<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Im always a sucker for a good lightsaber battle : 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). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>51336</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/51336/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Im always a sucker for a good lightsaber battle]]></title><description><![CDATA[These kids (in high school) completed this video of dueling it out with light sabers in the school halls for their final project. After it was made they got to show it to the whole school. <br/><br/>Its pretty impressive if you ask me. <br/>acting - A  video A+]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>217</score><crdate>2/19/2008 10:51:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-19T22:51:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10188</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10188/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Priority Should Be On High School, Not Preschool]]></title><description><![CDATA[Does anyone really believe universal, publicly funded preschool will help improve high school test scores? Yet this is what the South Dakota Department of Education seems to be touting. Perhaps it is time to evaluate what is happening in our high schools instead of funding two or more years of public management of preschool-age children with the outside hope that their test scores and social lives at age 16 will be enhanced.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>13</score><crdate>2/6/2007 8:25:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-06T08:25:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59914</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59914/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Student with gun puts Tacoma high school in lockdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tahoma High School is in lockdown after a student allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school Monday.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>51</score><crdate>4/28/2008 3:50:52 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-28T15:50:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1392</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1392/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hostage in High School]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not too far from the site of the infamous Columbine school shooting, 6 students in a Colorado high school were held hostage at gunpoint. Motive still unclear as gunman committed suicide. As if kids need another reason to skip school.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>9/27/2006 9:15:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-27T21:15:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8479</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8479/1/</url><title><![CDATA[1 person dead in Washington state high school shooting.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Update: Later reports said victim and shooter were both students.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>73</score><crdate>1/3/2007 1:53:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-03T13:53:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8984</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8984/1/</url><title><![CDATA[High School Principal's try to stop &quot;FREAKING&quot; and &quot;Grinding&quot; at dances]]></title><description><![CDATA[Principals try to describe exactly what Grinding is, after a letter went home to parents about stopping grinding, only 3 tickets were sold for the dance. <br/>This is a funny article.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>13</score><crdate>1/13/2007 1:53:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-13T13:53:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sex Article Causes Stir at School]]></title><description><![CDATA[FRANKLIN, Ind. -- A First Amendment debate is raging at Franklin High School after an article in the school newspaper raised some eyebrows.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>279</score><crdate>2/13/2008 9:24:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-13T21:24:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>73562</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/73562/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ohio high school rules their own cheerleader outifts violate dress code]]></title><description><![CDATA[Superintendent said &quot;The skirts the cheerleaders wear are very short, and very tight...You want to have students wear appropriate clothing during the educational period of the day, and then after school, wear the appropriate clothing for the event&quot;  <br/><br/>So it's apparently OK to wear sleazy school supplied uniforms at a game, but not in math class...]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>573</score><crdate>8/25/2008 6:41:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-25T18:41:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36746</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/36746/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Roanoke School Shows Some Balls and Common Sense]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parry McCluer High School - at least for now - has declared that they will not bend to the Almighty PC God and remove the guns from its mascot. 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He advised the students to 'work hard and stay in school'.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>28</score><crdate>9/19/2006 1:33:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-19T13:33:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37784</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37784/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Woman left 'naughty' daughter at school]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman left her three-year-old daughter at a central Queensland school to teach her a lesson after she was naughty. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found wandering alone around Glenmore State School in Rockhampton's north just before 10am.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>220</score><crdate>10/9/2007 9:48:08 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-09T09:48:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27307</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27307/1/</url><title><![CDATA[School mistakes huge burrito for weapon, goes into lockdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>16</score><crdate>7/13/2007 1:53:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-13T13:53:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48888</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48888/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Toronto trustees approve Afrocentric school]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Toronto District School Board has approved an &quot;operational model&quot; for an Afrocentric school intended to help struggling black students in the city's education system. Critics say the decision smacks of segregation.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>59</score><crdate>1/30/2008 10:40:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-30T10:40:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>21050</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/21050/1/</url><title><![CDATA[School apologises for insulting report]]></title><description><![CDATA[A school has had to apologise after a confidential report was found that called pupils &quot;away with the fairies&quot; and said one mother was &quot;quite rough&quot;.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>49</score><crdate>5/22/2007 1:09:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-22T13:09:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46043</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46043/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Breathalyzer Tests Mandatory At NJ High School]]></title><description><![CDATA[A NJ high school, Pequannock High, now mandates getting checked for alcohol  at dances and other social events]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>143</score><crdate>1/4/2008 1:12:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-04T13:12:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>66064</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/66064/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Denver School Tries Reinvention as Reform]]></title><description><![CDATA[What to do when a school just spins out of control. One solution can be to close the school for a year and then start over with new staff, and only accepting freshmen in the first year. The kids also feel they are part of something special.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>80</score><crdate>6/20/2008 11:30:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-20T11:30:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3582</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/3582/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Elementary school bans playing tag]]></title><description><![CDATA[Massachusetts school bans &quot;unsupervised chase games&quot; for fear that school will be held liable if kids get hurt. Parents should sue school anyway for turning their kids into wusses.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/18/2006 12:38:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-18T12:38:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>79123</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/79123/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gloucester OK's contraceptives]]></title><description><![CDATA[The School Committee voted unanimously last night to allow contraceptives to be distributed at the high school after a report of a pregnancy pact pushed Gloucester into the spotlight earlier this year.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>56</score><crdate>10/9/2008 10:25:52 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-09T22:25:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27137</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27137/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Indian kids at graveyard school face nightmares]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>38</score><crdate>7/12/2007 9:58:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-12T09:58:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>69096</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69096/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mom sues school district over bat-infested halls]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Traci Turner said she filed the lawsuit on behalf of her son, Chase Jackson, who caught a bat at school last September and played with it for two hours.&quot;<br/><br/>What on earth is a high school kid doing with a bat for 2 hours?]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>75</score><crdate>7/17/2008 8:40:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-17T20:40:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12716</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/12716/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Shutting Down Fake &#8216;Prep Schools&#8217; ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Collegiate Athletic Association has taken much-needed action against fraudulent &#8220;prep schools&#8221; that inflate transcripts for high school athletes before passing them on to big-time college sports programs.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>55</score><crdate>3/9/2007 11:17:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-09T23:17:01+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>