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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[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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         <title><![CDATA[The Value of Wearing Undies - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-undies.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Zipless variant of 'The Unzipped Mechanic,' a very old urban legend in which a woman mistakes a mechanic working under the family car for her husband and gives him the surprise of his life]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[John Dillinger&#039;s Private Parts]]></title>
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         <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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         <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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         <title><![CDATA[July 22 Tsunami Prediction]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/ss/july_22_tsunami_2.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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         <title><![CDATA[Rumor: 4th of July Terrorist Attack on St. Louis - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blstlouis.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Internet rumors warn of terrorist plots to attack Fair St. Louis on the 4th of July, 2002]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alexandra (Ola) Kuczma &#039;Dying Child&#039; Chain Letter - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_ola_kuczma.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email hoax claims that 3 cents will be donated toward the medical care of 14-month-old burn victim Alexandra ('Ola') Kuczma each time the message is forwarded]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cockroach Egg Tacos]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/cockroach_tacos.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[What? A woman became sick after dining on a taco or burrito infested with cockroach eggs?? Calm down, it's only an urban legend.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Knockout Perfume]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/perfume_scam.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Perfume hoax email: parking lot thieves allegedly knock out their victims by convincing them to sniff ether-laced perfume or cologne. The evolution of an Internet urban legend...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Facebook Overpopulated?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/facebook.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Chain letter circulating among Facebook members claims the service is becoming too slow due to overpopulation and members must prove they are active by forwarding the message to others.]]></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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         <title><![CDATA[The Tamiflu / Rumsfeld Connection - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bird_flu.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email asserts a conspiratorial connection between the worldwide alarm over a possible flu pandemic and Donald Rumsfeld's financial interest in the company that patented the antiviral drug Tamiflu.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Serena Williams Interview - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_serena_williams.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email: a purported interview with black tennis star Serena Williams in which she says dating white men is preferable to dating black men]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[McDonald&#039;s Importing Beef?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/mcdonalds_beef.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[An email call to boycott McDonald's restaurants on the grounds that the company plans to import beef from South America.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[folktale]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/glossary/g/folktale.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Definition folktale - A traditional narrative, usually anonymous, handed down orally - e.g., fables, fairy tales, legends, etc.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Reader Response #1: Altoids and Oral Sex]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blaltoids-m1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Altoids Lore: Does chewing this 'curiously strong' mint before fellatio (oral sex) enhance the pleasure?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Email Hacker Warning]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/simon_ashton.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Hacker warning' circulating via forwarded email tells recipients not to accept messages or friend invitations from a supposed email hacker named Simon Ashton.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dr Pepper Omits &#039;Under God&#039; in Patriotic Can Promotion - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bldrpepper.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email campaign protests a Dr Pepper promotion in which the words 'under God' were left out of a snippet of the Pledge of Allegiance printed on soft drink cans]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Debbie Shwartz Chain Letter - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_debbie_shwartz.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[HOAX: Email plea from a troubled woman calling herself 'Debbie Shwartz' claims AOL will donate 15 cents on her behalf for every 12 times the message is forwarded]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cracker Barrel Snubs Marines]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/marine_veterans_snubbed_at_cracker_barrel.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email recounts an incident at Cracker Barrel restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee in which a member of the Marine Corps League was denied permission to play patriotic songs on his bagpipes in honor of Memorial Day.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[John Cleese Letter to America (Notice of Revocation of Independence)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blrevocation_cleese.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[December 2004 variant of 'Notice of Revocation of Independence' purportedly authored by John Cleese]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Einstein Proved God Exists?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/religion/a/einstein_god.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In this emailed anecdote of unknown origin, a university student named Albert Einstein humiliates his atheist professor by proving that God exists.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama Visits All 57 States]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/57_states.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email quotes a campaign-weary Barack Obama saying he has campaigned (or plans to campaign) in 'all 57 states.' Lo and behold, allegedly, it turns out there are 57 Islamic states.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Racist Obama Book Display at Barnes &amp; Noble (Photo) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_obama_book_display.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, a photo taken of a window of the Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore in Coral Gables, Florida featuring a display of Barack Obama books into which a book named 'Monkeys' has been inserted.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Snake in the House - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[If you think those little green garden snakes are totally harmless, you have another thing coming]]></description>
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