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	<title>Tom de Castella</title>
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	<description>Tom is a freelance journalist and writer. His areas of expertise include Zimbabwe, lidos, books, sport and social policy.</description>
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		<title>The new National Service in action (Children &amp; Young People Now)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A sneak preview of what is to become David Cameron's pet project - the National Citizen Service.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomdecastella.com/?p=157</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;d have to fight for the Taliban if I went back&#8221; (Children &amp; Young People Now)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK Border Agency is planning to create a "reintegration centre" in Afghanistan for young asylum seekers. Here, a 19-year-old Afghan recounts his harrowing life story and argues that plans to return 16 and 17 year-olds to Kabul are fatally flawed.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomdecastella.com/?p=161</link>
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		<title>The price of being single (BBC news online)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living alone costs singletons an extra £250,000 over a lifetime compared to couples, it is claimed. So what is the "singles tax"?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomdecastella.com/?p=155</link>
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		<title>No diving? No bombing? No rules swimming (BBC news online)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Columnist Matthew Parris has been called "ignorant" and his actions "dangerous" after swimming across London's River Thames. But up and down the country, people are dipping a toe in the trend for outdoor swimming.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomdecastella.com/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Do typefaces really matter? (BBC news online)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time was released, one section of the audience was immediately outraged.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomdecastella.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Should we trust the wisdom of crowds? (BBC news online)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A problem shared is a problem halved, goes the old saying. But what happens if you share a problem with millions of people?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomdecastella.com/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Hysterical, deluded and thoroughly English (BBC news online)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do the English fool themselves, again and again, into believing they can win? Might they actually enjoy it?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomdecastella.com/?p=143</link>
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		<title>A mad, bad and dangerous swim across the Dardanelles (Financial Times magazine)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am swimming in the middle of the strait dividing Europe from Asia Minor and I sense most of us are not going to make it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomdecastella.com/?p=135</link>
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