of Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Chris Livesay
        

   Mass (Colder Darker Matter)
Cornelia Parker
(1997)
The word &#8220;mass&#8221; elicits a host of images.&#160; A mass of people just ran  into the breezeway to escape the monsoon showers outside the building I  type in.&#160; Scores of people across the world are certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>and people?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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they seem,
like anything familiar
(and pleasant),
addictive
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		<title>Way Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dirk Vaughan

&#8220;To show the fly the way out of the bottle was the life&#8217;s hope of Ludwig Wittgenstein, but the truth is that human beings don&#8217;t want a way out of the bottle
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		<title>The Image Registry of Historic Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Justin Sean
I won’t lie &#38; say it went effortless.
I lost loves, such, 18 years worth spent
my head in books, my neck developed
one tremendous kink &#38; adamantly tilts.
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		<title>Sex in the Film Shortbus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Clifton Smith
  Collaborator: Trevor Helminski 
A noteworthy aspect of John Cameron Mitchell&#8217;s film Shortbus is that it contains explicit sex. Only a handful of serious films (films that, unlike pornography, attempt more than sexual excitation) have included explicit sex. The most noteworthy aspect of Shortbus is that it gives us explicit, realistic sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Journey to China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deutsche Fassung
by  Felix Schulz

view of Wu Tai Shan
My journey to China began some time ago. To be honest, it seems to me as though my relationship to this country has an older history: it goes as far back as a life can go.
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		<title>&#8220;What part of whole&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Caitlyn Conlin 
What part of whole
is whole
And who decides this whole?
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		<title>The Driver</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jon Riley
For several days my car hadn’t been starting.  I decided to take the day off from work to get it fixed and had to take a cab to get to my lifeless automobile. This journey was perhaps the most traumatic experience my fragile psyche had to deal with to that date.
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		<title>“April 6, 2007, 5:42”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Craig Nagoshi
 April 6, 2007, 5:42
A.M.:  Is this the moment to note
In semi-fixed lines taken as wrote
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		<title>FTM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Julie Nagoshi
Typical 6am wake-up.  Don’t want to get out of bed.  Brush my teeth, carefully avoiding the mirror.  Quickly bathe myself.  Don’t want to touch or even look at my body.

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		<title>Emily&#8217;s Sister</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Thomas W. Helminski
 
  She’s really plain, not so easy on the eyes,
But my girlfriend’s kid sister has me utterly hypnotized.
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		<title>Three Views on the Meaning of Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Craig Nagoshi
During the Fall of 2005 and into the Spring of 2006 I participated in a series of discussions among Arizona State University faculty members from many disciplines on the meaning of suffering as it informs the conflict between scientific and religious worldviews.

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		<title>Song Analysis Correspondence (Part One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
by Jonathan Hust and Clifton Smith
This correspondence was conceived to be an ongoing dialogue. The next issue of [sic] will contain the next series of letters.
Jonathan,
Here is my idea:&#160; we will write about lyrics!&#160; Great, right?&#160; Well, there&#8217;s more.
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