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	<title>The Elder Statesman</title>
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	<description>Afterwords on books, writing and columns</description>
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		<title>The world has passed me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
This past Fourth of July I had visits from my two youngest sons, both professionals and I listened intently as they talked in a language admittedly I did not understand. It was techno talk and at that moment I realized that even though as an editor decades ago, I had ushered in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/07/08/the-world-has-passed-me</link>
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		<title>Buiding a bionic mousetrap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
In my early newspaper days in Los Angeles, I was given an unusual assignment to read the Associated Press, United Press and all the wire services for which my newspaper subscribed in search of oddities in the news. I would compile for a front-page column. It was my editor’s way of lightening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/07/01/buiding-a-bionic-mousetrap</link>
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		<title>De-clawing a caffeine addict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
It seems of late I have spent more time in a hospital bed waiting for the hours to creep across the face of the clock. For a person as active as I am, the worst part of this ordeal is not the bland hospital menus, not even all the poking around by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/06/24/de-clawing-a-caffeine-addict</link>
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		<title>Being Frank &amp; Earnest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
I am a great fan of the cartoon, Frank &#038; Earnest. The antics of Frank &#038; Earnest are more true to life than perhaps we’d like to admit. However, I think I enjoy the word play in the cartoon more than anything else about these two unlikely characters.
Frank &#038; Earnest, if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/06/17/being-frank-earnest</link>
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		<title>Careful how we deal with sextexting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
If e-mails, letters and personal phone calls are any indication, I am not alone as a dinosaur roaming the jungles of cell phones. To my surprise many others feel as I do that no telephone call is so important it can’t wait.
One of the shocking revelations came from a reader who researched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/06/10/careful-how-we-deal-with-sextexting</link>
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		<title>The telephone: A love/hate relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
I have a confession to make. I do not own a cell phone.
There are a few of us dinosaurs roaming the earth including, I discovered Edward Grinnan, editor of Guideposts magazine, who made a similar confession in May to his readers. Like, Grinnan, I am not opposed to technology. In fact, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/06/03/the-telephone-a-lovehate-relationship</link>
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		<title>Book Review/Muffins &amp; Mayhem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Muffins &#038; Mayhem
Recipes for a Happy, if disorderly, life
By SUZANNE BEECHER
A Touchstone Book
A division of Simon &#038; Shuster
Hardbound $24.99
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
Readers of The Senior Times section enfolded in the daily News-Review each first Monday of the month are familiar with the wit and wisdom of Suzanne Beecher. Those who subscribe to her on-line book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/05/27/book-reviewmuffins-mayhem</link>
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		<title>No matter where he lies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
Here I lie, or is it lay? Confound English. But then who hasn’t confused lie and lay?
The last time I wrote this column from this position was two weeks go and I said I’d be out of the hospital in a couple of days. I lied.
There you go again. This lie means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/05/27/no-matter-where-he-lies</link>
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		<title>Question is can you write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
I’ve never been much on titles. Occasionally, I’ll slip up and call myself by the prissy word, journalist, but deep down I’m just a reporter. I’ve been higher up in the newspaper ranks, even once was a publisher. And I have held the title of editor on several daily newspapers.
I am told [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/05/20/question-is-can-you-write</link>
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		<title>One line sermons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By BILL DUNCAN
Elderstatesman
I receive too many unwanted forwards on this magic box called a computer. Every now and then one comes through that is a keeper, like the forward called 7% that I got from  Charles Becherer, a hospice volunteer with me at the VA in Roseburg. Charlie is the most unassuming individual I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theduncansonline.com/elderstatesman/index.php/2010/05/13/333</link>
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