<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>School Employee Fired for Smelling Like Cigarette Smoke : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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Sources for the Stones were quoted as saying &quot;Ronnie and Keith have been smoking on stage for the last three decades and they're not going to stop for the next two&quot;  Don't they realize that cigarette smoke and tar is ALL that keeps Keith alive nowadays? (seriously someone should get some of the man's DNA - I bet it cures cancer)]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>105</score><crdate>8/22/2007 4:55:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-22T16:55:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17198</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17198/1/</url><title><![CDATA[British cigarettes will be supplied with radio labels]]></title><description><![CDATA[British HM Revenue and Customs examines the variant of supplying every cigarette pack with special radio label...]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>1</score><crdate>4/20/2007 12:54:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-20T12:54:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40601</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40601/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Teen allowed 'calming' smokes]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year 10 student has been given permission to take cigarette breaks while at school because her doctor says she is clinically addicted to nicotine.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>432</score><crdate>11/4/2007 8:19:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-04T20:19:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57124</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57124/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Where There's Smoke, There's a Lawyer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you smoke? Well, you better be careful where. I don't smoke, and I don't like the smell, but what some people are doing to smokers makes me say give me a break.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>361</score><crdate>4/5/2008 9:24:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-05T09:24:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16908</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16908/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Smoke break saves woman's life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smoking just might have saved Brenda Comers' life.<br/><br/>She said she had just finished washing dishes Monday and stepped outside to smoke a cigarette when an 80-foot oak tree crashed through her roof, landing across the sink where she had been standing just seconds before.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>105</score><crdate>4/18/2007 4:32:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-18T16:32:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74705</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74705/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Marlboro Sponsors School Uniforms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Students in Asia are required to wear school uniforms and it was obviously an opportunity companies like Vodafone, Shell, Ferrari, and even cigarette company Marlboro, just couldn&#8217;t pass on.<br/><br/>Yep, cigarette advertising on school kids, FTW!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>121</score><crdate>9/3/2008 2:18:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-03T14:18:07+01:00</atomdate></link><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>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>17760</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17760/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Social Cigarette ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smoking device designed for two smokers and one cigarette.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>63</score><crdate>4/24/2007 11:49:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-24T23:49:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10661</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/10661/1/</url><title><![CDATA[School says to boys... &quot;Snip it&quot; or don't come back.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kenyan secondary school sends 20 boys home because they were not circumcised, saying it feared they would be bullied by other students.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>74</score><crdate>2/12/2007 4:09:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-12T16:09:32+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>989</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/989/1/</url><title><![CDATA[&quot;Light&quot; cigarette smokers form Class Action Suit]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Light&quot; cigarette smokers surprised that tobacco companies lied to them.  &quot;You can still get cancer by smoking light cigarettes?&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>28</score><crdate>9/25/2006 1:55:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-25T13:55:34+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>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>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>38566</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38566/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Riot squad called because man lights cigarette in pub]]></title><description><![CDATA[England is competing with Florida more and more. Man at a pub gets pissed off when the cricket game is turned off right before the ending. He lights up in protest. Refuses to put it out, staff presses &quot;panic button&quot; and riot police in full gear show up.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>81</score><crdate>10/16/2007 10:42:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-16T22:42:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16762</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16762/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cigarettes for Eastern Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[I suppose that tobacco giants may refuse from developing of small European factories by covering up the sales volumes at the expense of Russian export]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-1</score><crdate>4/17/2007 12:58:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-17T12:58:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25915</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/25915/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cigarette Price Increase Results in Bootlegging Boost]]></title><description><![CDATA[The significantly increased cigarette tax has reinforced smoking and diminished the results of cessation services. It has partially reduced tobacco use but caused a dramatic rise in illegal untaxed cigarettes sales on the streets of low-income minority communities, as showed the study organized by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>9</score><crdate>7/2/2007 12:01:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-02T12:01:46+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>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></items></xml>