<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>German Sleepwalker Steps Out of 4th-Floor Window : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</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>33573</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33573/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German Sleepwalker Steps Out of 4th-Floor Window]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German teenager accidentally climbed out of a fourth-floor window and fell 10 meters to the ground where he kept on sleeping, albeit with a broken arm and leg.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>130</score><crdate>8/29/2007 4:53:07 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-29T04:53:07+01:00</atomdate></link><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-7980396607107658";
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.plime.com/ads.p";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
google_ad_format = "336x280_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
//2007-11-05: plime google referrals, plime
google_ad_channel = "7561682656+8641277915";
google_max_num_ads = '2';
google_color_border = color_3;
google_color_bg = color_3;
google_color_link = color_1;
google_color_text = color_4;
google_color_url = color_2;
google_ui_features = "rc:10";
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script></div><link><id>856</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/856/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sleep With The... Flies?]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a long day spent socializing or learning who to flirt with, scientists say fruit flies need to sleep longer, shedding light on what sleep may actually do for humans. Sleep remains a mystery. To delve into why people need to sleep, neurogeneticist Indrani Ganguly-Fitzgerald at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, Calif., and her colleagues Paul Shaw and Jeff Donlea at Washington University in St. Louis experimented with fruit fly genetics and behavior.<br/><br/>&quot;Flies do most things that humans do&#8212;they eat, they sleep, they fight, they mate, they forage for food,&quot; Ganguly-Fitzgerald told LiveScience. Just as is often the case with humans, flies sleep a lot as young ones, sleep little as they get older, and &quot;stay awake more after being fed caffeine and become sleepy in response to anti-histamine compounds,&quot; she said.<br/><br/>One idea scientists have about sleep is that our brains require it to process what we experienced during the day. The researchers found normal fruit flies that were allowed to socialize took hour-long daytime naps, compared to 15-minute catnaps taken by the isolated insects.<br/><br/>Their need for sleep grew with the size of the group they socialized with.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>55</score><crdate>9/22/2006 9:46:50 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-22T21:46:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>130917</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130917/1/</url><title><![CDATA[English Nazi Slogans Are Legal, German Court Rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is a Nazi slogan still a Nazi slogan if it is uttered in English instead of German? Not necessarily -- at least according to Germany's Federal Court of Justice.<br/><br/>Using Nazi symbols and slogans is a punishable crime in Germany. But now neo-Nazis may have more leeway after a federal German court ruled that slogans are not illegal if they are translated into another language.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>202</score><crdate>8/17/2009 3:46:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-17T03:46:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39983</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39983/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German teenager escapes prison in suitcase]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 19-year-old German woman has escaped from prison by hiding in a friend's suitcase. The fugitive hid inside the large case when her 17-year-old fellow inmate was released from the youth prison in northwest Germany on Friday.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>236</score><crdate>10/30/2007 12:28:17 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-30T00:28:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>127604</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/127604/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German blows hands off trying 'molecular gastronomy']]></title><description><![CDATA[AN experimental German cook accidentally blew off both his hands attempting to concoct a &quot;molecular gastronomy&quot; dish with liquid nitrogen.<br/>The 24-year-old man from Stahnsdorf near Berlin somehow obtained some of the dangerous chemical and was poised to try out a new recipe from the school of molecular cooking, which aims to apply scientific processes to gastronomy.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>330</score><crdate>7/13/2009 1:17:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-13T13:17:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>127770</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/127770/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German beer lover goes down the drain]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German beer drinker ended up in an awkward situation after he failed to spot an open drain and fell inside.<br/><br/>*klub?*]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>236</score><crdate>7/14/2009 10:03:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-14T22:03:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>31340</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31340/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Drunken German joyrider kills 300 chickens]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three hundred chickens died in panic early on Sunday when a drunken German teenager on a joyride crashed a van into their shed.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>147</score><crdate>8/13/2007 4:04:28 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-13T04:04:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>87602</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/87602/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Neglected German Shepherd is nursed back to life from brink of death]]></title><description><![CDATA[Covered in mange, suffering from severe malnutrition and with claws so long he couldn't walk Hobo was given just three days to live. Weighing 40lb, the neglected German Shepherd was in such a bad condition vets could only guess what breed he was.]]></description><comments>21</comments><score>851</score><crdate>1/4/2009 10:04:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-04T10:04:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80018</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80018/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sleeping Chinese]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German photographer has spent six years taking photographs of Chinese people sleeping in any position and situation.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>429</score><crdate>10/22/2008 10:04:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-22T10:04:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20164</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20164/1/</url><title><![CDATA[WW I Dogfight Artifact returned to German pilot's family after 89 years.]]></title><description><![CDATA[American, Walter Avery battled his opponent, Karl Menckhoff in one of the last dogfights of the first world war. After shooting the German down, he landed and cut a piece of the aircraft's cloth insignia from the side. It sat in a trunk for nearly 9 decades before it was discovered and returned to the German pilot's family.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>69</score><crdate>5/13/2007 12:57:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-13T12:57:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>88427</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/88427/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gammelfleischparty is German youth word of year]]></title><description><![CDATA[German is famous for its long words&#8212;and today's youth are just as adept at creating new ones as their predecessors, to judge by a poll released Wednesday by the publishers of Langenscheidt dictionaries.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>118</score><crdate>1/8/2009 8:44:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-08T20:44:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41156</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41156/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German flasher does it again - in court]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German flasher stunned lawyers during his appeal hearing on a flashing conviction by stripping off in court.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>313</score><crdate>11/9/2007 7:20:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-09T07:20:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134586</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/134586/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Train drags German mooner half naked along tracks]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>405</score><crdate>10/13/2009 2:47:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-13T14:47:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28611</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/28611/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mysterious Blonde Appears Nude In German Shop]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mysterious blonde paid a visit to a petrol station shop in the small eastern German town of Doemitz on Sunday -- wearing nothing but a pair of golden stilettos and a thin gold bracelet.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>144</score><crdate>7/23/2007 10:34:59 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-23T22:34:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43796</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43796/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German battery could jump-start electric car production]]></title><description><![CDATA[German cars are known for strength, speed and high fuel consumption, but a firm in eastern Saxony has designed a lithium-ion battery membrane that could finally make electric cars common.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>130</score><crdate>12/10/2007 7:34:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-10T19:34:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26063</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26063/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gorilla Baby Treated at German Hospital]]></title><description><![CDATA[A baby gorilla from a German zoo was treated at a children's clinic after her mother's neglect left her dangerously dehydrated, zoo officials said.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>41</score><crdate>7/3/2007 5:11:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-03T17:11:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27993</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27993/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German woman mistakes stuffed toy for masked crook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Armed police went into action in the German city of Wuppertal after a woman reported seeing a masked criminal -- but having rushed to the scene, they were surprised to find not a crook, but a large stuffed toy.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>78</score><crdate>7/19/2007 10:35:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-19T10:35:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40082</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40082/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German finds valuable painting in couch ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German student who bought a pullout couch for $215 at a Berlin flea market found a painting worth 128 times that amount hidden inside when she unfolded the sofa at home.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>128</score><crdate>10/30/2007 7:26:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-30T19:26:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>88006</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/88006/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German mogul kills self over financial meltdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[German billionaire Adolf Merckle threw himself in front of a train after his business empire, which included interests ranging from VW cars to pharmaceuticals to cement, ran into trouble in the global financial crisis]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>105</score><crdate>1/6/2009 6:05:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-06T18:05:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>77608</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/77608/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German dentist extracts payment from patient]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German dentist overpowered a female patient in her home and yanked out two dental bridges from her mouth because she had failed to pay her bill.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>676</score><crdate>9/25/2008 9:28:20 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-25T09:28:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>119594</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/119594/1/</url><title><![CDATA[German reality TV show under fire for entrusting babies to teens ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a new German TV series, teenage couples are given the task of parenting - very real babies - for a few days. The series was aimed at discouraging teen pregnancy, but it's gotten slammed by children's rights groups.<br/>&quot;Normally, babies wouldn't voluntarily go to strangers,&quot; Munich child psychiatrist Karl-Heinz Brisch said. &quot;It causes stress and fear for children of this age to be held by strangers.&quot;]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>178</score><crdate>6/2/2009 1:22:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-06-02T13:22:56+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>