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WOMEN have declared Marks & Spencer’s new bulge-enhancing wonderpants for men a truly swell idea. Yesterday we told how the company had developed the upfront undies, called Urban Survivor, to do for men’s tackle what the Wonderbra has done for women’s boobs. To find out what effect the £8 not-so-smalls would have on the ladies, we sent model Jeremy Frisbee out on a “package” tour of London’s streets. With him was pal Edward Cutcliffe, 22, who was wearing his normal no-support Calvin Kleins. Box of tricks ... girls in bar get an eyeful Without the benefit of the “pulling pants”,...

Here are the pictures from my wedding: Caroline, Chris, Me, Lee (Caroline and Lee were our witnesses) I have a stupid look on my face Chris, Me, His parents The wedding was last Saturday (24 August 2002). I'm Mrs. JediGirl now. :P More pictures to come later as I get them..

DETROIT -- A man tried to sell his 6-year-old daughter to customers of a near east side party store, according to Detroit police. According to investigators, the unidentified suspect and the girl were riding on a moped when they pulled up to the Chene-Trombly market at Edsel Ford service drive and Mt. Elliott late Saturday night. The man allegedly got off of the bike and tried to sell the girl to customers of the store. One customer told WDIV-TV in Detroit that the man wanted $50 for the girl and planned to use the money to buy alcohol, the station...

Maybe they just don't care up in Ottawa that U.S. agents feel free to enter Canada illegally, break our laws and then conceal the evidence from the courts here. For a week I've been trying to get someone -- anyone -- in the federal government to describe Canada's response to a B.C. court ruling that U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency operatives knowingly broke our laws. B.C Supreme Court Justice Janice Dillon found the Americans knowingly snuck into Canada, ran an illegal operation and then tried to conceal their activities from the court -- a shocking abuse of Canadian law, she called...

SKOWHEGAN The image of a brown-eyed, curly-haired girl is etched in the memory of Lt. Carl Gottardi II. Gottardi, a burly veteran drug investigator at Somerset County Sheriff's Department, was investigating the death of a woman from an overdose earlier this month, when he heard a dull thumping noise. Following the noise through a doorway into a small darkened room, he found the girl sitting on the floor banging her head against the wall, barely eight feet from her mother's body. She stared at him, clutching her doll. He picked her up and put her on a bed surrounded by...

<p>Maricopa County prosecutors are charting new legal ground with the prosecution of a mother and grandmother in the death of an infant whose intestines were destroyed by secondhand cocaine smoke.</p> <p>Officials say they know of no other Arizona prosecutions aimed at parents whose children died of exposure to homegrown meth labs or other drugs, but they are confident in the case.</p>

CARSON CITY -- A federal study that shows drug-related emergency room visits are on the rise takes aim at marijuana use. The survey, by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said drug-related emergency room visits rose 6 percent in 2001 over the previous year, to 638,484. The number of times marijuana was mentioned as a drug patients used rose 15 percent, the study said, greater than the increase in cocaine use, which rose 10 percent, and heroin and methamphetamine, which were unchanged. The study, which surveys 458 hospital emergency rooms nationwide, comes as Nevada and Arizona consider ballot...

<p>School districts that look to this list for help choosing which anti-drug programs to adopt, however, won't see affiliations between panelist and program clearly posted in the glossy 8-by-11-inch brochure the Dept of Ed folk put out. Panelist Gilbert Botvin, for example, is listed for his affiliation with Cornell University Medical College -- not with the exemplary "clearly articulated and logically appropriate" Life Skills Training program he developed.</p>

PARIS, Aug. 22 — The Paris public prosecutor has launched a probe of an extremist Jewish Internet site which published a list of French personalities it deemed ''anti-Israeli'' and urged readers to attack some of them. The Web site alleged the celebrities on the list, which included Oscar- winning actress Juliette Binoche and best-selling writer Regine Deforges, backed a French boycott of Israeli products to protest Israeli government policies. The site identified some of the people on the list as Jewish by posting a Star of David next to their name. ''The ones we have identified as Jews have a...

A deal on reforming the strict Rockefeller Drug Laws appeared all but dead Wednesday as top Democrats and Republican Gov. George Pataki traded public barbs, accusing each other of using the issue for political gain. The developments alarmed reform advocates who see this year as their last best chance to push through significant changes to the 1973 laws, which mandate long -- or even life -- sentences for those convicted of selling or possessing relatively small amounts of narcotics. Next year, with the governor and state legislators no longer up for re- election and an impending budget crisis taking up...

<p>Missing from preparations for a campaign against Saddam Hussein is a political strategy to create a viable Iraq — a strategy that can both prepare the way for military action and serve as a basis for administering a postwar Iraq. Without a clear notion of how Iraq should be governed after Saddam Hussein, the United States will struggle against considerable skepticism from its regional allies.</p>

I hadn't dreamt of Jeannie in a long time, but there she was on " Larry King Live" a few nights ago, discussing her 35year- old son's death from a heroin over dose. Barbara Eden of the enviable flat tummy has gone from grantor of grown men's wishes to poster girl for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. First the qualifiers and disclaimers: Eden is a lovely woman whose heart is in the right place. She has suffered a tragic loss and wants to help others. She noted repeatedly on King's show that she's no expert and was offering only her...

Teenage boys might be forgiven if the government's mixed drug message comes off as just more adult hypocrisy. "Don't do drugs" and "don't do steroids" are among the powerful admonitions aimed at young people in general and young men in particular. Baseball players already have confused the steroid issue, but now the government, too, is looking for "a better warrior through chemistry." It seems the nation's military services are doing serious research into how they can better produce drug-enhanced warriors, the sort who can go for days under extreme conditions with limited supplies and no sleep. What the Pentagon's Defense...

MARIETTA — Many police departments across the nation are discontinuing DARE anti-drug programs because of questions about the program’s effectiveness, but the City of Marietta program is here to stay. Marietta Police Chief Bobby Moody, a member of Drug Awareness Resistance Education’s National Advisory Board, discounts the critics who argue the program does little to lower drug use by students. “DARE is important here in Marietta, because there’s a cycle that needs to be broken,” Moody said Thursday. “Now you see second and third generations of families beaten down by drugs. My goal, and the police department’s goal, is to...

San Francisco leaders have turned heads recently by appearing publicly in a new type of transpolitical apparel. Members of the ultraliberal San Francisco City Council have suddenly taken on states' rights - normally a conservative stance - as their cause celebre. Their opponent is none other than ultraconservative Attorney General John Ashcroft - normally a states' rights advocate - who is asserting the supremacy of the federal government. At issue is the desire of California citizens to allow seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana to relieve their pain and discomfort. Advocates in San Francisco have proposed a program in...

The Government Policy On Cannabis Is Like Announcing That It Is Legal To Eat In A Restaurant But The Chef And Waiters Will Go To Prison It is hard to imagine a crazier government policy than David Blunkett's decision to reclassify cannabis. Downgrading it to a category C drug is an unequivocal liberalisation, yet the Home Secretary is also planning to double penalties for dealers rather like announcing that it is legal for diners to eat in a restaurant, but the chef and waiters can expect to go to prison for a very long time. In parts of the country...

A 13-year-old girl was gang-raped and tortured over the weekend in Taguig, having to go through the ordeal for the second time in the hands of the same group of perpetrators, police said yesterday. The victim, who resides in Bagumbayan, Taguig, is also at least three months pregnant as a result of the first incident last May, said Inspector Vir Pagtama of the Taguig police Station Investigation Division (SID). One of the five suspects, an "alias Alien," 17, was arrested by authorities last Saturday. The suspect was charged with abduction with rape. Another 17 year-old boy, the driver of the...

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - The White House on Tuesday condemned Iraqi dissidents who seized their country's embassy in Germany to press for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Press secretary Ari Fleischer also told reporters that the United States had no prior knowledge of - and no contacts with - the dissidents who nonetheless share Bush's goal of ousting Saddam's regime in Iraq. ``Actions like this takeover are unacceptable. They undermine legitimate efforts by Iraqis both inside and outside Iraq to bring regime change to Iraq,'' Fleischer said in Texas, where Bush was vacationing at his ranch. Fleischer noted that the...

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - The White House on Tuesday condemned Iraqi dissidents who seized their country's embassy in Germany to press for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Press secretary Ari Fleischer also told reporters that the United States had no prior knowledge of - and no contacts with - the dissidents who nonetheless share Bush's goal of ousting Saddam's regime in Iraq. ``Actions like this takeover are unacceptable. They undermine legitimate efforts by Iraqis both inside and outside Iraq to bring regime change to Iraq,'' Fleischer said in Texas, where Bush was vacationing at his ranch. Fleischer noted that the...

Findings of a study recently published by the prestigious Journal of the National Medical Association demonstrates that the D.A.R.E. curriculum is highly effective in prevention of smoking among elementary school-aged children. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death. Specifically, the study found that students that completed the D.A.R.E. program were five times less likely to start smoking compared to youngsters who did not participate in D.A.R.E. This evaluation of 5th and 6th graders in Nashville, Tennessee was conducted by researchers at the Meharry School of Medicine. Researchers further found a direct correlation between knowledge regarding the risks of...