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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The XX Factor : health-care costs</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/health-care+costs/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: health-care costs</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)</generator><item><title>Sonia Sotomayor’s Lovely—and Expensive—Smile</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/06/05/sonia-sotomayor-s-lovely-and-expensive-smile.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:5782</guid><dc:creator>June Thomas</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/5782.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=5782</wfw:commentRss><description>Sonia Sotomayor has a lovely smile, and like many Americans she has paid a price for it. According to the questionnaire she completed as part of the Senate confirmation process, she owes approximately $15,000 to her dentist. Several writers have been...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2009/06/05/sonia-sotomayor-s-lovely-and-expensive-smile.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5782" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/sonia+sotomayor/default.aspx">sonia sotomayor</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/denistry/default.aspx">denistry</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/dentist+bill/default.aspx">dentist bill</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/finances/default.aspx">finances</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/health-care+costs/default.aspx">health-care costs</category></item></channel></rss>