﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Site Map -- MSNBC.com</title><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/rss/RssSitemap1144.xml</link><description>MSNBC.com is a leader in breaking news and original journalism.</description><copyright>Copyright 2009 MSNBC.com</copyright><language>en-us</language><image><url>http://www.msnbc.com/images/msnbc/logo01.gif</url><title>Site Map -- MSNBC.com</title><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/</link></image><item><title>Columnist Edward Deitch makes the case for rosé beyond summer.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119540/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T20:02:53.077+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119540/</guid></item><item><title>Demand is increasing for alternatives to traditional ownership of high-end cars. Membership clubs and organizations offering fractional luxury-car ownership are in their infancy, as are agencies that rent new-model supercars, but they are expanding.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119442/</link><pubDate>2006-10-05T18:56:16.113+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119442/</guid></item><item><title>Vote: Should online gambling be illegal?</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119408/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T20:55:58.247+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119408/</guid></item><item><title>French lawmakers are trying to make France's smoky cafes a thing of the past.&amp;#160; A parliamentary panel called Tuesday for a government ban on smoking in enclosed public areas within a year.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119240/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T23:17:02.127+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119240/</guid></item><item><title>Offered a high-calorie diet and kept in their cells almost around the clock, many detainees at Guantanamo Bay are becoming fat.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119230/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T21:00:28.300+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15119230/</guid></item><item><title>Few actors have the power, humor and intelligence of Jack, and in his latest role in Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Departed,’ he’s at his very best. 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finds that the news of a Republican congressman's improper correspondence with a teenage page and the recent release of journalist Bob Woodward's unfavorable portrayal of the Bush administration's handling of Iraq all seem to have taken a toll on President Bush and the Republican Party.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;[!]</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117698/</link><pubDate>2006-10-04T12:01:30.300+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117698/</guid></item><item><title>Read the transcript to the Monday show</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117630/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T17:11:00.123+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117630/</guid></item><item><title>Celebrity birthdays, highlights in history, plus more facts about this day</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117626/</link><pubDate>2006-10-09T04:10:18.180+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117626/</guid></item><item><title>The "ozone hole" over Antarctica this year has matched the record size of 11.4 million square miles, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117508/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T17:03:14.927+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117508/</guid></item><item><title>My kids have a great phrase for a new term they've learned -- "SAT words," they could be called -- that just might come in handy down the road. The phrase "inflection point," or the time when a change or alternation in a course or direction occurs, surely is coming in handy this year. By Charlie Cook, National Journal. </title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117467/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T19:43:00.693+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117467/</guid></item><item><title>Marc Anthony, the singer and husband of Jennifer Lopez, plays old-school salsa star Lavoe in the upcoming biopic "El Cantante." </title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117355/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T16:50:35.443+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117355/</guid></item><item><title>Rita Cosby blogs:&amp;#160; "I just finished speaking with Mike Jones in his first national television interview.&amp;#160; Jones, a former gay male escort, is making shocking allegations. 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I’m scheduled to join him Tuesday night on the “Late Show,” that’s 11:30 -- I’m telling you what time “Letterman” is on Tuesday night, unless I get preempted by monkeys.&amp;#160; </title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15116112/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T15:17:51.277+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15116112/</guid></item><item><title>The Bronze for Tuesday goes to Alex Petro, a chiropractor in St. Petersburg, Florida. He operated something called Doctor’s Urgent Care Walk-in Clinic. 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Mark Foley's resignation over a scandal with male pages, Foley's lawyer announced Tuesday that the Florida Republican had been molested by a clergyman when he was a teenager.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;[!]</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113942/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T23:54:01.013+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113942/</guid></item><item><title>Stocks finished Monday’s seesaw session lower, sinking for a second straight session as investors weighed fresh economic data, falling oil prices and merger news to determine whether the stock market’s impressive third-quarter performance would continue.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113773/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T11:15:29.480+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113773/</guid></item><item><title>The gunman who killed five girls in an Amish school confided to his wife during the siege that he molested two female relatives 20 years ago and was tormented by dreams of doing it again, authorities said Tuesday.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113706/</link><pubDate>2006-10-04T00:55:56.850+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113706/</guid></item><item><title>Florida Republicans have picked a new candidate to salvage the seat that former Rep. Mark Foley abandoned after exchanging lurid online messages with teenage boys.[!]</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113553/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T13:29:54.120+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113553/</guid></item><item><title>U.S. Rep. Mark Foley resigned last week after revelations emerged of sexually explicit instant messages he sent in 2003 to former congressional pages. Here are some questions and answers about the Congressional Page Program and how it works.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113552/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T11:58:29.810+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113552/</guid></item><item><title>Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group, escalating a power struggle marked by the worst internal Palestinian violence since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113041/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T11:53:07.553+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113041/</guid></item><item><title>Metal detectors and police officers in schools are not likely to stop school shootings, and are “potentially harmful,” according to federal researchers who conducted the most thorough study of school shootings across the nation. The study finds that schools should be paying more attention to listening to students.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15111439/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T23:43:16.627+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15111439/</guid></item><item><title>The profile of the gun-toting student in a trench coat is just one of the myths about the rare but murderous attacks in the nation’s schools. Here are 10 myths about school shootings, compiled by MSNBC.com from a study by the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15111438/</link><pubDate>2007-10-10T19:44:58.040+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15111438/</guid></item><item><title>Former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, an arch-conservative who held "endangered salmon bakes" and once accused federal agents of using black helicopter gunships, died Monday in a car crash, her daughter said. She was 68.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15111030/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T01:52:51.520+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15111030/</guid></item><item><title>MSNBC's David Shuster highlights the five nastiest ads.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15110582/</link><pubDate>2006-11-01T15:51:38.133+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15110582/</guid></item><item><title>Has ‘Lost’ lost you as a viewer?</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15110572/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T00:22:22.353+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15110572/</guid></item><item><title>'Your Business' guest list-Oct. 7</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109738/</link><pubDate>2006-10-09T19:04:49.300+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109738/</guid></item><item><title>Top 5 areas where entrepreneurs overspend</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109597/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T22:34:15.130+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109597/</guid></item><item><title>Plus: Where do losers go on "The Amazing Race"? When is "Surreal Life" returning, and who's on it?</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109596/</link><pubDate>2006-10-09T20:32:04.120+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109596/</guid></item><item><title>What songs were used when the final "Project Runway" collections were presented? How long do "Runway" and "Amazing Race" take to tape?</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109595/</link><pubDate>2006-10-31T00:56:29.730+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109595/</guid></item><item><title>Plus: ‘Hell's Kitchen’ now casting; ‘Swan’ coming to DVD</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109594/</link><pubDate>2006-10-17T18:24:56.243+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109594/</guid></item><item><title>The winners of last year's Pentagon-sponsored robot race are back to take on another challenge — this time to develop a vehicle that can drive through congested city traffic all by itself.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109497/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T15:49:28.297+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109497/</guid></item><item><title>Share your thoughts. Selected responses will be published.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109296/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T00:45:50.207+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109296/</guid></item><item><title>Basic errors made by doctors, including tests ordered too late or not at all and failure to create follow-up plans, played a role in nearly 60 percent of cases in which patients were allegedly hurt by missed or delayed diagnoses, a study found.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109266/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T23:53:20.950+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15109266/</guid></item><item><title>South Korea’s foreign minister cemented his position as the front-runner to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday, the only one of six candidates to escape a veto in an informal U.N. Security Council ballot.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108949/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T21:53:00.363+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108949/</guid></item><item><title>Amazon.com Inc.'s A9 search engine has dropped some of its most widely touted features, including the ability to remember everything a user has ever searched for and a service that showed detailed, street-level images of major cities.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108854/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T22:42:54.997+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108854/</guid></item><item><title>A lot of visitors to Australia head straight for its best-known attractions, such as the Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef. But explorers who have time to venture inland will be pleasantly surprised by the wine-tasting country of South Australia, a small state on the southern coast. The Internet can help you explore the area and plan a tour.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108808/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T21:44:48.040+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108808/</guid></item><item><title>Why Bush's historical analogies don’t always hold up.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108601/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T21:50:51.953+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108601/</guid></item><item><title>Little Rock, Ark., on Monday unveiled its new nickname of "The Rock," hoping to crack the list of unforgettable metropolitan monikers across the nation.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108350/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T22:06:33.690+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108350/</guid></item><item><title>Mark Foley is a friend of mine. But in all my years working with him in Congress and on TV, I could have never foreseen this kind of scandal swirling around the friendly politician.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108216/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T20:49:14.837+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108216/</guid></item><item><title>Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Monday called the Bush administration's national security plan "the Katrina of foreign policy."</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108090/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T20:56:51.110+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108090/</guid></item><item><title>Actor tells Vanity Fair he wants to date different actress each night</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108044/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T21:26:50.050+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15108044/</guid></item><item><title>In the court of law, DNA evidence is slam-dunk proof of guilt. But not in this case, where the suspect has a twin with the same DNA. Sara James reports.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107687/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T21:15:42.460+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107687/</guid></item><item><title>For 20 years, Rep. Curt Weldon has walked a fine line between narcissism and heroism. Now, faced with a daunting election challenge, the stakes have never been higher. Are Weldon's days in Congress numbered?&amp;#160; By Shane Harris of National Journal. </title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107589/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T20:24:15.340+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107589/</guid></item><item><title>Highlighting candidates' race-tinged comments seems to be the campaign gotcha of this political season, even if the words were uttered decades ago.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107256/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T20:48:56.943+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107256/</guid></item><item><title>But legendary sketch-comedy show remains a maverick</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107200/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T19:23:37.940+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107200/</guid></item><item><title>Skeet Ulrich of the new CBS series “Jericho” once thought it might be fun to be mysterious about the origins of his unusual nickname.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107088/</link><pubDate>2006-10-06T02:46:29.960+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107088/</guid></item><item><title>It’s ironic, and not in an Alanis Morissette way, that Internet activities with underage boys would bring down a man who made stopping Internet predators a key platform. But Mark Foley is certainly not the first member of Congress to meet such a fate.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107060/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T19:29:12.557+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15107060/</guid></item><item><title>Eating right can improve your performance. Madelyn Fernstrom, a nutritionist and “Today” contributor, tells you how to optimize your energy.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106911/</link><pubDate>2006-10-26T15:07:37.463+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106911/</guid></item><item><title>These days, one might more likely look skyward to find amazing ships, but there are plenty of modern-day wonders on the seas. </title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106740/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T18:55:44.673+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106740/</guid></item><item><title>Read the transcript to the Friday show</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106585/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T18:09:20.713+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106585/</guid></item><item><title>Mark Foley is a friend of mine. But in all my years working with him in Congress and on TV, I could have never foreseen this kind of scandal swirling around the friendly politician.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106507/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T16:05:13.143+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106507/</guid></item><item><title>Read the transcript to the Friday show</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106503/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T18:02:40.067+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106503/</guid></item><item><title>Read the transcript to the Friday show</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106364/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T17:52:47.977+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106364/</guid></item><item><title>A power company says it will continue to seek approval for its proposal to truck salmon around four dams on the Klamath River after losing a challenge of the science behind a federal mandate to build more expensive fish ladders.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106246/</link><pubDate>2006-10-02T18:07:24.993+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106246/</guid></item><item><title>Sen. George Allen and Rep. Heather Wilson, two Republicans in tight re-election contests, plan to donate to charities the contributions they received from Mark Foley, the former congressman ensnared in an e-mail sex scandal.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106243/</link><pubDate>2006-10-03T03:16:49.727+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106243/</guid></item><item><title>It’s no secret that like companies like Nissan and Toyota are outrunning their American rivals, but now a new study has put a number on the advantage Asian automakers have over Detroit’s Big Three. By MSNBC.com’s Roland Jones.</title><description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106109/</link><pubDate>2006-10-17T22:29:38.807+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106109/</guid></item><item><title>It was Bush's decision. But Rumsfeld drove the dynamic on Iraq. 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