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   <title>About.com Urban Legends: Most Popular Articles</title>
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   <description>These articles are the most popular over the last month.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hoax Photos - Spot the Fakes!]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_image_quiz.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Real or Fake? Take the quiz and see if you can tell the hoax photos from the real thing!]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hoax: Air France Crash Photos - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_photos_gol_737_crash.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[HOAX: Emailed photos purportedly taken inside the passenger cabin of Air France Flight 447 moments before it broke up over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009 (originally circulated as photos of Gol Airlines Flight 1907 after mid-air collision in 2006).]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[John Dillinger&#039;s Private Parts]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/john_dillinger.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Dear Urban Legends: I believe I read an article by Robert Anton Wilson a ways back regarding the Smithsonian or some D.C. museum housing private parts of famous people - John Dillinger, for example. Is there any truth to this folklore?]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ericsson &#039;Free Laptop&#039; Hoax]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/ericsson_hoax.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email chain letter claims phone manufacturer Ericsson will give away free laptop computers to those who forward the message to at least eight people.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Test Your Urban Legends IQ]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_quiz1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Urban Legends Quiz: Test your urban legends IQ!: urban legends iq]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cell Phone Do Not Call List]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cell_directory.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Cell phone numbers going public? Forwarded email warns that a directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published and urges users to dial 888-382-1222 and enter their numbers on the federal 'Do Not Call' list to prevent unsolicited telemarketing calls.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Amazing Tsunami Picture - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_tsunami_picture.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image purports to show the devastating tsunami of December 26, 2004 washing ashore on the Thai island of Phuket (or Indonesia, depending on version]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hercules, World&#039;s Biggest Dog - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hercules_worlds_biggest_dog.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image of a gargantuan dog named Hercules, purportedly the Guinness Record holder for World's Biggest Dog.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jamie Lee Curtis]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/jamieleecurtis/a/jamieleecurtis.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Longstanding (and unproven) rumors claim actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite, or was born intersex and underwent surgery as a child to become female.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[SB-2099 - Diabolical Conspiracy to Tax Handguns - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091900a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[S.B.-2099: Take a grain of truth, sprinkle with false and misleading statements, add a heaping dollop of paranoia, and what do you have?]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Breast Infestation - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_breast_larvae.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Ladies, wash your underwear in boiling water! Emailed image and video purport to document the medical case of anthropologist Susan McKinley, who failed to seek treatment for a rash and wound up with an infestation of larvae in her breast.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Postcard&#039; or &#039;Hallmark Postcard&#039; Virus Hoax - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Hoax email alert warns of 'the worst virus ever' circulating in the form of an attachment labeled 'POSTCARD' or 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK']]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Current Hoaxes / Netlore]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/current_netlore.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Hoax List from About.com - Current Internet hoaxes, email rumors and urban legends debunked - your resource for information on all the latest misinformation on the Net.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Top 25 Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/reference/a/top_25_uls.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Most popular urban legends topics of the past week]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama a &#039;Foreign&#039; Student?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_citizenship_questioned.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, a purported AP news story claims transcripts released by Occidental College prove that Barack Obama, under the name 'Barry Soetoro,' received a Fulbright Scholarship awarded to foreign-born students only.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Close Encounter with Mars?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/ss/mars_in_august.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Mars as big as the moon on August 27? Email hoax claims August 27 will bring the closest encounter between Mars and Earth in recorded history. Unfortunately, this 'once in a lifetime event' already came and went in 2003.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[FW: Don&#039;t Feed Your Cat Table Scraps - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_2004_giant_cat.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo of a really, really big housecat: guinness world record guinness world record holder cat lore quiz image table scraps]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Play the Urban Legends Name Game!]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_urban_legend_game.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Urban Legends Q &amp; A: Play the Urban Legends Game!]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/reference/a/new_uls.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Find info on the latest Internet hoaxes, rumors, and the most popular stories circulating today.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mr. Rogers a  Sniper?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fredrogers/a/mr_rogers.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Was Fred Rogers, longtime host of the children's TV show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, a trained sharpshooter with dozens of kills to his credit as a Marine sniper (or Navy Seal)?]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin Bikini Picture - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sarah_palin_bikini_pic.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image purports to show Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin posing for a photo sporting an American flag bikini and a rifle.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Richard Gere &amp; the Gerbil]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/richard_gere.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[I don't mean to sound cranky, but all too often when I tell folks I debunk urban legends for a living, the first question that pops out of their mouths is: 'What about that thing with Richard Gere and the gerbil? Is THAT true?' ]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Fatal Hairdo]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/fatal_hairdo.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Girl with a 'beehive' hairdo dies a horrible death after a spider crawls inside and lays eggs, hatching a brood of hungry arachnids. Legendary proof that vanity can kill.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Top 10 Scariest Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/tp/top10scariest.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The Top 10 scariest urban legends ever told]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Eye of God? (Hubble Telescope Photo) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_eye_of_god.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[NASA photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has been labeled the 'Eye of God' by frequent forwarders]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Do They Eat Babies in China?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/eating_babies.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Dear Urban Legends: I received an email last week which was quite disturbing. It is about dead babies that can be bought from hospitals in Taiwan to meet the high demand for grilled and barbequed babies!]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pepsi Omits &#039;Under God&#039; in Patriotic Can Promotion - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blpepsi-can.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Baseless email campaign protests the alleged omission of the words 'under God' in an excerpt from the Pledge of Allegiance on new Pepsi cans.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brown Recluse Spider Bite (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_brown_recluse_bite.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purport to show the progressive deterioration of a wound caused by the bite of the poisonous brown recluse spider.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Burundanga Drug Warning]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/burundanga.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded emails warn that criminals in the U.S. and Canada are using business cards impregnated with a potent street drug called burundanga (aka scopolamine) to incapacitate victims before attacking them.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[World&#039;s Tallest Woman - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_worlds_tallest_woman.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed pictures purport to show the world's tallest woman at 7 feet, 4 inches tall and 320 pounds. Is she really the tallest woman in the world?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Texas Rattlesnake - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_texas_rattlesnake.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed picture of a giant rattlesnake killed in Texas, allegedly measuring 9 feet 1 inch in length and weighing 97 pounds.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ciara&#039;s Secret Sex Change]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/ciara.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Internet rumors are flying to the effect that hip-hop/R&amp;B star Ciara was born male and is either a secret transvestite or underwent a sex-change operation to become a transsexual.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Another Giant Cat]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[THAT&#039;S Why the Ocean Is So Salty! - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_blue_whale.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[According to this forwarded email, a typical blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates... and you wonder why the ocean is so salty!]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Did Nostradamus Predict 9/11?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/nostradamus.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Internet rumors claim French seer Nostradamus predicted the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon 500 years before they happened.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Listerine Mosquito Control?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/a/listerine.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email claims spraying an outside area with Listerine mouthwash repels and/or kills every mosquito in the vicinity.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Test Your Urban Legends IQ - Advanced Level]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_quiz2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Urban Legends Quiz: Test your urban legends IQ!: urban legends level test iq]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The Eye of God]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow6a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Maggot-Stuffed Oreos #1]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hercules the Liger (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_liger_hercules.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[AUTHENTIC: Emailed photos of a 10-foot 'liger' (a cross between a lion and a tiger) named Hercules.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[July 22 Tsunami Prediction]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/ss/july_22_tsunami.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email warns residents of Pacific and Indian Ocean islands to stay away from beaches during the solar eclipse on July 22, 2009 as a 'really bad' earthquake and tsunami are predicted.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Camel Spider Picture - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_camel_spider.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Camel spider picture. Emailed photo taken by U.S. soldiers in Iraq shows a pair of huge, scary-looking arachnids known as camel spiders. Is it true their venom is deadly to humans?]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Toxic Benzene in Parked Cars?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/automobiles/a/benzene_in_car.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email claims that car interiors contain toxic levels of cancer-causing benzene, which is used in the manufacture of dashboards, car seats, and air fresheners. It advises opening windows to expel trapped benzene before using the air conditioner or driving.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shark Attacks Helicopter! - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsharkattack.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Photo purporting to show a great white shark lunging out of the water to attack a scuba diver dangling from a helicopter ladder.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[World Record Grizzly Bear (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-grizzlybear.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Are emailed pictures of a giant, 1,600-pound, man-eating grizzly bear allegedly killed in Alaska by a hunter or Forest Service employee real?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Catfish Caught in Lake Texoma (Photo) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_2004_catfish.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo of a huge catfish supposedly caught in Lake Texoma, Texas in 2004.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brain Maggots / Sushi Worms (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-brainworms.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos of a man whose brain allegedly became infested with maggots (or worms) as a result of an ingrown hair (or eating sushi)]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Maggot-Stuffed Oreos #2]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1aa.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The \$250 Cookie Recipe]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/cookie_recipe.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Here is a 'true story' almost everyone has heard by now - the infamous $250 Cookie Recipe, most recently associated with the Neiman Marcus company, but previously (during the 1980s) the bane of cookie diva Mrs. Fields.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Obama on the Phone]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1b.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Sarah Palin Bikini Pic]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1bb.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Snake Swallows Man - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa061101a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Series of photos circulating via email purports to show a gigantic snake - said to be an anaconda, python, or boa constrictor - swallowing a human being whole]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Urban Legends Sex Quiz]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sex_quiz.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Quiz: Urban Legends about romance, sex, and scandal]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bottled Water Safety Alert]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/a/bottled-water.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Bottled water cancer danger? Forwarded email warns women not to drink bottled water that has been left in a car because the heat supposedly releases cancer-causing toxins which 'leak' from the plastic into the water.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Baby Carrots and Chlorine]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/baby_carrots.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email flier claims baby carrots sold in supermarkets pose a consumer health risk because they're processed in chlorine.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Gay Jesus&#039; Movie?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/moviesandtheater/a/gay_jesus_movie.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Corpus Christi' movie: email petition aims to block the release of a movie (sometimes referred to by the title 'Corpus Christi') allegedly depicting Jesus Christ and his disciples as gay.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Beer Can Townhouse (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1c.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Britney Spears Death Hoax]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/britney_dead.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[False reports of the deaths of singers Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake run rampant on the Internet]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Teacher Slams Obama?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/letter_to_obama.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[An open letter to President Obama attributed to Hillsboro, Missouri elementary school teacher Kathleen Lyday expresses one citizen's vehement displeasure with the way the country is being run.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Petition: No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_social_security_petition.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Social Security changes? Email petition addressed to President Obama (and President Bush before him) advocates a citizenship requirement for anyone receiving Social Security benefits or other government services.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Beer Can Townhouse (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1d.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1d.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Was a Giant Human Skeleton Found in Saudi Arabia Desert? - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_giant_skeleton.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Recent gas exploration activity in the southeast region of the Arabian desert uncovered skeletal remains of a human of phenomenal size']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - &#039;Bill Sux&#039; Etched on Pentium Chip]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1e.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Parrot Flower]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1ee.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1ee.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Sneaky Shark]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1f.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Email: Asparagus Cures Cancer]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/a/asparagus_cancer.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed article attributed to a biochemist offers medical case histories collected with the help of alleged cancer expert 'Richard R. Vensal, D.D.S.' purporting to prove that eating asparagus may prevent and/or cure cancer.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Man-Eating Catfish]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1g.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1g.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dead Mermaid Found in the Philippines - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mermaid_philippines.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purportedly show the carcass of a dead mermaid found washed up on a beach in the Philippines]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - &#039;Creepy Gnome&#039; Video]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1h.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1h.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Is Sharing His Fortune! - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blmsaol.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Sorry, folks. Microsoft and AOL have not merged, they're not conducting an email beta test, nor has Bill Gates decided to share his hard-earned fortune with people who forward silly chain letters.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Secret Cell Phone Tips?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cellphone_tips.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email flier purports to clue readers in on various 'unknown' tips and tricks for cell phone use]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pit Bull vs. Porcupine (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pit_bull_vs_porcupine.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show the result of an unfortunate encounter between a 'pit bull' and a porcupine.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Face in Smoke on 9-11 - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bltabloid-arch10.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Some viewers were convinced they saw the face of Satan in clouds of smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center after it was struck by a jetliner on 9/11]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Animal-Human Hybrid]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19d.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Microwave Ovens, Plastic Wrap and Dioxin - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-microwave-dioxin.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Does microwaving foods in plastic containers or covered with plastic wrap expose consumers to deadly cancer-causing dioxins?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Human Statue of Liberty]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1i.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1i.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Freaky Fish]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshowj.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshowj.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Is Barack Obama a Muslim? - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_barack_obama_muslim.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor alleges that U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim who has lied about his religious background, including his claim to being a devout Christian]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[General &#039;Black Jack&#039; Pershing vs. Muslim Terrorists - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_black_jack_pershing.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Did U.S. General 'Black Jack' Pershing rid the Philippines of Islamic extremism in 1911 by executing a group of Muslim terrorists and burying them in a grave filled with pig's blood and entrails?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[90# Telephone Scam - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021898.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email warns telephone customers not to comply with instructions from persons claiming to be phone company service technicians to 'test the line' by dialing 90# or #90.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dead Mermaid Found After Tsunami - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mermaid_tsunami.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos allegedly show the carcass of a dead mermaid washed up on a beach at Chennai, India by the devastating tsunami of December 26, 2004]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Quiz: Celebrity Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_celeb_quiz.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Quiz: Celebrity Urban Legends: urban legends iq quiz celebrity]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Crocodile Eats Golfer!]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jet Aircraft Breaking the Sound Barrier (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sonic_boom.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images capture the formation of condensation clouds around jet aircraft flying near the speed of sound]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fear of Licking]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/cockroaches/a/fear_of_licking.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In the world according to urban folklore, horrors await us at every turn...]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Piranha on Steroids (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1k.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don&#039;t Turn on the Light!]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/turn_on_light.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[After coming home late and getting ready for bed in the dark, a college coed wakes up the next morning to receive the shock of her life...]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Legend of Bloody Mary]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/bloody_mary.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Legend has it that if you stand in front of a mirror in a darkened room and chant 'Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary,' a terrifying ghost will appear.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pics of Rare Parrot Flower]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/naturalwonders/ss/parrot_flower.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, authentic pictures of the rare parrot flower (Impatiens psittacina), which is native to northern Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), and northern India, and bears a remarkable resemblance to its avian namesake.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Crocodile Eats Golfer (Photo) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcroc.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The impatient golfer was not located, but his clubs were found on the hole. Three days later, Ole Mose was spotted on the seventh hole and was an immediate suspect...]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Made in China Bar Codes?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/barcodes.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email claims potentially hazardous products made in China can be identified by examining the first three digits of the bar code on the packaging, which supposedly indicate the country of origin.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Albino Fawn]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow2a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[World&#039;s Highest Bridge - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_worlds_highest_bridge.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo of the world's highest bridge, the Millau Viaduct in southern France]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Piranha on Steroids (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1l.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The Queen and Scottish Soldiers]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow2b.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Brain Maggots / Sushi Worms (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow25.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Puppy with a Heart (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_puppy_heart.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos show a chihuahua puppy born in Japan with a heart-shaped pattern in its coat.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Animal-Human Hybrid (Photo) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_half_human.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, an unsettling photograph of what appears to be a half-human, half-animal creature suckling her hybrid offspring.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Mutant Cat #2]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Giant-Mutant-Cat--2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email caption: 'Why You Don't Feed Your Cat Table Scraps.']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Brain Maggots / Sushi Worms (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow26.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cook County Correctional Center (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cook_county_correctional.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purportedly show the stylish and comfortable new digs of prison inmates in Chicago's Cook County Correctional Center.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Dead Wife Coffee Table]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow2c.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama Not a U.S. Citizen?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_citizen.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Obama citizenship questioned: Email rumor claims Barack Obama is ineligible to become president because he is not a natural-born citizen of the U.S.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Origin of the F-Word - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-f-word.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In which we are told with a straight face that the word 'fuck' originated as the acronym of 'Fornication Under Consent of the King' (or some variation thereof).]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Snake Swallows Man (#4)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow6.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Snake Swallows Man (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow3.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Snake Swallows Man (#3)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow5.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow5.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Giant Razorback Hog]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow7a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Air Force Jets Fly in USA Formation]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow7.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow7.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Texas Tornado / Oil Rig Photo - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_texas_tornado.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Dramatic image purportedly captures a massive nighttime tornado illuminated by lightning not far from an oil rig near Ft. Stockton, Texas.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Doctors Find Live Worm in Patient&#039;s Eye - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-eye-worm.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[When the doctors operated, what was thought to be a growth or cyst actually turned out to be a live worm; what was thought initially to be mere dust in the patient's eye was actually an insect's egg...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Snake Swallows Man (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow4.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Doctors Find Live Worm in Patient&#039;s Eye]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The Lion Cut (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8b.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Altoids Effect - Altoids Mints and Oral Sex - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blaltoids.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Altoids Lore: Does chewing this 'curiously strong' brand of mint before fellatio (oral sex) enhance the pleasure?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can People Look Up My Driver&#039;s License on the Internet?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bldriverslicense.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Website purports to offer free, easy access to personal information contained in state driver's license databases]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Hurricane Lili - Triple Waterspout]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8c.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8c.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[PIN Number Reversal - Use Reverse PIN to Contact Police? - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_reverse_pin.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor claims ATM users can contact police in the event of an attempted robbery by entering their PIN in reverse]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Snake vs. Electric Fence]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow7b.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Two Moons on August 27?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/a/two-moons.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[2007 version of an email rumor circulating since 2003 which claims that August 27 will bring the 'closest encounter' between Mars and Earth in recorded history. Supposedly, it will look as if there are two moons in the night sky.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Mail Server Report&#039; Virus]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/virushoaxes1/a/mail_server.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[TRUE: A potentially destructive Internet virus (or 'worm') is propagating via emails sporting the header 'Mail Server Report.' However, some of the information circulating about this threat is inaccurate.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Origin of the S-Word: &#039;Ship High in Transit&#039; - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-s-word.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In which we are told, and with a straight face, that the word 'shit' originated as the acronym of 'Ship High in Transit,' a nautical phrase.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The Lion Cut (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Black and White Twins (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_black_and_white_twins.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a pair of twin sisters - one black, the other white - born to a British couple who both had mixed-race parents]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can coughing save your life during a heart attack? - Self-CPR - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcpr.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Self-CPR? According to this 1999 email rumor, you can save your own life during a heart attack ... by coughing]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Close Encounter with Mars on August 27 - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_2006_mars_encounter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[2006 variant of years-old email hoax repeats outdated claim that during the month of August the orbits of Mars and Earth will bring the two planets closer together than ever before in recorded history.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Snopes Under Fire]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/snopes_exposed.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Snopes liberal bias? Forwarded email alleges that the urban legend debunking site Snopes.com is 'owned by a flaming liberal' who is 'in the tank for Obama' and cannot be trusted to provide reliable information.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Snowball, the Giant Mutant Cat]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8d.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The 9-11 Tourist Guy (Accidental Tourist) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blphoto-wtc.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The Tourist Guy, aka The Accidental Tourist - A snapshot purportedly taken atop one of the World Trade Center twin towers seconds before the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lou Pritchett Letter to Obama]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/lou_pritchett_letter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Authentic: Circulating via forwarded email, an open letter to President Obama by former Procter &amp; Gamble executive Lou Pritchett enumerates the ways the newly-elected commander-in-chief scares him.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Tiger Nurses Piglets (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8f.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8f.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Tiger Nurses Piglets (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8e.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Man Puts HIV+ Blood in Ketchup Dispenser - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_ketchup_hiv.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Hoax email advises fast-food consumers not to use ketchup unless it comes in sealed packets because a man was supposedly caught placing HIV-tainted blood in a restaurant ketchup dispenser]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Moose on a Wire]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8g.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow8g.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ed Freeman]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/military/a/ed_freeman.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed tribute to Vietnam War hero and Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman, who died at the age of 80 in Boise, Idaho on August 20, 2008.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow9.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don&#039;t Answer Cell Phone While It&#039;s Charging! - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cell_phone_electrocuted.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email alert claims a young man was killed (electrocuted) when he answered a cell phone that was plugged in to charge the battery.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Barack Obama Antichrist]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obamaantichrist.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor claims charismatic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is the Antichrist prophesied in the New Testament.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Amazing&#039; Satellite Photos of Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-shuttle-explosion.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Are dramatic photographs allegedly taken by an Israeli satellite of the Columbia Space Shuttle explosion real?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[*77 or #77 Emergency Cell Phone Feature - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcellphone77.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Female college student pulled over in her car by a cop-impersonating would-be rapist is rescued by a real officer after dialing #77 (or *77) on her cell phone.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow10.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some 

persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Black and White Twins]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19i.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19i.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[How Clean Are Dogs&#039; Mouths?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dogs/a/dog_breath.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[If you don't mind my falling back on a gut feeling, I'd rather be French-kissed by a human being than a dog any day...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - World&#039;s Highest Bridge]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19f.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19f.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#5)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow13.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow13.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#3)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow11.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow11.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#4)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow12.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow12.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Does Freezing / Microwaving Plastic Containers Release Dioxin? - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_frozen_plastic_dioxin.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email flier purporting to relay information from a Johns Hopkins newsletter claims that freezing water in plastic bottles and microwaving foods in plastic wrap releases cancer-causing dioxin.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Tsunami Strikes Thailand]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow21.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow21.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Johnnie Cochran&#039;s Headstone]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19e.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19e.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#11)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#6)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow14.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Giant Gator]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19g.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19g.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - 1964 Mock-Up of &#039;Home Computer&#039;]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19b.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19b.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#8)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow16.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow16.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#7)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow15.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow15.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - North Pole Sunset]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19h.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19h.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Boyfriend&#039;s Death]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/boyfriend_death.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[They picked the worst possible night to go necking on Lovers' Lane...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#9)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow17.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow17.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Polar Bear Attack (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_polar_bear_attack.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos graphically document injuries sustained by the survivor of a polar bear attack in the Yukon.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The 9/11 Tourist Guy (#10)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow18.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama on the Phone (Photo) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_obama_phone.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo shows presidential candidate Barack Obama speaking on the phone while apparently holding the receiver upside-down]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[HR 1388 and Hamas Refugees]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/hr_1388_hamas_resettlement.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email claims President Obama has funded a $20 million resettlement of Hamas refugees to the United States via H.R. 1388, a bill supposedly passed 'behind our backs' by Congress.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Man-Eating Catfish]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fish/ss/furong_catfish.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Internet photos purport to show a giant, man-eating catfish caught in the Furong Reservoir in Huadu, China.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Is Steve Burns Really Dead?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/steve_burns.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Did Steve Burns die of a drug overdose? Nope, he's alive and well. Internet rumors prove false once again...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Celebrity Stomach Pump]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/celebrities/a/stomach_pump.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Have you heard the one about Rod Stewart passing out on stage? Seems he was rushed to the emergency room, where a pint (or quart, or gallon, depending on version) of semen was pumped out of his stomach!]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[World&#039;s Biggest Dog]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/World-s-Biggest-Dog.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image of a gargantuan dog named Hercules, purportedly the Guinness Record holder for World's Biggest Dog.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2009-07-04T11:04:50Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Humans Can Lick, Too]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/humans_can_lick.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[AKA 'The Licked Hand.' Here's a popular tale from the oral tradition recast as a spooky - if scarcely believable - email chain letter.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Catfish]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo of a huge catfish supposedly caught in Lake Texoma, Texas.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Mule Attacks Mountain Lion (#1)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Malay Ghost]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bill Gates&#039; 11 Rules of Life - Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Anti-Bush Product Label]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Card Trick: I Can Read Your Mind! - Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[ACLU Objects to Crosses on Federal Property - Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Does the ACLU's battle against displaying religious symbols on federal property extend to calling for the removal of crosses from military gravesites?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Giant Coconut Crab]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ashley Flores Missing Person Hoax - Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fw: New Summer Trends (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purportedly depicting 'new summer trends' show women with symmetrical rows of skin-piercings on their torsos laced up like old-fashioned corsets]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Top 10 Grossest Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[FJapanese ashion Craze: Faux See-Thru Skirts! - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Hook]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sneaky Shark (Photo) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image shows a massive shark looming behind two blissfully unaware scuba divers vacationing in Australia]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Mule Attacks Mountain Lion (#4)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Mule Attacks Mountain Lion (#2)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Flip Flops Cause Skin Rash - Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show alleged 'chemical burns' caused by Wal-Mart flip flops made in China.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Petition 2493 (Pastor Removal from Television) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_petition_2493.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, new variants of a decades-old petition expressing outrage over the alleged attempt by atheists to force a ban on religious broadcasting in the United States.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Mule Attacks Mountain Lion (#3)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Water Bridge]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can You Unlock Your Car Door with a Cell Phone? - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_unlock_door.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Locked out of your automobile? According to this forwarded email, you can have someone transmit a signal from your spare remote key via cell phone and unlock your car door in a pinch.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - World&#039;s Biggest Dog]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Man Keeps Dead Wife in Glass Coffee Table - Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[According to this forwarded email, Arizona resident Jeff Green preserved the body of his dead wife Lucy in a specially-built glass coffee table, which is on display in his living room.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Where&#039;s My Gnome?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Carjacking Scheme?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor warns of a new carjacking scheme involving the placement of a sticker or flyer on the victim's rear window to fool them into exiting the vehicle with the engine running.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rumor: 4th of July Terrorist Attack on St. Louis - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Internet rumors warn of terrorist plots to attack Fair St. Louis on the 4th of July, 2002]]></description>
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