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	<description>Scott Bradford has been building web sites and using them to say what he thinks since 1995, which tended to get him in trouble with power-tripping assistant principals at the time. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University, but has spent most of his career (so far) working on public- and private-sector web sites. He is not a member of any political party, and brands himself an ‘independent constitutional conservative.’ In addition to holding down a day job and blogging about challenging subjects like politics, religion, and technology, Scott is also a devout Catholic, gun-owner, bike rider, and music lover with a wife and two cats.</description>
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		<title>Roanoke Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drove up Mill Mountain after work late on a Thursday afternoon to stand beneath the Star and look at the city. It had been a hot, sticky day—the kind where a few seconds in the open air left you longing for a nearby pool to dive into—but the view was worth the lingering discomfort. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Nobody&#8217;s Watching</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the winter, the woods were bare and exposed. With all their leaves brown and damp on the ground, the trees were little more than clusters of bare, dead branches. Light shone through during the day, and the cold wash of moonlight at night. I loved the cold; I hated the exposure. The woods were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Stephen Millbloom, Director of Advanced Computer Technologies at the George Mason University School of Computer Science and Engineering, rubbed his temples with the first two fingers of each hand. He always did when he was immersed in a complex problem. For the last six days, the fastest and most powerful computer on the planet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thaxton Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connor picked out a seat near the door in the back corner of an anonymous classroom, nervously awaiting the start of his first class at Freedom High. He wasn&#8217;t happy. He had asked his parents to put the move off for a year so he could finish high school with his life-long friends, but they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parking Vulture (writing as Tamera Finn)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vultures were out, circling B-lot. B was a great parking lot. It was close to the classrooms, close to the Student Union building, close to the freshman dorms, and close to most of the classrooms. It was close to everything. It was also small. The lot only had a couple hundred spots painted out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Touch of Personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2003 19:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is one possibility. Highly experimental,&#8221; Dr. Maureen Wiest told her dying patient. &#8220;A technology that&#8217;s never been tested on humans.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m all ears.&#8221; Actually, he was hungry. Terminal cancer was no match for Vernon Ames&#8217;s appetite. He pulled a Three Musketeers bar from his pocket and began to unwrap it. &#8220;But you said it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roberta Lystron</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2003 19:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bank investigator for Wachovia branches in Washington, DC. It was my job to look into fraudulent charges on accounts, track people down when they hadn&#8217;t made necessary payments, and occasionally I would become involved after a customer&#8217;s death. It was on one of these last occasions that the file of Ms. Roberta [...]]]></description>
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