<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : dollar : ATOM 0.3</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><entry><title><![CDATA[When is a dollar worth more than a dollar? When the mint goofs.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24440/1/" /><id>24440</id><summary><![CDATA[When is a dollar worth more than a dollar? When the mint goofs.]]></summary><issued>2007-06-19T20:57:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-19T20:57:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some dollar coins lack &quot;In God We Trust.&quot; The mint promised it wouldn't happen again, but you know what? It happened again.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ US Mint to release Jefferson dollar coin]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31703/1/" /><id>31703</id><summary><![CDATA[ US Mint to release Jefferson dollar coin]]></summary><issued>2007-08-15T10:44:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-15T10:44:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Most folks can correctly name George Washington as the nation's first president. After that, things get tricky. The U.S. Mint is hoping its new dollar coin series will help refresh some hazy memories of Adams, Jefferson and all the rest.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[U.S. Gov't to Release New Dollar Coins]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10570/1/" /><id>10570</id><summary><![CDATA[U.S. Gov't to Release New Dollar Coins]]></summary><issued>2007-02-11T10:17:11+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-11T10:17:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An AP-Ipsos poll found that three-fourths of people surveyed oppose replacing the dollar bill, featuring George Washington, with a dollar coin... so they created another coin we aren't going to want.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Godless' Dollar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12536/1/" /><id>12536</id><summary><![CDATA['Godless' Dollar]]></summary><issued>2007-03-08T00:20:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-08T00:20:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Dollar Coins Missing 'In God We Trust'.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The US Now Has a New Dollar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10836/1/" /><id>10836</id><summary><![CDATA[The US Now Has a New Dollar]]></summary><issued>2007-02-15T09:36:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-15T09:36:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So, you know that Dollar coin that 3/4 of voters opposed?<br/>Yeah, it's in mint now. But we still have the paper one too.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Further Decline of the Dollar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49924/1/" /><id>49924</id><summary><![CDATA[The Further Decline of the Dollar]]></summary><issued>2008-02-08T16:44:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-08T16:44:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some stores in New York have begun accepting euros - it's the beginning of the end.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54229/1/" /><id>54229</id><summary><![CDATA[Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food]]></summary><issued>2008-03-13T22:17:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-13T22:17:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In order to increase the odds of survival, sand dollar larvae will create clones of themselves when they sense fish, their main predator, are nearby]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Smuggling Exotic Pets Is $10 Billion Dollar Industry Second To Drugs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35589/1/" /><id>35589</id><summary><![CDATA[Smuggling Exotic Pets Is $10 Billion Dollar Industry Second To Drugs]]></summary><issued>2007-09-13T18:49:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-13T18:49:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Researchers estimate that millions of pets, animal parts and meats are covertly smuggled across the border totaling a $10 billion industry, second only to illegal drugs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[An American life worth less today]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/68503/1/" /><id>68503</id><summary><![CDATA[An American life worth less today]]></summary><issued>2008-07-11T20:59:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-11T20:59:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man Pays for  New Truck Using $25,000 in Loose Change]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45074/1/" /><id>45074</id><summary><![CDATA[Man Pays for  New Truck Using $25,000 in Loose Change]]></summary><issued>2007-12-23T01:55:54+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-23T01:55:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Paul Brant considers himself a penny pincher, but his savings in quarters and dollar coins really paid off.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Last Minute Auctions]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/55285/1/" /><id>55285</id><summary><![CDATA[Last Minute Auctions]]></summary><issued>2008-03-22T15:18:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-22T15:18:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A listing of eBay auctions of less than a dollar and with mere minutes, sometimes just 1 minute left before bidding ends, no more than a hour. Possible to get some deals but beware of s&amp;h fees.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man pummeled with baseball bat for refusing to fork over $1]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54027/1/" /><id>54027</id><summary><![CDATA[Man pummeled with baseball bat for refusing to fork over $1]]></summary><issued>2008-03-12T19:32:27+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-12T19:32:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[If a random dude with a baseball bat asks for a dollar, just run...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Strong dollar sends big-spending Canadians across border]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/21195/1/" /><id>21195</id><summary><![CDATA[Strong dollar sends big-spending Canadians across border]]></summary><issued>2007-05-23T18:24:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-23T18:24:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Our greatest challenge &#8212; and it's been years and years since we've experienced this &#8212; is having enough beer on stock for the trip for the Canadian sports fans &#8212; they do consume more than their American counterparts,&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45632/1/" /><id>45632</id><summary><![CDATA[What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like?]]></summary><issued>2007-12-31T13:44:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-31T13:44:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We hear dollar figures thrown out about the cost of things every day.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A million dollar Post-it to euthanize Modern Art]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/18777/1/" /><id>18777</id><summary><![CDATA[A million dollar Post-it to euthanize Modern Art]]></summary><issued>2007-05-02T14:35:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-02T14:35:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An ordinary guy (not an artist) who signs as &#8216;G&#8217;, worried because art it&#8217;s since many decades ago a big fraud, has decided to put an end to Modern Art by creating the Ultimate Art Fraud: a Post-it that he is selling in eBay for a million dollars (or more!). <br/><br/>G thinks that Modern Art is nowadays like a comatose patient kept alive artificially by a bunch of speculators and thefts (&#8220;artists&#8221;, critics, art dealers, gallery owners...) that want to keep living off it without any effort, repeating the same ideas (supposedly avant-gardist) over and over.<br/><br/>G wants to euthanize Modern Art. Inspired by Cervantes (who put an end to the ridiculous knight-errant books of his time by writing a knight-errant book even more ridiculous, crazy and absurd), he wants to put an end to Modern Art frauds making an even bigger fraud! <br/>In his web page (www.theendofmodernart.com) he explains how the sale of his work &#8220;The End Of &#8220;Modern Art&#8221;&#8221; for a million dollars will put an end to Modern Art or, at least, generate a very necessary debate that will help to stop art frauds.<br/><br/>&#8220;The End Of &#8220;Modern Art&#8221;&#8221; is for sale on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=170108024366), to avoid gallery owners and art dealers, who are not interested in killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. If G&#8217;s plans are successful, Modern Art will die just to make way to a Timeless Art, inspiring, enriching and, above all, original.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe To Issue 100 Billion Dollar Note]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/69299/1/" /><id>69299</id><summary><![CDATA[Zimbabwe To Issue 100 Billion Dollar Note]]></summary><issued>2008-07-19T20:36:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-19T20:36:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The official inflation rate in Zimbabwe is running at 2,200,000%.  In response to what this means to the prices of standard goods on shelves the Zimbabwean Treasury has announced they will be printing a one billion dollar bill.<br/><br/>This would probably buy two loaves of bread.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iran Asks Japan to Pay Yen for Oil, Start Immediately]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/27300/1/" /><id>27300</id><summary><![CDATA[Iran Asks Japan to Pay Yen for Oil, Start Immediately]]></summary><issued>2007-07-13T12:48:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-13T12:48:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Iran asked Japanese refiners to switch to the yen to pay for all crude oil purchases, after Iran's central bank said it's cutting holdings of the U.S. dollar.&quot;<br/><br/>Goes hand in hand with plummeting dollar value.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hemingway haunt gives discounts to &quot;poor Americans&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/57265/1/" /><id>57265</id><summary><![CDATA[Hemingway haunt gives discounts to &quot;poor Americans&quot;]]></summary><issued>2008-04-07T13:42:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-07T13:42:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harry's Bar, the famed Venice watering hole where Ernest Hemingway held court over hearty food and stiff martinis, is offering a discount to &quot;poor&quot; Americans suffering from a weak dollar and subprime blues.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The currency which shall not be named.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/12635/1/" /><id>12635</id><summary><![CDATA[The currency which shall not be named.]]></summary><issued>2007-03-08T22:58:12+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-08T22:58:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Apparantly it's illegal to say &quot;Dollar&quot; or &quot;Euro&quot; in Russia.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[10,000 dollar tip:  Become a waitress.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27390/1/" /><id>27390</id><summary><![CDATA[10,000 dollar tip:  Become a waitress.]]></summary><issued>2007-07-14T05:47:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-14T05:47:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A waitress in Indiana received a 10,000 dollar tip from some of her regular customers.]]></content></entry></items></xml>