<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>plime.com : world : Popular Links : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://world.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2009, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>plime.com : world : Popular Links : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://world.plime.com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Would you move to Saskatchewan for $20,000?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Premier Brad Wall is targeting university and college graduates, offering up to $20,000 in tuition rebates to move to Saskatchewan.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103479/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103479/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Most Incredible Lava Lakes On Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[What looks like a light show in a crater is actually a lava lake. Long-lasting lava lakes are extremely rare because they require active volcanoes with eruptions that produce enough active lava.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103480/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103480/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[120% APR(Wow, that's criminal)]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;The Finance Charge is a one-time transaction charge and is not dependent upon the length of time the advance is outstanding. The Finance Charge is $2.00 for every $20 that is advanced, which equates to an Annual Percentage Rate (APR) of 120%.&quot;]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103481/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103481/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mom pleads guilty in cult starvation death]]></title><description><![CDATA[A religious cult member accused of starving her 1-year-old son to death is making an unusual deal with prosecutors &#8212; she wants her guilty plea to be withdrawn if her child is resurrected.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103256/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103256/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctor Molested Pregnant Women While They Were Undergoing Abortions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The doctor stunned colleagues when he began using the women's hands to carry out sexual acts upon himself as they lay semi-conscious under anesthetic, it was claimed.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103199/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103199/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Costly koalas annoy Japan's homeless]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hiroshi Itagaki has been running this soup kitchen for 35 years and he just shakes his head when asked about the cost of keeping six koalas.<br/><br/>&quot;We could afford to feed people for a decade on what these koalas cost every year,&quot; he said.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103237/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103237/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Where teenage drunkenness is most prevalent]]></title><description><![CDATA[IT IS the unenviable lot of teenagers' parents to worry about what their kids get up to at parties. <br/><br/>*we're # 10*we're# 10*]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103229/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103229/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Show us your loo before you woo, Indian men are told]]></title><description><![CDATA[Courtship can be an intricate business in India, but the mothers of the northern state of Haryana have a simple message for men who call on their daughters: &#8220;No toilet, no bride.&#8221;]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103231/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103231/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Man foils bank robbery after assuming it was an April Fool ]]></title><description><![CDATA[But as terrified cashiers prepared to hand over a bundle of notes, Mr Stewart calmly walked up to the robber and said: &quot;It's April the 1st isn't it mate? It's April Fool's Day&quot;.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103198/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103198/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[No Touching]]></title><description><![CDATA[No high-fives, hugs, horseplay, nada. Connecticut middle school bans all physical contact.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102980/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102980/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Trick of 'magic' tax refund loans? High rates]]></title><description><![CDATA[A broad smile spreads over Magic Johnson's face. &quot;Sooner or later, we all need help,&quot; the former NBA superstar says into the camera. &quot;If you need cash quickly, Jackson Hewitt has the Money Now loan. It's fast, it's simple - it's money like magic.&quot; But consumer advocates say the quickie tax-refund loans Johnson is advertising prey on the working poor.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102990/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102990/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Need a Pothole Filled in Your City? Call KFC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't be surprised if you see Col. Sanders out filling potholes.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/103002/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/103002/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Alzheimers patients killed in shooting]]></title><description><![CDATA[A gunman on a rampage killed 6 nursing home patients in Carthage NC and wounded 3 other people. Nobody knows why... yet.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102983/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102983/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Witches' maze sends Satan packing]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Scottish aristocrat is creating a memorial to the men and women who were put to death on the orders of his 17th-century predecessor.<br/>&quot;Sadly, there is nothing in the village to commemorate these people, so I decided to create a memorial maze in their honour.&quot;]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102925/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102925/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[&quot;Masks of Whatchamacallit&quot;: A Nagasaki Tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hayashi Kyoko, born in Nagasaki in 1930, spent much of her childhood in wartime Shanghai. Returning to Nagasaki in March 1945, she attended Nagasaki Girls High School and was a student-worker in a munitions plant in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombing on August 9. <br/><br/>A novella]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102964/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102964/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Graphic artists condemn plans to ban erotic comics]]></title><description><![CDATA[A coalition of graphic artists, publishers and MPs have condemned Government plans to introduce a new set of laws policing cartoons of children, arguing that the current broad wording of the legislation could lead to the banning of hundreds of mainstream comic books.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102963/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102963/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli and Palestinians unite to rob a bank]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Israeli and a group of Palestinians last week set aside their differences in order to carry out an armed bank robbery, Palestinian police said Sunday.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102959/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102959/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Want to Save Money? Carry Around $100 Bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;There's a psychological cost associated with spending a $100 bill that's not there with spending smaller bills.&quot; We tend to isolate the cash in our minds. Each $20 is a separate, less valuable entity than that single $100 bill.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102858/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102858/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil begins to build walls around Rio slums]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil has begun building over 7 miles of 3 meter high concrete walls around the hillside slums in the south of Rio de Janeiro. The official statements propose the reason is to protect the surrounding rainforest from further encroachment. Critics protest it is a discriminatory division meant to entrap and separate the poor from the rich. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://tinyurl.com/wallsaroundrio" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">video</a>]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102897/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102897/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[REMINDER: Antarctica to Pyramids _ Lights Dim for Earth Hour]]></title><description><![CDATA[From an Antarctic research base to the Great Pyramids of Egypt and beyond, the world switched off the lights on Saturday for Earth Hour, dimming skyscrapers, city streets and some of the world's most recognizable monuments for 60 minutes to highlight the threat of climate change.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102820/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102820/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I'm Alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;It takes a hell of a good man<br/>To be my Mr. Right.<br/>It takes a hell of a sweet man<br/>To see me every night.<br/>It takes a hell of a good man<br/>To be better than no man at all.&quot;<br/>*one hell of a confession by Lea Lane*<br/>*Author, Solo Traveler*]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102857/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102857/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Surprising Facts about American Health Care]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some things worth considering before turning health care entirely over to the government.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102791/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102791/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman who plays classical music to soothe horses told to get licence ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rosemary Greenway has been playing passages of opera and orchestral symphonies on the radio to the animals at her stables for more than 20 years, convinced that it helps soothe them.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102789/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102789/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl becomes youngest scout to scoop up all 33 badges... at the age of nine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rebecca, who was ten this month, has been saluted for her 'determination and enthusiasm' by the Scout Association after mastering activities ranging from astronomy to animal care and DIY to martial arts.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102779/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102779/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[High school puts end to lunchtime ice cream socials]]></title><description><![CDATA[The monthly ice cream fundraiser that generated money for different clubs and charities was canceled by school officials because of a wellness policy.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102777/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102777/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious Disease Kills German Cows]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 100 cases have been reported already. The calves seem to bleed to death - <i>through the f**king pores of their their f**king skin.</i> Ew.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102719/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102719/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat's life is saved, thanks to a gift]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daisy's drama started Sunday afternoon after Leonard's 4-year-old son, Asa, snatched a lighter from the lanai of their Alba Avenue East home and started playing with it on the trundle bed in his room.]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102754/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102754/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Police chief apologizes for hitting car while looking at BlackBerry]]></title><description><![CDATA[City spokeswoman Linda Farmer said Wilson was not ticketed because, under department policy, officers are not cited for civil infractions.<br/><br/>*There is a reason they call them &quot;CrackBerrys*]]></description><link>http://world.plime.com/world/l/102645/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102645/1/</guid><category>world</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>