<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : crisis : 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>35191</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35191/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A Pillow Salesman from Crisis, Pursued By Disaster, Followed Closely By Catastrophe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's an article related to a new book that came out last week called Crisis, Pursued By Disaster, Followed Closely By Catastrophe. It's a pretty interesting memoir.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>14</score><crdate>9/10/2007 12:47:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-10T12:47:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68001</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68001/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Putting aside food crisis, G8 leaders savor world delicacies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Food crisis - what food crisis!!]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>127</score><crdate>7/8/2008 4:01:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-08T04:01:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57466</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/57466/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that financial losses stemming from the U.S. mortgage crisis might approach $1 trillion, citing a &quot;collective failure&quot; to predict the breadth of the crisis.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>106</score><crdate>4/8/2008 9:44:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-08T21:44:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37202</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37202/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Women 'are facing extinction' in rural England, leaving thousands of bachelors in crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The countryside is in crisis. But for once it isn't the threat of disease to livestock, the purchasing power of the supermarkets or house building plans that is ruining rural England. It is the extinction of that species so integral to a thriving village life - the eligible young woman.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>164</score><crdate>10/3/2007 9:28:20 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-03T09:28:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>76619</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76619/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Worst Crisis Since '30s, With No End Yet in Sight]]></title><description><![CDATA[The financial crisis that began 13 months ago has entered a new, far more serious phase.<br/><br/>Lingering hopes that the damage could be contained to a handful of financial institutions that made bad bets on mortgages have evaporated. New fault lines are emerging beyond the original problem in areas like credit-default swaps, the credit insurance contracts sold by American International Group Inc. and others firms. There's also a growing sense of wariness about the health of trading partners.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>7</score><crdate>9/18/2008 2:31:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-18T02:31:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16645</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16645/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Abortion crisis as doctors refuse to perform surgery ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain is facing an abortion crisis because an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure.]]></description><comments>161</comments><score>142</score><crdate>4/16/2007 11:47:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-16T11:47:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>15851</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/15851/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Google puts Darfur crisis on its map]]></title><description><![CDATA[A scan of Google Earth shows a large swath of Central Africa trimmed in orange. Zoom in and the words &quot;Crisis in Darfur&quot; appear, along with icons of flames marking 1,600 villages destroyed in fighting.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>115</score><crdate>4/11/2007 7:49:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-11T07:49:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>90175</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/90175/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Spike Lee Claims God Caused The Economic Crisis To Elect Obama]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;So many things have happened &#8211; all of a sudden, the economy goes south at that moment, and then McCain,&#8221; Lee replied. &#8220;There were so many things. It was almost a movement that had to be ordained, I think.&#8221;]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>168</score><crdate>1/20/2009 11:09:51 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-20T11:09:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>110489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/110489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Vine: Emergency Social Networking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released Vine, software aimed at helping friends &amp; relatives connect during times of crisis. Apparently inspired by Hurricane Katrina.<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.pcworld.com/article/163974/microsofts_vine_emergency_social_networking.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alternate Article</a>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>73</score><crdate>4/29/2009 2:58:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-29T02:58:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>93581</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/93581/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Global financial crisis takes its toll on China]]></title><description><![CDATA[- 20 million laid off<br/>- half of all toy factories have closed<br/>- government plans 4 trillion yuan ($USD 585 million) stimulus package.<br/>- risk of &quot;mass incidents and social unrest&quot; as jobless migrants return to the countryside.<br/><br/>I have also heard that the factories are just closing their doors - no back pay, no severance packages.  We are not talking wealthy people here but they all contribute to the developed world's way of life.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>79</score><crdate>2/9/2009 10:53:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-09T10:53:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>130327</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/130327/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Food crisis could force wartime rations and vegetarian diet on Britons]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British people face wartime rations and a vegetarian diet in the event of a world food shortage, a new official assessment on the UK&#8217;s food security suggests today. Even though the nation is 73 per cent self-sufficient in food production, higher than during the 1950s, the food chain is at risk from global influences such as a global increase in population, climate change which brings extreme weather patterns, higher oil prices and more crops being grown for bio-fuel instead of food.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>300</score><crdate>8/10/2009 9:00:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-10T09:00:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>83712</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/83712/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Exotic birds fall prey to foreclosure crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Real estate agent Jeffrey Dolfinger was making a routine occupancy check on a foreclosed home near Poughkeepsie, New York, when he made a heart-wrenching discovery: two bedraggled cockatiels nearly starved to death.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>294</score><crdate>12/5/2008 4:40:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-12-05T16:40:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39750</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/39750/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Crisis feared as U.S. water supplies dry up]]></title><description><![CDATA[An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn&#8217;t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York&#8217;s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>187</score><crdate>10/27/2007 8:29:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-27T08:29:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>101138</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/101138/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Big Takeover]]></title><description><![CDATA[The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution<br/><i>long article, but worth reading</i>]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>174</score><crdate>3/20/2009 6:30:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-20T18:30:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10208</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10208/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Solution for the Gas Crisis, Iraq War and Illegal Immigration]]></title><description><![CDATA[It may be a hoax that George Carlin wrote this...  I'd like to congratulate the man who did and nominate him for President in 2008]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>108</score><crdate>2/6/2007 11:37:34 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-06T11:37:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54248</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54248/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fed Bank of Hotlanta Releases Crisis Preparedness Vid]]></title><description><![CDATA[As if you needed more proof that the fan is on and the monkeys are winding up...]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>42</score><crdate>3/14/2008 12:10:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-14T00:10:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41334</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41334/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Drought Crisis Hits Australian Farms]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a National Geographic photo gallery of drought scenes from Australia.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>218</score><crdate>11/11/2007 8:39:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-11T08:39:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>77902</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/77902/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Guiliani's law firm looking for a piece of the action]]></title><description><![CDATA[The economic crisis action that is.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>95</score><crdate>9/27/2008 9:05:28 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-27T09:05:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>2496</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/2496/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Timeline of the North Korea Nuclear Crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[This has been brewing for several years, the following details the timeline of events from 2002 leading up to this]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>13</score><crdate>10/9/2006 2:26:33 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-09T02:26:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32883</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32883/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mother Teresa's crisis of faith]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God and that he does not really exist.&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>163</score><crdate>8/23/2007 11:22:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-23T23:22:14+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>