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WATCH THE YOU TUBE BELLOW Bogus bogan exposed: top cop disarms cult of 'chk chk boom'

-snip- Former or current practitioners include Kirstie Alley, Beck, Jenna Elfman, Al Jarreau, Kelly Preston (Travolta's wife), Juliette Lewis, Karen Black, Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, Nicole Kidman (Cruise's ex), Anne Archer, Chick Corea, Chaka Khan, and Nancy Cartwright, who voices Bart Simpson. -snip-

Statues of Ancient Goddesses Discovered By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 42 minutes ago ATHENS, Greece - The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Friday. The works, representing the goddesses Athena and Hera, date to between the second and fourth centuries — during the period of Roman rule in Greece — and originally decorated the Roman theater in the town of Gortyn, archaeologist Anna Micheli from the Italian School of Archaeology told The Associated Press. "They are in very good condition,"...

Letters home from Guantanamo Bay By Megan Lane BBC News Online Every couple of months, a letter arrives at the Birmingham home of Azmat and Gull Begg from their son, Moazzam, one of two British detainees in Camp Delta facing a US military tribunal - and possible death penalty - behind closed doors. November 2002. To Dad, today is the first day of Ramadan and it is going as well as can be expected. Our meals are all arranged, now, to the dark hours. As the weather has become quite cold, now we have been issued with warm thermal underclothes....