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   <title>About.com Urban Legends: What's Hot Now</title>
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   <description>These articles that had the largest increase in popularity over the last week</description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Facebook Overpopulated?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Chain letter circulating among Facebook members claims the service is overpopulated and 'becoming very slow,' so members must prove they're still active by forwarding the message to others or their accounts will be deleted.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[J. Lo&#039;s Billion-Dollar Booty]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Dear Urban Legends: Is it true that Jennifer Lopez insured her butt for a billion dollars?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Hit Man&#039; Scam Email - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Spam message purportedly sent by a hit man hired to 'terminate' the recipient demands a large sum of money in return for not carrying out the mission]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Send a Christmas Card to the ACLU - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_aclu_christmas_card.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email urges recipients to flood the ACLU offices in New York with Christmas cards because 'they are working so hard to get rid of Christmas']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Phuket Deep Sea Creatures - Analysis]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_phuket_deep_sea_creatures4.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Series of emailed images, cont.: deep sea creatures phuket deep sea creatures deep sea fish indian ocean tsunami sea photographs]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[ Polar Bear &amp; Huskies #5]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/polar-bear/polar_bear_huskies5.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a 1,200-pound polar bear playing with husky sled dogs in the sub-arctic wilderness of northern Canada.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[ Polar Bear &amp; Huskies #2]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/polar-bear/polar_bear_huskies2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a 1,200-pound polar bear playing with husky sled dogs in the sub-arctic wilderness of northern Canada.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mountain Dew a Contraceptive?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/mountain_dew.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A shocking bit of misinformation has captured the hearts and minds of high school and college students of late - the notion that the popular American soft drink Mountain Dew can be used as a contraceptive.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[ Polar Bear &amp; Huskies #3]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/polar-bear/polar_bear_huskies3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a 1,200-pound polar bear playing with husky sled dogs in the sub-arctic wilderness of northern Canada.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[ Polar Bear &amp; Huskies #1]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/polar-bear/polar_bear_huskies1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a 1,200-pound polar bear playing with husky sled dogs in the sub-arctic wilderness of northern Canada.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Snakes in the Ball Pit - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsnakes.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Urban legend has it that deadly vipers infest the ball pits in fast food restaurant playgrounds everywhere. True or false?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lock Bumping / Bump Keys - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_lock_bumping.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded emails link to videos demonstrating a breaking-and-entering technique used by criminals known as lock bumping or key bumping.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Phuket Deep Sea Creatures (p. 3)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Series of emailed images, cont.: deep sea creatures phuket deep sea creatures indian ocean tsunami phuket beaches tsunami images]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Xmas Cards for Soldiers]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/cards_soldiers.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email flier says Christmas cards can be sent to wounded servicemen and women at Walter Reed Army Medical Center by addressing them to 'A Recovering American Soldier.']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Phuket Deep Sea Creatures (p. 2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_phuket_deep_sea_creatures2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Series of emailed images, cont.: deep sea creatures phuket deep sea creatures indian ocean tsunami phuket beaches tsunami images]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Avi Ben Stella Prayer Request]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/avi_ben_stella.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A viral prayer request circulating on Facebook and Twitter asks for prayers on behalf of a 12-year-old boy named Avi Ben Stella, who is allegedly in a coma after a serious car crash.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Eminem Dead in Car Crash?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/eminem_dead.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Web hoax claims famed rapper Eminem died in a car crash.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alligators in the Sewers]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/alligators/a/sewer_gators.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Did you know there are giant albino alligators living in the sewers of New York City? Or so they say...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Phuket Deep Sea Creatures - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_phuket_deep_sea_creatures.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Series of emailed images purports to show rare deep-sea creatures washed up on the beaches of Phuket, Thailand by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[ Polar Bear &amp; Huskies #7]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/polar-bear/polar_bear_huskies7.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a 1,200-pound polar bear playing with husky sled dogs in the sub-arctic wilderness of northern Canada.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Tough Guy&#039; Sheriff Joe Arpaio - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sheriff_joe_arpaio.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[TRUE: Email flier recounts the controversial accomplishments of 'tough-guy' Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Pregnant Turkey - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pregnant_turkey.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[For a Thanksgiving Day laugh, a mom stuffs a roast turkey with a cornish game hen as a practical joke on her naive daughter]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Monster Crocodile of Pointe-Noire (Photos) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pointe_noire_croc.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos of a gigantic crocodile fished from the sea in the port of Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina - Photos of Storm&#039;s Approach? - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hurricane_katrina_pictures.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images purport to show Hurricane Katrina approaching the Gulf Coast in August 2005]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[ Tow Truck Comedy of Errors #11]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Photo vignette circulating via email shows a tow truck tumbling into the sea while attempting to salvage another tow truck that had already met the same fate while salvaging a wrecked car.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shakira&#039;s Anti-Israeli Slur on MTV - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Did Colombian pop star Shakira say 'I'd rather have pigs listen to my music than Israelis' on MTV?]]></description>
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