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		<title>The Bicycle Fit Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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If you&#8217;re having reservations about buying a bicycle over the Internet, you&#8217;re not alone. One of the main reasons people hesitate to buy a bike online &#8211; instead of at their local bike shop &#8211; is that they can&#8217;t actually sit on it or ride it first. After all, actually mounting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=234&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vulnerability: The Defining Trait of Great Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2:17 PM Tuesday October  6, 2009, posted on Harvard Business Publishing  

The late Oscar Levant — American pianist, composer, actor, hypochondriac, and world-class neurotic — once remarked, &#8220;There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased that line.&#8221; As Levant saw it, this blur gave him creative impetus. Just as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=232&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 21, 2009, 1:17 PM ET
Outrunning Change — the CliffsNotes Version
By Gary Hamel
I don’t know if I’ll write another book. Truth is, I’m too busy right now—and even if I found the time to churn one out, you’d probably be too busy to read it. After all, how many business books have you managed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=229&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Ever thought about the shoes that you wear to the gym? Of course you have. You&#8217;ve actually spent some time thinking about which shoes to wear, and you probably have a pair designated as your &#8216;gym shoes&#8217;. How did those shoes earn that illustrious title and serve such a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=226&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is Your Brain on Bliss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matthieu Ricard
posted Oct 31, 2008
After 2,000 years of practice, Buddhist monks know that one secret to happiness is simply to put your mind to it.
What is happiness, and how can we achieve it?
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		<title>Why Do Women Have Sex?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two University of Texas researchers wanted to dig deeper to find out what specifically drives women to go to bed with their partners. They conducted an online survey of more than 1,000 women ages 18 to 87 and found, to their surprise, that women aren't all that different from men.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=219&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tapping the Power of Your Morning Routine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 12:00AM
by Jim Citrin 
direct link (click here)

How disciplined are you about your early-morning routine?
If you want to maximize your success while achieving the best possible balance in your life, you may want to take a fresh look at what time you wake up and what you do with your time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=216&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org (read original post on this website)
2:27 PM Monday July 20, 2009
Yesterday started with the best of intentions. I walked into my office in the morning with a vague sense of what I wanted to accomplish. Then I sat down, turned on my computer, and checked my email. Two hours later, after fighting several fires, solving other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=214&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Referendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



  September 17, 2009, 9:30 pm: NYT  &#60;!&#8211; — Updated: 9:11 am &#8211;&#62;    
By Tim Kreider


Recently an editor asked me for an essay about arrested adolescence, joking: “Of course, I thought of you.”
It is worth mentioning that this editor is an old college friend; we’ve driven across the country, been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=210&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Man’s Trash &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KATE MURPHY
Published NYT: September 2, 2009
AMONG the traditional brick and clapboard structures that line the streets of this sleepy East Texas town, 70 miles north of Houston, a few houses stand out: their roofs are made of license plates, and their windows of crystal platters.
They are the creations of Dan Phillips, 64, who has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fjaffer.wordpress.com&blog=198223&post=208&subd=fjaffer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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