<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : continental : ATOM 0.3</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><entry><title><![CDATA[Bentley Continental GT breaks world ice speed record]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13451/1/" /><id>13451</id><summary><![CDATA[Bentley Continental GT breaks world ice speed record]]></summary><issued>2007-03-17T14:29:52+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-17T14:29:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Bentley Continental GT, driven by four-times World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen, smashed the world ice speed record last week, reaching an average speed of 199.86mph (321.65km/h) on frozen sea off the coast of Finland.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Continental Pilot Reportedly Dies In-Flight]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/124031/1/" /><id>124031</id><summary><![CDATA[Continental Pilot Reportedly Dies In-Flight]]></summary><issued>2009-06-18T11:43:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-18T11:43:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Circumstances unknown; jet expected to land in Newark at noon ET. The safety of the flight is said not to be at risk.<br/><br/>*Developing story*<br/><b>Update</b>The plane <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/jet-landing-in-newark-with-dead-pilot/?hp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">landed safely</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;Dear Continental Airlines&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25807/1/" /><id>25807</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;Dear Continental Airlines&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-06-30T19:58:52+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-30T19:58:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Kvetching passenger writes to customer service. Hand-drawn diagrams included.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[58 injured in Denver jet crash]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85995/1/" /><id>85995</id><summary><![CDATA[58 injured in Denver jet crash]]></summary><issued>2008-12-21T11:52:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-21T11:52:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Continental jet veers off the runway on takeoff, slams into ravine, catches fire... but thankfully, no deaths.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Continental imprisons 50 passengers overnight in grounded plane with no food, overflowing toilets]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/130385/1/" /><id>130385</id><summary><![CDATA[Continental imprisons 50 passengers overnight in grounded plane with no food, overflowing toilets]]></summary><issued>2009-08-10T19:41:23+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-10T19:41:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Continental Airlines diverted a Twin-Cities-bound plane to Rochester due to a storm, and then locked the entire planeload of passengers in the plane overnight for nine hours.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Airline pilot dies shortly after takeoff from Houston]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/9377/1/" /><id>9377</id><summary><![CDATA[Airline pilot dies shortly after takeoff from Houston]]></summary><issued>2007-01-22T08:52:46+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-22T08:52:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Continental Airline co-pilot lands plane in McAllen.  Madden has it right.  Buy a big, luxurious bus and drive everywhere.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas woman breaks neck on turbulent flight]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108992/1/" /><id>108992</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas woman breaks neck on turbulent flight]]></summary><issued>2009-04-22T18:24:41+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-22T18:24:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Further proof mankind wasn't meant to fly.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Plane Crash In New York Kills 50]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/94398/1/" /><id>94398</id><summary><![CDATA[Plane Crash In New York Kills 50]]></summary><issued>2009-02-13T10:40:22+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-13T10:40:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Earlier this morning, a commuter aircraft apparently just dropped out of the sky  over Buffalo, New York killing 50. It was only miles from the airport.<br/><br/>Among the dead is a 9-11 widow, who was going to celebrate a memorial of her husband's would-be 58th birthday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Where would you rather pee while driving through NJ?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43756/1/" /><id>43756</id><summary><![CDATA[Where would you rather pee while driving through NJ?]]></summary><issued>2007-12-10T11:39:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-10T11:39:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[At the currently named Vince Lombardi or Molly Pitcher rest areas? Or would you rather visit the toilet at the Continental Airlines Service Area? Get yourPhar snack at the Pfizer Pharmceutical Service Area? Proposal to sell naming rights to NJ's rest areas under consideration.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[African Leaders Study EU like, 'Continental Union' Idea]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/26150/1/" /><id>26150</id><summary><![CDATA[African Leaders Study EU like, 'Continental Union' Idea]]></summary><issued>2007-07-04T04:56:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-04T04:56:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It represented a face-saving compromise between some leaders who wanted to set up a continental African government immediately, and others who favoured a more gradual, step-by-step approach.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Automotive Giant To Use Lithium-Ion Battery In Hybrid Cars]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54643/1/" /><id>54643</id><summary><![CDATA[Automotive Giant To Use Lithium-Ion Battery In Hybrid Cars]]></summary><issued>2008-03-17T18:56:41+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-17T18:56:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[German components group Continental developed the electronics and French battery system manufacturer Johnson Controls-Saft had engineered the lithium-ion cell, he said in Stuttgart, Germany.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Benny the giant British bunny vies to become world's biggest rabbit]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/127580/1/" /><id>127580</id><summary><![CDATA[Benny the giant British bunny vies to become world's biggest rabbit]]></summary><issued>2009-07-13T09:21:13+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-13T09:21:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 2.8ft rabbit who munches his way through &#163;60 worth of food every week is bouncing his way into the record books.<br/><br/>Benny the Flemish Giant is vying for the title of world's longest rabbit, currently held at 2.6ft (81.5cm), by Amy, a Continental Giant who died in May.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Counterdemonstrators drive off Hate Group that is trying to protest a funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/96201/1/" /><id>96201</id><summary><![CDATA[Counterdemonstrators drive off Hate Group that is trying to protest a funeral]]></summary><issued>2009-02-24T13:28:59+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-24T13:28:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Members from Westboro baptist church attempt to protest a memorial service for a Continental Flight 3407 crash victim. They are surrounded by counterdemonstrators wearing white plastic angel wings, blocking their signs from view.<br/>Small video of the incident is worth a view, it is quite impressive how they just surrounded them and got them to leave without even confronting them.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/49479/1/" /><id>49479</id><summary><![CDATA[The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan]]></summary><issued>2008-02-05T08:41:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-05T08:41:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A &quot;plastic soup&quot; of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The vast expanse of debris &#8211; in effect the world's largest rubbish dump &#8211; is held in place by swirling underwater currents.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hothouse Earth would halt plate tectonics]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/59050/1/" /><id>59050</id><summary><![CDATA[Hothouse Earth would halt plate tectonics]]></summary><issued>2008-04-20T22:19:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-20T22:19:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What would it take to jam a planet's tectonics? It seems that a huge rise in atmospheric temperatures would do the trick, causing continents to grind to a halt, mountains to stop growing and earthquakes to cease. On Earth, the motion of magma in the mantle pushes continental plates around on the surface, but if the magma became too hot and runny it would lose the grip needed to do this.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man urinates on woman during flight]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/107607/1/" /><id>107607</id><summary><![CDATA[Man urinates on woman during flight]]></summary><issued>2009-04-16T13:32:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-16T13:32:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Underwater Rugby]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/130596/1/" /><id>130596</id><summary><![CDATA[Underwater Rugby]]></summary><issued>2009-08-12T22:03:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-12T22:03:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[While British divers invented underwaterhockey to spend the winter months their continental nemesis - Germany - found diving at winter temperatures equally unpleasant resulting in the invention of underwater rugby. Simply exercising to maintain your physical fitness for only a few months of actual diving a year gets boring eventually, a problem solved creatively by inventing an underwater ball game combining the same physical exercise with team sport.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[UNT student killed in bizarre 18-wheeler accident]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/52407/1/" /><id>52407</id><summary><![CDATA[UNT student killed in bizarre 18-wheeler accident]]></summary><issued>2008-02-28T07:34:34+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-28T07:34:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Twenty-year-old Ashley Parra was driving on Continental Avenue when she was killed after an 18-wheeler fell onto her car as it dove off the Woodall Rogers Freeway ramp that leads to Interstate 35.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Global Warming: Rush To Judgement?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41456/1/" /><id>41456</id><summary><![CDATA[Global Warming: Rush To Judgement?]]></summary><issued>2007-11-12T19:44:52+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-12T19:44:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[a non existent <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:MlB2YPFSjHAJ:www.geoclimaticstudies.info/benthic_bacteria.htm+Carbon+dioxide+production+by+benthic+bacteria:+the+death+of+manmade+global+warming+theory&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=2&amp;gl=uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">article</a> in a non-existent learned journal was dangled as bait. The article reported to scientifically proved that &quot;concerns about manmade global warming are unfounded.&quot; <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2007/11/rush-to-judgeme.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rush</a> and several <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.desmogblog.com/spoof-website-touts-global-warming-death-were-you-duped" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Blogs</a> ate it up, despite obviously gibberish math and such reference works as &quot;Miocene, Pliocene and <b>Plasticine</b> fossil records for eukaryotic mass on the West African continental shelf.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Prosecutor seeks Concorde charges ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53955/1/" /><id>53955</id><summary><![CDATA[Prosecutor seeks Concorde charges ]]></summary><issued>2008-03-12T10:24:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-12T10:24:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A French prosecutor has asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against US airline Continental over the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000.]]></content></entry></items></xml>