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Levi Johnston, the newest "Joey Buttafuoco" Minor Type Celebrity on the Block? The Truth Behind the "Sarah Palin called Our Family White Trash" Celebrity Media Darling Levi Johnston and friend There's no doubt that the MSM/National Enquirer type fascination with Sarah Palin will continue as long as she's perceived as a political threat and while Levi Johnston continues along the path of the Minor Celebrity Bell Curve in the footsteps of such notables of Joey Buttafuoco and John Wayne Bobbitt. Yesterday we published Sarah Palin Fires Back at Levi Johnston: Johnston Useful Tool for Sarah Foes, where we noted that,...

(June 25) - It was the cut heard round the world. Exactly 15 years ago this week the world first heard the story of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt. John Wayne, an ex-Marine, was accused of coming home drunk and raping his wife. Lorena was accused of retaliating by cutting off her husband's penis while he was asleep. Lorena went from anonymous to notorious - her story the subject of countless newspaper and magazine articles. Now in her first ever network morning show interview she discusses how she's using her notoriety to help others. "All of a sudden, my private...

Exactly 15 years ago this week the world first heard the story of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt. John Wayne, an ex-Marine, was accused of coming home drunk and raping his wife. Lorena was accused of retaliating by cutting off her husband's penis while he was asleep. Lorena went from anonymous to notorious - her story the subject of countless newspaper and magazine articles. Now in her first ever network morning show interview she discusses how she's using her notoriety to help others. "All of a sudden, my private life is out in the open and it's an open book...

Appendage Regeneration in Adult Vertebrates and Implications for Regenerative Medicine Jeremy P. Brockes* and Anoop Kumar The regeneration of complex structures in adult salamanders depends on mechanisms that offer pointers for regenerative medicine. These include the plasticity of differentiated cells and the retention in regenerative cells of local cues such as positional identity. Limb regeneration proceeds by the local formation of a blastema, a growth zone of mesenchymal stem cells on the stump. The blastema can regenerate autonomously as a self-organizing system over variable linear dimensions. Here we consider the prospects for limb regeneration in mammals from this viewpoint. Department...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Probation for role in theft revoked FALLON -- John Wayne Bobbitt is headed to prison after a judge revoked his probation for a 1999 guilty plea to attempted grand larceny in Fallon. District Court Judge Archie Blake told Bobbitt during a Friday hearing that repeated violations of the terms of his probation showed he deserved prison time. Bobbitt, 35, and his weeping wife spent a few minutes talking before he was led from the courtroom by a sheriff's deputy. Prison spokesman Glen Whorton said Bobbitt was being held at the Fallon...