<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>'Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/"/><tagline>'Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-08-30T06:35:15+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA['Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/57465/1/" /><id>57465</id><summary><![CDATA['Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit]]></summary><issued>2008-04-08T21:38:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-08T21:38:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Under the plan, people who earn over $1 million in New York state will pay an income tax surcharge of about 3/4 of 1 percent for five years. In all, it would raise over $5 billion for mass transit.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dinosaur mass grave discovered in Switzerland]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/30789/1/" /><id>30789</id><summary><![CDATA[Dinosaur mass grave discovered in Switzerland]]></summary><issued>2007-08-09T10:38:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-09T10:38:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An amateur paleontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe's largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mass graves uncovered in Colombia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19275/1/" /><id>19275</id><summary><![CDATA[Mass graves uncovered in Colombia]]></summary><issued>2007-05-06T18:42:48+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-06T18:42:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Colombian authorities have uncovered the mass graves of more than 100 people believed to have been killed during the country's long-running civil conflict.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saddam trial told of mass grave find]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/6605/1/" /><id>6605</id><summary><![CDATA[Saddam trial told of mass grave find]]></summary><issued>2006-11-28T19:46:12+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-28T19:46:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A US forensics expert took the stand in Saddam Hussein's trial for genocide against ethnic Kurds to tell in grim detail how he unearthed the remains of 27 people from a mass grave in northern Iraq.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pope considers return to Latin mass]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21518/1/" /><id>21518</id><summary><![CDATA[Pope considers return to Latin mass]]></summary><issued>2007-05-26T17:05:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-26T17:05:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Latin mass says, &quot;Bring it on!&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mass extinctions caused by global warming?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/2464/1/" /><id>2464</id><summary><![CDATA[Mass extinctions caused by global warming?]]></summary><issued>2006-10-08T13:18:14+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-08T13:18:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An asteroid impact may have caused one mass extinction in the past, but this article argues that relatively sudden releases of hydrogen sulfide gas from the world's oceans may have caused others. H2S is thought to be released as a consequence of high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Guess what's happening now?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Milky Way Is Weighed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/63381/1/" /><id>63381</id><summary><![CDATA[The Milky Way Is Weighed]]></summary><issued>2008-05-27T20:36:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-27T20:36:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Previous estimates had ranged from 750 billion solar masses to up to 2 trillion. Lately, researchers have been leaning toward the higher figure. But now astronomers have used a more refined method to conclude that our galaxy's mass is slightly less than 1 trillion solar masses.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48360/1/" /><id>48360</id><summary><![CDATA[Saddam Faked Having WMD To Prevent Iran From Invading Iraq]]></summary><issued>2008-01-25T12:51:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-25T12:51:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bosnian in legal debate over cow falling in mass grave]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/22258/1/" /><id>22258</id><summary><![CDATA[Bosnian in legal debate over cow falling in mass grave]]></summary><issued>2007-05-31T20:10:54+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-31T20:10:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Got milk?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New York switches from real to fake grass]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16750/1/" /><id>16750</id><summary><![CDATA[New York switches from real to fake grass]]></summary><issued>2007-04-17T12:04:11+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-17T12:04:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New York plans to spend about $150 million installing 100 synthetic playing fields in parks across the city over the next five years.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A big chunk of the universe is missing - again]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40753/1/" /><id>40753</id><summary><![CDATA[A big chunk of the universe is missing - again]]></summary><issued>2007-11-06T02:48:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-06T02:48:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Not only has a large chunk of the universe thought to have been found in 2002 apparently gone missing again but it is taking some friends with it. The new calculations might leave the mass of the universe as much as ten to 20 percent lighter than previously calculated.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Welcome to New York; That'll Be $8]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/27533/1/" /><id>27533</id><summary><![CDATA[Welcome to New York; That'll Be $8]]></summary><issued>2007-07-15T22:53:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-15T22:53:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to solve the city's growing traffic problem by charging a fee for every car entering the city. His plan would charge cars $8, and trucks $21, to drive into Manhattan south of 86th Street.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World Body Mass Index]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14836/1/" /><id>14836</id><summary><![CDATA[World Body Mass Index]]></summary><issued>2007-04-01T09:26:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-01T09:26:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[...percentages of &quot;fat people&quot; by national populations. Guess who's #1?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55720/1/" /><id>55720</id><summary><![CDATA[Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T23:07:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T23:07:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In what is one of the worst calamities to hit bat populations in the United States, on average 90 percent of the hibernating bats in four caves and mines in New York have died since last winter.<br/><br/>Wildlife biologists fear a significant die-off in about 15 caves and mines in New York, as well as at sites in Massachusetts and Vermont.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New York Subway Vent Animals]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/59472/1/" /><id>59472</id><summary><![CDATA[New York Subway Vent Animals]]></summary><issued>2008-04-23T18:59:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-23T18:59:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Vents in New York sidewalks blow gusts of air up to street level each time a subway train goes past.  So if you attached an inflatable animal to the vent it would stand up with each gust.  Watch it - it will make sense.<br/><br/>Part 2, which is more involved, in the comments.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[They had sex WHERE?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/65077/1/" /><id>65077</id><summary><![CDATA[They had sex WHERE?]]></summary><issued>2008-06-11T12:09:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-11T12:09:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[ROME - An Italian couple who were caught having sex in a church confessional box <b>while</b> morning Mass was being said have repented and made peace with the local bishop.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Biggest Hockey Mass Fight]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/47087/1/" /><id>47087</id><summary><![CDATA[Biggest Hockey Mass Fight]]></summary><issued>2008-01-13T11:59:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-13T11:59:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Game is in  Kazan at the Tatneft-Arena. Ak Bars vs. Traktor of the Russian Superleague on Jan 08, 2008<br/><b>378 penalty minutes were given out on the play </b><br/>More can be found <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.hockeyfights.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Supercomputer simulation of universe may help in search for missing matter]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43593/1/" /><id>43593</id><summary><![CDATA[Supercomputer simulation of universe may help in search for missing matter]]></summary><issued>2007-12-08T03:18:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-08T03:18:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Much of the gaseous mass of the universe is bound up in a tangled web of cosmic filaments that stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years, according to a new supercomputer study.  The study indicated a significant portion of the gas is in the filaments -- which connect galaxy clusters -- hidden from direct observation in enormous gas clouds in intergalactic space known as the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium, or WHIM.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[This is what atheists hear during a choral mass]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26415/1/" /><id>26415</id><summary><![CDATA[This is what atheists hear during a choral mass]]></summary><issued>2007-07-06T11:23:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-06T11:23:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Songs of Praise (with subtitles)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pope says, &quot;Latin mass fo-shizzle!&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26601/1/" /><id>26601</id><summary><![CDATA[Pope says, &quot;Latin mass fo-shizzle!&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-07-08T01:49:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-08T01:49:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A follow up to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/religion/l/21518/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Booming voice (not God's) interrupts Mass]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/15118/1/" /><id>15118</id><summary><![CDATA[Booming voice (not God's) interrupts Mass]]></summary><issued>2007-04-04T11:04:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-04T11:04:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Teenagers find unmanned microphone linked to church's sound system.]]></content></entry></feed>