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Under peer review, a team of master teachers called &quot;consultants&quot; meticulously monitors and evaluates teachers in several areas. Very nice, but who will watch the watchers?]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>31</score><crdate>6/9/2008 8:50:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-09T20:50:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13319</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13319/1/</url><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? Social insecurity]]></title><description><![CDATA[That's not my name! Never mind identity theft, now the government re-names you without your knowledge! Anchorage Daily News opinion columnist Heather Lende finds out the government says she's not who she thought she was.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>73</score><crdate>3/16/2007 7:36:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-16T07:36:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38656</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38656/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business]]></title><description><![CDATA[An audience of search marketers examining social media sites such as Digg.com and Reddit.com see them as a goldmine of lucrative Web traffic.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>178</score><crdate>10/17/2007 1:56:24 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-17T13:56:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>85046</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85046/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Social Media Predictions For 2009]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fourteen great minds on social media have shared thoughts on what 2009 may have in store for us. 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Over the years people have learned to be suspicious of unknown links and attachments in their emails, so the virus writers turned to hit us where we're more vulnerable: on our social networks. Here, many people still have a feeling of comfort and security. They don't always have their guard up.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>129</score><crdate>12/28/2008 4:42:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-12-28T16:42:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10882</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/10882/1/</url><title><![CDATA[UN Daily News [PDF Format]]]></title><description><![CDATA[Includes daily highlights, press briefings, and releases, and the UN Journal, a schedule of daily meetings at the UN.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>22</score><crdate>2/15/2007 10:00:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-15T22:00:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52150</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52150/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Maxim magazine fabricates negative Black Crowes review]]></title><description><![CDATA[So dedicated were they to objectivity in their journalism when critiquing the Black Crowes new album that they didn't want the review to be biased by anything like, you know, actually <i>listening</i> to it.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>394</score><crdate>2/26/2008 4:02:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-26T16:02:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>128151</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/128151/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Daily dose of baking soda &#8216;can keep kidney patients off dialysis&#8217;]]></title><description><![CDATA[A daily dose of baking soda could help patients with chronic kidney disease avoid having to undergo dialysis, a study suggests.<br/><br/>Research by British scientists has found that sodium bicarbonate &#8212; otherwise known as baking soda &#8212; can dramatically slow the progress of the condition.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>530</score><crdate>7/17/2009 11:19:38 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-17T11:19:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8350</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8350/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Worst Liberal Media Quotes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Media Research Center does an excellent job tracking liberal bias among journalists, is out with its Best Notable Quotables of 2006, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from December 2005 through November 2006]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>44</score><crdate>12/30/2006 8:49:43 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-30T20:49:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41380</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/41380/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Obama: I will tax more of your income for social security]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hardly surprising that a liberal democrat would want to tax more of your income. 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But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: <b>Follow the money...</b>]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>9</score><crdate>7/24/2008 2:18:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-24T14:18:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>126892</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/126892/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, government officials have urged people to protect their Social Security numbers by giving out the nine-digit codes only when absolutely necessary. Now it turns out that all the caution in the world may not be enough: New research shows that Social Security numbers can be predicted from publicly available birth information with a surprising degree of accuracy.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>279</score><crdate>7/6/2009 5:50:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-06T17:50:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>114831</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/114831/1/</url><title><![CDATA[California Denies Social Security Benefits to Public Employees]]></title><description><![CDATA[As if being a teacher wasn't hard enough. Turns out you could lose your Social Security benefits if you turned to teaching.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>254</score><crdate>5/16/2009 10:56:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-16T10:56:46+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>