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Half-tonne man seeks life-saving surgery

By Phil Stewart

ROME, Italy (Reuters) - A Mexican man who at 550 kg is possibly the heaviest person in the world hopes to travel to Italy for a life-saving operation to shed weight.

Manuel Uribe, bedridden for the past five years, cannot stand on his own and will need a special flight to take him from Monterrey, Mexico to Modena, where a surgical team has offered to perform an intestinal bypass free of charge.

"I can't walk. I'm can't leave my bed," the 40-year-old Uribe, who weighs the same as five baby elephants, said in a recent telephone interview.

"I'm trying to reduce my weight a bit right now so I can be in the right condition for the operation."

Uribe made an impassioned plea for help earlier this year on Mexican television, saying he weighed a more normal 130 kg until aged 22 and did not know what happened to him.

The broadcast drew the attention of doctor Giancarlo De Bernardinis, who visited Mexico with a medical team to examine Uribe in March.

Bernardinis, whose biggest patient to date weighed 350 kg, told Reuters he plans a gall bladder, intestinal bypass procedure that will allow Uribe to pass food more quickly without so many calories being absorbed.

Bernardinis planned to perform the surgery in Modena as early as this month, although a Mexican health official doubted Uribe would be ready for a trip to Europe that quickly.

MEDICAL MYSTERY

Uribe's case puzzles doctors since his cholesterol and blood-sugar levels are normal, despite his extreme obesity.

"His heart works very well. He has some respiratory difficulty because of his obesity, but in strict terms, he's well," said Marco Anibal Rodriguez Vargas, the director of hospitals in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.

Rodriguez Vargas said Mexican hospitals still hoped to treat Uribe themselves, but added Uribe would ultimately decide what to do.

Uribe said it was just a matter of time before he went to Italy: "Are we going? Yes. We're going. But the doctors will decide when."

The operation would last four to five hours and would likely require Uribe to spend one month in Italy.

"He will always be heavier than normal but certainly not like he is now ... We would be satisfied even if he weighed 150 kg after two years," Bernardinis said.

No one has managed to find suitable scales for Uribe in years and estimates of his weight are made partly by tape-measure. Guinness World Records 2006 only said it was aware of living people weighing over 508 kg.

The record for the heaviest man ever is held by Jon Brower Minnoch, who died in Seattle in 1983 after reaching a record 635 kg. He was in his early 40s.

Uribe hopes to avoid that fate. His wife, horrified by his increasing size, feared the worst and abandoned him more than a decade ago.

"She left me because she must have thought I was dying," Uribe said.

"Thank God, I'm still alive and hopefully will be able to take care of this problem."
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550 kg = 1,212 lbs.

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Remains found near cemetery were not human

By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS, Texas - The Dallas Medical Examiner’s office ruled Wednesday morning that bones found at the site of an Uptown condominium development were not human.

City officials promptly lifted a ban on construction on the 2-acre site formerly owned by Greenwood Cemetery.

“Although I’m glad we were thorough, we no longer intend to hold up work that’s been approved,” Dallas Development Director Theresa O’Donnell said. “Stopping construction on a site is a very serious matter; we don’t take it lightly.”

The tract of land - which wasn’t thought to have been used for burials - was freed up for development by a judge and sold to a real estate company nearly a decade ago to help raise funds for the historic graveyard’s upkeep.

Ms. O’Donnell halted the 85-unit Post Properties project on Tuesday with concerns that there might be environmental problems on the site. Some neighbors also called to complain about demolished trees and heavy machinery, and historians feared there might be graves without headstones on the site.

Victoria Clow, an archeologist and cemetery specialist who came out to monitor the construction site on Tuesday, made headlines after she located two bone fragments that she believed were human bones.

“I was pretty darn sure, but that’s why you have the medical examiner’s office,” Ms. Clow said Wednesday. “It’s certainly not a ruse. It was my absolute best guess.”

Ms. O’Donnell confirmed on Wednesday what Post officials said all day Tuesday: that the company had covered all its bases, and done complete historic excavations and environmental remediation. The project was vetted and approved nearly a decade ago, she said.

“We’re glad that we’re able to get started again,” said David Ward, executive vice president with Post Properties. “We feel like this confirms we had done the work necessary, and that we definitely used all diligence to be sure the property was ready for development.”

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Wal-Mart Worker Finds Man Glued to Toilet

SALISBURY, Md. (AP) - A 20-year-old was found by a Wal-Mart employee in the bathroom Sunday night after he sat down and was glued to the toilet seat.

The man, whose name was not released by police, was taken to the hospital late Sunday night, said Lt. Cheryl Rantz of the Salisbury Police Department.

"The man had gone into the bathroom and sat down," she said. "He was banging on the wall when the employee came in."

Rantz said the man was treated and released.
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OK, now this cruel prank is getting old.

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Tyler woman gets 20 years for stepson relationship

TYLER, Texas (WFAA ABC 8/AP) -- A 39-year-old woman who had a sexual relationship with her teenage stepson and later gave birth to their child has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Carla Kay Dinger also was ordered Tuesday to pay a $10,000 fine by a Smith County jury.

Dinger had pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child a week before Tuesday's sentencing.

Authorities said she admitted to carrying on a sexual relationship for two years with her then-stepson, starting in 1998 when he was 14. The affair ended when Dinger found out she was pregnant with her stepson's child, Assistant Smith County District Attorney Jason Parrish said.

Their son is now 6. Dinger had primary custody of the child until 2004, when she and her now ex-husband began sharing custody.

Dinger has tried to change her life in the last seven years, going to counseling and attending church, said her attorney Clifton "Scrappy" Holmes. She owns and operates a medical equipment business in Tyler.

Dinger's former stepson, now 22, filed a lawsuit against her seeking monetary damages. He said Dinger had provided him with methamphetamine and alcohol frequently.

The two had made plans for Dinger to divorce his father so they could marry, the stepson said. But after Dinger found out she was pregnant, she began treating him like a normal stepson, sent him to live with his mother and told him not to tell anyone, he said.

The stepson told his mother about it in 2001, and she told Dinger's husband. He then confronted Dinger about the relationship and she admitted to the affair, Dinger said.

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You Move It: Woman Sets Snake on Fire

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - After being told by her apartment complex management that it was not their responsibility to remove a snake from her porch, a woman set the reptile on fire and caused $1,000 damage to vinyl siding.

Shatavia Kearney, 19, called the Charter Landing Apartments office Sunday and asked someone to remove a snake from her porch. Police said she was told to deal with the situation herself, The Florida Times-Union reported Wednesday

So Kearney doused the snake with a flammable liquid and set it on fire, according to a police report by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

In the process, the vinyl siding caught fire and was charred and melted in two places.

No one was charged and the snake got away.

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Conn. Crazy Cat Case Heads to Trial

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - The case of a cat accused of viciously attacking several neighbors is going to trial. Ruth Cisero, owner of Lewis the cat, Tuesday withdrew her bid for special probation because she would have had to allow Lewis to be euthanized.

Cisero withdrew her application for accelerated rehabilitation and instead pleaded not guilty to second-degree reckless endangerment and elected a trial by jury.

Residents of the neighborhood of Sunset Circle claimed they had been terrorized by Lewis.

The neighbors said Lewis' long claws, along with catlike stealth, have allowed the cat to attack at least a half dozen people and ambush the Avon lady as she was getting out of her car.

More than 500 "Save Lewis" T-shirts have been sold to raise funds for a defense fund for Cisero and a Westport lawyer has volunteered to be the cat's lawyer.

The special probation offer with conditions was made at the insistence of neighbor Maureen Bachtig, who was reportedly attacked by Lewis Feb. 20.

In a letter to prosecutors, Bachtig said she would only agree to probation for Cisero if the cat were put to death.
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Information from: Connecticut Post

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Triple-Double: Parenthood Times 6

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - Every parent feels a little overwhelmed when leaving the hospital with a newborn. What must it feel like to leave the hospital holding three newborns, to go home to another set of triplets?

"It's going to be rough in the beginning," Rich Fontana told Associated Press Television from St. Peter's University Hospital. "The older ones are going to take our time during the day, and the babies are going to be at night."

Rich and Sharon Fontana welcomed Alyssa, Evan and Eric into the world on Monday. Their other children — Danielle, David and Dylan — are 2 years old, which means the family has a total of six children in diapers.

The family will go through an estimated 40 diapers and three dozen bottles a day.

The Fontanas said both sets of triplets were conceived without medical help, a fact that is especially interesting considering that 12 years ago Sharon Fontana was told by her doctor that she would not get pregnant.

With a tiny baby in each arm, Sharon Fontana said she's ready for motherhood — times six.

"I am, I guess. I don't have much choice," she said.

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Nixon's 1960 Sandwich Again in Spotlight

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Some might call the leftovers of a sandwich ordered by Vice President Richard Nixon more than 40 years ago trash. But Steve Jenne thought he saw a piece of history and has held on to it since.

Jenne retrieved the left-behind lunch item after Nixon dined at a political rally in Sullivan, Ill., during his 1960 presidential campaign. Over the years, the item piqued the public interest.

In 1988, the sandwich landed Jenne a guest spot on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." It also qualified him for a write-up in the recently published "Weird Illinois," a travelogue of the state's oddities.

Recently Jenne, 59, was invited to be a guest on an updated version of the classic 1950s and '60s television game show "I've Got a Secret," in which celebrity panelists attempt to guess a contestant's secret.

The show's producers wanted Jenne to be a guest after reading his tale in "Weird Illinois." He flew to Hollywood for the show's taping last month.

"It ain't easy," Jenne said of taking the sandwich on the road. "First of all, to fly with dry ice I would have had to go through all different channels of security. So I forgot the dry ice and rigged up a way to keep it frozen in a cooler as part of my luggage and made sure it never left my side."

On the day of the taping, Jenne whispered the secret, "I have Nixon's half-eaten sandwich," to host Bill Dwyer while it was simultaneously broadcast to the audience. The show's four panelists then took turns asking him "yes" or "no" questions about his secret.

Jenne said contestants were given one clue, which in his case was that he had something of historic value. They also were told a few personal facts about him, including that he is a Los Angeles Dodgers fan and occasionally likes to do metal detecting.

The clues initially confused the panelists, Jenne said. One asked if he had found a mystery bullet from the Kennedy assassination. Because they knew he was from Springfield, they wondered if he found the bullet that killed Lincoln.

Jenne said he grew up watching the original version of the television show with his parents.

"My dad is 89, and my mom is 86. They're getting a big kick out of this," he said.

Jenne's appearance aired late Wednesday on the Game Show Network.

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Goat rams his way into Plano elementary

By STEVE STOLER / WFAA ABC 8

PLANO, Texas - An unexpected visitor suddenly showed up at a Plano elementary school and broke inside.

All was quiet at Hickey Elementary Sunday until a surveillance camera caught images of a goat on the premise butting heads with a glass door.

"Being a male goat, they're kind of territorial," said Jim Dunlap, PISD outdoor learning center. "And if they see another male goat, they will try to establish some sort of domain and they will butt heads."

The goat's horns rammed into the glass more than two dozen times until he broke through the glass.

Dunlap said he believes the goat saw his own reflection in the glass and tried to ram what he though was another goat.

"This goat could see his entire body, and consequently, in his little goat mind he figured that's another goat," Dunlap said.

Another surveillance camera caught the curious goat casually strolling along the cafeteria windows. The goat eventually broke more glass and wound up inside the school where animal control officers caught him.

He is now being held at the district's outdoor learning center.

"If you brought another male goat in here right now and opened that cage, they would butt heads," Dunlap said.

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Bra Sets Off Metal Detector in Calif.

YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) - A taxpayer advocate has complained to Sutter County supervisors that metal detectors at county buildings are so sensitive they are being set off by underwire bras.

Sutter County Taxpayers Association member Roberta Fletcher said the male security guard seemed to enjoy waving the handheld metal detector over her chest.

"It is, at a minimum, for a woman, embarrassing. And at a maximum, it is sexual harassment to hold your arms outstretched while a male officer waves a wand in front of your breasts," Fletcher told supervisors at their meeting Tuesday.

Sheriff Jim Denney said courthouse guards work for the court system, not the sheriff's department, but defended use of the metal detectors.

"That's the nature of the business — to maintain security," Denney told Fletcher. "I'm not going to answer any more absurd questions."

Fletcher also had little sympathy from board Chairman Larry Munger and other supervisors.

"I don't think it's harassment; it's protection," Munger said.

"Men just don't get it," Fletcher told the supervisors.

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Cat to Reunite With Owner After 10 Years

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Sneakers the cat is being reunited with his owner, hundreds of miles away from where the feline disappeared in 1996.

The long-haired black cat was given to Sacramento's Animal Care Services last week, where an employee scanned him for a microchip, a routine procedure.

The number on the chip was used to track down Allison MacEwan of Seattle, who said she placed newspaper ads and went door-to-door with fliers in a futile search for her lost cat a decade ago.

Officials on Wednesday said they aren't sure how the cat wound up in Sacramento.

MacEwan's daughter was 4 years old when her cat disappeared, and officials said she is now looking forward to being reunited with her childhood pet.

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Chef Pleads Guilty in 'Tomato' Stabbing

TROY, N.Y. (AP) - A chef pleaded guilty Wednesday to stabbing a waiter who chastised him for using a rotten tomato in his cooking. Mohammed Uddin, 43, will be sentenced to one year in county jail May 17.

He pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree assault in the Jan. 4 stabbing of 18-year-old Minh Vu.

After noticing Uddin was cooking with a rotten tomato, Vu went to tell the manager "because Mohammed didn't care what I told him," Vu said in a statement. Vu told police he was only trying to make sure diners got fresh food.

When he returned to the kitchen, Vu said Uddin came up behind him and hit him in the head with a spoon.

"I turned around and Mohammed had a kitchen knife in his hand," Vu said in his statement.

Seconds later, he said, Uddin lunged at him with the 12-inch knife.

Vu has recovered from his injuries.

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Information from The Albany Times Union

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Psychologist to be UK's oldest mum at 63

By Gavin Jones and Tim Castle

ROME, Italy/LONDON, England (Reuters) - A 63-year-old hospital consultant is set to become Britain's oldest mother after undergoing fertility treatment, the Italian doctor who treated her said on Thursday.

Patricia Rashbrook, a child psychologist from Lewes, East Sussex, was given in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment last October, Severino Antinori told Reuters.

Antinori, who said he was "excited and proud" about the treatment, gained notoriety in the early 1990s when he helped a 62-year-old Italian woman give birth following fertility treatment with a donated egg.

Italy has since introduced some of Europe's most restrictive laws on assisted reproduction and Antinori said he had carried out the procedure on Rashbrook in an unnamed former Soviet republic.

"The case of the English woman gave me great joy," he said, adding that the treatment was successful at the first attempt, using a single embryo.

He said Rashbrook, whom he last saw in November, was "perfect" for the treatment, because although she was 62 at the time, she had a biological age of about 45.

"She came here with her husband, the couple love each other, she is very slim, blonde and in perfect condition, she fits all the criteria for maternity."

"She should live for at least 20 to 25 years -- we are not giving birth to an orphan," he said.

Rashbrook's 61-year-old husband, John Farrant, told the Sun newspaper that his wife was seven months pregnant.

"We are of course both very happy and looking forward to the birth," he said.

"Obviously at our age it is quite a daunting prospect."

Farrant is Rashbrook's second husband and she has a 26-year-old daughter and a 22-year0old son, the paper said.

In a joint statement the couple said: "We wish to emphasise that this has not been an endeavour undertaken lightly or without courage."

"A great deal of thought has been given to planning and providing for the child's present and future wellbeing, medically, socially and materially."

Many fertility clinics in Britain will not provide treatment for women past the normal age for childbirth.

In 1997, Welsh woman Liz Buttle became Britain's oldest mother at the age of 60. Media reports said she had obtained fertility treatment after lying about her age to doctors.

Last year, a 66-year-old Romanian, Adriana Iliescu, became the world's oldest mother when she gave birth to a baby girl after IVF treatment.

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Manila the cream of the crop in breastfeeding coup

MANILA (Reuters) - Burps, slurps and thirsty cries echoed around the Philippine capital on Thursday as 3,738 mothers gathered to break the world breastfeeding record.

The large number of tired moms was a coup for organisers, trying to promote breastfeeding in a country where many poor families believe that expensive powdered milk is more nutritious.

Around 16,000 children die every year in the Philippines because their milk formula is mixed with dirty water or the wrong amount of powder, according to the World Health Organisation.

Only 16 percent of Filipino mothers breastfeed their children for the first six months of their lives, local health authorities say.

The previous record for the largest number of women simultaneously breastfeeding was 1,135 in the Californian city of Berkeley in 2002.

(Reporting by Karishma Vyas)

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London theatre to stage "Gaddafi" ... the opera

By Mike Collett-White

LONDON, England (Reuters) - With a new production about Libya's colourful leader Muammar Gaddafi, the English National Opera boldly goes where no opera house has gone before.

"Gaddafi", which opens in September, will feature Asian beats and rap in place of arias and romance, and the title role will be performed by a 39-year-old Irish-Indian nightclub MC called JC-100.

The opera tackles some of Libya's most controversial moments on the world stage, including U.S. attacks on the country in 1986, the Lockerbie disaster of 1988 and the shooting of police officer Yvonne Fletcher outside Libya's London embassy in 1984.

Little wonder its creators see the project as high risk for one of Britain's two main opera houses.

"It's absolutely unprecedented," said Steve Chandra Savale of the Asian Dub Foundation, who composed the music.

"It's totally unexpected. Some might say it's insane," he told Reuters. "But I like that. I don't see that as a negative thing. The ENO has shown great vision."

At a workshop rehearsal in West London, JC-100, dressed in khaki fatigues and sporting dark glasses, utters totalitarian mantras like: "Women, free yourselves from the imams" and "Guns are beauty. With them you are angels of revolutionary purity."

Two "revolutionary nuns", modelled on Gaddafi's infamous female bodyguards, tout replica rifles as they sing: "God keep our leader safe" and "For him we give up our mind and beauty."

Savale and director David Freeman insist the opera is not a spoof of a leader often portrayed in the West as a loose cannon and dictator, but who has won his way back into U.S. and British affections in recent years.

"The piece certainly doesn't present him in a purely positive light," Freeman explained.

"That would be, I think, ridiculous. But at the same time he has done many positive things within Libya as well as some negative ones. I think it's a provocation, and I think that's one of the things that art should do."

"GADDAFI - SUPERSTAR"

Savale believes Gaddafi is not as strange a subject for an opera as some might think.

"There was a term in this book: 'Gaddafi Superstar'. I thought, 'wouldn't that be great, wouldn't that be the complete opposite of something like Andrew Lloyd Webber?'

"The more I looked into it the more I thought it would work; the sheer adulation of Gaddafi, the cult of personality ... the fact that he's quite narcissistic, very concerned about his image. All of this says to me theatre, music."

Freeman added that the opera, which goes into full rehearsal in June, also deals with changing attitudes towards Gaddafi.

"In a way it's about the myth of Gaddafi, who was after all public enemy number one in the 1980s and is now our dear friend because he is the enemy of fundamentalists, I suppose."

The opera traces the life of Gaddafi, who was born in 1942, from his toppling of the king in 1969 to the present day, during which time, Freeman says, he has constantly reinvented himself but managed to rule his oil-rich state virtually unchallenged.

While the ENO is braced for a backlash from opera buffs who are likely to question the staging of such a work in a major opera house, Savale argues that the venue is perfect.

"It turned out that an organisation that I would least have expected to take interest took interest.

"It makes sense that space for real creativity and challenge will open up in unexpected places. I always want to be surprised by things, I want to see things I haven't seen before. Wherever that comes from I welcome it."

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"World's oldest person" celebrates 128th birthday

SAN AGUSTIN, El Salvador (Reuters) - Friends and relatives of Cruz Hernandez gathered on Wednesday to celebrate her 128th birthday, a milestone that might make her the world's oldest person.

Hernandez, who relatives say spends most of her time dozing and no longer speaks, was surrounded by some 200 people at her party, some bearing a cake and others dressed as Salvadoran mythological heroes.

According to national records, Hernandez was born on May 3, 1878, in one of the country's central provinces, where she gave birth to 13 children. She now has 60 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great grandchildren.

National birth registry officials sent Hernandez's documents to the Guinness World Records organisation last year but have yet to hear whether the case was accepted.

Guinness claims Ecuadorean Maria Esther de Capovilla is the world's oldest living woman at age 116.

According to the organisation, the longest any woman has ever lived is 122 years. The oldest man was 120 when he died in 1986.
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If he lives a lot more than that, he's centuries away from reaching the 900 year mark. Look out, Yoda!

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Freed hostages seek beer and football after ordeal

BERLIN (Reuters) - The first things two freed Germans asked for after a 99-day hostage ordeal in Iraq were a beer and the latest scores in the German football league.

Germany's ambassador in Iraq Bernd Erbel was quoted in Bild newspaper on Thursday saying the two freed engineers -- Rene Braeunlich, 32, and Thomas Nitzschke, 28 -- knew what they wanted when they arrived at the embassy on Tuesday evening.

"'Do you have any cold beer, please?'" was the first thing they asked for, according to Erbel. After a toast to freedom they wanted to know the Bundesliga standings.

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Hungary workers get shock at bottom of rum barrel

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Reuters) - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.

According to online magazine http://www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out.

The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.

According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a "special taste" so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home.

The wife has since died and the man was buried in a proper grave.

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Star salaries coming down in Hollywood?

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) - Poor Jim Carrey. His movies have raked in nearly $2 billion at box offices, but now a leading entertainment magazine says the comedian's asking price of $25 million a film has become "a bit of a gamble."

In its issue out this week, Entertainment Weekly rates top stars on whether they are worth the money.

Among those whose asking prices have become too high are Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell and Eddie Murphy, the magazine said.

It added that after years of ever-rising star salaries, the prices for top talent are now coming down because the cost of making movies is going up, among other issues. "It's long overdue," former Twentieth Century Fox Chairman Bill Mechanic told the magazine.

Entertainment Weekly quoted several studio executives as saying the rising cost of production has led many stars to take large parts of their fees from revenue and profit participation that may never materialize if films flop at box offices.

Carrey, star of hits like "Bruce Almighty," had been a big beneficiary of the 1990s' salary run-up during which he saw his paycheck hit the $25 million mark.

However, his recent big-budget movies like "Fun with Dick and Jane" barely topped $100 million in domestic ticket sales, leaving his star tarnished, the magazine said.

Carrey's not the only one. Kidman is considered a risky bet after the box office failure of "Bewitched" and "The Stepford Wives" among other recent films.

Will Ferrell's $20 million also made the list of risky bets given recent box office disappointments and Eddie Murphy's $20 million was considered downright "too pricey."

But Tom Hanks' $25 million was thought to be "worth every penny" because he remains "one of the most bankable brand names in the world." Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, at $5 million to $7 million a picture, and Rachel McAdams at $3 million to $4 million, were bargains.

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Woman Claims Razor in Sandwich Cut Her

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) - Northern Indiana police are investigating a woman's claim that a razor blade in a fish sandwich she ate cut the inside of her throat.

Lisa Griffin, 35, claims she bought the sandwich Monday at Rally's Hamburgers, brought it home, took three bites, threw up blood and found a double-edged razor in her vomit. She was in good condition Thursday at St. Joseph Medical Center in South Bend, spokesman Mike Stack said.

Police said the throat injuries appeared to be consistent with razor cuts.

Craig Banser, who operates several Rally's in the South Bend area, said the restaurant in Mishawaka set aside food products used at the time so police could check them and called suppliers.

"We haven't heard anything since," he said. "We're just waiting to hear from police to see what they've found out."