<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>47 year old breaks Washington spring break record with .47 blood alcohol test : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/health/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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It was always close, but I like to think we won.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/20/2007 12:17:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-20T00:17:36+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46559</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q10</url><title><![CDATA[tundramonkey @ 4/20/2007 12:14:54 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/health/l/17020/1/#q7"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>dork</b>&#160;:&#160;of course you do know...many teens meet alcohol waaaaaayyy before collage...Im not one of them of course</i></div>Oh, I know this.  I was one of them.  Most definitely one of them. <br/> <br/>When I started university, though, most of the people I went to school with were &quot;nerds&quot; and had never touched the stuff before... and thought that they could handle 10 tequila shots back-to-back........... idiots.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/20/2007 12:14:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-20T00:14:54+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46417</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q9</url><title><![CDATA[suebe @ 4/19/2007 8:56:23 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/health/l/17020/1/#q6"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>thing</b> : A 47 year old on spring break?  Arrested mental development obviously.  Actually I'm jealous.  It beats my .32 for which I lost my license 5 for years when I got caught.  I guess I'll have ti try harder.</i></div>uh...she wasn't on spring break...d'oh]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/19/2007 8:56:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T20:56:23+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46408</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q8</url><title><![CDATA[subobisis @ 4/19/2007 8:37:32 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/health/l/17020/1/#q7"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>dork</b>&#160;:&#160;of course you do know...many teens meet alcohol waaaaaayyy before collage...Im not one of them of course</i></div>of course. ;)]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/19/2007 8:37:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T20:37:32+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46392</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q7</url><title><![CDATA[dork @ 4/19/2007 8:02:23 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/health/l/17020/1/#q4"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>tundramonkey</b> : That's neat!  You should have posted it, BB.<br/><br/>According to that chart and the behavior chart below, I should be slurring my speech after 2-3 drinks within an hour and a vomiting mess after 5.  Clearly, this is not the case with me, but I can see how this would precisely apply to first-year college students who've never really met my friend Alcohol before.</i></div>of course you do know...many teens meet alcohol waaaaaayyy before collage...Im not one of them of course]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/19/2007 8:02:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T20:02:23+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46309</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q6</url><title><![CDATA[thing @ 4/19/2007 4:05:30 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[A 47 year old on spring break?  Arrested mental development obviously.  Actually I'm jealous.  It beats my .32 for which I lost my license 5 for years when I got caught.  I guess I'll have ti try harder.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/19/2007 4:05:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T16:05:30+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46296</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[rambler @ 4/19/2007 3:38:04 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/health/l/17020/1/#q4"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>tundramonkey</b>&#160;:&#160;That's neat!  You should have posted it, BB.<br/><br/>According to that chart and the behavior chart below, I should be slurring my speech after 2-3 drinks within an hour and a vomiting mess after 5.  Clearly, this is not the case with me, but I can see how this would precisely apply to first-year college students who've never really met my friend Alcohol before.</i></div>Of course, geologists appear to have an above-average ability to metabolise alcoholic drinks, even faster than mining engineers!]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/19/2007 3:38:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T15:38:04+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46246</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[tundramonkey @ 4/19/2007 12:57:04 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/health/l/17020/1/#q2"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>Bornbad</b>&#160;:&#160;But not a world record. (I love that photo, I have it on my desk at work)<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/asap/bal.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Related</a></i></div>That's neat!  You should have posted it, BB.<br/><br/>According to that chart and the behavior chart below, I should be slurring my speech after 2-3 drinks within an hour and a vomiting mess after 5.  Clearly, this is not the case with me, but I can see how this would precisely apply to first-year college students who've never really met my friend Alcohol before.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/19/2007 12:57:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T12:57:04+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46186</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[suebe @ 4/19/2007 10:29:39 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/health/l/17020/1/#q2"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>Bornbad</b> : But not a world record. (I love that photo, I have it on my desk at work)<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/asap/bal.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Related</a></i></div>Interesting chart, but it shows only the drinks per hour. My days of binge drinking are long over! <br/><br/>They should distribute this chart and explanation to college kids.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/19/2007 10:29:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T10:29:39+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>46177</id><url>http://www.plime.com/health/l/17020/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[Bornbad @ 4/19/2007 10:07:12 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[But not a world record. (I love that photo, I have it on my desk at work)<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/asap/bal.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Related</a>]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/19/2007 10:07:12 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T10:07:12+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>