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         <title><![CDATA[More women choose   to give birth at home]]></title>
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ASHLAND, Ore. -- When Jennifer Margulis went into labor with her fourth child, she sent her husband off to take the kids to]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:42 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can onions cure the flu?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Q: There is a message circulating on the Web about putting an unpeeled onion in a room to attract flu viruses.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:32 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Northern Berkshire Healthcare looking for fiscal partner]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Tuesday, Nov. 17</div>

NORTH ADAMS -- Northern Berkshire Healthcare is seeking to partner with a health care organization as it faces a huge loss this fiscal year, with a deficit projected at $8.1 million and no improvement in the economy foreseen.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jennifer Huberdeau, New England Newspapers</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:14:12 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Burning bush and Japanese barberry (not bayberry)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, Nov. 16</div>

Often, it is that we just don't know. For instance, what lovelier shrub, especially in the autumn, is there than the burning bush or wingedeuonymus?]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Thom Smith </dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:27:33 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Keeping the milky way]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, Nov. 16</div>

PITTSFIELD -- Chocolate milk stirred up a great debate last week.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jenn Smith, Berkshire Eagle Staff</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:03:09 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Suicide prevention talk slated for Tuesday]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Sunday, Nov. 15</div>

PITTSFIELD - For the first time, local leaders and residents are coming together to talk about a subject that is tough to talk about - suicide.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Benning W. De La Mater, Berkshire Eagle Staff</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:44:47 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Woman wants to help others]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, Nov. 09</div>
NEW MARLBOROUGH - Bridget Ford Hughes says she had a pretty nice life a couple years ago - living in New York City, running her own message therapy center and working with famous clientele.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Trevor Jones, Berkshire Eagle Staff</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:52:53 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Zebra mussels: Another view]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, Nov. 09</div>

PITTSFIELD - Many see zebra mussels as an environmental threat, an invader of the most virulent kind.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By David Pepose, Berkshire Eagle Staff</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:47:26 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cancer survivors use humor as a weapon]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, Nov. 09</div>

PITTSFIELD  -- In 2000, Nancy M. Thompson was diagnosed with cancer.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Derek Gentile, Berkshire Eagle Staff</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:35:23 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Healthcare union decries demands]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Saturday, Nov. 07</div>

NORTH ADAMS -- Union officials at North Adams Regional Hospital charged Friday that hospital management has presented employees with a list of 18 demands that, among other things, threaten retirement benefits, overtime pay and seniority status for the number of years worked at the hospital.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Ryan Hutton</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:46:29 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ladybug invasion is a &lsquo;rest']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, Nov. 09</div>
Q: In October each year, we are visited by an inordinate number of Asian ladybugs, literally thousands.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Thom Smith</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:38:33 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Patience pivotal concerning H1N1 vaccine]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Saturday, Nov. 07</div>
PITTSFIELD -- With the distribution pace of the swine flu vaccine progressing from a crawl to a shuffle, officials are urging patience as supplies slowly reach the Berkshires and the H1N1 strain continues to sicken people statewide.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Conor Berry</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:32:49 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Vet finds sugar aids in healing of wound]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, Nov. 09</div>
Q: You recently wrote about sugar for wound healing. I have been in veterinary medicine for 15 years.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Health</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:44:13 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Elevators to Space]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Saturday, Nov. 07</div>

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.

A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter last week to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By John Antczak, Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:24:37 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Flu control: NARH enacts visitor rules]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, Nov. 02</div>
NORTH ADAMS -- Starting Tuesday, North Adams Regional Hospital will restrict visiting hours and restrict visitors to those who are 18 years of age]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Eagle Staff</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:18:25 EST]]></pubDate>
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