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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks alcontinue="Bee_Dance|1601" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <alllinks>
      <l fromid="16" ns="0" title="BERG Publishers" />
      <l fromid="278" ns="0" title="Baby Duck Syndrome" />
      <l fromid="1524" ns="0" title="Backspace Generation" />
      <l fromid="1601" ns="0" title="Backspace Generation" />
      <l fromid="235" ns="0" title="Baddle Angel Alita" />
      <l fromid="954" ns="0" title="Banff New Media Institute" />
      <l fromid="1028" ns="0" title="Banff New Media Institute" />
      <l fromid="954" ns="0" title="Banff Summit on Living Architectures: Designing for Immersion and Interaction" />
      <l fromid="1292" ns="0" title="Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists" />
      <l fromid="194" ns="0" title="Bedtime for Bonzo" />
    </alllinks>
  </query>
</api>