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Malibu Fires And Jennifer Aniston’s Arctic Pain
The Bangladesh floods and the Darfur massacres would lead the news converge if only Kerry Katona could be persuaded to dispense own-brand ketchup to the dispossessed and Lenny Henry retrace his roots to the Sudan. Accordingly, there is leading news from Malibu where fires are occurring. In “Red Hot Flea hit by blaze", the Sun tells us that Flea, member of the Red hot Chilli Peppers band, has had his home “burnt to a crisp". “Stars flee Malibu fires," announces the Express. Minnie Driver, Sting, Pierce Brosnan, Britney Spears, Courtney Cox and Bill Murray have abandoned their properties. Cynics may argue that having a property in Malibu guarantees column inches, it being the resort for fires. Indeed, if Jennifer Aniston can only be persuaded to buy a holiday home on the edge of the Arctic ice shelf, she will surely become the most–talked about celebrity on the planet… Posted: 26th, November 2007 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids.
Interview with Mohamed Ali on violence-related mortality among Iraqi ...
Supplement to: Brownstein CA and Brownstein JS. Estimating Excess Mortality in Post-Invasion Iraq. N Engl J Med 2008;358:445-7. Supplement to: Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group. Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006. N Engl J Med 2008;358:484-93. Dr. Mohamed Ali is a statistician in the Department of Measurement and Health Information Systems at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Rachel Gotbaum, the interviewer, is an independent producer based in Boston. Download Interview MP3 (7:04, 3.3 MB) Subscribe to Podcast Listen to Other Interviews .
Wild Card -- Tuesday PM
Spectators at the annual Dayton Days parade in tiny Dayton, Wash., got more than they bargained for last weekend when a team of horses bolted, according to the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, here. 5. Dave Wiegand, a 30-year-old Portland mortgage underwriter was "King of the Hill" after beating 17 or 20 players in the "Scrabble in Seattle" tournament here. 6. IMHO-NW: Jamie Tobias Neely/SR (Passing judgment on Mayor Jim West), Robert L. Jamieson Jr./PI (Remembering dead Iraqis, too), Jim Moore/PI (Scrabble extravaganza), D.F. Oliveria/SR (Monday Huckleberries column), and Coeur d'Alene Press (North Idaho wrestles with loss). *Olympian reader poll: "Have the Republicans proven their case in the gubernatorial election trial: Yes -- 52.1%, No -- 47.9%. *Spokane Mayor Jim West predicts on national TV he'll survive scandal here.
TV execs dreaming of white title games
With freezing weather forecast for the much-anticipated games in Foxborough and Green Bay, the execs are pining for icing on their cake – snow. There's nothing like sitting in the comfort of your living room while watching games played in snow. It's a mesmerizing guilty pleasure and a viewer magnet. Snow in high def is the pièce de resistance. It's the one graphic that keeps on giving, courtesy of Mother Nature. They moved a hockey game in Buffalo outside on New Year's Day, and it turned into the highest-rated NHL game in memory. The Green Bay mugging of Seattle as heavy snow fell last week was Fox's top-rated Saturday divisional game in six years. .
State briefs: Jan. 16
SWEETWATER - The Tennessee Highway Patrol fired a trooper Tuesday accused of taking money from a driver. Michael C. McGlothlan, 31, of Sweetwater had served as a trooper for less than a year, according to the state Department of Safety. He patrolled in Monroe County, part of the Knoxville district. McGlothlan's firing came a day after a driver claimed McGlothlan took cash from him during a traffic stop on Interstate 75 near Sweetwater, according to the Department of Safety. "An investigation determined that the complaint was factual," spokesman Mike Browning said in a press release. The agency has turned the case over to prosecutors in the 10th Judicial District, Browning said. McGlothlan won't be entitled to appeal his firing because he's served less than a year, Browning said.
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