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      <title><![CDATA[Berkshire Eagle: Health & Science]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[More women choose to give birth at home]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Saturday, Nov. 21</div>
ASHLAND, Ore. -- When Jennifer Margulis went into labor with her fourth child, she sent her husband off to take the kids to school, then waited at home for her body to do what she felt confident it had evolved over millions of years to do on its own.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jeff Barnard, Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:10:23 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[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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         <title><![CDATA[MCLA science center is a go]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class pub_info>Friday, Oct. 09</div>

NORTH ADAMS -- After three years of persistent lobbying from state legislators and other key governmental officials, the MCLA Center for Science and Innovation is becoming a reality -- the $50 million building was included in the governor's five-year capital plan that was released late Wednesday afternoon.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jennifer Huberdeau, New England Newspapers</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:06:51 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[French: Air France plane hit the sea belly first ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Thursday, July 02</div>

LE BOURGET, France - Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:15:05 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[New FDA chiefs stress better food safety ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Tuesday, May 26</div> 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The huge salmonella outbreak from peanut butter represented a failure of the Food and Drug Administration, that agency's new chiefs declared Tuesday - one they hope to fix.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 May 2009 15:06:19 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Seminar scheduled for women adjusting to cancer treatment]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Monday, May 25</div>  
 
 PITTSFIELD &#151; The American Cancer Society will hold a Look Good ... Feel Better seminar on Monday, June 8, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the American Cancer Society/Berkshire Medical Resource Center located at Berkshire Medical Center, 725 North St.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Community</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 May 2009 09:02:02 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Single payer care topic of discussion]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Sunday, March 29</div> 
 
 WILLIAMSTOWN &#151; The public is invited to a discussion of single payer health care on Wednesday, April 1, 7 p.m., in the Fellowship Hall at the First Congregational Church on Route 2.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Community</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:06:34 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Berkshire Medical Center earns honors]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div class=pub_info>Thursday, February 05</div>
 
PITTSFIELD &#151; Berkshire Medical Center has been named a distinguished hospital by a consumer health company, one of 270 hospitals in the nation and only two in the state.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Jack Dew, Berkshire Eagle Staff</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:26:03 EST]]></pubDate>
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