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        <title><![CDATA[Stacey Shick]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Stacey Shick is a former Bloomberg Opinion editor. She was a copy editor at the New York Times, MLB.com and the Tampa Tribune.

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            <title><![CDATA[I'm Going to Africa, and I Won't Get Ebola]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It would be a shame if all the panic over Ebola and our confusion about geography kept families from visiting Africa.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:03:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Baseball, Apple Pie and No Family Leave]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[What was most ridiculous about Mike Francesa's rant was his assumption the paternity leave taken by the New York Mets' Daniel Murphy had been enabled by the federal government. If only that were true.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 20:46:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Says I'd Be a Lousy Banker]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:25:40 GMT</pubDate>
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