<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Students in Japan scare themselves sick : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/"/><tagline>Students in Japan scare themselves sick : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-12-03T23:01:11+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Students in Japan scare themselves sick]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21580/1/" /><id>21580</id><summary><![CDATA[Students in Japan scare themselves sick]]></summary><issued>2007-05-27T11:06:40+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-27T11:06:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Eleven junior high school students in Japan managed to make themselves so anxious Saturday by telling ghost stories that they were hospitalized.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;margin-bottom:-20px'><SCRIPT src="/ads/adsense.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
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<entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;Where is my golden a-a-a-r-r-r-R-R-M-M-M?&quot; ghost story audio]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/15131/1/" /><id>15131</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;Where is my golden a-a-a-r-r-r-R-R-M-M-M?&quot; ghost story audio]]></summary><issued>2007-04-04T17:33:43+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-04T17:33:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Listen to this ghost story. First time I heard the ghost story &quot;Where is my golden arm?&quot; I could not sleep for days.  This ending suggested by Mark Twain will kill me for sure.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Up to 50 students exposed to HIV]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sex/l/80148/1/" /><id>80148</id><summary><![CDATA[Up to 50 students exposed to HIV]]></summary><issued>2008-10-23T20:59:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-23T20:59:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Students at a St. Louis high school go for HIV testing after an infected individual tells school officials they might have been exposed.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How to Tell a Campfire Ghost Story]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16274/1/" /><id>16274</id><summary><![CDATA[How to Tell a Campfire Ghost Story]]></summary><issued>2007-04-13T18:44:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-13T18:44:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Love the tips on how to end a ghost story with a bang, especially that wild flashlight in the face one.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Made Of Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69215/1/" /><id>69215</id><summary><![CDATA[Made Of Japan]]></summary><issued>2008-07-18T21:31:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-18T21:31:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[No, not made <i>in</i> Japan. Made <i>of</i> Japan, or at least made of Japanese blogs.  The site taps into 150 blogs each hour, analyzes the colors and brings them together to make a shoe. What you can do then is to click on any of the elements of the shoe and see what it is and which blog it comes from.<br/><br/>Could be nsfw, you never know...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ghost Stories that End with a Laugh]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33889/1/" /><id>33889</id><summary><![CDATA[Ghost Stories that End with a Laugh]]></summary><issued>2007-08-31T08:22:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-31T08:22:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Most ghost stories end with a scream.  This one makes me chuckle.  Good for the younger kids...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Grave of Jesus Christ - in Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35108/1/" /><id>35108</id><summary><![CDATA[The Grave of Jesus Christ - in Japan]]></summary><issued>2007-09-09T12:23:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-09T12:23:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harei village, Shingo, Japan, is said to be the grave of Jesus when he died in the village after escaping Roman persecutors in Golgotha, Israel. According to the myth, in Japan his job was as a carpenter and he made his own cross for the grave at the age of 107.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japan Gets Mint Green PSP]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/46628/1/" /><id>46628</id><summary><![CDATA[Japan Gets Mint Green PSP]]></summary><issued>2008-01-09T22:04:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-09T22:04:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sony Japan announced today a new &quot;Mint Green&quot; PlayStation Portable to be released on February 28, 2008. It is expected to be favored by the heavily pursued female gaming demographic. This makes for the seventh PSP color released in Japan, and you just know there's someone oot there that already owns six.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Students Punished for 'Hit a Jew Day']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80142/1/" /><id>80142</id><summary><![CDATA[Students Punished for 'Hit a Jew Day']]></summary><issued>2008-10-23T18:16:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-23T18:16:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[At least four students from a suburban St. Louis middle school face punishment for allegedly hitting Jewish classmates during what they called &quot;Hit a Jew Day.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Students burn 'witch' women alive]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34731/1/" /><id>34731</id><summary><![CDATA[Students burn 'witch' women alive]]></summary><issued>2007-09-06T09:09:11+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-06T09:09:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Two South African women were burnt to death by a group of students who suspected the victims had bewitched their high school with evil spirits.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Teacher is shot by husband in front of students]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49756/1/" /><id>49756</id><summary><![CDATA[Teacher is shot by husband in front of students]]></summary><issued>2008-02-07T15:06:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-07T15:06:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A teacher&#8217;s husband charged into her fifth-grade classroom Thursday morning, then stabbed and shot her as students watched, police said. He was later found dead in his home after a standoff with police.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How Demon Wife Became a Media Star And Other Tales of the 'Blook' in Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2450/1/" /><id>2450</id><summary><![CDATA[How Demon Wife Became a Media Star And Other Tales of the 'Blook' in Japan]]></summary><issued>2006-10-08T09:46:01+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-08T09:46:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Blogs are even more popular in Japan than in the U.S. It may be that they represent an appealing outlet in a culture that discourages public self-expression. Japan produced 8.7 million blogs at the end of March, and the U.S. an estimated 12 million blogs -- making blogging far more popular in Japan, taking the countries' relative populations into account. An estimated 25 million Japanese -- more than a fifth of the population -- are believed to read blogs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Back To School With The Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1772/1/" /><id>1772</id><summary><![CDATA[Back To School With The Internet]]></summary><issued>2006-10-01T10:08:19+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-01T10:08:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. This site consolodates some of the helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Students undergo weapons training]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32413/1/" /><id>32413</id><summary><![CDATA[Students undergo weapons training]]></summary><issued>2007-08-21T01:10:28+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-21T01:10:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Students in Svalbard, Norway, are taught how to use a shotgun and ammunition to fend off polar bears at the beginning of every school year.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bouts of hysteria after 'ghostly sightings' in school]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/49337/1/" /><id>49337</id><summary><![CDATA[Bouts of hysteria after 'ghostly sightings' in school]]></summary><issued>2008-02-03T23:43:19+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-03T23:43:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some 200 students of Sekolah Menengah Sains Dungun probably felt they were in a real live ghost story. They are convinced they saw ghosts flying around the school on Sunday -- in the classrooms, the dormitories and the assembly hall.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[8th Grade Students Boycott Exam]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/63724/1/" /><id>63724</id><summary><![CDATA[8th Grade Students Boycott Exam]]></summary><issued>2008-05-30T10:29:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-30T10:29:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[More than 160 Students at a South Bronx middle school have pulled off a stunning boycott against standardized testing. They refused to take a three-hour practice exam for next month's statewide social studies test. Instead they handed in blank exams and submitted signed petitions with a list of grievances]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Exploding piggy-bank aims to scare Japanese into saving]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41194/1/" /><id>41194</id><summary><![CDATA[Exploding piggy-bank aims to scare Japanese into saving]]></summary><issued>2007-11-09T12:09:54+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-09T12:09:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Greying Japan has a new weapon to scare people into saving for their retirement -- an exploding piggy bank.<br/><br/>You gotta love the Japanese.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japan Hopes To Build A Space Elevator]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77183/1/" /><id>77183</id><summary><![CDATA[Japan Hopes To Build A Space Elevator]]></summary><issued>2008-09-22T12:34:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-22T12:34:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The concept of a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Elevator" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">space elevator</a> has long been a dream for scientists and has here to date been a staple for science fiction authors. Japan hopes to change that and make the dream a reality.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sony PSP Japan sales hit record high]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37495/1/" /><id>37495</id><summary><![CDATA[Sony PSP Japan sales hit record high]]></summary><issued>2007-10-05T22:35:01+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-05T22:35:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sony said on Thursday it sold a record number of its PlayStation Portables (PSPs) in Japan in September as a slimmer and cheaper version of the handheld game machine helped drive demand.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Schools Paying Students To Boost Test Scores]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48422/1/" /><id>48422</id><summary><![CDATA[Schools Paying Students To Boost Test Scores]]></summary><issued>2008-01-25T23:24:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-25T23:24:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Students in Baltimore's high schools will get a cash incentive to boost their scores on the state graduation exams.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Principal regrets making students view excrement]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/75713/1/" /><id>75713</id><summary><![CDATA[Principal regrets making students view excrement]]></summary><issued>2008-09-10T23:03:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-10T23:03:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Colorado Springs elementary school principal has apologized for making students look inside a bag of human feces and urine.]]></content></entry></feed>