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		<title>Top Down and Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The chocolaty paradox of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster, plus four more deliciously brown convertibles for your cool summer. Review and slideshow at Vanity Fair.
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		<title>Brett Berk, Minivan Expert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Brett Berk, car columnist at Vanity Fair, and author of &#8216;The Gay Uncle&#8217;s Guide to Parenting&#8217; said there&#8217;s a clear reason why people love to hate minivans: misogyny.&#8221;
From The Huffington Post, Minivan Sales are Up, but Don&#8217;t Call it a Comeback. 
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		<title>Cranbrook/Romney II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post picked up my article about Cranbrook, my gay hair, and Mitt Fucking Romney. Check it out.
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		<title>Babble Archive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently asked me to post the archive of my articles for the parenting site, Babble. So here they are. 
1) Crying Uncle: Parenthood Ruined My Best Friends
2) The Gender Spectrum: Macho, Girly, and Beyond
3) Pinocchio Parenting: Why We Lie to Kids
4) The Good Divorce: Mediation
5) Where are the Queer Lit Classics for Kids?
6) In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brettberk.com/2012/05/11/babble-archive-2/</link>
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		<title>Extreme Test Drives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Driving a Land Rover in a swamp, a Ferrari in the snow, a Porsche on a &#8220;simulated ice hill,&#8221; and a BMW against a freeway barricade. Instruction, marketing, or both? Welcome to the world of manufacturers&#8217; consumer driving schools. My latest for Bloomberg Businessweek. 
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		<title>I&#8217;m Glad Mitt Romney Wasn&#8217;t in My Class at Cranbrook (or My Big Gay Hair Would have Been at Risk)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like Mitt Romney, I attended Cranbrook, the elite Detroit-area private school. Unlike the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, I was not the rigidly straight son of a sitting Republican Governor, but a scholarship student, a political radical, and a burgeoning homosexual. But like John Lauber—the highly-publicized object of Mitt Romney’s teenage scorn, and the victim of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brettberk.com/2012/05/10/im-glad-mitt-romney-wasnt-in-my-class-at-cranbrook-or-my-big-gay-hair-would-have-been-at-risk/</link>
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		<title>Mommy Porn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was hard to top last year&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day piece, in which I tracked my mother&#8217;s amazing life through her cars. But I think I&#8217;ve succeeded. This year I celebrate Mother’s Day at Vanity Fair with a compendium of the five most awesome kld-schleppers ever built. 
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		<link>http://brettberk.com/2012/05/07/mommy-porn/</link>
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		<title>Virtual Lepidoptery &amp; the Ford Focus Electric</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We nab an Electric Ford Focus, squeeze out its juice, and make digital butterflies. (Also, we terrorize a Ford executive.) Read all about it at Vanity Fair.
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		<link>http://brettberk.com/2012/05/01/virtual-lepidoptery-the-ford-focus-electric/</link>
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		<title>All the T-Tops in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beijing is not a city, it is a virus, hellbent on voraciousness and replication. To wit: &#8220;Coughing Through the Sour Smell of Success&#8221; &#8212; my report on all the hideousness, opulence, and oddities at the Beijing Auto Show, for Yahoo! Autos.
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		<link>http://brettberk.com/2012/04/28/all-the-t-tops-in-china/</link>
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		<title>Mustang Calculatus Eliminatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The way to find a missing something,” says the Cat in the Hat in his eponymous 1971 TV special, “is to find out where it’s not.” He called the approach “Calculatus Eliminatus.” I try the same tactic, with the 2015 Ford Mustang, for Businessweek. 
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		<link>http://brettberk.com/2012/04/25/mustang-calculatus-eliminatus/</link>
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