<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Airline to offer smokers friendly skies : 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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I'm still not getting on a plane ever again!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>180</score><crdate>3/31/2008 1:49:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-31T13:49:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/63489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Smokers warned to leave tits alone!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smokers have been banned from using a wall-mounted ashtray outside a pub after it became home to a family of blue tits. 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He said he's a chain-smoker himself and said he was tired of smokers being hassled so much.&quot;]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>89</score><crdate>1/14/2008 2:53:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-14T14:53:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58465</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58465/1/</url><title><![CDATA[29 Marijuana Smokers Poisoned In Germany]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone in the &quot;supply chain&quot; was boosting their profit margin by adding 10% lead!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>275</score><crdate>4/16/2008 3:31:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-16T03:31:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41116</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41116/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Germany plans unmanned lunar orbiter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany hopes to put an unmanned space craft into the moon's orbit in the early part of the next decade, a senior German official said on Wednesday. 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This is pretty disgusting. The boys 17 year old uncle encourages these kids to smoke pot and even rolls them their own blunts! I kid you not!]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>-9</score><crdate>3/6/2007 4:39:28 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-06T04:39:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81463</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81463/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Smokers banned from fostering children]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ban, which was passed unanimously at a cabinet meeting of Redbridge Council last night, means that children in the east London borough will not be placed with foster carers who smoke after January 2010.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>253</score><crdate>11/10/2008 9:39:02 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-10T09:39:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1596</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/1596/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Airline Passengers Have Bizarre Dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[To be honest this story is too weird for me to be able to say anything funny about it. Just read it!]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>16</score><crdate>9/29/2006 12:08:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-29T12:08:04+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>