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Man cited for putting naked ex on T-shirt By DAN SPRINGER of the Tribune staff An Appleton, Wis., man has been accused of handing out at least six T-shirts at Holmen's Kornfest with a naked photo of his ex-girlfriend on the back.  Advertisement  Glen A. Jacob, 41, was charged Thursday in La Crosse County District Court with representation depicting nudity and defamation. Jacob's ex-girlfriend filed a complaint with Holmen police after a male friend brought her one of the shirts. The friend told her Jacob made six shirts, but he was only able to track down three after they were...

  Indefinite delay on weapons report 15sep03 LONDON: The US and Britain have decided to delay indefinitely the publication of a full report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The London-based Sunday Times newspaper said inspectors had found no evidence any such arms exist. Efforts by the Iraq Survey Group, an Anglo-American team of 1400 scientists, military and intelligence experts, to scour Iraq for the past four months to uncover evidence of chemical or biological weapons had so far ended in failure. The newspaper reported British defence intelligence sources had confirmed that the group's final report had been delayed...

  http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liart133452959sep13,0,7078010.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines College Won't Pull Flag Display As vets protest art, college stands firm By Olivia Winslow STAFF WRITER September 13, 2003 Nassau Community College President Sean Fanelli, writing in response to the county executive's demand that "this desecration stop," said he would not remove artwork on display at the college that invites viewers to step on the American flag. "I cannot accede to your request," Fanelli wrote in a letter to County Executive Thomas Suozzi, even though Fanelli noted he agreed with many who found the artwork "objectionable and distasteful."  

<p>NEW YORK — A study of television news coverage of the war in Iraq says ABC's World News Tonight was the most anti-war &#8212; far more than CBS, NBC or Fox.</p> <p>"I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization," says the Canadian-born Jennings, who became a U.S. citizen this summer.</p>

Man's horror firecracker injuries By MEGAN LEVY September 3, 2003 AN horrific firecracker accident which left an Illawarra man incontinent and unable to have sex has prompted warnings from police and health authorities. The 26-year-old man suffered a fractured pelvis and severe burns to his genital area after a firecracker exploded between the cheeks of his buttocks. An ambulance was called to Dapto's Reed Park about 2.30am on August 10 after reports that the man was haemorrhaging from the buttocks. He was transported to Wollongong Hospital in a serious but stable condition, and he is expected to remain in...

Court Date Set for 182mph Driver LEHIGHTON, PA-September 4, 2003 — Just how fast will a Lamborghini go?Police in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, charge William Faenza Junior was doing 182 in his Lamborghini Diablo. Officers also charge Faenza was driving drunk. Police say they caught up with him when he pulled into a gas station. While Faenza concedes he may have been doing 100, he denies going nearly 200 miles per hour. He says if he was going that fast, the police would have never caught him. Besides, Faenza says the wheels on his Lamborghini start to shake when he goes faster...

Suspect Allegedly Ransomed Neighbor's Cat for $50 GILLETTE, WY-September 4, 2003 — Deryl Miles is accused of cat nabbing.Miles, 55, allegedly kidnapped his neighbor's cat and held it hostage for $50 after the animal wandered into his yard. He was arrested Tuesday on misdemeanor larceny charges for allegedly trapping the cat, named Brunswick, in a wooden shed behind his mobile home, according to court documents. Surrounded by police, Miles called a local newspaper from his trailer and said "I've taken (the cat) legally because it was trespassing on my property." Miles refused to release the cat, and was arrested after...

Driver blames hooker for rear-ender Hong Kong, September 2 , September 2  A driver who caused a three-car pile-up when he pulled over on a busy main road in southern China has blamed the accident on a prostitute. The driver says he pulled over when he saw a young woman - who had an "anxious expression" on her face - waving at him as he drove through Shenzhen, Guangdong province.  He thought she was in need of help, according to the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily on Tuesday.  When he asked her what the matter was, she smiled...

<p>Edwin Rowlette, 75, was booked for investigation of crimes against the dead.</p> <p>PRESCOTT - An elderly man was arrested Tuesday after police found a body in his kitchen freezer, police said.</p> <p>Edwin Rowlette, 75, claims he didn't know anything about the victim, the cause of death or how long the body had been stored in the freezer, police spokesman Steve Skurja said.</p>

Home is no place for schoolWed Sep 3, 6:49 AM ET By Dennis L. Evans  The popularity of home schooling, while not significant in terms of the number of children involved, is attracting growing attention from the media, which create the impression that a "movement" is underway. Movement or not, there are compelling reasons to oppose home teaching both for the sake of the children involved and for society. Home schooling is an extension of the misguided notion that "anyone can teach." That notion is simply wrong. Recently, some of our best and brightest college graduates, responding to the altruistic...

Wed 3 Sep 2003 Malay Islamic leader warns lipstick and perfume are rape risks GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN ONE of the leaders of Malaysia's Islamic opposition has upset women in the country by suggesting that they should stop wearing lipstick and perfume to lower the risk of being raped. Nik Abdul Aziz, the spiritual leader of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, claimed that even women who wore Muslim head-scarves could arouse men if they also wore make-up and perfume. The end result could be rape or molestation, he said. Many women from Malaysia's Malay Muslim majority wear a moderate form of Islamic...

  Banker stole to buy parrots A financial advisor who stole £2m from customers and used the money to buy rare parrots has been jailed for nine years. Lee Gardiner, 32, used his position at Lloyds TSB bank to move cash from elderly and vulnerable clients' accounts to his own account, and that of his partner. Gardiner, of Minster Road, Sheerness, Kent, then spent £450,000 on exotic parrots, including palm cockatoos at £20,000 a pair. He also bought a £450,000 bedroom house near Hever to keep his massive collection, said to be one of the biggest in the UK....

Pubic hair transplants are big business in South Korea Transplanted pubic hair is the latest trend in South Korea, where it is regarded as a sign of fertility. Surgeon Afschin Fatemi, from Unna in Germany, said: "In the West, women try to reduce their genital hair as much as possible, but in Korea the trend is for forestation." He said a mass of pubic hair was considered a sign of fertility, which was why many women were paying as much as £1,700 ($2600) to have hair transplanted from their heads. Fatemi added: "The structure of head and pubic hair on...

<p>MEMPHIS - Jim Wagner's friends still cannot believe it.</p> <p>Wagner lay dying on a pool hall floor, an ambulance nowhere in sight, despite their repeated and impassioned calls for help, while dispatchers sent emergency crews to various wrong addresses and haggled over whose jurisdiction the pool hall was in.</p>

Posted on Tue, Sep. 02, 2003 Hospitals struggle with growing language barrier Inaccurate translation leads to medical errors LAURAN NEERGAARDAssociated Press WASHINGTON - The nurse ordered an oral antibiotic to clear up the 7-year-old's ear infection. But the mother spoke no English -- and a bystander pulled in to translate told her to pour the drug into the girl's ears. It was one of dozens of dangerous translation errors Dr. Glenn Flores uncovered when he taped exams of 70 Spanish-speaking children in Boston emergency rooms and clinics. And that's just examining the nation's most common foreign language -- imagine the...

France to host WMD talks From correspondents in ParisSeptember 3, 2003 FRANCE will this week host a meeting of experts from 11 countries who will discuss ways to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction [Hey France!  Stop selling them] , the French foreign ministry said today. The informal meeting, due to take place in Paris tomorrow and Thursday, follows up on similar gatherings held in the Spanish capital Madrid in June and in Brisbane in July. The Proliferation Security Initiative aims to halt the transfer of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, their components and the missiles to carry...

Marriage becomes an issue for gay Canadians The legislation of same-sex marriage has thrown Canada's gay community into a debate about how much 'integration' they really want with the heterosexual world NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE Monday, Sep 01, 2003,Page 16  When David Andrew, a 41-year-old federal government employee, heard that the highest Ontario court had extended marriage rights to same-sex couples two months ago, he broke into a sweat. "I was dreading the conversation," he said, fearing that his partner would feel jilted when he told him that he did not believe in the institution. "Personally, I saw marriage as...

Brazilian Women Vainest in World -Study Sep 1, 5:40 pm ET BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian women care more about their appearance than any other women in the world, with half prepared to undergo plastic surgery to keep their looks, a recent study shows. In Brazil, where being called "vain" is often a compliment suggesting self-respect, 86 percent of women said they tried extremely hard to improve their looks compared with an average of 67 percent worldwide, according to the 2003 global women's survey by cosmetics company Avon. Ninety percent of Brazilian women classified beauty products as an essential rather...

[All errant ? marks are in the original]Sep. 1, 2003. 04:05 PM Transsexuals fight to have sex changes paid for HAYLEY MICK CANADIAN PRESS Four transsexuals who say the Ontario government's decision to stop funding sex change operations in 1998 left them trapped halfway between the sexes will have their case heard this month.  Martine Stonehouse, a support worker with the Toronto school board, said she (he) couldn't afford to finish her transition from male to female after the province removed sex-reassignment surgery from the list of procedures covered by medicare five years ago.  Now she (he) and three other...

<p>We face the strong possibility of another Korean war, with potentially devastating consequences, so the endangered multilateral talks in Beijing are of paramount importance. It is vital that some accommodation be reached between Pyongyang and Washington.</p> <p>North Korea is an isolated country, poverty stricken, paranoid, apparently self-sacrificial and amazingly persistent in international confrontations, as is now being demonstrated. It is a cultural and almost sacred commitment for its leaders not to back down, even in the face of international condemnation and the most severe political and economic pressure.</p>