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	<title>Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate</title>
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	<description>An Economist's Travelogue</description>
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		<title>From Boulder North and West to Portland, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re in our sixth month on the road. After a stay back in Boulder, Colorado to take care of  personal matters, we traveled through Wyoming, Montana, and Washington, on our way to Portland, Oregon, where we lived for fifteen months in 2003 and 2004. We stopped first in Casper and Buffalo, Wyoming, neither of which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/07/25/from-boulder-north-and-west-to-portland-part-1/</link>
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		<title>A Lucky Man, Episode 4 (last one!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VII. By the time Clyde got the letter telling him the date of the arbitration hearing, he was nearly out of money.  He’d made house payments, but the rest of the bills were overdue and food was in short supply.  His parents offered to lend him money, but he refused to borrow from a man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/07/15/a-lucky-man-episode-4-last-one/</link>
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		<title>A Lucky Man, Episode 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[V. A factory is a battle zone.  Nothing better illustrates the slogan that “time is money” than the daily struggle between workers and bosses to squeeze a little more free time or a little more work out of the workday. The time study guy would sneak around with his stopwatch, ever on the lookout for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/07/14/a-lucky-man-episode-3/</link>
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		<title>A Lucky Man, Episode 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  III. Like everyone else, Clyde Yassem remembered what he had been doing on December 7, 1941.  Sleeping.  His parents and two of his younger brothers rushed in to awaken him and tell him the news.  He didn’t think much of it at first, but as what happened became clear, he could see that it had electrified [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/07/13/a-lucky-man-episode-2/</link>
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		<title>A Lucky Man: Episode 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I.  [Note: This is a story from my book, In and Out of the Working Class.  I am posting it in episodes, so stay tuned!]                           
Sometimes a random event can change a person’s life.  Clyde Yassem was sitting in the firehall drinking stale coffee and sneaking a look at The Daily Racing Form when the emergency phone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/07/10/a-lucky-man-episode-1/</link>
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