<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Brazil vows to stem Amazon loss  : 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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This is an increase of 64% from last year.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>292</score><crdate>3/3/2008 10:11:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-03T22:11:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>56163</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56163/1/</url><title><![CDATA[16-Year-Old Says He Murdered 12 In Brazil]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 16-year-old boy has admitted to the murders of 12 people in southern Brazil, according to a police investigator who described a chillingly calm confession.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>185</score><crdate>3/28/2008 4:42:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-28T16:42:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>55</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/55/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Largest Dinosaur Model  Revealed in Brazil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists revealed a replica of a dinosaur skeleton found in Brazil. It is the biggest dinosaur yet described however they have not been able to put the bones together for scientific descriptions.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>2</score><crdate>8/30/2006 1:27:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-08-30T13:27:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>56044</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/56044/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Brazil finds prehistoric &quot;Sea Warrior&quot; crocodile]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fossil of a new marine crocodile species found in Brazil shows the reptiles survived the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>349</score><crdate>3/27/2008 9:40:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-27T21:40:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20956</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20956/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Brazil Vs. Argentina Rivalry (NSFW)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Funny advertisements making fun of Brazil and Argentina....]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>106</score><crdate>5/21/2007 3:40:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-21T03:40:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32093</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32093/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Brazil to pay for sex-change ops]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil's public health care system will cover the cost of sex-change operations, the government said, after a federal court ruled the procedure was a constitutional right.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>136</score><crdate>8/18/2007 2:32:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-18T14:32:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27833</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/27833/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Two hundred feared dead in Brazil air crash ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Brazilian passenger jet crashed and burst into flames at a Sao Paolo airport on Tuesday, leaving as many as 200 people feared dead in what would be Brazil's deadliest air disaster.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>86</score><crdate>7/18/2007 6:07:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-18T06:07:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44929</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44929/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Picasso Painting Stolen in Brazil Museum Heist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paintings by Paolo Picasso and Candido Portinari, the most valuable pieces in the Sao Paolo Museum of Art collection, were thieved. These paintings had not gone to auction therefore it was difficult to estimate their value.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>118</score><crdate>12/21/2007 2:21:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-21T02:21:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68251</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68251/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scientists discover new reefs teeming with marine life in Brazil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists announced today the discovery of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://images.conservation.org/admin/packaging/viewtransmit_ext.aspx?messageId=102551&amp;userName=gpoggi&amp;session=44e37fb4eee46145e5744bab799160ab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reef structures</a> they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state. The newly discovered area is also far more abundant in marine life than the previously known Abrolhos reef system, one of the world's most unique and important reefs.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>451</score><crdate>7/10/2008 1:43:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-10T01:43:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53718</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/53718/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Brazillian Extreme Street Football (Soccer)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did I mention Extreme? These guys are amazing. If we ever decide disputes by football/soccer, Brazil will be The World Power. 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Now, another one.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>207</score><crdate>3/31/2008 12:23:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-31T00:23:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41867</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41867/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Whale found deep in Brazil rain forest]]></title><description><![CDATA[An 18-foot minke whale ran aground on a sandbar in the Amazon jungle some 1,000 miles from the ocean, Brazilian media reported Friday.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>203</score><crdate>11/16/2007 10:32:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-16T22:32:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64754</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64754/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Inmate had $170,000, guns, TV, fridge in cell]]></title><description><![CDATA[SAO PAULO, Brazil - Officials in northeastern Brazil say they confiscated the equivalent of more than $170,000 and two pistols from an imprisoned drug trafficker whose jail cell was equipped with a plasma TV set, a refrigerator and gym equipment.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>111</score><crdate>6/9/2008 12:51:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-09T00:51:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78580</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/78580/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Penguins Taking Vacations on Brazil Beaches.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sheer quantity of young penguins that have washed up on Brazil's sun-drenched beaches this year has confounded nearly everyone who comes in contact with them.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>71</score><crdate>10/3/2008 1:03:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-03T01:03:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>714</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/714/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Human stem cells help blinded rats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human embryonic stem cells can partly restore vision in blinded rats.  What are we waiting for?  Oh yah, our current government doesn't support stem cell research.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>13</score><crdate>9/21/2006 1:29:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-21T13:29:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46465</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/46465/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Stolen Picasso Painting Found In Brazil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazilian police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari that were stolen last month from the country's premier modern art museum, officials said Tuesday.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>222</score><crdate>1/8/2008 10:09:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-08T22:09:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4659</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/4659/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A Brailian Boy's Walk to Slavery]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the epic novel, <i>Brazil</i>, here's an excerpt. <i>Brazil</i> is the heart wrenching story of a Brazilian child torn from his mother and sold into a lifetime of slavery on a Sao Paulo coffee plantation.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>9</score><crdate>10/28/2006 8:32:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-28T20:32:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54428</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/54428/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Photo That Proves The Cliche, &quot;A Picture Is Worth A 1000 Words&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is just a single image along with some background info, but I felt it is powerful enough and news worthy enough to warrant it's own posting.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>668</score><crdate>3/15/2008 11:17:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-15T11:17:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12982</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12982/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Pororoca: surfing the Amazon ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twice a year, between the months of February and March, the Atlantic Ocean waters roll up the Amazon river, in Brazil, generating the longest wave on the Earth. The phenomenon, known as the Pororoca, is caused by the tides of the Atlantic Ocean wich meet the mouth of the river. This tidal bore generates waves up to 12 feet high which can last for over half an hour.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>8</score><crdate>3/13/2007 4:38:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-13T04:38:35+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>