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Immigrants to the U.S. Arrive Thin, Get Fat
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many immigrants to the United States soon get fat, joining an increasingly obese population in their adopted country, researchers said on Tuesday.
The newcomers probably take up the "increased sedentary behavior and poor dietary patterns" they encounter, including the high-calorie foods and labor-saving technologies that mark the U.S. lifestyle, said the report from Northwestern University in Chicago.
The problem is worrisome "given the rapid growth of the immigrant population and the adverse health care consequences associated with obesity," added the study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Unfortunately our findings also suggest that clinicians may be paying less attention to diet and exercise among some immigrant groups," the report said.
Immigrants comprise about 11 percent of the U.S. population, the fastest growing segment, and often come from countries where the level of obesity is lower, the study said. But 10 years after arriving they have gained weight and at 15 years of residence their obesity rates rival those of the native-born, it said.
The researchers looked at health statistics compiled by U.S. Census workers on more than 32,000 people, of whom 14 percent were immigrants. They found that 8 percent of immigrants who had lived in the United States for less than a year were obese, but the level rose to 19 percent among those who were in the country for more than 15 years.
For non-immigrants in the general population, the obesity rate was 22 percent.
The weight gain was associated with all immigrant groups, including whites, Latinos and Asians, but not foreign-born blacks, the report said, and was "in addition to any weight gained due to aging or other factors."
The study also found that immigrants were less likely than native-born individuals to discuss diet and exercise with their doctors.
"Immigrants appear to assume a similarly high prevalence of obesity as U.S.-born adults with longer duration of residence," the study concluded. "With the growing immigrant population in the United States, early clinician intervention on diet and physical activity may represent an important opportunity to prevent weight gain, obesity, and obesity-related chronic illnesses."
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many immigrants to the United States soon get fat, joining an increasingly obese population in their adopted country, researchers said on Tuesday.
The newcomers probably take up the "increased sedentary behavior and poor dietary patterns" they encounter, including the high-calorie foods and labor-saving technologies that mark the U.S. lifestyle, said the report from Northwestern University in Chicago.
The problem is worrisome "given the rapid growth of the immigrant population and the adverse health care consequences associated with obesity," added the study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Unfortunately our findings also suggest that clinicians may be paying less attention to diet and exercise among some immigrant groups," the report said.
Immigrants comprise about 11 percent of the U.S. population, the fastest growing segment, and often come from countries where the level of obesity is lower, the study said. But 10 years after arriving they have gained weight and at 15 years of residence their obesity rates rival those of the native-born, it said.
The researchers looked at health statistics compiled by U.S. Census workers on more than 32,000 people, of whom 14 percent were immigrants. They found that 8 percent of immigrants who had lived in the United States for less than a year were obese, but the level rose to 19 percent among those who were in the country for more than 15 years.
For non-immigrants in the general population, the obesity rate was 22 percent.
The weight gain was associated with all immigrant groups, including whites, Latinos and Asians, but not foreign-born blacks, the report said, and was "in addition to any weight gained due to aging or other factors."
The study also found that immigrants were less likely than native-born individuals to discuss diet and exercise with their doctors.
"Immigrants appear to assume a similarly high prevalence of obesity as U.S.-born adults with longer duration of residence," the study concluded. "With the growing immigrant population in the United States, early clinician intervention on diet and physical activity may represent an important opportunity to prevent weight gain, obesity, and obesity-related chronic illnesses."
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Famed New York Hawk to Regain His Perch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A celebrated red-tailed hawk evicted last week from his upscale New York digs can move back to the ritzy apartment building where his nest was perched following an agreement on safety arrangements, building management said on Tuesday night.
Pale Male's nest was abruptly removed from its Upper East Side site last week after complaints from building residents about falling debris, including gnarled remains of pigeons.
The removal sparked noisy protests from fans who had watched the hawk and his mates raise more than 20 chicks in the spot overlooking Central Park since 1993.
Late on Tuesday, New York City Audubon Society and the building's board said they had agreed to restore the metal spikes supporting the hawk's nest and erect a guardrail around its 12th-floor roost to safeguard residents and passersby.
An architectural firm was retained to consult on design and construction.
National Audubon Society President John Flicker said the arrangements would "help create a secure and stable environment that should enable the birds to return to their home of more than a decade."
Building resident and hawk supporter Mary Tyler Moore said she expected that the spikes would be put up on Wednesday.
"I'm hopeful that the birds will ... be peaceful enough to make another nest," the actress said, standing outside her apartment.
On Monday, bird lovers met with managers of the exclusive building to ask them to restore the nest and the metal spikes that supported it. The building's architect had examined how the nest could be rebuilt in a way that would satisfy bird lovers and eliminate the possibility of falling debris.
Pale Male's unusual decision to take up residence in Manhattan and raise his young 12 stories above the park has captivated bird watchers for the past decade and inspired a book and documentary film. Pale Male even has his own Web site, http://www.palemale.com.
Moore said the real reason the nest was removed was because residents didn't like the bird droppings or occasional pigeon carcass that would fall to the ground.
Bird lovers had urged the nest be reconstructed in its original spot as soon as possible to avoid interrupting Pale Male's mating ritual. The hawk and his current mate, Lola, have tried to rebuild, but without the metal spikes to support it, the twigs they have gathered would likely blow away.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A celebrated red-tailed hawk evicted last week from his upscale New York digs can move back to the ritzy apartment building where his nest was perched following an agreement on safety arrangements, building management said on Tuesday night.
Pale Male's nest was abruptly removed from its Upper East Side site last week after complaints from building residents about falling debris, including gnarled remains of pigeons.
The removal sparked noisy protests from fans who had watched the hawk and his mates raise more than 20 chicks in the spot overlooking Central Park since 1993.
Late on Tuesday, New York City Audubon Society and the building's board said they had agreed to restore the metal spikes supporting the hawk's nest and erect a guardrail around its 12th-floor roost to safeguard residents and passersby.
An architectural firm was retained to consult on design and construction.
National Audubon Society President John Flicker said the arrangements would "help create a secure and stable environment that should enable the birds to return to their home of more than a decade."
Building resident and hawk supporter Mary Tyler Moore said she expected that the spikes would be put up on Wednesday.
"I'm hopeful that the birds will ... be peaceful enough to make another nest," the actress said, standing outside her apartment.
On Monday, bird lovers met with managers of the exclusive building to ask them to restore the nest and the metal spikes that supported it. The building's architect had examined how the nest could be rebuilt in a way that would satisfy bird lovers and eliminate the possibility of falling debris.
Pale Male's unusual decision to take up residence in Manhattan and raise his young 12 stories above the park has captivated bird watchers for the past decade and inspired a book and documentary film. Pale Male even has his own Web site, http://www.palemale.com.
Moore said the real reason the nest was removed was because residents didn't like the bird droppings or occasional pigeon carcass that would fall to the ground.
Bird lovers had urged the nest be reconstructed in its original spot as soon as possible to avoid interrupting Pale Male's mating ritual. The hawk and his current mate, Lola, have tried to rebuild, but without the metal spikes to support it, the twigs they have gathered would likely blow away.
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Businessman Drugged with Date Rape Drug and Robbed
LONDON (Reuters) - A businessman told a jury on Tuesday how he met a woman in a London nightclub who drugged him with the date-rate drug Rohypnol and stole his Rolex watch as he lay passed out at home.
Alexander Jovy, 34, told a Middlesex Crown Court jury that he met Selina Hakki in a Piccadilly nightclub after a night of drinking. He vaguely recalls taking a taxi back to his Maida Vale apartment where she asked him if he had any red wine.
He told the court he poured two glasses of wine and then soon collapsed to the floor. The last thing he remembered was Hakki helping him to bed and taking his t-shirt off.
Jovy told the court he awoke the next afternoon feeling "very, very strange" and soon discovered that a number of items in his home had been stolen, including a 5,000 pound Rolex watch, a 2,000 pound Cartier mantle clock, a 900 pound video camera and expensive aftershave.
Hakki, 37, of Bow, is accused of stealing thousands of pounds worth of property from Jovy and banker Volker Vogler after allegedly picking the men up at exclusive London nightspots and drugging them in their homes.
The court heard that when Jovy awoke the next day, he felt "very, very strange."
"I felt very traumatized and did not know what was going on. I stumbled around and realized my watch was not there," he said.
Police said traces of the drug Rohypnol were found in one of the wine glasses in Jovy's flat and large amounts of the drug were also found in his urine and blood samples.
Hakki's fingerprints and her DNA were found on cigarette butts at the homes of both men. She denies the two charges of administering drugs with intent and two of theft between May 2002 and September 2003. The case continues.
LONDON (Reuters) - A businessman told a jury on Tuesday how he met a woman in a London nightclub who drugged him with the date-rate drug Rohypnol and stole his Rolex watch as he lay passed out at home.
Alexander Jovy, 34, told a Middlesex Crown Court jury that he met Selina Hakki in a Piccadilly nightclub after a night of drinking. He vaguely recalls taking a taxi back to his Maida Vale apartment where she asked him if he had any red wine.
He told the court he poured two glasses of wine and then soon collapsed to the floor. The last thing he remembered was Hakki helping him to bed and taking his t-shirt off.
Jovy told the court he awoke the next afternoon feeling "very, very strange" and soon discovered that a number of items in his home had been stolen, including a 5,000 pound Rolex watch, a 2,000 pound Cartier mantle clock, a 900 pound video camera and expensive aftershave.
Hakki, 37, of Bow, is accused of stealing thousands of pounds worth of property from Jovy and banker Volker Vogler after allegedly picking the men up at exclusive London nightspots and drugging them in their homes.
The court heard that when Jovy awoke the next day, he felt "very, very strange."
"I felt very traumatized and did not know what was going on. I stumbled around and realized my watch was not there," he said.
Police said traces of the drug Rohypnol were found in one of the wine glasses in Jovy's flat and large amounts of the drug were also found in his urine and blood samples.
Hakki's fingerprints and her DNA were found on cigarette butts at the homes of both men. She denies the two charges of administering drugs with intent and two of theft between May 2002 and September 2003. The case continues.
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Floral Cigarette Wreath for 105-Year Old Smoker
LONDON (Reuters) - Nursing home staff paid tribute to a 105-year old British woman who had smoked since the age of 15 by cremating her with a packet of cigarettes and laying a large floral cigarette on her coffin.
Marie Ellis died -- of natural causes -- at the Eaton Lodge Nursing Home in Kent, southeast England, in early December and was cremated on Tuesday, clutching a packet of her favorite Benson and Hedges cigarettes.
"We will always remember her for her smoking because the first thing she asked when she got up was 'Can I have a cigarette,'" said matron Maria Kallis, who commissioned a large wreath in the shape of a cigarette, made with white and yellow chrysanthemums, for the spinster's coffin.
The enigmatic Ellis, an ex-typist, arrived at the nursing home 15 years ago.
Apart from her 15-a-day habit, she was also notorious among staff for her unhealthy eating habits, often asking for sugar in her soup and always demanding three sugars in her coffee.
Staff played the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes at Ellis' funeral and are planning a memorial concrete ashtray for her in the nursing home garden, where her ashes will also be buried.
LONDON (Reuters) - Nursing home staff paid tribute to a 105-year old British woman who had smoked since the age of 15 by cremating her with a packet of cigarettes and laying a large floral cigarette on her coffin.
Marie Ellis died -- of natural causes -- at the Eaton Lodge Nursing Home in Kent, southeast England, in early December and was cremated on Tuesday, clutching a packet of her favorite Benson and Hedges cigarettes.
"We will always remember her for her smoking because the first thing she asked when she got up was 'Can I have a cigarette,'" said matron Maria Kallis, who commissioned a large wreath in the shape of a cigarette, made with white and yellow chrysanthemums, for the spinster's coffin.
The enigmatic Ellis, an ex-typist, arrived at the nursing home 15 years ago.
Apart from her 15-a-day habit, she was also notorious among staff for her unhealthy eating habits, often asking for sugar in her soup and always demanding three sugars in her coffee.
Staff played the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes at Ellis' funeral and are planning a memorial concrete ashtray for her in the nursing home garden, where her ashes will also be buried.
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Carols at Midnight? Neighbors Want Silent Night
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand woman with Christmas lights on her house that play carols has been asked for an old favorite -- silent night.
A noise-control officer told Robin Adams the carols coming from her decorations were too loud and asked her to turn off the lights, the New Zealand Press Association reported.
"Whoever complained just can't get into the Christmas theme. It's just a bit of a cheer up," Adams was quoted by NZPA as saying in the small South Island town of Blenheim, about 50 km (30 miles) south of Wellington.
Prior to the complaint, Adams said she turned the decorations off before midnight out of respect for elderly people living nearby, saying the carols could become annoying.
"It does drive me a bit nutty, but that's why we only have them on for three or four hours each night."
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand woman with Christmas lights on her house that play carols has been asked for an old favorite -- silent night.
A noise-control officer told Robin Adams the carols coming from her decorations were too loud and asked her to turn off the lights, the New Zealand Press Association reported.
"Whoever complained just can't get into the Christmas theme. It's just a bit of a cheer up," Adams was quoted by NZPA as saying in the small South Island town of Blenheim, about 50 km (30 miles) south of Wellington.
Prior to the complaint, Adams said she turned the decorations off before midnight out of respect for elderly people living nearby, saying the carols could become annoying.
"It does drive me a bit nutty, but that's why we only have them on for three or four hours each night."
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'Lap Pillow' Offers Solace to Lonely Men
TOKYO (Reuters) - Single or lonely Japanese men may get lucky this Christmas.
One popular item for holiday shoppers is the "lap pillow," with skin-colored polyurethene calves folded under soft thighs -- a comfy cushion for napping, reading or watching television.
The 9,429 yen ($90) pillow, which comes with one red and one black skirt, went on sale in late November and maker Trane Co Ltd says shipments have reached 3,000 in just a few weeks.
"We created this item to help tired people relax," said Makoto Igarashi, Trane's managing director.
Care was taken with details such as the softness of the thighs, panty lines on the pillow's "backside" and wrinkles in the lap of the skirt so as to make the pillow look and feel as real as possible.
"We thought our main customers would be men in their 20s, but even men in their 60s are buying it," Igarashi said.
At stores, lap pillows gather crowds where people poke and pry at the foam legs.
"I think this may be good for single men, but it could cause trouble for someone who is married," said Shingo Shibata, a 27-year-old company employee browsing at a toy store which sells the pillow.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Single or lonely Japanese men may get lucky this Christmas.
One popular item for holiday shoppers is the "lap pillow," with skin-colored polyurethene calves folded under soft thighs -- a comfy cushion for napping, reading or watching television.
The 9,429 yen ($90) pillow, which comes with one red and one black skirt, went on sale in late November and maker Trane Co Ltd says shipments have reached 3,000 in just a few weeks.
"We created this item to help tired people relax," said Makoto Igarashi, Trane's managing director.
Care was taken with details such as the softness of the thighs, panty lines on the pillow's "backside" and wrinkles in the lap of the skirt so as to make the pillow look and feel as real as possible.
"We thought our main customers would be men in their 20s, but even men in their 60s are buying it," Igarashi said.
At stores, lap pillows gather crowds where people poke and pry at the foam legs.
"I think this may be good for single men, but it could cause trouble for someone who is married," said Shingo Shibata, a 27-year-old company employee browsing at a toy store which sells the pillow.
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Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist Offers $100,000 Prize
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jimmy Walter has spent more than $3 million promoting a conspiracy theory the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were "an inside job" and he is offering more cash to anyone who proves him wrong.
The millionaire activist is so convinced of a government cover-up he is offering a $100,000 reward to any engineering student who can prove the World Trade Center buildings crashed the way the government says.
"Of course, we expect no winners," Walter, 57, heir to an $11 million fortune from his father's home building business, said in a telephone interview from California on Wednesday.
He said a panel of expert engineers would judge submissions from the students.
Next month, he also launches a nationwide contest seeking alternative theories from college and high school students about why New York's World Trade Center collapsed. The contest offers $10,000 to the best alternative theory, with 100 runner-up awards of $1,000. Winners will be chosen next June.
The World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed after hijackers slammed two commercial airliners into them. The attack in New York killed 2,749 people.
Various official investigations give no credence to Walter's theory. A Sept. 11 commission spokesman did not return calls seeking comment.
Walter insists there had to be explosives planted in the twin towers to cause them to fall as they did, and also rejects the official explanation for the damage done at the Pentagon.
"We have all the proof," said Walter, citing videotapes and testimony from witnesses.
"It wasn't 19 screw-ups from Saudi Arabia who couldn't pass flight school who defeated the United States with a set of box cutters," he said. He dismissed the official Sept. 11 commission report, saying, "I don't trust any of these 'facts.'"
Walter has spent millions of dollars to bolster support for his case, running full-page ads in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Newsweek, as well as alternative newspapers and 30-second TV spots.
He points to a Zogby poll he commissioned last summer that showed 66 percent of New Yorkers wanted the 9/11 investigation reopened.
Walter has spent about 30 percent of his net worth on his efforts.
"I am a patriot fighting the real traitors who are destroying our democracy. I resent it when they call me delusional," he said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jimmy Walter has spent more than $3 million promoting a conspiracy theory the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were "an inside job" and he is offering more cash to anyone who proves him wrong.
The millionaire activist is so convinced of a government cover-up he is offering a $100,000 reward to any engineering student who can prove the World Trade Center buildings crashed the way the government says.
"Of course, we expect no winners," Walter, 57, heir to an $11 million fortune from his father's home building business, said in a telephone interview from California on Wednesday.
He said a panel of expert engineers would judge submissions from the students.
Next month, he also launches a nationwide contest seeking alternative theories from college and high school students about why New York's World Trade Center collapsed. The contest offers $10,000 to the best alternative theory, with 100 runner-up awards of $1,000. Winners will be chosen next June.
The World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed after hijackers slammed two commercial airliners into them. The attack in New York killed 2,749 people.
Various official investigations give no credence to Walter's theory. A Sept. 11 commission spokesman did not return calls seeking comment.
Walter insists there had to be explosives planted in the twin towers to cause them to fall as they did, and also rejects the official explanation for the damage done at the Pentagon.
"We have all the proof," said Walter, citing videotapes and testimony from witnesses.
"It wasn't 19 screw-ups from Saudi Arabia who couldn't pass flight school who defeated the United States with a set of box cutters," he said. He dismissed the official Sept. 11 commission report, saying, "I don't trust any of these 'facts.'"
Walter has spent millions of dollars to bolster support for his case, running full-page ads in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Newsweek, as well as alternative newspapers and 30-second TV spots.
He points to a Zogby poll he commissioned last summer that showed 66 percent of New Yorkers wanted the 9/11 investigation reopened.
Walter has spent about 30 percent of his net worth on his efforts.
"I am a patriot fighting the real traitors who are destroying our democracy. I resent it when they call me delusional," he said.
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Steinbeck's Birthplace to Close Its Libraries
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The central California town of Salinas, birthplace of Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath," will close its three libraries next year as a cost-cutting move.
The Salinas city council voted 6-1 late on Tuesday to end funding of the libraries due to an $8 million city budget shortfall. The library doors, including the main John Steinbeck branch, will close during the first half of 2005.
"Unfortunately part of the $8 million solution is the $3 million library program," Salinas City Manager David Mora said in an interview on Wednesday. "But in addition to the libraries we are not hiring police officers, we are closing recreation centers, we are making further reductions in maintenance services."
He blamed a continuing economic recession, voter rejection last month of a local half-cent sales tax increase and other factors for the city's economic woes.
The library closures mark the latest chapter in the city's sometimes rocky relationship with literature.
Steinbeck, whose works also included "Of Mice and Men" and "East of Eden," was born and grew up in Salinas but was often criticized there during his lifetime.
"The vilification of me out here from the large landowners and bankers is pretty bad," he wrote in 1938.
In recent years Salinas, population 155,000, has embraced Steinbeck and opened a museum in his honor, but the library closures have again generated negative publicity for the town.
The three Salinas libraries are mostly open only in the afternoons five days a week following earlier cutbacks.
"In essence, for lack of a better word, we are going to mothball the facilities," Mora said, adding he hoped they would reopen.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The central California town of Salinas, birthplace of Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath," will close its three libraries next year as a cost-cutting move.
The Salinas city council voted 6-1 late on Tuesday to end funding of the libraries due to an $8 million city budget shortfall. The library doors, including the main John Steinbeck branch, will close during the first half of 2005.
"Unfortunately part of the $8 million solution is the $3 million library program," Salinas City Manager David Mora said in an interview on Wednesday. "But in addition to the libraries we are not hiring police officers, we are closing recreation centers, we are making further reductions in maintenance services."
He blamed a continuing economic recession, voter rejection last month of a local half-cent sales tax increase and other factors for the city's economic woes.
The library closures mark the latest chapter in the city's sometimes rocky relationship with literature.
Steinbeck, whose works also included "Of Mice and Men" and "East of Eden," was born and grew up in Salinas but was often criticized there during his lifetime.
"The vilification of me out here from the large landowners and bankers is pretty bad," he wrote in 1938.
In recent years Salinas, population 155,000, has embraced Steinbeck and opened a museum in his honor, but the library closures have again generated negative publicity for the town.
The three Salinas libraries are mostly open only in the afternoons five days a week following earlier cutbacks.
"In essence, for lack of a better word, we are going to mothball the facilities," Mora said, adding he hoped they would reopen.
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Airport Staff Loses Fake Explosives in Test
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Security screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport lost a bag containing fake explosives used to test the airport's bomb-detection system, federal officials said on Wednesday.
The bag was mistakenly loaded on a Continental Airlines flight to Amsterdam, where it was retrieved on arrival, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said. The airport near New York City was one of three used by the Sept. 11 hijackers.
The bag should have been removed by TSA staff after a security exercise on Tuesday the agency periodically conducts at airports across the country, said Ann Davis, a spokeswoman for the TSA's northeastern region.
As part of the exercise, the bag was placed in one of the airport's bomb-detection machines, where it was detected, the TSA said, before it was mistakenly loaded on the plane.
The bag posed no danger to passengers or airline employees because the material inside was a fake explosive, she said.
Davis declined to comment on a report in the Newark Star-Ledger that screeners at the airport missed one in four test explosives and weapons in undercover tests during the summer.
The newspaper reported earlier this month that screeners at New Jersey's busiest airport missed an average of six workweeks during the first nine months of 2004 in addition to their paid vacation and holiday time.
"Security at Newark Airport is of the highest caliber," Davis said.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Security screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport lost a bag containing fake explosives used to test the airport's bomb-detection system, federal officials said on Wednesday.
The bag was mistakenly loaded on a Continental Airlines flight to Amsterdam, where it was retrieved on arrival, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said. The airport near New York City was one of three used by the Sept. 11 hijackers.
The bag should have been removed by TSA staff after a security exercise on Tuesday the agency periodically conducts at airports across the country, said Ann Davis, a spokeswoman for the TSA's northeastern region.
As part of the exercise, the bag was placed in one of the airport's bomb-detection machines, where it was detected, the TSA said, before it was mistakenly loaded on the plane.
The bag posed no danger to passengers or airline employees because the material inside was a fake explosive, she said.
Davis declined to comment on a report in the Newark Star-Ledger that screeners at the airport missed one in four test explosives and weapons in undercover tests during the summer.
The newspaper reported earlier this month that screeners at New Jersey's busiest airport missed an average of six workweeks during the first nine months of 2004 in addition to their paid vacation and holiday time.
"Security at Newark Airport is of the highest caliber," Davis said.
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Olympic-Size Stink Over Dumped Dead Pets
BEIJING (Reuters) - Residents of Beijing are worried that the careless disposal of dead pets is hurting their campaign for a "green" Olympic Games to be held in the capital in 2008, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
Of the more than 200 pets that die each day in Beijing, only one is cremated. The rest are either buried or dumped in trash cans, Xinhua said.
Pets were shunned in the days of Mao Zedong as a symbol of bourgeois decadence, but pet pooches have become increasingly popular in the last decade as living standards have risen dizzily.
"Quite a number of pet owners bury their pets either in the lawns of residential quarters or in public places, and quite a number of dead pets end up in the trash cans of residential communities," Liao Yumin, manager of the Beijing Boai Animal Crematorium, was quoted as saying.
"The careless burial of dead animals could result in hazardous pollution as rainwater or flooding runs over the bodies," he said.
The issue came to the attention of authorities last year when civet cats, considered a delicacy in the south, were found to be linked with an outbreak of SARS, he added.
In an online survey by the Beijing municipal government, "citizens have shown concern that the careless disposal of dead pets in the city might do harm to the capital Beijing as it has been exerting itself to host a Green Olympics in 2008, one of the goals of which is to improve waste treatment in Beijing," Xinhua said.
At the end of June, Beijing had 417,731 registered dogs, an increase of more than 7,000 over 2003, show statistics from the city public security bureau.
The actual number of pets in the city was estimated at more than a million, Xinhua said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Residents of Beijing are worried that the careless disposal of dead pets is hurting their campaign for a "green" Olympic Games to be held in the capital in 2008, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
Of the more than 200 pets that die each day in Beijing, only one is cremated. The rest are either buried or dumped in trash cans, Xinhua said.
Pets were shunned in the days of Mao Zedong as a symbol of bourgeois decadence, but pet pooches have become increasingly popular in the last decade as living standards have risen dizzily.
"Quite a number of pet owners bury their pets either in the lawns of residential quarters or in public places, and quite a number of dead pets end up in the trash cans of residential communities," Liao Yumin, manager of the Beijing Boai Animal Crematorium, was quoted as saying.
"The careless burial of dead animals could result in hazardous pollution as rainwater or flooding runs over the bodies," he said.
The issue came to the attention of authorities last year when civet cats, considered a delicacy in the south, were found to be linked with an outbreak of SARS, he added.
In an online survey by the Beijing municipal government, "citizens have shown concern that the careless disposal of dead pets in the city might do harm to the capital Beijing as it has been exerting itself to host a Green Olympics in 2008, one of the goals of which is to improve waste treatment in Beijing," Xinhua said.
At the end of June, Beijing had 417,731 registered dogs, an increase of more than 7,000 over 2003, show statistics from the city public security bureau.
The actual number of pets in the city was estimated at more than a million, Xinhua said.
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Police Find Marijuana Stashed in Coffins
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A routine traffic stop turned into a drug bust when Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers found 610 pounds of marijuana stashed in four coffins.
Authorities say Timothy Hynd and Robert Dean Harper were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute before being released on Monday.
The arrest occurred on Sunday, highway patrol spokesman Lt. Brandon Kopepasah said, after troopers stopped a truck traveling slightly above the speed limit near the rural city of Salisaw.
The men consented to a search, and trained dogs "hit" on the cargo section of the truck, he said.
"They unloaded 22 caskets," Kopepasah said. "You had to unload all those caskets and the very front caskets were loaded with marijuana."
An attorney for one of the men said his client was unaware there was marijuana in the caskets and was only delivering them.
"He didn't check inside the caskets for drugs -- would you?" attorney Donn Baker said.
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A routine traffic stop turned into a drug bust when Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers found 610 pounds of marijuana stashed in four coffins.
Authorities say Timothy Hynd and Robert Dean Harper were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute before being released on Monday.
The arrest occurred on Sunday, highway patrol spokesman Lt. Brandon Kopepasah said, after troopers stopped a truck traveling slightly above the speed limit near the rural city of Salisaw.
The men consented to a search, and trained dogs "hit" on the cargo section of the truck, he said.
"They unloaded 22 caskets," Kopepasah said. "You had to unload all those caskets and the very front caskets were loaded with marijuana."
An attorney for one of the men said his client was unaware there was marijuana in the caskets and was only delivering them.
"He didn't check inside the caskets for drugs -- would you?" attorney Donn Baker said.
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Dead Thief's Family Returns Church Bell
KELCYRE, Albania (Reuters) - The family of a man who died in a car crash a few years after stealing the bell of an Orthodox church in southern Albania has returned the bell saying the theft doomed the robber.
The family gave the bell to dairy farmer Peco Ndoni, a devout Orthodox Christian from the village where the bell was stolen in 1997 and asked him to make sure it was returned to the church.
"They believed it was precisely because he brought down an object sacred to God that their relative was punished with the loss of his life," Ndoni said.
"They hoped that returning it would somehow relieve their sorrow for the loss of their relative and redeem him," he added.
Before it can take back its place at the church, the bronze bell needs work to restore a missing piece, cut out to see whether the metal mix contained gold.
Since the collapse of communism in 1990, Albanian treasure hunters have stolen bronze church bells thinking they contained gold, widely believed to make the bell ring louder into a longer distance.
Bells have also been stolen simply because they were old and worth a lot to antique collectors abroad.
KELCYRE, Albania (Reuters) - The family of a man who died in a car crash a few years after stealing the bell of an Orthodox church in southern Albania has returned the bell saying the theft doomed the robber.
The family gave the bell to dairy farmer Peco Ndoni, a devout Orthodox Christian from the village where the bell was stolen in 1997 and asked him to make sure it was returned to the church.
"They believed it was precisely because he brought down an object sacred to God that their relative was punished with the loss of his life," Ndoni said.
"They hoped that returning it would somehow relieve their sorrow for the loss of their relative and redeem him," he added.
Before it can take back its place at the church, the bronze bell needs work to restore a missing piece, cut out to see whether the metal mix contained gold.
Since the collapse of communism in 1990, Albanian treasure hunters have stolen bronze church bells thinking they contained gold, widely believed to make the bell ring louder into a longer distance.
Bells have also been stolen simply because they were old and worth a lot to antique collectors abroad.
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Don't Read This One...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and ate it over three days.
Police found Gumaro de Dios Arias grilling rotting human flesh for his breakfast, including part of a heart, when they raided a shack he lived in near the Caribbean beach resort of Playa del Carmen, a police chief said on Wednesday.
"He was preparing stews. There was a grill where he was cooking part of the heart and bits he had cut off the body. It was terrible, terrible," said local police chief Martin Estrada, who was among a dozen police who raided the shack.
Arias told police the victim, a young man, arrived at his cardboard hut in a wasteland area with a mutual friend who then left the two of them drinking and taking drugs.
The pair had sex and afterward a fight broke out during which he killed the man with blows to the head, police said.
Police arrested Arias, 25, on Tuesday after a tip off.
"They said there was a person eating a person," Estrada said.
"We found him lying on a folding bed and to one side was the corpse which had been torn apart and which it seems he had been eating for three days," he told Reuters.
The corpse, which had its back ripped open and its innards pulled out, was missing various parts, like a thigh, he said.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and ate it over three days.
Police found Gumaro de Dios Arias grilling rotting human flesh for his breakfast, including part of a heart, when they raided a shack he lived in near the Caribbean beach resort of Playa del Carmen, a police chief said on Wednesday.
"He was preparing stews. There was a grill where he was cooking part of the heart and bits he had cut off the body. It was terrible, terrible," said local police chief Martin Estrada, who was among a dozen police who raided the shack.
Arias told police the victim, a young man, arrived at his cardboard hut in a wasteland area with a mutual friend who then left the two of them drinking and taking drugs.
The pair had sex and afterward a fight broke out during which he killed the man with blows to the head, police said.
Police arrested Arias, 25, on Tuesday after a tip off.
"They said there was a person eating a person," Estrada said.
"We found him lying on a folding bed and to one side was the corpse which had been torn apart and which it seems he had been eating for three days," he told Reuters.
The corpse, which had its back ripped open and its innards pulled out, was missing various parts, like a thigh, he said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and ate it over three days.
Police found Gumaro de Dios Arias grilling rotting human flesh for his breakfast, including part of a heart, when they raided a shack he lived in near the Caribbean beach resort of Playa del Carmen, a police chief said on Wednesday.
"He was preparing stews. There was a grill where he was cooking part of the heart and bits he had cut off the body. It was terrible, terrible," said local police chief Martin Estrada, who was among a dozen police who raided the shack.
Arias told police the victim, a young man, arrived at his cardboard hut in a wasteland area with a mutual friend who then left the two of them drinking and taking drugs.
The pair had sex and afterward a fight broke out during which he killed the man with blows to the head, police said.
Police arrested Arias, 25, on Tuesday after a tip off.
"They said there was a person eating a person," Estrada said.
"We found him lying on a folding bed and to one side was the corpse which had been torn apart and which it seems he had been eating for three days," he told Reuters.
The corpse, which had its back ripped open and its innards pulled out, was missing various parts, like a thigh, he said.
tasty food!!!

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Santa Workshop Said Under Threat from N.Pole Thaw
OSLO (Reuters) - Santa may have to move his workshop from the North Pole because global warming is thawing the ice beneath his elves' and reindeers' feet.
"Santa's workshop is in dire straits. The platform for the workshop is melting," Stefan Norris, of the WWF environmental group's Arctic Program, said on Wednesday.
An eight-nation report by 250 scientists last month predicted the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2100 because of a build-up of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuels in cars or factories.
"Santa may have to move from the North Pole within our children's lifetimes," Norris said. Young people learn that Father Christmas' workshop produces millions of gifts delivered by Santa on a flying, reindeer-drawn sleigh.
Hollywood movies like Warner Bros.' "The Polar Express" bolster belief that Father Christmas lives at the North Pole even though Nordic nations Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland all argue they are his home.
Superman also has an icy retreat, the "Fortress of Solitude," near the North Pole that could be under threat in a warmer world.
A Danish official suggested rescuing Santa by building a giant floating ice rink for the workshop if the Pole thaws.
"Why don't we build some electrical facilities to ensure the ice stays on the North Pole for him?" said Alan Boldt, spokesman of the Danish Ministry of Science. "This should be a subject for the United Nations."
He said Danish group Vestas could build windmills to provide Santa with power.
Copenhagen says Santa's real home is Greenland but reckons that a Danish territorial claim to the North Pole in October clinches its case. Sovereignty over the Pole could let Denmark search for oil and gas as the ice recedes.
"Doesn't he already speak Danish?" Boldt said frostily when asked if Father Christmas would be forced to learn Danish if Denmark won international recognition of its claim to the Pole.
Last month's Arctic report said the region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe, partly because dark ground or water, once uncovered, soaks up more heat than ice or snow.
Finland has had most success from Santa, with about 500,000 visitors a year to its Christmas center in Rovaniemi in Lapland. "Maybe Santa's already moved to Rovaniemi," Norris said.
OSLO (Reuters) - Santa may have to move his workshop from the North Pole because global warming is thawing the ice beneath his elves' and reindeers' feet.
"Santa's workshop is in dire straits. The platform for the workshop is melting," Stefan Norris, of the WWF environmental group's Arctic Program, said on Wednesday.
An eight-nation report by 250 scientists last month predicted the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2100 because of a build-up of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuels in cars or factories.
"Santa may have to move from the North Pole within our children's lifetimes," Norris said. Young people learn that Father Christmas' workshop produces millions of gifts delivered by Santa on a flying, reindeer-drawn sleigh.
Hollywood movies like Warner Bros.' "The Polar Express" bolster belief that Father Christmas lives at the North Pole even though Nordic nations Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland all argue they are his home.
Superman also has an icy retreat, the "Fortress of Solitude," near the North Pole that could be under threat in a warmer world.
A Danish official suggested rescuing Santa by building a giant floating ice rink for the workshop if the Pole thaws.
"Why don't we build some electrical facilities to ensure the ice stays on the North Pole for him?" said Alan Boldt, spokesman of the Danish Ministry of Science. "This should be a subject for the United Nations."
He said Danish group Vestas could build windmills to provide Santa with power.
Copenhagen says Santa's real home is Greenland but reckons that a Danish territorial claim to the North Pole in October clinches its case. Sovereignty over the Pole could let Denmark search for oil and gas as the ice recedes.
"Doesn't he already speak Danish?" Boldt said frostily when asked if Father Christmas would be forced to learn Danish if Denmark won international recognition of its claim to the Pole.
Last month's Arctic report said the region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe, partly because dark ground or water, once uncovered, soaks up more heat than ice or snow.
Finland has had most success from Santa, with about 500,000 visitors a year to its Christmas center in Rovaniemi in Lapland. "Maybe Santa's already moved to Rovaniemi," Norris said.
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Mystery Martian 'Carwash' Helps Space Buggy
LONDON (Reuters) - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two U.S. rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said Tuesday.
It said something -- or someone -- had regularly cleaned layers of dust from the solar panels of the Mars Opportunity vehicle while it was closed down during the Martian night.
The cleaning had boosted the panels' power output close to their maximum 900 watt-hours per day after at one stage dropping to 500 watt-hours because of the heavy Martian dirt.
By contrast, the power output of the solar panels of Mars Spirit -- on a different part of the Red Planet -- had dropped to just 400 watt-hours a day, clogged by the heavy dust.
"These exciting and unexplained cleaning events have kept Opportunity in really great shape," the magazine quoted NASA rover team leader Jim Erickson as saying.
LONDON (Reuters) - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two U.S. rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said Tuesday.
It said something -- or someone -- had regularly cleaned layers of dust from the solar panels of the Mars Opportunity vehicle while it was closed down during the Martian night.
The cleaning had boosted the panels' power output close to their maximum 900 watt-hours per day after at one stage dropping to 500 watt-hours because of the heavy Martian dirt.
By contrast, the power output of the solar panels of Mars Spirit -- on a different part of the Red Planet -- had dropped to just 400 watt-hours a day, clogged by the heavy dust.
"These exciting and unexplained cleaning events have kept Opportunity in really great shape," the magazine quoted NASA rover team leader Jim Erickson as saying.
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Town Called Luck Produces Fat Lottery Win
MADRID (Reuters) - A town called "Luck" lived up to its name on Wednesday, turning up the winning ticket in Spain's Christmas lottery, one of the world's biggest prizes known as El Gordo (The Fat One).
The ticket which scooped a prize of 390 million euros ($522.1 million) was sold at a lottery office called The Golden Witch (La Bruixa D'Or) in the town of Sort, which in the Catalan language means "luck."
Each ticket can be divided into a maximum of 1,950 segments, although those can then be shared again in cartels in which whole villages may take part.
Sort also sold one of the prize-winning numbers in last year's Christmas draw.
El Gordo is the top prize in a lottery which gives out 1.8 billion euros in prizes, or 70 percent of the value of tickets sold, and marks the start of Christmas.
The ritual in which children sing out the prize-winning numbers in a draw takes several hours and brings Spain to a virtual standstill.
The tickets are even sold abroad and earlier this year a "decimo," the smallest division of a ticket, was selling in London for 50 pounds ($97.40), more than three times the price in Spain, where it costs 20 euros.
MADRID (Reuters) - A town called "Luck" lived up to its name on Wednesday, turning up the winning ticket in Spain's Christmas lottery, one of the world's biggest prizes known as El Gordo (The Fat One).
The ticket which scooped a prize of 390 million euros ($522.1 million) was sold at a lottery office called The Golden Witch (La Bruixa D'Or) in the town of Sort, which in the Catalan language means "luck."
Each ticket can be divided into a maximum of 1,950 segments, although those can then be shared again in cartels in which whole villages may take part.
Sort also sold one of the prize-winning numbers in last year's Christmas draw.
El Gordo is the top prize in a lottery which gives out 1.8 billion euros in prizes, or 70 percent of the value of tickets sold, and marks the start of Christmas.
The ritual in which children sing out the prize-winning numbers in a draw takes several hours and brings Spain to a virtual standstill.
The tickets are even sold abroad and earlier this year a "decimo," the smallest division of a ticket, was selling in London for 50 pounds ($97.40), more than three times the price in Spain, where it costs 20 euros.
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Shoe Glue Banned in Fight Over Street Crime
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - State legislators banned the sale of shoe glue in Rio de Janeiro because too many people were sniffing it in the crime-ridden Brazilian city.
Street children often can be seen sniffing glue from plastic bottles in Brazil's tourist mecca, where authorities are fighting a wave of muggings by youth gangs.
"Shoe glue serves a good purpose when used by shoemakers, but it also is an extremely strong narcotic and its free sale contributes to the moral degradation of youths and boosts crime levels," the bill's author, Paulo Melo, said on Wednesday.
The bill, passed on Tuesday by the Rio de Janeiro state legislative assembly, makes it illegal to sell shoe glue and some aromatic solvents used in paints and lacquers.
The ban applies to shoemakers until authorities set up a regulatory process that may include permits, similar to medical prescriptions, for vendors.
State Gov. Rosinha Matheus was likely to approve the bill soon, Melo said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - State legislators banned the sale of shoe glue in Rio de Janeiro because too many people were sniffing it in the crime-ridden Brazilian city.
Street children often can be seen sniffing glue from plastic bottles in Brazil's tourist mecca, where authorities are fighting a wave of muggings by youth gangs.
"Shoe glue serves a good purpose when used by shoemakers, but it also is an extremely strong narcotic and its free sale contributes to the moral degradation of youths and boosts crime levels," the bill's author, Paulo Melo, said on Wednesday.
The bill, passed on Tuesday by the Rio de Janeiro state legislative assembly, makes it illegal to sell shoe glue and some aromatic solvents used in paints and lacquers.
The ban applies to shoemakers until authorities set up a regulatory process that may include permits, similar to medical prescriptions, for vendors.
State Gov. Rosinha Matheus was likely to approve the bill soon, Melo said.
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More Dogs and Cats Than 'Bambini'
ROME (Reuters) - Remember the image of Italy as a country full of "bambini" playing on every street corner? Forget it. There are now more dogs and cats in Italian homes than children.
And, if statistical projections in a study published on Wednesday prove right, the pitter-patter of little Italian feet will increasingly give way to that of little Italian paws.
According to the study published in Rome's La Repubblica, there are at least 14.5 million dogs and cats in Italian homes compared with 8.7 million children under the age of 15.
Italy has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe despite economic incentives for couples to have children.
One psychologist told the newspaper that domestic pets had become surrogate targets of affection for many young people who could not have or did not want to have children.
The newspaper said Italians were now spending 4.7 billion euros in pet food, up some 20 percent in the past five years.
ROME (Reuters) - Remember the image of Italy as a country full of "bambini" playing on every street corner? Forget it. There are now more dogs and cats in Italian homes than children.
And, if statistical projections in a study published on Wednesday prove right, the pitter-patter of little Italian feet will increasingly give way to that of little Italian paws.
According to the study published in Rome's La Repubblica, there are at least 14.5 million dogs and cats in Italian homes compared with 8.7 million children under the age of 15.
Italy has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe despite economic incentives for couples to have children.
One psychologist told the newspaper that domestic pets had become surrogate targets of affection for many young people who could not have or did not want to have children.
The newspaper said Italians were now spending 4.7 billion euros in pet food, up some 20 percent in the past five years.
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Robbers Have More Than Cash on Their Minds
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Six pistol-toting Brazilian men appeared to have more than cash on their minds when they robbed a drug store in Rio de Janeiro.
"They specifically demanded that we give them anti-impotence drugs. These drugs and the money was what interested them," Ailton de Souza, the drugstore manager, told Reuters on Tuesday.
On Sunday night, the robbers opened the vault with a blow torch and fled with an equivalent of about $7,000 in cash and checks, as well as more than 100 boxes containing 400 pills worth about $2,600 -- enough for a two-month sex marathon for each of the six robbers.
"They were pretty indiscriminate about the brands," the manager said, explaining that the men took packages of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra.
The drugs, used to treat erectile dysfunction, are sold prescription-free in most Brazilian pharmacies.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Six pistol-toting Brazilian men appeared to have more than cash on their minds when they robbed a drug store in Rio de Janeiro.
"They specifically demanded that we give them anti-impotence drugs. These drugs and the money was what interested them," Ailton de Souza, the drugstore manager, told Reuters on Tuesday.
On Sunday night, the robbers opened the vault with a blow torch and fled with an equivalent of about $7,000 in cash and checks, as well as more than 100 boxes containing 400 pills worth about $2,600 -- enough for a two-month sex marathon for each of the six robbers.
"They were pretty indiscriminate about the brands," the manager said, explaining that the men took packages of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra.
The drugs, used to treat erectile dysfunction, are sold prescription-free in most Brazilian pharmacies.
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