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	<title>Christopher Mason</title>
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		<title>When one blog just isn&#8217;t enough&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/when-one-blog-just-isnt-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, okay, so things&#8217;ve been pretty quiet around here. Sorry &#8217;bout that. But if as a result you are looking to fill a blog-shaped hole in your life, then why not wander by a new blog I started recently? A think-tank asked me to blog about the media&#8217;s role in the developing world. You can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=255&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the life cycle of tadpoles</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/on-the-life-cycle-of-tadpoles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing ankle-deep in water at the local swimming hole, I was unprepared for a moment of self-reflection. But, tonight, there it was. I was looking down into the shallow waters, searching for the scores of tadpoles that usually scatter whenever I set foot in the lake. Alas, there were none to be found At least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=250&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home, and a couple articles</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/home-and-a-couple-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 20:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My boots have been on Canadian soil now for a couple weeks, enjoying some time at home and with family and friends while I plan my next steps. In the meantime, here are a couple articles I wrote that have appeared recently in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: First, an article that came out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=249&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A bend in the road ahead</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/a-bend-in-the-road-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing here while aboard a ferry between the Netherlands and the U.K., I had hoped to write a fair bit on this site during my month in Europe. At that point, it had been mere hours since I&#8217;d left Uganda and the road ahead was one I was excited about documenting. Well, I&#8217;ve been documenting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=248&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little change&#8217;ll do you good&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/a-little-changell-do-ya-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized, while my weighed-down pockets had me swaggering down the street like John Wayne on his way to a western dust-up, that my Uganda approach to collecting small change is not as effective here in the UK. In Uganda, small change is worth its weight in gold. It means you can pay a boda-boda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=244&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The launch of Caked in Red Clay (Europe Edition)</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/the-launch-of-caked-in-red-clay-europe-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/the-launch-of-caked-in-red-clay-europe-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on a ferry between the Netherlands and the U.K., I&#8217;m about 25 hours into the approx. 31 hours it&#8217;ll take to get door-to-door from Kampala to London. So far, so good. Before catching the ferry, I popped into a small pub in an even smaller Dutch coastal village. It was nice, really nice. Uganda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=243&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of a few people I&#8217;ve met along the way</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/photos-of-a-few-people-ive-met-along-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/photos-of-a-few-people-ive-met-along-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On this day, when I will be getting on a plane to Europe, here are a few pictures of the people I&#8217;ve met along the way&#8230; These are four boda-boda drivers who I&#8217;ve enjoyed getting to know. Each are great guys&#8211; from Ronald, who at 21 has kids aged four and three and is trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=242&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ebola series</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/ebola-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a trip to the Ebola-affected region in western Uganda, a series of articles ran in the paper here that concluded last weekend. Here are the articles. You can read an account of that trip in the (lengthy) post below this one. Feb. 18th Feb. 19th Feb. 20th Feb. 21st Feb. 22nd Feb. 23rd<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=220&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re-visiting Ebola in western Uganda</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/re-visiting-ebola-in-western-uganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently spent some time in western Uganda, in the Bundibugyo area along the Congo border, reporting on the aftermath of a recently-ended Ebola outbreak. Here is an account of the trip, modified from the notes I took along the way: Day One: When I opened this notebook just now, the pages were gritty with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=232&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban IDPs</title>
		<link>http://christophermason.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/urban-idps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of urban IDPs (those displaced by the rebel fighting in the north who fled to urban areas rather than to established refugee camps) has been getting a fair bit of attention lately. That attention has drawn some people here because of the few postings I&#8217;ve put up about the issue. To make the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophermason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1148751&amp;post=225&amp;subd=christophermason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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