<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Hate Crime Survivor Commits Suicide : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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Brilliant historical/analysis piece by NPR on our chances of seeing a Bonnie and Clyde crime spree.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>115</score><crdate>11/20/2008 1:23:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-20T13:23:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49209</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/49209/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sleeper hold of death]]></title><description><![CDATA[Homicide detectives are investigating the bizarre death of a San Diego man after his suicide attempt turned into a fight with his girlfriend.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>191</score><crdate>2/2/2008 12:03:04 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-02T00:03:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46441</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/46441/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Celebrities Who Attempted To Commit Suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[who's who on suicide lane! Thankfully, the following ten celebrities only attempted suicide and did not succeed.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>57</score><crdate>1/8/2008 3:48:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-08T15:48:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25079</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/25079/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Suicide blasts kill at least 30 in Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three suicide bombings killed at least 30 people in Iraq today, mostly policemen, prisoners and tribal leaders, as insurgents launched fresh assaults in the violence-plagued country.ir]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>6</score><crdate>6/25/2007 6:31:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-25T06:31:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78529</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/78529/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Officer in taser death kills himself]]></title><description><![CDATA[The NYPD lieutenant who <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/world/l/77664/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">authorized</a> the fatal use of a taser stun gun on a naked Brooklyn psychiatric patient committed suicide at Floyd Bennett Field this morning.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>515</score><crdate>10/2/2008 10:37:25 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-02T10:37:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28379</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28379/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hate Crime(careful@work)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remember kids, sharing is caring.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>83</score><crdate>7/22/2007 12:17:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-22T00:17:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>29489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Flushing a Koran = Hate Crime?]]></title><description><![CDATA[PACE University student, Stanislav Shmulevich <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/07/28/2007-07-28_student_nabbed_in_koran_dunk-1.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">flushed</a> a Koran down a toilet. 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What if it turns into a geometric progression?]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>147</score><crdate>1/1/2008 12:15:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-01T12:15:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>47332</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/47332/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 10 People Who Committed Suicide In Public]]></title><description><![CDATA[Romas Kalanta (February 22, 1953 - May 14, 1972) is considered a national hero of Lithuania, and is the subject of several books. Romas Kalanta set himself on fire in a public place in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas on May 14, 1972 in protest of the oppression of the Lithuanian language, culture and people by the government of the Soviet Union. 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