'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Links
Baron Dave Romm
Got a note from the always interesting Baron Dave Romm, with a couple of interesting links.
First up is Genetic Savings & Clone, where you can answer all your pet cloning, livestock cloning, and careful bioethics questions.
The other, The History of the of the Aspartame Controversy.
(I am no fan of aspartame, and it's my own belief that if one is not a diabetic, stay
the hell away from it. Corporate America only pushed it because it's cheap to produce. Had to wonder when they started the 'it's natural' campaign....jeez, cow shit is natural, too, but I don't want
a heaping spoonful in my coffee.)
Recommended Reader Web Site
Re: Progressive Radio
Bart listed some sites for progressive radio in Wednesday's issue.
Building on the www.MakeThemAccountable.com site
(fully acknowledged) with additions to put together an hour-by-hour
listing of radio (and even a bit of TV) on the internet, for weekdays
and weekends. This way, you can literally tune in easily all day and
night if you so choose....
Gloria Lalumia's Radio Site
~~ Gloria
--
"...the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may
be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington, Address to Officers of the Army (March 15, 1783)
Also check out Gloria's Home of the World Media Watch (updated M-W-F)
Thanks, Gloria!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Last week I bought a couple of bags of spinach. It seems that one dropped out of a grocery bag, into the wheel-well. It also seems that if a cellophane bag of spinach is left in the trunk of a car in the summer,
a biological hazard is created. Not only will the bag explode, but what is spewed is really gross, in color, smell, texture & slimminess. Another interesting mess.
Once again, I was glad UPN has counter-programmed the nets with their 'Seinfeld' / 'Frasier' reruns at 10pm.
The kid realized that summer vacation is almost over today. He starts 4th grade next month. In CA, state law says there can't be more than 20 students in a class, K - 3. Of course, the classes get larger in the
4th grade - as in double in size. That means the classroom that seemed crowded with 20 kids will be sardine-can-like with 40. Cripes, the high schools here have more kids in a grade than citizens in my old home town.
Planning on revising the Links page....if you have any links you think should be included, drop me an e-mail.
September will bring my first 49th birthday. Something else to celebrate at BartFest in Vegas!
Tonight, Thursday, CBS has 'NFL Preseason' (Sandy Eggo Chargers visit Georgia's Lambs in St. Louis), and a fresh 'Big Brother 3'.
Dave is pre-empted by the NFL Preseason coverage.
Craiggers is also pre-empted by the NFL Preseason coverage.
NBC has reruns of 'Friends', 'Scrubs', 'Will & Grace', 'Just Shoot Me', and 'ER'.
On a rerun Jay, the scheduled guests are Mel Gibson, political commentator James Cramer, and Duncan Sheik.
On a rerun Conan, the scheduled guests are Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Charlotte Ross.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 5/02/02), the scheduled guests are Carmen Electra and Eels.
ABC again takes pride in being #4 with the movie 'Krippendorf's Tribe' followed by 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
The WB starts with a rerun of 'Reba', then 2 reruns of 'Jamie Kennedy', and wraps with a rerun of 'Off Centre'.
Faux has a fresh 'Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction?', and the lifeless 'The Pulse', which might pull some numbers on the Ozzy interview.
UPN has 'WWE Smackdown'.
AMC has Bachelor Party (1984), which was directed by
Neal Israel and written by Neal & his brother,
Bob Israel. Even though it's not mentioned at IMDb, the sound effects came from a now-defunct
post-production sound house Mag City.
Also tonight is The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). (It's just a step to the right....)
TMC has The Women (1939), directed by
George Cukor and written by
Anita Loos. Long, long time ago there was a morning talk show in LA - 'The Tommy Hawkins Show'.
One of my college mentors was a producer of the program. It was the first time I was ever backstage in a real tv situation. The show I remember most had
Rona Barrett and Anita Loos as guests. Miss Loos was a first-rate, class A act all the way.
TNT has Jaws (1975), which the kid has circled in red (it's his favorite movie/book), so it would be noticed.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
By Liz Smith
Bill Clinton's Birthday
While the resident was enjoying his vacation in Crawford, Texas - a most unlikely place to go to relax in the hot-as-hell month of August - the Times reported
once again that the Bushies still deride the "white wine-sipping" Clintons who visit annually on Martha's Vineyard.
And there the Clintons were - Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and her very cute boyfriend - visiting the Vineyard, where they spent three days celebrating Bill's 56th birthday
on Monday. (I don't know that either of the Clintons ever sips white wine. On my recent trip to the Vineyard, most people were into iced tea and bottled water. In fact,
the water bottle is as ubiquitous there as in California.)
The Clintons were house guests of Ken and Jill Iscol in what they call "up-island" Chilmark. (This is the less populated part of the Vineyard.) Mr. Iscol is a retired
cellular-telephone magnate. The birthday boy golfed every day and the Clintons were feted at a small dinner in the former home of Jackie Onassis, now the property of
Caroline Schlossberg. Ann and Vernon Jordan gave a birthday party for about 40 people the next night at their up-island house. Clinton, looking trim and fit, was his
usual brainy and interesting self, and on this night his senator wife stood and gave a loving toast to him, saying in so many words what a great president he had been.
The three days closed with an outdoor barbecue given by the Iscols on a green hillside. Chelsea and beau were also on hand for that.
So summer rushes hotly on. God's in his heaven and like mad dogs and Englishmen, resident Bush still goes out in the Texas noonday sun, while the Clintons enjoy the sea
breezes off the Atlantic and the white wine goes on chilling in the bucket. Down in Crawford, just a stone's throw from the super-Baptist town of Waco, no doubt they
serve Dr Pepper at 10, 2 and 4 - just like in the good old days.
Bill Clinton's Birthday
Baltimore Orioles
Baseball
Baltimore Orioles coach Rick Dempsey (24) heads to the dugout as a fan at Camden Yards in Baltimore August 19, 2002, holds up a sign telling players not to strike due to the high
price of beer at the stadium. The fan held up the sign prior to the start of the Orioles game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Photo by Joe Giza
(Last year Rupert's Doggers were charging $6 for a beer, a Pepsi, or a bottle of water. Understand it's a buck more this year. Boo. Hiss.)
Fights Despair Over Sick Wife
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne said he's cried, prayed and feared for the future since his wife, Sharon, was diagnosed with colon cancer.
"I'm falling apart more than she is, and people say to me, 'Ozzy, you've got to be strong for Sharon.' And I'm not Superman, you know," Osbourne said in a Fox News interview to air this week.
The rock star, whose unconventional family life is chronicled in the MTV hit reality series "The Osbournes," said he wept for weeks after finding out about his wife's illness.
"It lasted a week because I was getting on Sharon's nerves to the point where I'm going, 'Are you OK, baby, do you need anything?' and I'm crying 'Oh my baby.'"
His wife told him: "You're driving me nuts. Go back to where you belong," Osbourne recalled. But his concerts have been suffering because "my spirit's dead," he said.
Life was going so well before her diagnosis, Osbourne said, that he warned his wife: "This is too good right now. We're getting so much good stuff, nothing gets that high without
coming down with a bang."
The interview will air Thursday on the Fox newsmagazine "The Pulse" and on Fox News Channel's "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" on Friday.
Ozzy Osbourne
Manners Matter
Emilio Egeraige
Emilio Egeraige has shared his cigars with movie stars, singers and poets, but the salesman is especially proud of a thank-you note hanging on his
store wall from former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
"We knew Clinton smoked," the longtime tobacco salesman said in his shop Tuesday, standing near the framed note from Clinton.
Egeraige gave 12 Cuban cigars to former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy during a visit in March 2001 and asked Espy to give them to the ex-president.
The cigars were of the "Romeo y Julieta" brand, said Egeraige, who runs the small Habanos shop inside a popular Havana restaurant.
On the walls also hang photographs of the salesman with actor Kevin Costner and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who made a historic visit to Cuba in May. Other photographs
show him with Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the nonagenarian Cuban singer Compay Segundo.
Last month, the salesman also was paid a visit by U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor, a member of Clinton's Democratic Party from Arizona who came to Cuba as part of a congressional delegation.
Egeraige said he took advantage of the chance to send Clinton 12 more "Romeo y Julieta" cigars.
Emilio Egeraige
Presenting At MTV Music Awards
Roth & Hagar
David Lee Roth is a forgiving man. The original - and best - singer for Van Halen has agreed to co-present an award with his nemesis, Sammy Hagar, at the MTV Music Awards on Aug. 29, sources
say, even after Hagar trashed Diamond Dave a few weeks back, calling him a "[bleep]hole," likening him to Liberace and making fun of his receding hairline. The feuding front men - both of whom
were fired from the band by guitarist Eddie Van Halen - buried the hatchet for a joint summer tour, but were predictably at each other's throats within weeks. Roth and Hagar join host Jimmy Fallon
and presenters James Gandolfini, Usher, Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Nelly, Avril Lavigne, Enrique Iglesias, Johnny Knoxville and Lil' Bow Wow. Performers include
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Justin Timberlake, Pink, the Hives, Ja Rule, Sheryl Crow, Ashanti, Eminem, the Vines, Nas, Shakira and P. Diddy.
Roth & Hagar
Ends 'SNL' Gig
Ana Gasteyer
Gemini's Twin may be looking for a new member: "Saturday Night Live" player Ana Gasteyer, whose characters included Jonette in the fake pop group, has left the sketch series after six years.
Gasteyer, who last season became the show's first pregnant castmember, said the departure was mutual and amicable.
Gasteyer joins Will Ferrell in opting to depart "SNL" after the 2001-02 season. Gasteyer and Ferrell played middle-school music teachers Marty and Bobbi Moughan-Culp in a series of sketches
featuring their offbeat renditions of contemporary songs.
Gasteyer's other characters included Margaret Jo, co-host of fictitious NPR show "Delicious Dish." She also parodied real-life figures such as Martha Stewart, Celine Dion and Florida Secretary
of State Katherine Harris.
Ana Gasteyer
Missing Kennedy Center Honors For Wedding
Paul McCartney
Former Beatle Paul McCartney pulled out of a prestigious U.S. award ceremony because it clashed with a family wedding, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
McCartney had agreed to accept a Kennedy Center Honor award at a ceremony in Washington D.C., on December 8, along with actor James Earl Jones, conductor
James Levine, dancer-actress Chita Rivera and actress Elizabeth Taylor.
He was later forced to pull out after he discovered the event clashed with the wedding of one of his nieces, the spokesman told Reuters.
McCartney will receive his award next year instead.
Paul McCartney
Preps Softer Windup
Chris 'Tweety' Matthews
Audiences soon may see a softer side of MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews: His new Sunday syndicated series debuts in syndication on Sept. 20.
Based in Washington, D.C., "The Chris Matthews Show" will at first concentrate on the upcoming midterm elections and the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. But the half-hour program,
which has been cleared on stations covering 93% of the country, also will tackle many general-interest, outside-the-Beltway topics.
"You'll see a more reflective side of Chris," said executive producer Nancy Nathan, who previously held the same position at NBC's "Meet the Press." "We're capitalizing on his depth."
According to Nathan, the show will feature some solo anchoring by Matthews, as well as a roundtable with three or four journalists who have written noteworthy stories that week.
But she stressed the show's content won't compete with that of public-policy gabbers such as ABC's "This Week" or CBS' "Face the Nation." "This isn't a newsmaker show," she said.
Chris 'Tweety' Matthews
Hosting Latin Grammys
Gloria Estefan & Jimmy Smits
Pop star Gloria Estefan and actor Jimmy Smits have agreed to host this year's Latin Grammys ceremony.
The ceremony is set to be telecast live by CBS on Sept. 18 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
Smits, whose parents were from Puerto Rico and Suriname, is co-owner of The Conga Room for Latin music in Los Angeles. He is best known for his roles on the
TV shows "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue" and had a small role in this summer's "Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones."
Estefan, who was born in Cuba, is considered one of the most successful Latin artists to cross over into the mainstream. She has won a Latin Grammy and three regular Grammy awards.
Gloria Estefan & Jimmy Smits
Latin Grammys
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Talk Show Rumor Surfaces, Again
Bill Clinton
Could Bill Clinton really be coming to a small screen near you?
Rumors to that effect have surfaced again on word that syndication powerhouse King World and the CBS-owned stations are pursuing the idea with Clinton's camp. Both firms are units of Viacom Inc.
The show would probably be a cross between "Oprah," which King World distributes, and "Nightline" and air in daytime.
The current talks are similar to the ones held in May, when Clinton's longtime Arkansas pals Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason brought in NBC executives
to meet with the former president about fronting such a talk show.
King World execs haven't apparently yet met with the 42nd president, but have talked with people involved with the project -- including attorneys close to the
leader -- about creating a Clinton vehicle.
CBS' owned-and-operated stations would air the daytime strip, while King World would syndicate the project in other markets.
For a show to be ready in time for a fall 2003 launch, Clinton will have to make a final decision within the next month whether or not to go ahead.
Bill Clinton
Another Son For Michael Jackson
Prince Michael II
According to a report in the new issue of People magazine, the stork has made another stop at Neverland Ranch, delivering child number three to Michael Jackson.
The coming out party for the newborn came last month in Las Vegas, as Jacko showed up for a Siegfried and Roy show with three kids in tow, not his regular two.
After the performance, he went backstage and introduced a six-month-old boy to the bronzed tiger tamers as "my third child," the magazine reports.
Like everything in the singer's life, the latest addition to the Jackson camp is cloaked in mystery. Few details are available, but evidently, the baby's name is
Prince Michael II ("That's correct, Prince I and Prince II," producer Gary Pudney tells People). Jackson reportedly refers to the tyke as "the third" or "Number 3."
The child is, according to the magazine, not adopted but rather conceived "the natural way." While the babe might be Jacko's biological child, mum's the word on, well, the mum.
There's some speculation the maternal unit might have been Rowe, who has supposedly remained close to Jackson since their 1999 divorce. "Anything's possible," an unnamed Jackson
friend tells People. "They still have a relationship."
In any case, the latest heir to the Jackson empire is described as a "smiley, happy little baby" and Pudney calls Jackson an "impressive father."
Prince Michael II
Fresno, CA
Gallo
Balraj S. Brar protests grape prices at E & J Gallo Winery in Fresno, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2002. More than 50 growers across the central valley picketed the winery after
they say the largest winery in the world slashed grape prices for the second year. Growers say they won't be able to survive off $65 per ton offered to them this season for Thompson grapes.
Photo by Gary Kazanjian
Salzburg Festival in Austria
Barbara Bush
Residential daughter Barbara Bush at the Salzburg Festival in Austria with three girlfriends and 15 Secret Service agents, avoiding
booze but sampling pastries
Barbara Bush
Buys Biograph Records
Retropolis
Retropolis Entertainment, the company formed by former Rhino Entertainment executives Richard Foos and Robert Emmer, has purchased Biograph Records, a noted jazz and blues label
with recordings by Son House, the Rev. Gary Davis, Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake.
Biograph, based in Somerville, Mass., has been run by Alan Caplin, son of Arnold Caplin who founded the label 35 years ago. Biograph has the rights to produce albums from the
QRS Music Roll Co.'s extensive piano roll catalog, including those of Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and Joplin.
Also part of Biograph's assets are the labels Melodeon, Center, Regal and Dawn, which produced recordings by Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Memphis Minnie, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz and Art Farmer.
Retropolis
'Rap the Vote'
Russell Simmons
Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons joined forces with the NAACP and the Rock the Vote campaign to relaunch a project aimed at getting people ages 18 to 24 into the voting booth.
Rap the Vote will feature public service announcements by hip-hop mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and actress Rosie Perez, among others, as it attempts to inform the nation's
youngest voters about their electoral responsibilities.
"Rap the Vote is packaging information about politics in a way that is palatable to young people," Jeff Johnson, national director of the NAACP youth and college division,
said Tuesday. "We are reaching out to the kids who are disenfranchised."
Russell Simmons
Rap the Vote
Wedding News
John Forsythe
Here's an octogenarian flash! The dashing John Forsythe, now age 84, was the TV king of all he surveyed back when he played the patriarch tycoon Blake Carrington in "Dynasty." Well,
he ain't out of the running yet. On July 25, John married a Beverly Hills businesswoman named Nicole Carter. She's only 62. They had a very private ceremony in Solvang, Calif., and
are making their home at his beautiful ranch north of L.A.
John Forsythe
BartCop TV!
WNEW Brass Suspended
Opie & Anthony
Infinity Broadcasting announced yesterday that WNEW/102.7 FM vice president-general manager Ken Stevens and program director Jeremy Coleman are being punished because, on Thursday afternoon,
their No. 1 pair of shock jocks broadcast a description of sexual intercourse supposedly taking place at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
A radio-industry source indicated that Long Islanders Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia were just doing their jobs, being outrageous and "pushing the envelope," while it was management's
job to keep them from going too far. Based on the ensuing uproar, Stevens and Coleman didn't know how far that was.
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said yesterday through a spokesman, "I intend to keep pushing internally and externally to do whatever it takes to get an investigation moving and completed. If
this doesn't show the need for a broadcaster code of conduct, I'm not sure what does."
The FCC's enforcement bureau doesn't always respond to such requests. Although Copps' staff said he'd received thousands of complaints, an audiotape and a transcript of the broadcast, a bureau
source indicated there had been only one official complaint, which was based solely on news reports.
Opie & Anthony
Manhattan Grand Jury
More Opie & Anthony
A man and woman accused of having sex inside St. Patrick's Cathedral in hopes of winning a radio show contest must wait until October to learn if they have been indicted by a grand jury, a judge said on Wednesday.
Loretta Lynn Harper, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Brian Florence, of Quantico, Virginia, appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court after being arrested last Thursday inside New York's famous Fifth Avenue Cathedral.
Witnesses said the couple was having sex in a vestibule, just a few feet away from worshippers observing the Feast of the Assumption.
The 35-year-old woman and 37-year-old man were trying to win a contest sponsored by the WNEW-FM afternoon talk program, "Opie and Anthony," in which the hosts challenge listeners
to have sex in various public places, officials said.
Also arrested in the cathedral was Paul Mercurii, a radio producer who allegedly was positioned near the couple and relaying the stunt to the radio station via cell phone.
The live talk show has been suspended, and the program will run repeat broadcasts indefinitely, Infinity Radio spokesman Dana McClintock said.
More Opie & Anthony
Spencer Tunick In Helsinki, Finland
'Nude Adrift'
"Es tut so gut, sich mitten in der Hauptstadt auszuziehen, es ist so erfrischend, und es vermittelt ein Gefühl von Freiheit!", freute sich Helina Mellanen. Sie nahm an dem Projekt "Nude Adrift" des Fotografen
Spencer Tunick teil und posierte mit 1500 anderen Nackten in Helsinki.
Campaign Against Hollywood
Canadian Hookers
Runaway production is clearly a problem: Now even Canadian hookers, beggars and druggies are upset.
For years, Hollywood guilds have bemoaned the fact production has emigrated to Canada, which offers cheaper costs. But now shooting in downtown Vancouver has created a Canuck conundrum
as street workers are demanding compensation for the business they lose thanks to filming.
The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, which represents about 1,000 residents of the seedy Downtown Eastside, has sent a letter demanding compensation to 30 production firms. They
include Club Six Prods., currently filming MGM's "Agent Cody Banks" starring Frankie Muniz and Angie Harmon.
The letter states: "Sex trade workers must be compensated for displacement they experience at your hands in the same manner you would compensate a business if you were to use their
locale during operating hours. The same must hold true for homeless people you push from beneath a bridge or doorway, and drug users you move from a park."
The Vancouver Sun is backing the campaign; it said in an editorial Tuesday "we see no reason why any unorthodox entrepreneur should be treated differently from other businesses when it comes to compensation."
Canadian Hookers
Sag Harbor
Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson's 130-foot yacht, the Serengeti, pulled into the boat slip at the Sag Harbor Yacht Club on Sunday in full view of diners on the front porch of a restaurant. The late-night legend, now 76,
and wife Alex had just spent 10 days docked at Newport, R.I., and are expected to remain at Sag Harbor through Labor Day, reports ihamptons.com. But instead of taking a stroll around town, Carson likes
to stay on board and channel surf on the custom-built, triple-decker vessel's satellite TV.
Johnny Carson
Replacing Rather on '48 Hours'
Lesley Stahl
Veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl will become host of another CBS newsmagazine, "48 Hours Investigates," this fall, the network said Wednesday.
Stahl will keep her job on "60 Minutes."
CBS is changing the name and on-air look of the newsmagazine, called simply "48 Hours" for its first 15 years. This fall, it will focus more on crime and
real-life dramas in a single-topic format.
She begins the new job Sept. 27.
Lesley Stahl
Maysville
Rosemary Clooney Festival
Members of the "Down From the Mountain" tour will perform at this year's Rosemary Clooney Festival on Sept. 28.
The tour is an offshoot of artists and songs made famous by the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" movie. The soundtrack won five Grammy Awards this year, including album of the year.
Mayor David Cartmell said Clooney's son, actor Miguel Ferrer (television's "Crossing Jordan"), and her nephew, George Clooney, who starred in the "O Brother" film, had worked to
bring the performers to Maysville, the singer's hometown.
The evening will also include a tribute to Clooney by her brother, Nick Clooney.
The Rosemary Clooney Festival began four years ago to preserve the city's historic Russell Theatre.
Rosemary Clooney Festival
Programming For 9/11
Cable Channels
Eight cable television networks have announced plans to suspend programming on the morning of Sept. 11 to honor the victims of last year's terrorist attacks.
At 8:46 a.m EDT, the A&E Television Networks — A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel and History International — will fade to black. For the following
hour and 43 minutes, they will show a continuous scroll of the names of attack victims.
Similarly, the Scripps Networks — HGTV, The Food Network, The DIY Network and Fine Living — will stop regular programming at 8:30 a.m ET.
For two hours, the networks will show "a series of images, words and music intended to inspire quiet reflection."
Cable Channels
Accepts Damages From UK Paper
Heather Mills
Former Beatle Paul McCartney's new wife, Heather Mills, has accepted $76,000 in damages from a British newspaper which claimed she was being investigated over charity money, her lawyer said on Wednesday.
The money was offered to settle her libel claim after a May 12 article in the Sunday Mirror alleged the Charity Commission was investigating her over money collected for an Indian earthquake amputees' appeal in 2001.
In a statement, Mills's lawyer said she planned to donate the damages money to the charity Adopt-A-Minefield UK.
She was "pleased the Sunday Mirror has recognized that the allegations were unfounded and that her reputation has been vindicated," it said.
The paper will also pay Mills's legal costs, the statement said.
Heather Mills
Blaming The Economy
WWE
A down economy and fewer marquee performers have put a hammerlock on World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., driving the company's net income down by 79% for the first quarter.
Dennis McAlpine, managing partner with McAlpine Associates, said ratings were lower on the WWE's key primetime shows "Smackdown" on UPN and "WWE Raw/Raw Zone" on TNN at least in part because Stone Cold Steve Austin
has quit the ring and The Rock is focusing on his movie career, having established his title role in "The Scorpion King" as a potential theatrical franchise.
Average attendance at live wrestling events fell by 40% in the first quarter ended July 26 and pay-per-view buys also dropped by 40%.
WWE
Cancer Fighter?
Magic Mushrooms?
One of the answers to the search for cancer treatments just may be right under your nose. Well, under your feet, actually-mushrooms are emerging as a possible ingredient in cancer drugs.
The Cancer Research UK has done research on the use of mushrooms in traditional medicines in Asia. The results of that research indicate that some of them have anti-tumor properties.
Trials performed in the US, Japan and China also suggest that the chemical compounds derived from fungi may help to prolong the life of cancer patients. Some of those trials carried out
in the Far East may have to be re-done elsewhere before scientists can accept the authenticity of the findings.
Magic Mushrooms?
Bangkok's Dusit Zoo
Pangolin
An animal carer feeds a baby female pangolin with liquefied food from a syringe at Bangkok's Dusit Zoo on August 1, 2002, after the animal was one of several
hundred mammals recently seized in raids by Thai police. Thailand has long been notorious as a transit point for the trafficking of drugs, weapons and now a
new commodity is being smuggled, the scaly, ant-eating pangolin.
Photo by Sukree Sukplang
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