<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Nothing : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/</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>50001</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/50001/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Nothing]]></title><description><![CDATA[When an alarm announced that the United States had launched missiles at the Soviet Union, Stanislav Petrov could have pushed the red button to start a full-scale nuclear war. Luckily for all of us, he didn't.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>371</score><crdate>2/9/2008 5:47:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-09T17:47:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45213</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45213/1/</url><title><![CDATA[US Military Bases Around The World]]></title><description><![CDATA[The <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Military</a> of the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.defenselink.mil/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">US</a> is <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deployments_of_the_United_States_Military" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">deployed</a> in many <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/maps/9.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">countries</a>. This is due to many factors: the Cold War, in which the US government needed troops around the globe to counter the threat of the Soviet Union; and more recently, The War on Terror. The US has nearly 1.4 million active <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">personnel</a>, and over 369,000 of those are deployed outside the United States and its territories.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>99</score><crdate>12/25/2007 5:57:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-25T17:57:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13585</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13585/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Odd News from Around the World (compiled from various newswires)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silly &amp; wierd news clips from around the world - Ex. A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount in the afternoon.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>5</score><crdate>3/19/2007 8:11:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-19T08:11:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6599</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/6599/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Diary of a Superpower]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Seventeen years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, and two years later the Soviet Union broke apart. More than 1,400 minutes published earlier this month in Russia from meetings that took place behind the closed doors of the Politburo in Moscow read like a thriller from the highest levels of the Kremlin.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>11/28/2006 5:38:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-28T17:38:00+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>