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		<title><![CDATA[On Gardening: There is Pink Cloud in the garden and its beautiful!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Supertunia Mini Vista Pink Cloud petunia is having its debut year --
or, thanks to Susan Middleton Turner in south Georgia’s zone 9 Miller
County, its breakout year. Susan’s house looks like a movie set, and
you would have to think that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4232031</link>
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    <pubDate>Jun/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ask Anna: 2 of my friends offered to make out with me. Is that normal?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Anna,

This feels like a ridiculous question, but here goes. I’m a
22-year-old trans woman, early in my transition, who’s only out to a
small circle of close friends. Most of my friends are women, and
they’ve been incredibly supportive ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4231617</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ask Dating Coach Erika: We've had two fights that almost broke us. Is this normal?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fights, disagreements, squabbles — whatever you want to call them,
they are part of any relationship (romantic or otherwise). And, I’d
venture to say, they are part of any healthy relationship. Disagreements
can’t (and shouldn’t) be ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4229735</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Could your kid benefit from counseling? Experts offer 3 questions to help you decide]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Divorce rocked the lives of Marcela Cabay and her daughter, who was a
preschooler at the time. But counseling didn’t come until years later,
when Cabay noticed her daughter was tensing up every time a storm rolled
through or whenever they were ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Jun/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New fossils suggest human evolution was more crowded than scientists thought]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a
pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human
ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

The findings, published in separate studies in...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4229690</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-etiquette: Discipline issues]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q. My ex’s boyfriend just moved in with her. We share custody of my
6-year-old daughter. We were at her ballet recital and I overheard him
chastising my daughter for something. I’m not crazy about the idea of
her boyfriend disciplining my ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4228155</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A law hid Florida foster kids' faces. Did it hurt their chances of adoption?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[TAMPA, Fla. -- For 20 years, you could see their faces: An 8-year-old
girl with chopped bangs and sad, brown eyes; a tall teenage boy with a
shy smile; a 13-year-old girl with glasses, beaming between her three
younger brothers.

Professional ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4228116</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Kid Whisperer: How teachers can teach life's most important lesson]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Kid Whisperer,

What if a student completely refuses to participate in a Delayed
Learning Opportunity? I don’t mean he just sits there until he
eventually starts doing it, but instead runs out of the room and out to
recess, or something ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4228114</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lori Borgman: All this talk about senior citizens gets old]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It dangled, wiggled and squirmed on the hook. It was click bait and I
clicked. No pause, no hesitation. Click. Just like that.

I’ll tell you what hooked me. Mature women. They had me at the word
“mature.”

Well, let’s back that up. They ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4228101</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jerry Zezima: A farewell to my arm]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know you’re old and washed up as an athlete when you hurt your
arm playing Wiffle ball.

That’s what happened when I was the pitcher in a spirited game with
my grandchildren, who not only hit home runs off me but ran so fast
around the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4227336</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dressed as bananas and dinosaurs, these costume-clad Chicagoans have gone viral for chasing CTA trains]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Standing on a second-story Bronzeville balcony Sunday
evening, a couple watched from above as the grassy area between their
apartment building and the CTA Green Line tracks came to life in a way
it never had before.

They saw people of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4225578</link>
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    <pubDate>Jun/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Heidi Stevens: The belief that we want to help each other is my guiding light -- even when I have to go searching for reminders]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I left a medical appointment, walked onto the
elevator, waited for it to whoosh me to the lobby 18 floors below and
started thinking about trust.

How often I rely on trust in a day. How much it shapes my worldview.
How crippling...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4224778</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chicago schools engineer invents a device to lower lead levels in drinking fountains. But can it scale for a citywide crisis?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Late at night in 2016, Michael Ramos sat hunched over his
dining room table in his suburban Harwood Heights condominium,
assembling valves and motor parts he’d picked up from local
electronics shops.

By day, he worked as a building ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4224528</link>
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    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[To address student homelessness, district helps build housing]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Could a partnership between a school district and
developer to build housing for homeless families be a model for removing
one of the biggest barriers those students face?

Officials in the Edmonds School District and Housing ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4224524</link>
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    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On Gardening: Rockin Blue Suede Shoes provides valuable nectar from spring through frost]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is supposedly an unwritten rule in the plant breeding world: If
the new plant is not orange then it may be called blue. I am forever
being told that a plant I am touting is not blue but is purple, lavender
or ... well, you get the drift. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4224517</link>
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    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[500 LA wishes a day: Behind the massive 'harvest' at Yoko Ono's 'Wish Trees' at the Broad]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — A wish is a deeply personal thing, often fleeting and
silent. But sometimes, a wish is a collective endeavor, a bold and
communal call for action.

Yoko Ono's "Wish Tree" installation is both. The piece —
which Ono has staged ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4224509</link>
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    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ask Anna: I still think about my ex years later. Should I contact them?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Anna,

A few years ago, I fell into an intense long-distance relationship
with someone I met through a fandom community. We went from friends to
lovers, writing smutty fan fic together and talking every day. They
already had a long-term ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4224501</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inspired by piping plover enthusiasts, couple protects killdeer eggs at construction site]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- For four years, Lockport, Illinois, residents Ray and
Shelly Romolt have stared out their window at an empty lot, waiting for
the day developers would transform it into a home for new neighbors.

They’ve been eager to watch ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4223616</link>
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    <pubDate>Jun/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ask Dating Coach Erika: How do I get him to stop drinking?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In any relationship, budding or established, there are two competing
philosophies: Take people as they come vs. ask for what you want/need,
especially when it comes to certain behaviors. I want to share that
these two things can co-exist, and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4223611</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jun/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['It was therapeutic': Boy reunites with off-duty paramedics who rescued him from drowning]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Tyonne Nelson was celebrating his birthday
with family at a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea resort last month when tragedy
nearly struck in an instant.

Nelson, of Miami Gardens, had spent an hour at the beach near the
Plunge Beach ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/lifestyles/s-4223213</link>
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    <pubDate>Jun/09/2026</pubDate>
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