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		<title>By: Sonya</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2004/02/09/the-pencil-man-of-concord/comment-page-1/#comment-1414</link>
		<dc:creator>Sonya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

paxil http://www.bestrx-drugs.com</description>
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<p>paxil <a href="http://www.bestrx-drugs.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.bestrx-drugs.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: geel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2004/02/09/the-pencil-man-of-concord/comment-page-1/#comment-8552</link>
		<dc:creator>geel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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in 1859 it was there life</description>
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<p>in 1859 it was there life</p>
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		<title>By: barry</title>
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		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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well thats a realy  past story , the English and French products this days , where in a good position!!</description>
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<p>well thats a realy  past story , the English and French products this days , where in a good position!!</p>
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		<title>By: James Harvey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2004/02/09/the-pencil-man-of-concord/comment-page-1/#comment-7719</link>
		<dc:creator>James Harvey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

LOL: as a Londoner, your first sentence started my blood boiling until I realised you were pulling my leg! (&quot;Whaddya mean &#039;not much action in town&#039;?  This is the liveliest city on earth etc etc&quot;)</description>
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<p>LOL: as a Londoner, your first sentence started my blood boiling until I realised you were pulling my leg! (&#8221;Whaddya mean &#8216;not much action in town&#8217;?  This is the liveliest city on earth etc etc&#8221;)</p>
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		<title>By: Atilla</title>
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		<dc:creator>Atilla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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That&#039;s really interesting!  I&#039;ve been an admirer of Thoreau&#039;s writings, and have even visited Walden Pond and the little mock-up of his place, but I had never learned that tid bit. Thanks!</description>
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<p>That&#8217;s really interesting!  I&#8217;ve been an admirer of Thoreau&#8217;s writings, and have even visited Walden Pond and the little mock-up of his place, but I had never learned that tid bit. Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Gottlieb</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Gottlieb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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I had heard another problem with graphite pencils was that the small amount of conductive graphite dust created when writing was judged a risk to certain equipment.  I had heard they investigated metal mechanical pencils which were commonly available at the time but jumped at the inexpensive &quot;space&quot; pens due to the conductive dust issue.

The story is still funny, though, for the reasons stated in the Snopes article.</description>
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<p>I had heard another problem with graphite pencils was that the small amount of conductive graphite dust created when writing was judged a risk to certain equipment.  I had heard they investigated metal mechanical pencils which were commonly available at the time but jumped at the inexpensive &#8220;space&#8221; pens due to the conductive dust issue.</p>
<p>The story is still funny, though, for the reasons stated in the Snopes article.</p>
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		<title>By: Alex Chernavsky</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alex Chernavsky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Reminds me of this apocryphal story about pencils and US space program (I used to be quite interested in urban legends):
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During the space race back in the 1960&#039;s, NASA was faced with a major problem.&#160; The astronaut needed a pen that would write in the vacuum of space.&#160; NASA went to work.&#160; At a cost of $1.5 million they developed the &quot;Astronaut Pen&quot;.&#160; Some of you may remember.&#160; It enjoyed minor success on the commercial market. 

The Russians were faced with the same dilemma.
They used a pencil.
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp&lt;/a&gt;
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<p>Reminds me of this apocryphal story about pencils and US space program (I used to be quite interested in urban legends):</p>
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During the space race back in the 1960&#8217;s, NASA was faced with a major problem.&nbsp; The astronaut needed a pen that would write in the vacuum of space.&nbsp; NASA went to work.&nbsp; At a cost of $1.5 million they developed the &#8220;Astronaut Pen&#8221;.&nbsp; Some of you may remember.&nbsp; It enjoyed minor success on the commercial market. </p>
<p>The Russians were faced with the same dilemma.<br />
They used a pencil.
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<p><a href="http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp">http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp</a></p>
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		<title>By: Peter Gottlieb</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Gottlieb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Why were you &quot;test-flying&quot; N505WT?  Did you have some work done on it?</description>
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<p>Why were you &#8220;test-flying&#8221; N505WT?  Did you have some work done on it?</p>
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