<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Colorado University Seeks Right-Wing Prof : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/education/</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>61729</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61729/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Colorado University Seeks Right-Wing Prof]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chancellor G.P. &#8220;Bud&#8221; Peterson surveys this landscape with unease. 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Not according to Softbank, a Japanese cell phone service provider who just began offering college courses on the company's cell phones.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>42</score><crdate>11/29/2007 10:06:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-29T22:06:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35651</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/35651/1/</url><title><![CDATA[SoCal college offers YouTube class]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube. Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>110</score><crdate>9/14/2007 8:06:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-14T08:06:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40604</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40604/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bronx college offers graffiti course]]></title><description><![CDATA[Students at the University of New York's Hostos Community College in the Bronx now can enroll in a 19-week class on the street art of graffiti.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>215</score><crdate>11/4/2007 9:51:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-04T21:51:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17723</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17723/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Awesome Victoria's Secret Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can get a Pointelle Bra Top cami + Lip Gloss + Garden Lotion (or Fragrance) Gift Set for $11 shipped after coupon. VS Angels card is not required to get this offer.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>-36</score><crdate>4/24/2007 4:25:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-24T16:25:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3485</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/3485/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fla. International Increases Penalties]]></title><description><![CDATA[Florida International University and the University of Miami have increased the punishment for 19 players involved in Saturday night's football brawl.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/17/2006 2:34:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-17T14:34:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>31815</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31815/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Highschool Students Forced to Choose Major]]></title><description><![CDATA[Highschool freshmen in Florida will be forced starting this Fall to declare a college major from a set a state-approved choices, while students in Mississippi will be able to choose from nine career paths.  The states involved support this move and think it will benefit the children.  College administrators, who will be teaching the students in the future, say otherwise.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>56</score><crdate>8/16/2007 11:21:20 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-16T11:21:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36198</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36198/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Video games can shoot holes in GPA]]></title><description><![CDATA[First-year students whose roommates brought a video game player to college studied 40 minutes less each day on average. 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