<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Penny prices pinched by rising cost of metal : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/bargains/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>60929</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60929/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Penny prices pinched by rising cost of metal]]></title><description><![CDATA[A penny, which consists of 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper, cost 1.26 cents to make as of Tuesday. 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This site will help:<br/>&quot;Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a &quot;billion&quot; really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: &quot;What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?&quot; <br/><br/>    All the following pages have tables at the bottom, listing things such as the value of the pennies, size of the pile, weight, and area (if laid flat). 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Each coin takes significantly more than one cent to produce.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>166</score><crdate>6/19/2008 12:30:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-19T12:30:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9491</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9491/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Introducing the five-cent penny]]></title><description><![CDATA[A shortage in pennies could lead to them being revalued to five cents each.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>128</score><crdate>1/24/2007 3:43:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-24T15:43:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1350</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1350/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hilary Swank Penny Pincher]]></title><description><![CDATA[When she paid for some CD's at the Virgin Megastore she used a $100 certificate.  She asked for the 42 cents in change since she didn't want the certificate for 42 cents.<br/>Good to see that she watches her money.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>10</score><crdate>9/27/2006 2:46:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-27T14:46:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37592</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/37592/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Penny art]]></title><description><![CDATA[These are tiny acrylic or enamel landscapes on 1-cent copper pennies of the exact locations where each 'lucky' penny was actually found.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>274</score><crdate>10/7/2007 9:31:17 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-07T09:31:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40381</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40381/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Researchers Discover Fast-Growing Metal Deposits in a New Hampshire Lake]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered metal-rich sedimentary deposits in a New Hampshire lake that grow faster than any other deposits found in the United States. Understanding the environmental conditions that aid in the creation of the structures, which contain copper, iron and other heavy metals, could be helpful in discovering new metal sources.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>179</score><crdate>11/2/2007 9:37:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-02T09:37:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49419</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49419/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) Development Kit Cost Cut In Half]]></title><description><![CDATA[The move follows Sony's announcement in November that it would be reducing the cost of development gear for the PLAYSTATION 3 by almost 50 percent, in an attempt to make game creation for the consoles more affordable for small and independent game developers.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>93</score><crdate>2/4/2008 9:08:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-04T21:08:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53531</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/53531/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists unveil finds in Rome digs]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sixth-century copper factory, medieval kitchens still stocked with pots and pans, and remains of Renaissance palaces are among the finds unveiled Friday by archaeologists digging up Rome in preparation for a new subway line. 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They're paying the equivalent of $20 per gallon.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>207</score><crdate>3/23/2008 11:37:51 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-23T11:37:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37691</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37691/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Shock burns cable thief beyond recognition]]></title><description><![CDATA[A thief in Germany was charred beyond recognition by a 10,000 volt electric shock when he tried to steal a LIVE copper cable. 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