<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Texas : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.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>64756</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/64756/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Son of Evel Knievel jumps 21 Hummers in Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Next time, he'll do it on a bike...(just kidding)<br/><br/>Daredevil Robbie Knievel, son of the late Evel Knievel, rode his motorcycle against a stiff 30-mpg headwind over 21 Hummers, at the at Texas Motor Speedway  on Saturday.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>19</score><crdate>6/9/2008 1:17:02 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-09T01:17:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>72482</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/72482/1/</url><title><![CDATA[North Texas school district will let teachers carry guns]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month.]]></description><comments>14</comments><score>430</score><crdate>8/15/2008 4:42:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-15T16:42:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>94864</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/94864/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas fireball turns out to be 'Pickup sized' meteor]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration said the fireball appeared to be a natural phenomenon, and a University of North Texas astronomer said more specifically that it was probably a *pickup truck-sized meteor with the consistency of concrete.<br/><br/>*Is it just Texas where they measure the size of meteors by small truck variants?]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>495</score><crdate>2/16/2009 8:11:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-16T20:11:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>105409</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/105409/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas to Ban Vista?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Texas lawmaker added a provision to the state budget that would effectively ban Vista from being purchased by any state government agency.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>184</score><crdate>4/7/2009 6:27:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-07T18:27:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>110927</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/110927/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas to revert Social Studies education to the dark ages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I exaggerate, but the Texas State Board of Education is about to create a panel of experts to oversee the creation of their next social studies curriculum &quot;that includes absurdly unqualified ideologues who are hostile to public education&quot; and believe, for example, that wildfires and hurricanes are divine punishments for tolerance of homosexuality]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>297</score><crdate>5/1/2009 1:03:17 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-01T01:03:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>107106</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/107106/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas XXX-Men Nabbed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas gunmen robbed 50 X-rated movies from adult film store,caught red handed. *heh*]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>217</score><crdate>4/14/2009 1:39:47 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-14T13:39:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48244</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/48244/1/</url><title><![CDATA[F-16s at Scene of U.F.O. Sighting in Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the hype around a U.F.O. sighting in Texas garners an unusual amount of attention, a local Air Force reserve base stepped up on Wednesday with a statement that either completely debunks the story or fuels it further, depending on who you ask and when you ask them.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>130</score><crdate>1/24/2008 11:46:16 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-24T11:46:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28402</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28402/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes twice in Texas Pick-3]]></title><description><![CDATA[An unlikely but possible event occurred this week in the Texas Lottery when the same numbers were drawn on two consecutive days.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>106</score><crdate>7/22/2007 9:27:42 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-22T09:27:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45087</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45087/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas passes new &quot;Pole&quot; tax]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting January 1st, there will be an additional $5.00 cover charge at 150 different strip clubs in Texas.  All because the State thinks Strip Clubs lead to sex crimes.<br/><br/>What's next?  A $10 per fetus tax on abortion clinics?]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>397</score><crdate>12/23/2007 10:24:05 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-23T10:24:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40171</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/40171/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas Independence Relay]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Texas Independence Relay is composed of 40 relay legs of various lengths, totaling 200 miles. The course starts in Gonzales, TX, where the Texas Revolution began, and it finishes at the San Jacinto Monument, where Texas Independence was won! <br/><br/>I'm trying to get the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/sports/f/1872/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Texas Chainsaw Repairmen</a> to run this one.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>32</score><crdate>10/31/2007 3:36:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-31T15:36:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>34566</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34566/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Endangered turtle nests found in Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wildlife officials counted a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests this summer on Texas beaches.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>141</score><crdate>9/5/2007 7:32:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-05T07:32:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57113</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57113/1/</url><title><![CDATA[52 Girls Removed From Texas Compound]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials from Texas Child Protective Services, escorted by state troopers, took 52 girls, ages 6 months to 17 years, from the remote retreat on Friday afternoon.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>208</score><crdate>4/5/2008 8:06:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-05T08:06:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>95396</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/95396/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas meteorite hunters turn up possible remnants of Sunday's fireball]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meteorite hunters from the University of North Texas (UNT) have scooped up what may be two pieces of the object that lit up the skies over Austin on Sunday.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>241</score><crdate>2/19/2009 5:08:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-19T17:08:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50672</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50672/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sex Toys Now Legal In Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sex toys are now legal in Texas, after a 1970s law banning the sale of &quot;obscene devices&quot; was overturned in court.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>329</score><crdate>2/15/2008 3:15:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-15T03:15:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>128101</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/128101/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Prehistoric Crocodile Skull Found With Two and a Half Inch Long Teeth, in Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[The large and congested metropolitan area of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas is also home to one of the most important sites for dinosaur fossils in the country. Paleontologists have descended to the fossil site and recently made a major discovery of a nearly 100 million year old crocodile skull with two and a half inch long teeth.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>199</score><crdate>7/16/2009 11:32:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-16T23:32:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68699</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/68699/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The foot bone's connected to the...]]></title><description><![CDATA[ankle?   Not if you live in Texas. <br/><br/>In the newest way to increase revenue, texas orthopedics (bone doctors) have sued to prevent podiatrists (foot doctors) from treating any aliments above the heel. And they won, the ankle no longer exists in texas.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>179</score><crdate>7/14/2008 11:48:07 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-14T11:48:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>131337</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/131337/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has &#8220;nothing about liberals,&#8221; <br/><br/>The first draft says students should be expected &#8220;to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.&#8221; [...] Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>326</score><crdate>8/22/2009 12:24:11 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-22T00:24:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>33730</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/33730/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sprawling spider web engulfs Texas park trail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>262</score><crdate>8/30/2007 8:33:59 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-30T08:33:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>76033</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/76033/1/</url><title><![CDATA['Catastrophic' storm hits Texas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hurricane Ike has made landfall on the Gulf coast of Texas, where it is expected to cause &quot;potentially catastrophic&quot; flooding and damage.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>31</score><crdate>9/13/2008 5:52:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-13T05:52:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>107121</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/107121/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Deep doo-doo wouldn't do for Texas cattle rancher]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mack Stark figures cattle raisers can appreciate the name of his west central Texas ranch and makes no apologies for the words in big black letters on the steel arch over the dirt and gravel driveway.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>227</score><crdate>4/14/2009 4:45:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-14T16:45:38+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>