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1. Krista Allen --->










<---2. Barbara Mori




3. Catherine Zeta-Jones (Why is she married to that corpse?)

















4. Vanessa Minnillo













5. Jesssica Alba

6. Alessandra Ambrosio

7. Eva Longoria

8. Charlize Theron

9. Carmen Electra

10. This model (don't know what her name is but her pictures in the DVD are hot.)

Baldwin Park, CA -- A would-be bank robber is lacking an important component to a successful heist -- an exit strategy. Instead of escaping with loot, a California gunman finds himself locked in the bank, with police outside. A police captain says the gunman intercepted a worker on her way to open the Bank of the West in San Gabriel Valley. Once inside, the worker told the robber she'd have to deactivate the alarm or police would arrive. Instead she used the alarm to contact police. Police say the robber then demanded access to the vault, but the worker told him she needed help from a second worker, who would arrive soon. The robber then told her to go outside "and to act as though everything was normal." The worker went out and locked the gunman inside. The police captain calls that "very smart."

Company Claims They Spanked Both Sexes Equally

POSTED: 1:20 pm EDT April 25, 2006

FRESNO, Calif. -- A former saleswoman for a Fresno alarm company said she was humiliated when her supervisors spanked her with a competitor's yard sign while co-workers watched and jeered.
Janet Orlando, 53, is suing Alarm One Inc. in Fresno Superior Court.
Lawyers for the company said the spankings were done in fun, and that both male and female employees were spanked.
Alarm One's lawyers said Orlando voluntarily quit after five months of employment, The Modesto Bee reported. The paper reported that lawyers also said the woman was a willing participant in the spankings and that the company did not intend to hurt any of the spanked employees. The company reportedly wanted to spank employees to "build camaraderie among the sales force."
The employees at the company reportedly work on commission and are required to attend daily sales training meetings, at which they were spanked for talking out of turn or arriving late, the paper reported
"The spankings also were used to increase productivity from its work force," Orlando’s lawyer told the paper. The paper reported that during the spankings, the workers yelled lewd comments and hooted. Some of the comments reportedly were "bend over, baby" and "you've been a bad girl," according to court documents.
Former Alarm One supervisor Nina Correia testified that she trained Orlando and that Orlando never complained about being spanked -- also saying that Orlando had fun at the meetings and participated in yelling foul language when people got spanked, the paper reported. "She was willing, ready and excited about being there," Correia testified.
The case that is expected to wrap up Tuesday.

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(first one's not funny.)

Just so you don't think I'm a lesbian...
not that that's bad...

Before....















After.

(she looks great even with sand
all over her boobs.)

(Warning: This is disgusting and disturbing.)
Prosecutor: While cameras rolled, N.C. trio castrated willing men

Richard Sciara, 61, a retiree known as "Master Rick" in S&M circles, is accused of performing castrations on a half-dozen men in his home.




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By Harriet Ryan
Court TV
In Waynesville, a small county seat in the mountains of western North Carolina, people whispered about the three older men who lived together south of town.

They were lovers, and there were rumors that the trio had turned a room in their house into a dungeon where they filmed sadomasochistic sex scenes — and then posted them on the Internet.

Someone asked the local sheriff to investigate the men, but his officers determined their activities, although unorthodox, were perfectly legal.

Last month, however, the men were arrested on charges that shocked the community.

Authorities say they performed castrations and other types of genital surgeries on at least six people. Detectives searching the home found bloody scalpels, syringes, and prosthetic testicles in a room the men referred to as "the dungeon."

Officers confiscated a video camera apparently used to record the procedures, as well as scores of CDs and computer files. They also seized a Tupperware container from the kitchen freezer holding what appeared to be human testicles.

The suspects acknowledged performing surgeries, but they told investigators that the procedures were completely consensual and that the men who requested the operations traveled long distances for the procedures.

The defendants — Richard Sciara, 61; Michael Mendez, 60; and Danny Reeves, 49 — are due in court this week for a probable cause hearing. Each is charged with five counts of felony castration and five counts of conspiracy, as well as eight counts of practicing medicine without a license. They remain in jail in lieu of $150,000 bail.

The arrests on March 30 of Sciara, a retiree, and Mendez and Reeves, both workers at the local Indian casino, astounded many in Waynesville, a town of about 10,000.

"It's pretty much disbelief. Surprise and disbelief and disgust," said District Attorney Michael Bonfoey.

The castration law, a rarely used statute that dates back to the common law of colonial times, does not allow consent as a defense, the prosecutor said.

Still, the question of why a man would agree to castration by medical amateurs remains the most perplexing issue in the case.

Although Sciara had worked for two decades at a Kansas veteran's hospital, he was never licensed and the other men had no known medical training.

Bonfoey, the prosecutor, said his office had yet to interview any of the men who underwent the procedures.

"I haven't talked to any of the victims, so I can't tell you why they would want this," he said.

The six victims identified so far are not from western North Carolina, and at least one is from outside the country, lawyers said.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that Sciara identified himself as "Master Rick" on an S&M Web site, Collarme.com. In an online profile published by the newspaper, Sciara posted a photo of himself in leather chaps and wrote that he had two slaves — Danny and Bob — and was searching for more.

"This is NOT a game with me, I live this lifestyle," he wrote. The profile has been removed from the site.

Reeves is pictured in leather shorts on the site in a profile for "dungeonslavedan."

"Am fully versed in all aspects of the BDSM lifestyle as well as being into wrestling and boxing," his profile reads.

Bill Leslie, a lawyer for Reeves, insisted that his client had "absolutely nothing to do with" the surgeries, but asserted that the castrations were not related to sadomasochism.

"Our position is it's certainly not a sexual gratification thing," he said. Asked if they were performed on men seeking sex changes, he said, "Our position is that's not the reason either."

He declined to elaborate.

Investigators are still reviewing evidence and may file additional charges if they find other victims, Bonfoey said.

"We don't know if there are any more at this point," he said.

Bill Jones, the lawyer for Mendez, said it was incorrect to refer to the castrated men as victims.

"I would hesitate to use that word. Even what the police are saying is that this was consensual," he said.

Scientists find secret to gas-free beans

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Two strains of bacteria are the key to making beans flatulence-free, Venezuelan researchers reported on Tuesday.
They identified two bacteria, Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus plantarum, which can be added to beans so they cause minimal distress to those who eat them, and to those around the bean-lovers, Marisela Granito of Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela and colleagues reported.
Flatulence is gas released by bacteria that live in the large intestine when they break down food. Fermenting makes food more digestible earlier on.
Writing in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Granito and colleagues found that adding these two gut bacteria to beans before cooking them made them even less likely to cause flatulence.
They tested black beans, known scientifically as Phaseolus vulgaris.
"Legumes, and particularly Phaseolus vulgaris, are an important source of nutrients, especially in developing countries," Granito's team wrote in the report.
"In spite of being part of the staple diets of these populations, their consumption is limited by the flatulence they produce."
Smart cooks know they can ferment beans, and make them less gas-inducing, by cooking them in the liquor from a previous batch. But Granito's team wanted to find out just which bacteria were responsible for this.
When the researchers fermented black beans with the two bacteria, they found it decreased the soluble fiber content by more than 60 percent and lowered levels of raffinose, a compound known to cause gas, by 88 percent.
They fed the beans to rats and then analyzed the rats' droppings to ensure that the beans were digested and kept their nutritional value.
When pre-soaked in the L. casei, the beans stayed nutritious and produced few gas-causing compounds, they reported.
"Therefore, the lactic acid bacteria involved in the bean fermentation, which include L. casei as a probiotic, could be used as functional starter cultures in the food industry," the researchers wrote.
"Likewise, the cooking applied after induced fermentation produced an additional diminution of the compounds related to flatulence."

Chimp "ripped his face off"
A Texas man describes a deadly chimp attack in Sierra Leone.

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Men May Have Reason To Be Grumpy
Exact Cause Of Syndrome Still Unknown

UPDATED: 11:17 a.m. EST November 6, 2002

CLEVELAND -- Are you a man who is feeling irritable, depressed and bloated? Well, those are symptoms related to a condition called "irritable male syndrome," which may affect millions of men.
But there are available treatments that may help.
Connie Hillegass said she hit a snag in her marriage a few years ago because something was different about her husband, Michael.
"It's like a switch was turned off. There was no lust -- no desire," Michael Hillegass said.
Scott Simmons, an IMS patient, noticed changes when he hit middle age, too.
"(I felt) tired, lethargic, and (I) didn't have a zest for work anymore. (I) started gaining weight," Simmons said.
Both men sought medical help, and the diagnosis was IMS, according to urologist Christopher Steidle.
"Irritable male syndrome is incredibly common in up to 30 percent of men. This is a male version of PMS, or premenstrual syndrome," Steidle said.
When a man's testosterone level dips, it can result in depression, weight gain, a loss of energy, and a disappearing sex drive in men as young as their 30s, according to Steidle.
"Many of the symptoms are indistinguishable from old age, and for years you've always thought of it as a 'grumpy old man.' Now we know (what) the grumpy old man probably has," he said.
Steidle said the impact of IMS on the family is incredible. When the affection disappears, depression sets in, and it can be confusing for the woman behind the man. Connie Hillegass blamed herself.
"Is he interested in someone else? What's going on? There's got to be a reason," she said.
While the effect on men is clear, the cause is not. Does a man's diet play a role?
"The role of diet in triggering this syndrome is probably very minimal," Steidle said.
However, urologist Larrian Gillespie disagrees. She believes two things trigger IMS -- stress and diet.
"Under the circumstances of stress and then particular dietary changes, men exhibit these symptoms of irritable male syndrome, much like women do with PMS," Gillespie said.
Men can fight back by eating right, according to Gillespie, and in her book, "The Gladiator Diet," she reflects on what "he-men of old" used to eat before battle.
"People can't get a chariot through a drive-in, so there wasn't fast food," Gillespie said.
Fats and carbohydrates block the body's ability to use testosterone proteins, and eating unprocessed foods can help. Gillespie suggested a diet of approximately 300 to 500 calories about five times a day will keep testosterone and insulin levels smooth.
After following this advice, Simmons said, "My belly went away."
But Michael Hillegass said, "I'm more interested in just getting out and doing things."
Connie Hillegass also noticed the changes in her husband and she said, "It's like wow, yes, this is a different guy. (You) know, (he has) a whole different personality."
According to Gillespie, IMS has been linked with osteoporosis, or weakened bones, in men.
If you think you might suffer from IMS, stay away from foods like black licorice and breath mints. Gillespie said they contain a chemical that can dramatically reduce testosterone levels.

Husband Crabby, Sluggish? It's not just women who are susceptible to shifting hormones. If your honey is behaving like a bear, he could be suffering from what's being called "irritable male syndrome" or IMS.
By Jean Lawrence

"Men have hormone problems just like women," declares Cindy Esterly, a certified aerobics trainer in Phoenix, who often lectures on how men and women can better manage their hormones. Indeed, Gerald A. Lincoln, a researcher at the Medical Research Council's Human Reproductive Sciences Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland, recently coined the term "irritable male syndrome" (IMS) to mirror the infamous PMS in women. Lincoln says these hormone imbalances go far beyond the now recognized "male menopause" and can manifest at any time in life. "Men's hormones pulsate hourly, compared with every 28 days for women, " confirms Larrian Gillespie, MD, a retired Southern California urologist and author of The Gladiator Diet: How to Preserve Peak Health, Sexual Energy, and A Strong Body at Any Age.
Lincoln first noticed IMS in Soay sheep, a hefty, curly-horned species given to noisy rutting rituals surpassing even Sunday football. In the autumn, he found, the rams' testosterone levels soar and they rut like mad. In winter, the levels sag and the rams lose interest in the opposite sex and are "nervous and withdrawn," striking out at other males irrationally. They also were more likely to throw out the rulebook and get hurt during such violent "discussions." "Irritability-anxiety-depression syndromes associated with withdrawal of sex steroid hormones are well recognized in the female," Lincoln notes in his study, which appeared in Reproduction, Fertility and Development. "The occurrence of a potentially similar behavioral syndrome following withdrawal of testosterone has received less attention."

Symptoms of IMS
Obviously, such declines in testosterone can be predicted after prostate surgery. But according to Gillespie and Esterly, they can occur at any time in any male as a result of diet, environmental factors, or stress. "[Or] you can have a normal testosterone level and elevated estradiol -- the usable form of the so-called "female" hormone estrogen," points out Gillespie. A simple blood test may tell the tale. Your total testosterone level should be 400 nanograms per deciliter, free, or unbound, testosterone 25-30 picograms per milliliter, and estradiol 15-20 ng/dl. "No one really knows the ideal level of testosterone," Gillespie adds. "The bound kind converts to estradiol, which can cause problems. It's the unbound kind that's gold." Esterly, who often gets referrals from physicians to help people tweak their hormones, says a relatively slender man with enlarged breasts once consulted her. He had many of the symptoms of elevated estradiol, she says. In addition to swollen breasts and a bloated "fluffy" look, IMS symptoms include: exhaustion, unexplained weight changes, frequent urination, gallbladder or gut problems, hypoglycemia, snoring, incontinence, an elevated PSA, high cholesterol, bone loss, hair loss (besides male pattern), impaired thyroid function, loss of muscle or stamina, skin problems, softer erections -- and irritability. "Many of these men are overweight," Gillespie notes, and fat harbors estrogen.

What Can You Do?
If you think your hormones might be out of whack, consult your physician. He or she may tell you to take some progesterone, another hormone that in some respects counters estradiol. Esterly recommends smoothing a nickel-sized dab (1/4 teaspoon) of male progesterone cream on the face and hands each day. Although increased estradiol usually is more of a problem than low testosterone, Gillespie says some men may need to supplement with testosterone. She recommends another topical -- androgel, which is also applied to the skin. But she warns: "When it comes to hormones, you want to baste, not marinate." Esterly also recommends a high-quality vitamin, increased calcium, magnesium, and saw palmetto, an herb. After you have gotten used to these routines, take a look at your diet. "Sugar and dairy are usually culprits," Esterly says. An excess of meat, Gillespie says, may have helped IMS to develop. Meat contains a number of hormones, including estrogen. Prescription medications of many kinds also interfere with hormone receptors. And stress increases corticosteroids, which have been shown to depress testosterone. In other words, there are many roads to Rome -- and Rome is where gladiators live. Gladiators are fit, trim, and can wrestle tigers all day, Gillespie says -- thus her Gladiator Diet (http://www.gladiatordiet.com). She recommends men eat a diet that's 40% protein (watch those hormone-laced steaks and chickens), 35% low glycemic carbs (think squash and green veggies instead of Twinkies), and 25% fat. Of the latter, only 10% should be saturated fat, though you are allowed a teaspoon of unsalted butter a day just to jumpstart the gallbladder. Avoid licorice, though; even the amount in four black jellybeans can drop testosterone in a heartbeat, Gillespie notes.

Take heart, men! It's easier for you to diet and lose pounds in addition to IMS -- because you have half as much leptin, a substance that causes fat to be stored as love handles. Exercise is good, too, of course, 30-40 minutes a day. Even that has advantages beyond the obvious -- Gillespie says leg presses dramatically increase blood flow to the head of the penis. Wives, Take Note Men go to the doctor 27% fewer times than women. Most wives don't need the National Institutes of Health to tell them this. "Many wives start this program," Esterly confides. "They may apply the progesterone cream to their husbands during a massage. Once the guy sees the results, it's amazing what he will do for himself." Most men, Gillespie advises, would benefit from getting a baseline reading on their testosterone and estradiol at age 35." You don't have to wait until experiencing a symptom or erectile dysfunction, she adds. Many with IMS manage in that department fine -- it's before and after that's not what their mates would want it to be.

I looked just like Eva in my old photos...
the face was a little different.

Cloned dog's first birthday
Seoul, South Korea - The world's first cloned dog created by South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk celebrated its first birthday on Monday.
Snuppy, short for Seoul National University puppy, had its "birthday party" at the university's animal hospital with an Afghan hound, whose cells were used for cloning, a Labrador surrogate mother and some 20 professors and researchers.
The university prepared a large pyramid-shaped cake for Snuppy, who wore a blue birthday hat during the celebration.
The researcher who took care of the dog gave him a necklace with a pendant that has the dog's name and a lab telephone number as a gift.
Seoul university scientists now plan to clone a female dog and see whether she and Snuppy, who is male, can reproduce.
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Suggestive name puts eatery, city at odds
Megan Finnerty
The Arizona Republic Apr. 22, 2006 12:00 AM

In a city aspiring to be defined by its good taste, a new Mexican restaurant, the Pink Taco, is opening with a name that some find offensive.Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross was so put off by the name, a slang term for vagina, that she asked its owner to change it. "I don't appreciate anything that offends more than half the population," Manross said. "But he said no and heard my concern. I really didn't want to see a business with that name opening anywhere here." Sounding more strip club than cantina, the restaurant isn't coy about the double entendre. "(The name) came out of a dish (that's on the menu), but it's tongue-in-cheek. It was amusing, catchy," Pink Taco CEO Harry Morton said. "You've got to stand out from the rest of the crowd."The Scottsdale City Council will consider the Pink Taco's application for a liquor license May 15 and will vote whether to recommend that the state liquor board approve the license. No letters of opposition have been filed with the city so far, but Pink Taco management is nervous about the name controversy because the restaurant won't open without that license. The original Pink Taco is inside Morton's family-owned Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, where they serve strong margaritas and upscale food with sides of loud rock, Mexican art and "East LA" bric-a-brac, i.e. low-rider bicycles and license plates."I haven't had a single flap since the restaurant opened - in 6 years," Morton said. Scottsdale is first in a planned expansion to other "AAA+ locations in A+ markets," he said.The Pink Taco is slated to open in June on the corner of Scottsdale and Camelback roads in the $250 million Scottsdale Waterfront. The restaurant will be next to the elegant Wildfish Seafood Grille and boutiques where blouses sell for as much as the payment on a Lexus. Nearby condos under construction will cost as much as $4 million. And the name does offend some. "It's degrading to women. It sounds like a sexual slur," said Dorina Wilson, 40, of Phoenix, a mom who shops in the area regularly.Dawn Staples-Kerr, 39, of Scottsdale, agreed."I don't think we'd even go to lunch there. It's already been a talking topic," she said. "We were like, 'Can you believe they're going to open something with that name here?' "Moments later, Staples-Kerr explained the phrase to a friend who's 44. Giggling ensued.David Roderique, the economic-vitality director for Scottsdale, also giggled when asked about the restaurant. Then he regained his composure."While there may be some people who have concerns about the name of the restaurant, we've got a younger crowd who appreciates more diversity and finding ways to slap the establishment," he said.The leasing agents in charge of the Waterfront's retail space knew the name had baggage, but it didn't matter in the face of the hipster cachet the Pink Taco would bring, said LeDonna Spongberg, vice president of leasing at the Phoenix-based Corritore Co. "We knew who they were, and we liked them; they bring a really high energy to the project," she said. Future condo tenants haven't been turned off by the name, said Jeff Roberts, vice president of real estate development with Opus West, the Waterfront condo developer. Rick Kidder, president of the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce, wonders if people aren't upset because the name goes over their heads."I've seen the Blue Burrito, and I thought, 'Oh, Pink Taco. OK.' " he said. "Somebody had to explain it to me. I just didn't get it."

Chimp attack doesn’t surprise experts
California man critically injured in gruesome mauling
The Associated Press
Updated: 6:01 a.m. ET March 5, 2005

HAVILAH, Calif. - Chimpanzees come across to the public as little darlings, often in diapers and always willing to hold hands. But they’re really aggressors, primate experts say, more than capable of carrying out attacks as violent as one that left a man fighting for his life.
Generally weighing between 120 and 150 pounds with strength much greater than man, chimps in the wild are known to kill chimps from neighboring groups, hunt other primates and even attack humans.
“Male chimps are intensely territorial. They defend their territory against any perceived threat,” said Craig Stanford, a professor at the University of Southern California who studies primate behavior. “Chimps can be violent at times just as humans can be.”

Californian fights for life
On Friday, authorities continued to investigate how two chimps at an animal sanctuary escaped from their cage and mauled St. James Davis, 62. They were shot to death during Thursday’s attack by the son-in-law of the sanctuary’s owners, Virginia and Ralph Brauer.
Animal Haven Ranch, about 30 miles east of Bakersfield, has held state permits to shelter exotic animals since 1985. It is allowed to house up to nine primates at one time and is home to one spider monkey and six chimpanzees.
“A big part of the investigation will be figuring out whether the owners were in compliance with regulations,” Sheriff’s Cmdr. Hal Chealander said.
State wildlife and county health authorities were testing the chimps for rabies and other diseases that could affect the victims’ health, Chealander said.
Davis and his wife, LaDonna Davis, 64, were visiting the sanctuary to celebrate the birthday of a 39-year-old chimpanzee, Moe, who was taken from their home in 1999 after biting off part of a woman’s finger.
The couple had brought Moe a cake and were standing outside his cage when the two young male chimps, Ollie and Buddy, attacked the man.
Two other chimps, females named Susie and Bones, also escaped from the cage. They were recovered outside the sanctuary five hours later.
Susie and Bones could have played a role in the attack, primate experts said.
“We know that one of the most reliable predictors of increased male aggression is the presence of sexually receptive females,” said Jeffrey French, a psychobiologist who studies primate behavior at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Victim recovering
The chimps chewed off most of Davis’ face, tore off his foot and attacked his limbs and genitals. Davis was transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he had surgery late Thursday night.
The medical center would not release any information about Davis’ condition on Friday. Hospital spokeswoman Julie Smith said the family requested confidentiality.
LaDonna Davis was bitten on the hand. She was released from the hospital Friday .
The Brauers would not speak to reporters, but a family friend gave a statement to The Associated Press, which read, “All of us here at Animal Haven Ranch are praying for the recovery of St. James Davis and LaDonna Davis.”
“This is the only incident in 20 years of operation,” the statement said.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have called on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ban private ownership of exotic animals in California, citing the increasing popularity of keeping such animals as pets. The group said there have been more than 90 reported dangerous incidents nationwide involving primates since 1990.

With all these celebrities adopting kids all of a sudden and popping out their own kids... I started thinking about what I should do. I mean.. holy crap... even Jessica Simpson's thinking about adopting... while Brittany Spears is busy dropping her baby on its head... not to mention Angelina mistress of darkness Jolie and Ken doll with their technicolor family. I think she's gonna start dropping her kids into some giant volcano while she's traveling the world one of these days... you know as offerings to the Eco-god... or the devil. Who knows with her... She definitely is a strange one.

Anyways, as I was sitting at work one day thinking about the incessant ticking of my biological clock... (or is that my inner time bomb? I do have anger management issues.) Well, so I was thinking about kids and the idea that having one would be really nice... but seeing as how I can't even keep my plants alive... I thought maybe that wasn't such a good idea.

So what to do? Should I get a puppy? Nah, it would just leave me little turds all over the place. So I got to thinking... what about a cute little chimp??? How cool! It's almost like a real kid... i could probably train it to use the bathroom... to clean my place... to cook for me... how awesome. I could probably even communicate with it in sign language! And an added plus would be that I wouldn't have to stress about having to put away money for college for when it got older.

Well... stories like this one and the one about the guy from Bako getting his privates ripped off kinda put a damper on my plans... What a buzzkill.


Police search for killer chimps

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Police hunted Monday for chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and mauled a group of local and American sightseers -- a rare attack that left one local man dead and at least four other people hospitalized.
The U.S. Embassy warned Americans against traveling to the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, from where the chimps escaped before the Sunday attack on a taxicab filled with Americans and others.
The Sierra Leonean driver died as the chimps ripped his body apart and the three Americans were treated at a local hospital for minor injuries, a top police official, Oliver Somasa, said.
Another Sierra Leonean man in the group had his hand amputated after the primate mauling, Somasa said. U.S. officials had no further comment. The Americans were in Sierra Leone to help construct a new embassy building, Somasa said.
Armed police were searching Monday for 27 chimpanzees, Somasa said, while four other chimps had returned on their own accord to the reserve.
Somasa said it was unclear why the chimps attacked or how the chimps were able to flee the park.
Chimpanzee attacks are unusual but not unprecedented.
Two chimps that escaped from their cages in a California sanctuary severely mauled one man last year, injuring his genitals and limbs. A bystander shot the primates before they killed their victim.
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While under anesthesia for a root canal, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo dies.

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Koreans Stunned by Tragedy
The fiery deaths of two children horrify the community. Experts say immigrant men like the father face pressure to attain financial success.
By Hemmy So, Times Staff Writer
April 8, 2006

Like many in Koreatown, Chang Ae Jung's first reaction was one of horror when she read about the father accused of killing his two young children by placing them in the family's sport utility vehicle and setting it on fire."Even with everything going wrong," said Chang, 47, who has followed the story closely in the Korean media, "how could someone do something like this?"
Police and friends say Dae Kwon Yun, 54, was distraught over his failing clothing business, the breakup of his marriage and mounting bills from his daughter's private school.The circumstances surrounding the deaths of his children have jolted Southern California's tight-knit Korean American community, which prides itself on hard work, an entrepreneurial spirit and strong family values.Along with the outrage is the recognition of the pressure that many immigrants face in their struggle to assimilate and make a better life for their families in the U.S.It was something that Yun had talked about privately, complaining to one friend "about the stress of having a good, high-end lifestyle."But most struggling with personal or financial troubles find ways to resolve their problems through family and friends, their church or social service agencies, said Edward T. Chang, professor of ethnic studies at UC Riverside, who has spent a quarter century studying the Korean American community of Los Angeles."Korean immigrants live under tremendous pressure to earn a living and to educate their young," he said."Sometimes those pressures can reach crisis proportions…. But what Mr. Yun did is so extreme, even those of us who know the community well are at a loss to explain. His action is an aberration — a tragedy for him, his family and, also, the community," he added.For a time, Yun had achieved the kind of success that many immigrants hope for in America: He owned a profitable T-shirt manufacturing business, drove a Mercedes-Benz and had a home in Hancock Park.Then it all unraveled. Yun's business began losing money, his family moved to Monterey Park after experiencing financial problems and two years ago he was arrested on suspicion of hitting his wife, Sun Ok Ma, who filed for divorce last week.But no one who knew the family was prepared for what happened next. According to police, Yun drove his two children, Ashley, 11, and Alexander, 10, on Sunday to a deserted alley downtown, then splashed gasoline around the interior of the SUV.Witnesses told police they saw Yun arguing with Ashley before forcing her into the back seat. Then he climbed into the front passenger seat, and the vehicle burst into flames.Seconds later, Yun rolled out onto the ground, his legs engulfed in flames, police said.He has yet to be charged in the case but remains in custody at County-USC Medical Center, where he is being treated.Y.K. Min described his former business partner as a hard-working man who never talked about personal issues."We talked two or three times a week, and he said his business was getting worse and worse," Min said. "But I never heard a single word from him about his wife or family."Yun had complained to others, however, about his struggle to maintain a comfortable life for his family, including the high cost of private school for his daughter. Yun closed his business last month."He said life was too much to handle," said Jasmine Jung, the owner of a cafe in the building where Young had his business. Grace Yoo, executive director of the Korean American Coalition, said many immigrants struggle with the pressure to achieve financial success, especially in a status-conscious society like America's."It's so much of what you wear and what you drive versus your character," she said. Korean Americans "have fallen for that. A lot of Americans have fallen for that. Think about it: Why do so many Americans have huge credit card debt?"Community leaders also say cultural differences may exacerbate the problem. The traditional emphasis on the male as the breadwinner, combined with the adjustment to a new culture and language, can often present stressful challenges for older Korean immigrant men, said Johng Ho Song, executive director of the Koreatown Youth and Community Center.Lee Han Ok, 53, an acupuncturist with his own business in Koreatown, said it was hard to adjust when he arrived with his family in the U.S. in 1996. Because his wife stayed at home with their children, Lee was the sole provider. To deal with the financial stress, he said, he took a strict approach to the family budget, saving half of what he earned."In Korea, coming to America means being successful and making a lot of money," Lee said. "But when you get here, you understand that it's not easy, and even if I want to make money, I may not." Susan Lee, a counselor and director of program development at the Hanmi Family Counseling Center in Garden Grove, works with Korean American families on issues of domestic violence and parent and youth education. She said what happened to Yun reflects a larger problem."It's an issue of basic human conflict that just went totally out of control," Lee said. "There were issues of marital problems, maybe parental problems, financial distress in the family. Those are intrinsic to any society, any culture, any ethnicity."We see in the mainstream women drowning their kids, beating their kids, starving their kids," she said. "The problems that this incident reflects are our modern-day American problems."

Man Kills Wife, Son and Then Himself
The 55-year-old, who was active in a local Korean church, also shoots his teenage daughter, who is expected to survive.
By Jessica Garrison and Hemmy So, Times Staff Writers
April 10, 2006

An active member of a local Korean church shot and killed his wife and 8-year-old son before turning the gun on himself, police said Sunday.The 55-year-old man, whose name was not released, also shot his teenage daughter in the head, police said. She was expected to survive despite having lain wounded in the family's apartment for hours before parishioners from her family's church arrived and summoned help. The murder-suicide at the apartment near Echo Park, which came one week after another man of Korean descent burned his two children to death in the family's sport utility vehicle in downtown Los Angeles, horrified the state's Korean American community. "The Lord have mercy," said the Rev. Eun Suk Cho, immediate past president of the Federation of San Francisco Peninsula Korean Churches. Cho, a prominent U.S.-educated theologian, said that the two incidents occurring within a week of each other is a warning for Korean American churches to concentrate less on growing membership and "more on reaching out to those who are hurting."Police said they had no motive to explain the shooting. Officials did not release the names of anyone in the family.The family was known to never miss services at First Church of the Nazarene in Hollywood, so friends became increasingly concerned when the family was absent from a series of church events beginning Saturday morning.Church friends Hyok Dong Kim and his wife, Mi Sun Kim, tried to contact the family by telephone and by knocking on their apartment door Saturday. They returned Sunday morning and summoned a locksmith to the apartment at 165 N. Hoover St. When the apartment door swung open, Kim said, his wife began screaming. From the doorway the couple saw the adults sprawled on a bed, he said. The dead woman was 50, police said. Mi Sun Kim began to search the apartment, entered the daughter's bedroom and found blood on the teenager's bed and on the floor. She found the 16-year-old girl lying on the floor in her parents' bedroom, Hyok Dong Kim said. From the doorway, Hyok Dong Kim saw her arm twitching. "She said, 'Mommy, it hurts,' " Hyok Dong Kim said.The father was still clutching the gun when coroner's officials rolled his body over Sunday afternoon. Mi Sun Kim searched the boy's room and found the 8-year-old under his bed, police and the witnesses said. Police estimate the shooting occurred sometime late Saturday or early Sunday morning. "It was out of nowhere, it was unexpected, no one saw this coming," said Debra Kim, the witnesses' daughter, who knows the teenage girl and said that she attends the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies.A group of church friends assembled at the Rampart Division station Sunday night while some members were being questioned.The girl was taken to County-USC Medical Center, where she underwent surgery. Police said she was expected to survive. Neighbors in the light-colored apartment complex, which the family managed, appeared shocked. Many said they had not heard anything unusual from the apartment — neither arguing nor the sound of gunshots. "How? How? I mean, he's a good guy," said Ian Briones, who lives upstairs. "He's always smiling every time I see him."Ok Soon Im, another resident of the apartment complex, also spoke warmly of the family, saying they often shared food with other residents. Friends from the family's church also expressed shock. The family had been scheduled to bring a meal Sunday to share with the rest of the congregation. The deaths follow another apparently inexplicable crime in the area's Korean American community.On April 2, Dae Kwon Yun placed his two children in his SUV and set it afire in a deserted alley in downtown Los Angeles near the location of his recently failed business.His family had once lived in a house in Hancock Park, but had moved to Monterey Park after financial troubles set in. His wife had also recently filed for divorce.Charles J. Kim, president of the national Korean American Coalition and a longtime leader in Los Angeles' Koreatown, said many in the community have mental health issues, but no one wants to talk about their problems. Christian leaders, he said, need to stop building mega-churches and talking about the "prosperity gospel" — that if people give money to their church, God will reward them — and instead create a kind of atmosphere that enables suffering people to open themselves up in the church.

Fontana Father Kills His 5-Year-Old, Then Himself
The divorcé reportedly had big gambling debts. It is the third such incident in recent days involving members of the Korean community.
By Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer
April 11, 2006

A 40-year-old man of Korean descent shot and killed his young daughter and then himself Saturday at his Fontana home, a tragedy similar to two recent indents in Los Angeles involving Korean-American fathers who police say killed family members.Bong Joo Lee's relatives told police that he had been unemployed for some time and might have racked up as much as $200,000 in gambling debt, said Fontana Police Sgt. William Megenney. Lee was apparently worried that he would lose both his home and contact with his 5-year-old daughter, Iris Araa Lee, who lived with her mother in Upland, police said.The couple were divorced, and Lee had pleaded no contest in September 2004 to a misdemeanor count of spousal battery, according to police and court records."It's a tragedy all the way around," Megenney said. "The little girl doesn't get the rest of her life, and the mother lives with this the rest of hers."According to police and coroner reports, this is what occurred:Lee picked up his daughter Saturday afternoon with plans to take her to dinner, though investigators are unsure if they ever made it to a restaurant. When he and Iris did not return to Upland as scheduled, Iris' mother and other family members went to Lee's house, on the 15400 block of American Way in Fontana.In the master bedroom, they found Iris and her father on a bed. He had shot her at least three times in the upper body with a 9-millimeter semiautomatic and then shot himself in the head.They were pronounced dead about 8:50 p.m."Who knows what the last straw was, what made him do this," Megenney said.The murder-suicide and two similar incidents this month have caused great concern among some in Southern California's Korean community. "It's shocking; it's heartbreaking," said Susan Lee of the Hanmi Family Counseling Center in Garden Grove. "It is a coincidence, but it reflects the level of stress and desperation of some people in the community."Johng Ho Song, executive director of the Koreatown Youth and Community Center in Los Angeles, said he wondered whether the publicity of the earlier deaths led others to imitate them."I'd have to say it's a coincidence, but I don't know if the newspaper articles are inspiring others in similar situations," he said.On April 2, Los Angeles police officials said Dae Kwon Yun splashed fuel in the interior of his Toyota Sequoia before setting it ablaze in downtown Los Angeles with himself and his two children inside. The sport utility vehicle was burned to its frame, and his children, Ashley, 11, and Alexander, 10, died.Yun, 54, was under financial strain, closing his family's T-shirt and tank top manufacturing business about two weeks before the incident and reportedly living in his car, friends said.His wife, Sun Ok Ma, had told friends that she and Yun had recently separated and that he was also upset over a gambling debt. In 2004, Yun had pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife. On Sunday, police found the bodies of a 55-year-old Korean man in Echo Park who they said killed his wife and 8-year-old son before shooting himself. He also shot his 16-year-old daughter in the head, though she is in stable condition and expected to survive, police said. In Upland, family friends gathered at the home of Lee's ex-wife. A woman who answered the door declined to comment.Jessica Street, a family friend who lives in Rialto, said Lee had acted odd since the divorce but that he had done nothing to indicate he was suicidal."They were shocked," she said. "Why would he do something like that? They knew he didn't take the divorce well, but why did he take his daughter's life?"Street said Iris Lee was a playful child who spoke both Korean and English.The girl had attended the afternoon kindergarten class at Pepper Tree Elementary School, where teachers said she was among the class' top students and her mother was a volunteer, said the Upland Unified School District's superintendent."Iris was so bright and delightful, just a gift to the classroom," Supt. Gary Rutherford said. "Her teachers are grieving. It's about as sad as can be."Counselors were at the school Monday beginning at 7:30 a.m. and will return today for parents and students administrators sent home a note to parents."Please keep Iris' family in your thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time," the letter said.

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Victims of the Justice System
A conference at UCLA brings together the state's wrongly convicted, to share their experiences and push for legal changes.

By Henry Weinstein, Times Staff WriterApril 9, 2006

One by one they ascended the stage and introduced themselves, each an embodiment of the legal system's fallibility in California. "My name is Herman Atkins," a tall ponytailed man said. "The state of California stole 12 years of my life for a rape and robbery I did not commit in Riverside." "Good morning, my name is Gloria Killian," a well-spoken middle-aged woman said. "The state stole 22 years of my life for a robbery and murder I did not commit in Sacramento.""Good morning. My name is Ken Marsh," a third speaker said. "The state took 21 years of my life for a murder I did not commit in San Diego in 1983."Seventeen people in all reiterated the point to a packed ballroom at UCLA on Saturday: that although they now were free, countless other innocent people are imprisoned in the state. Atkins, Killian, Marsh and the others were wrongfully convicted and cleared years later.They took part in the event, called "The Faces of Wrongful Conviction," to dramatize the flaws in the state's criminal justice system. The gathering was sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union, Death Penalty Focus, Amnesty International and others.It came as a state Senate-created commission is beginning to study and review the criminal justice system in California, with a particular focus on the causes of wrongful convictions and possible disparities in how death sentences are meted out. Former California Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp, chairman of the commission; San Francisco attorney Jon Streeter, the vice chairman; and Santa Clara University law professor Gerald Uelmen, the commission's executive director, all were in attendance Saturday."We realize the system is imperfect," said Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a pro law-enforcement organization in Sacramento, in a telephone interview. If the commission comes up with needed reforms, that will be a public benefit, he said.Scheidegger added, however, that he thought individuals sentenced to long terms, rather than the death penalty, were "more vulnerable" to errors in their cases, because death row inmates are entitled to more legal assistance after a conviction.After identifying themselves and the duration of their time behind bars, each participant in Saturday's ceremony hung handcuffs on a wall on the stage and then 10 more pairs on behalf of so-called exonerees unable to attend the two-day conference. As the half-hour event, the first of its kind in California, concluded, the crowd gave the group of former inmates a prolonged standing ovation.The speakers were a varied group. A few, such as Atkins, were cleared as a result of DNA evidence discovered after their trials. But most — including Killian and Marsh — gained their freedom after even longer legal battles in which there was no magic bullet like DNA.There were whites, African Americans, Latinos, an Asian American and a Native American. They had come from as far south as San Diego and as far north as Yreka. All but Killian were male. They had served as little as one year — Bobby Herrera, for assault in Santa Clara County — and as much as 24 years — Thomas Goldstein, for murder in Long Beach. Two had been on death row. Summaries of their cases indicate they were victims of such problems as inaccurate eyewitness identifications, unreliable jailhouse informants, the failure of police and prosecutors to disclose exculpatory evidence and faulty forensics.More than 200 people have been wrongfully convicted in California since 1989, said Jeffrey Chin, assistant director of the Innocence Project at California Western School of Law in San Diego, one of the conference sponsors.That's one a month, said state Sen. Gloria Romero, (D-Los Angeles), who opened the conference. Romero has been pushing for a death penalty moratorium, but it is an uphill battle. "According to the latest Field Poll, 63% of Californians support the death penalty," she said. "We have work to do."Natasha Minsker of the ACLU said the purpose of the conference was twofold: to draw attention to "wrongful convictions and to strategize solutions for much-needed change."Stanford University law professor Lawrence Marshall, who played a key role in getting several innocent men off death row in Illinois when he was teaching in that state in the 1990s, called Saturday's event "truly momentous.""It's time for California to be humbled by its capacity for error" in its criminal justice system, he said.In November 1998, Marshall organized the first national conference of death row exonerees at Northwestern Law School. That event is believed to have set the stage for a death penalty moratorium in Illinois and major changes in the system there.More broadly, it awakened Americans to the realization that innocent people had been sent to death rows across the country.Although Saturday's conference included several death penalty-related panels, the gathering at UCLA had a broader focus, particularly since most of the California exonerees had been serving long sentences rather than facing execution. California has more individuals — at least 28,000 — serving life sentences than any other state. Throughout the day, the exonerees shared experiences among themselves and with the wider audience. Most were upbeat, but their suffering was obvious.Marsh, for instance, developed such severe separation anxiety during his years away from his wife, Brenda, that he cannot bear to be apart from her, even for a few moments to take a group photograph with the others wrongfully convicted.She accompanied him in the photo and also onstage. He introduced her by saying she had been in her own prison for the 21 years he was behind bars.Despite losing many years of their lives, several of the exonerees said in interviews that they were not bitter. "Bitterness and anger will destroy you," said Killian, who was a law student when a man involved in a Sacramento murder made up a story that she had masterminded the killing. Now 59, Killian has formed a nonprofit organization, Action Committee for Women in Prison, based in Pasadena.She lives with Joyce Ride, the mother of former astronaut Sally Ride, who spent thousands of dollars of her own money to hire an investigator and an appellate lawyer to look into Killian's case after visiting her in prison and becoming convinced of her innocence."My focus," Killian said, "is on the women I left behind and the changes I can effect to ensure that this does not happen to other people."