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      <title><![CDATA[Cancer Survivors of Healing Dragons of Lake James to Take their Paddles to Auckland]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1281983402" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/16/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[20 New Zealand cancer survivors formed the Healing Dragons of Lake James team, to take part in the boat race of the Auckland Dragon Boat Association. Although chiefly intended for fun, the team members considered the dragon boating as a way to keep fit and to make new friends.During the race, the paddlers have to pass under the Auckland Harbor Bridge in a 3.7km race, followed by two other 200m ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Annual Snake Boat Race in Alappuzha fascinates tourists]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1281983197" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/16/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The annual boat race conducted in Kerala's Punnamada Lake near Alappuzha town is a major draw among local residents and tourists from different parts of the world. On Saturday, hundreds of national and international tourists converged at Punnamada Lake to witness the famed annual boat race. In this 58th edition of the Nehru Trophy Boat Race, 16 snake boats and around 40 small boats participated this year. The snake boat ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Conditions controversial for boat race]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1280157985" delta="5 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/26/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[CELINA, Ohio - Organizers in Celina, Ohio continue to plan their annual boat race, despite the EPA recommending boats to stay off the water because of toxic algae. But city water officials said the algae levels do meet health standards in the race area of the lake. You rarely see an empty waterfront during the lake festival in Celina. But that's what it looked like Saturday."There's by far not as ...]]></text>
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    <article id="13033">
      <title><![CDATA[Competitors boat on the cheap at Aquafest's $50 Boat Race]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1280157785" delta="5 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/26/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[LAKE STEVENS - How do you make a boat for $50 or less? Just ask Diana Cross, 28, who has participated in the $50 Boat Race each summer since her father started it six years ago as part of Aquafest. The popular contest was held Sunday with six participants. This time, Diana Cross' catamaran-style sail boat set her back $12. The vessel consisted of a wooded base, a tarp for ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12489">
      <title><![CDATA[Chicago to Mackinac- The Oldest Freshwater Yacht Race Knots Up for 2010]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1278531795" delta="8 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/7/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[A skyline of spinnakers will set sail on July 24 as 375 boats search for speed in the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. The oldest annual freshwater race in the country, the Chicago Yacht Club's 333-mile open water adventure crosses Lake Michigan and ends in the waters along Mackinac Island.  To get an insider's perspective on this famous boat race, MyNorth touched base with Chicago Yacht Club's Christie ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12487">
      <title><![CDATA[Besides excitement, boat race raises money for children]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1278531086" delta="8 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/7/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Inside the Florida Center, children like 5-year-old Evan thrive despite big challenges. 'And that child, who the parents were told will never talk, is talking,' said Kathryn Shea, the center's CEO. 'We have occupational therapists- we have speech therapy; we have physical therapy; we have mental health therapy; and we have behavioral support services. We treat the whole child and we treat the whole family.'The center serves about 80 children ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12295">
      <title><![CDATA[Women with breast cancer to race dragon boat]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1275675787" delta="13 weeks ago"><![CDATA[6/4/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[A dragon boat team made up of women with breast cancer is set to race in Taipei's Dragon Boat Festival on June 12 to raise awareness of the sports' benefits to post-surgery rehabilitation, a spokesman from the Taipei City Hospital said Thursday. The team composed of 22 members aged between 34 to 64 is the first team formed by cancer patients in Taiwan, Chen Huo-mu, a director of General Surgery ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12294">
      <title><![CDATA[Milk Carton Boat Race needs participants for June 13 competition]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1275675737" delta="13 weeks ago"><![CDATA[6/4/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[It's not too late to enter the 2010 Dairy Farmers of Oregon Milk Carton Boat Race, sponsored in part by Community Newspapers, of which the Lake Oswego Review and West Linn Tidings are part. The race will be held June 13 at Portland's Westmoreland Park and this year the field of competition expands to include showboats- larger-than-life boats built out of milk cartons and decorated to the hilt. The Dairy ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12053">
      <title><![CDATA[Dragon boats wake up for race festival]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1273847799" delta="16 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/14/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The mystical dragons were out yesterday heralding the 22nd Telus Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival which takes place next month. About 100 spectators gathered at Sunnyside Beach to witness the eye-dotting ceremony, which supposedly awakens the dragon from hibernation. With the touch of a Chinese calligraphy brush on the dragon's eyeball, the dragon boat season officially opened yesterday.“We're very happy and proud to have introduced dragon boating to Toronto ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11670">
      <title><![CDATA[Third Frisian Solar Boat Race Set for July in the Netherlands]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1272662492" delta="18 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/30/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The Frisian Solar Challenge, a one of a kind 137-mile solar boat race in the Netherlands, has been scheduled for July 4, 2010. The race, which was last held in 2008, is expected to draw considerably more attention this time. One of the main reasons is that since 2008 solar technology has become a must have. Boat and ship companies no longer view solar boats as just an interesting concept, ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11324">
      <title><![CDATA[Boat Race 2010, Compelling contest augers well for the future of rowing in Great Britain]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Boat Race Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1270512085" delta="21 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/5/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[But the narrow margins of Saturday's race made it a compelling spectacle, and an encouraging afternoon for this grande dame of British sport. In its first year back on the BBC after a six-year dalliance with ITV, the race featured a memorable display of technique and bloody-mindedness from Cambridge, who overturned every pre-race prediction to claim a victory by just over a length. Their courageous comeback was witnessed by 5.4 ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10658">
      <title><![CDATA[Galway chosen as finishing port for World Ocean Race]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1268666569" delta="24 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/15/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Galway has been chosen as the finishing port for the next Volvo Round the World Ocean Race in 2012, a decision which will be a huge boost to Irish tourism. Ireland lobbied hard to get the verdict and it is believed it could be worth around 80 million euro to the economy. Galway beat off competition from Amsterdam and Stockholm. The Irish government is providing support of four million euro ...]]></text>
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