JESS3: 10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 // JESS3 Blog

U.S. entrants OneWorld (C) and Team Dennis Conner (R) try to get to the finish line in light wind past the Noises Islands during their Flight 5 match trailed by Swiss entrant Alinghi, who was racing Britain's GBR Challenge, on race day four of Round Robin Two on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand, October 30, 2002. The OneWorld race was abandoned due to not being able to finish the last leg within the allocated 45 minutes, however Alinghi recorded a win over GBR. OneWorld, are one of nine syndicates competing in the Louis Vuitton Cup which started October 1, the winner of which will race Team New Zealand for the America's Cup in February 2003. REUTERS/Nigel Marple

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Justin Timberlake admits to smoking a BLUNT with Nelly

NSync's Justin Timberlake has admitted to smoking cannabis.

He says he smoked a cannabis cigar after the band recorded their single Girlfriend with Nelly.

Timberlake says Nelly lit up the cigar, which he calls a blunt, once they'd finished recording.

"Nelly loves cigars, but he don't smoke cigars, he smokes blunts. You know what I mean? He smokes blunts," he tells FHM Magazine.

Asked if he smoked one after recording, Justin replied: "Well, yeah. Why not? I can't do that when I'm singing, but after I'm done..."

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MTV Article on Sean Paul ("gimme di light")

No wonder dancehall hitman Sean Paul can flow — he has an aptitude for aquatics in his blood.

"I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up,' " says Sean Paul Henriques, whose parents were swimmers on the Jamaican national team in the 1960s.

These days Paul, who also swam in his fair share of water polo and swim competitions as a teen, still has everybody talking with a mix of reggae DJing and singing that Jamaicans have dubbed "sing-jay" (think of the reggae equivalent to Ja Rule on "Rainy Dayz"). But it's not water that's finally making him a recognizable name after six years of coming up with smashes. It's fire.

"The words I use in this song, we don't usually use those terms in Jamaica — 'Gimme the light, pass the dro,' " he said of his surprise hit "Gimme the Light" and its stimulant-friendly lyrics. "I did it so [American] heads can pick up on it. It's a party song. I'm glad people take that in that context. I'm not telling kids to go do this."

As a youth in Kingston, it was music that filtered in from the U.S. that would be one of Paul's greatest life influences.

"[I'm a] big hip-hop fan since being a kid," he said. "It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.' They were expressing something like how I would express myself, in hip-hop music and dancehall music. Hip-hop and dancehall bought me more into [other kinds] of music. My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois."

Paul's aspiration to follow in the paw prints of rap/reggae hybrid expert Supercat wouldn't come to fruition for a few years — he had to get the blessings of his mother first.

"I begged my mama," Paul remembered. "I had them buy me a keyboard, and that's where my whole music genesis came from."

But even with the equipment supplied by his parents, Paul still had to convince his mom that the money he was bringing in as a chef and a bank teller would be nothing compared to his dream profession as DJ extraordinaire (not to be confused with a DJ in the U.S. — dancehall DJs rock the mic like hip-hop MCs.)

"I said to her, This is what I want to do,' " said Paul, a graduate of Kingston's UTECH University. "Let me try to do this. Give me a year after school."

He didn't even need that long. His first try at putting out a song, "Baby Girl," became a radio hit in Jamaica. Two years later he started to flood the Caribbean with smashes like "Infiltrate" and "Deport Them," both of which made it onto his U.S. debut, Stage One (2000).

"By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaican three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits," Paul explained. "Coming out with my first album, I didn't want these songs to be left out, so I included them."

With the U.S. market being difficult for many reggae artist to break through, Stage One suffered from meager sales, even though "Deport Them" became a club staple. Paul, who can be caught on upcoming albums by Mya and Beenie Man as well as the Clipse's remix to "Grindin'," said he's studied and found the perfect formula for his follow-up, Dutty Rock.

"This album, I'm trying to show growth where my music is spread out to more than just the dancehall riddims," he said. "Sometimes in the biz, there's a lot of kids that do stuff the same ways. Sometimes you have to do things different from that mainstream and just make your music the way it feels. A lot of people in Jamaica won't use the words I did in ['Gimme the Light']. But it's not only my lyrics, it's the way I say it.

"I been doing some different things," he continued. "Doing some of my songs in Spanish. I don't really speak Spanish, but I was taught by this dude that's from Cuba. I'm trying to stick out in different ways."

Dutty Rock's "Punkie" finds the rude boy flexing his bilingual linguistics while waiting on a girl's love. The Neptunes-produced "Bubble" shows Paul lusting for loins.

" 'Bubble,' it's basically another party song," he explained. "I'm talking to a girl. In Jamaica, [when] you say 'bubble' you're talking about a girl, how her shape is — nice and round. 'Girl, give me your bubble.' "

Besides the Neptunes, Tony Touch and Roots affiliate Rahzel also collaborated with Paul on the LP. The co-stars Paul holds closet to his heart, however, are members of his Dutty Cup Crew, who are all basically "doing their own thing" now.

"Dutty Cup Crew is a crew I been firing with from 1995," he said, explaining the album's title. " 'Dutty yeah' means 'Yaaayyy, we in the house. Sean Paul and the crew is in here.' At first we were telling people it meant we work hard. How you may say, 'That's dirty,' we work hard at what we do. Dutty is also a chalice pipe. We graduated from that kind of vibe, but we shout out to each other."

With the Guantanamo Bay prisoner tag still on his wrist, Aghan Haji Faiz Mohammad talks to journalists on his military hospital bed in Kabul October 29, 2002. Mohammad is one of the first three Afghan prisoners freed from the United States prison in Cuba. Just over a week ago, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfield announced that Washington planned to release some of the prisoners held in Cuba against whom there were no grounds for prosecution. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad

Former Afghan detainee Jan Mohammed shows a plastic wristband as he talks to reporter at the Medical Scientific Academy Hospital in Kabul Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002. Three Afghans, including Mohammed, released after months of captivity at a U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba said Tuesday they were each chained up during frequent interrogations but generally treated well by their American captors. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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Two Deer Burst Into D.C. McDonald's

Customers at a McDonald's in the nation's capital got a shock Friday when two deer jumped through the restaurant window.

The animals shattered the glass around 11 a.m. and ran through the fast-food restaurant, about a mile and a half north of the Capitol.

When animal control officers arrived, one deer was trapped in the restaurant. The other had jumped back through the window and was found in an adjacent field.

Peggy Keller, chief of animal disease prevention with the District of Columbia Department of Health, said authorities didn't know where the deer came from.

"There are no really heavily wooded areas" nearby, Keller said. "But the area where one deer was hiding was fully able to support them — there was lots of vegetation, there was water."

Four customers suffered minor injuries. Both deer were severely injured and had to be euthanized. Crews searched the field for other deer, but none were found.

Keller said District animal control officers usually handle about 10 calls a year concerning deer.

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By RON KAMPEAS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - It tops a U.S. Army most-wanted list, unleashing potent chemicals that suck the immediate vicinity dry.

The struggle to make the classic peanut butter and jelly combination battle-ready for soldiers in the field highlights an effort by top Army scientists to develop pocket sandwiches that will keep without refrigeration for three years.

Researchers working on the latest innovation in "meals ready to eat," army lingo for anytime, anywhere munchies, were drawn to the stuffed bread rolls now in supermarket frozen food sections. Convenience is the attraction: no utensils, not much to open yet makes for a satisfying meal, at least in theory.

"The trick was to get rid of the 6,000 mile extension cord to the freezer," said Jerry Darsch, who directs the Defense Department's feeding program in Natick, Mass.

Four years later, the Army has come up with formulas for two sandwiches — pepperoni and barbecue chicken — that use chemical and natural preservatives to lock moisture in place and inhibit the growth of bacteria and mold.

Darsch said his sandwiches are designed to be as resilient as the troops they feed. "This bad boy will last a minimum of three years at 80 degrees, six months at 100 degrees. They will travel to the swampiest swamp, the highest mountain, the most arid desert."

Some of the stabilizing agents are manufactured, others are intrinsic to the sandwiches — the bread in the pepperoni sandwich is more or less left alone by the sausage, which lacks moisture; in the barbecue chicken sandwich, acids in the sauce's tomato, vinegar and lemon naturally bind moisture in place.

Still, soldiers aren't likely to take a bite until 2006 because more research is needed — principally, the researchers confessed, on PB&J, the sandwich most demanded by troops in focus groups. Other sandwiches in the works include pizza-flavored and ham and cheese.

Food science takes time, Darsch said — "I don't even want to tell you how long it took to develop the McNugget."

The fare currently bouncing around kit bags in Afghanistan includes pasta primavera, beef stew and seafood jambalaya. Water is added to heat pads inside plastic pouches — a heating process more convenient than old flame-based methods, but one that sucks out much of the flavor.

Sandwiches are as easy as ripping open a plastic bag — no need for the clumsy little spoons that now go with the MREs.

Peanut butter has so far proven too unstable to last three years in battlefield conditions, said Michelle Richardson, a food technologist who has worked on the sandwich.

"Peanut butter tries to suck the water out of the bread, the same way it sticks the roof of your mouth," she said. That leads to the growth of bacteria and mold and makes the sandwich inedible.

Richardson says her team is closer than ever, and has found ways of stabilizing the peanut butter — but not without killing its stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth qualities, a sensation she says no soldier under fire should miss.

"We don't want to change the texture, we want it to act and feel like peanut butter."

The sandwiches won't replace what's out there — at 325 calories, they provide just a quarter of the 1,300 calories provided by existing meals — but their convenience makes them useful on the run.

Not everyone cherished that prospect.

"I don't think I've ever wanted a sandwich that's that old," said Master Sgt. Kelly Tyler, based at Fort Campbell, Ky. "That won't be one I'd take out of the box."

She might be surprised by the pepperoni offering: The bread roll, in this reporter's opinion, is a little chewy, but the pepperoni stick is a sharp, spicy riot — less greasy and much tastier than the plastic-wrapped stuff that lurks in the darker recesses of convenience stores. Also, it has just the right texture, each bite a satisfying tug.

The barbecue chicken sandwich is another matter: Its sickly sweet sauce overwhelms the chicken, but considering its dark, mystery-meat color and texture, that may be a good thing. It leaves a lasting chemical heaviness, although Darsch emphasizes its natural ingredients.

"There are no chemicals you can't pronounce," he said.

Sure enough, the back of the packet — dated five months ago! — is easy enough to decipher. Some ingredients — honey molasses, yellow mustard — even flirt with appetizing, depending on how hungry you are.

Other ingredients — like "chicken water" — make a case for long chemical names.

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Dear Saddam, How Can I Help?

By Brian McWilliams
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,55967,00.html

02:00 AM Oct. 28, 2002 PST

On the afternoon of July 17, a self-proclaimed expert in biochemistry composed an e-mail message to Saddam Hussein.

The message, sent from an MSN Hotmail account on a computer in China, recommended the use of methyl bromide, an agricultural pesticide, as an effective chemical weapon against the U.S. Army.

"For weapon use, have function: no color, no smell, will let person dead in a few second," wrote the e-mail's author, who provided the phone number and address of a distributor in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from which the toxic chemical could be purchased "in cylinder or in can."

The chilling electronic missive was among hundreds evidently sent to Iraq's president last summer from people around the world.

As America veers toward confrontation with Iraq, these e-mail messages provide a raw, uncensored view of global opinion -- and of the potential challenges awaiting U.S. efforts to disarm or overthrow Saddam, Iraq's leader since 1979.

It's not clear whether Saddam uses e-mail or even knows how to operate a personal computer. But scores of people write to him each week at press@uruklink.net, the e-mail address listed on the official homepage of the Iraqi presidency since at least October 2000.

Messages sent to the account, Iraq's version of president@whitehouse.gov, run the gamut from fawning solicitations for autographed photos and media interviews to obscene death threats.

The e-mails sent to press@uruklink.net were obtained earlier this month by first clicking on a link, labeled "Check your e-mail in Uruk," on the homepage of Iraq's state-controlled ISP, Uruklink.net, then guessing the login name and password -- both of which were the same, five-letter word.

Uruklink's Web-based e-mail service has been unavailable for the past three days. The version of webmail software used by the Iraqi ISP is known to have several security holes -- but the patches available for them do not appear to have been applied.

Among the hundreds of messages marked as unread in Saddam's inbox were several junk e-mails and messages infected with computer viruses. Numerous e-mails -- including some from Americans -- offered advice and assistance to Saddam.

Consider, for example, a flurry of messages apparently sent to Saddam by an employee of a Saudi Arabian oil company in July and August. The e-mails contained cryptic reports in broken English about the location of U.S. oil pipelines, as well as warnings about the movement of submarines, aircraft and other military equipment and personnel in the Middle East.

"I will try to give you (An Sha Allah) a good way to protect your Muslims," said the message. (The phrase In sha' Allah, from the Quran, means "God willing.")

Meanwhile, an Internet user from Washington state, who conceded that he would "probably end up on some FBI watch list for writing this," told Saddam in an e-mail dated Aug. 1 that he opposed military action against Iraq.

The author of the message advised Saddam to be diligent "with regards to your own personal security. The CIA is notoriously crafty and extremely adept at overthrowing governments and their respective leaders."

In another message, a resident of Vienna, Austria, told Saddam in a July 27 message that Americans are "arrogant," and that should the United States attack Iraq, "you need only send a ticket and I will come to Iraq to fight the Americans. I am a good shot, and I am serious about my offer."

Saddam's inbox also contained several solicitations from American companies hoping to do business with Iraq -- despite U.S. prohibitions and United Nations trade sanctions.

On Aug. 16, the CEO of a California wireless technology-maker e-mailed Saddam to request a meeting. According to the CEO's message, the two could discuss "technology improvements and exporting of rich technology abroad."

In a press release dated Sept. 13, the company said it has developed "4G" wireless technology capable of being used "as a weapon to ignite large sections of the atmosphere and incinerate all living creatures within its pre-selected coordinates." The press release also called for the resignation of President Bush.

In a telephone interview, the CEO said he attempted to contact Saddam to obtain permission to place a wireless communications antenna in Iraq. "No way would we ever give the weapon-of-mass-destruction technology to Mr. Hussein," the executive said.

On Aug. 14, the proprietor of a Las Vegas company e-mailed Saddam "looking for someone to talk to about selling my fire retardant for the army over there. We have a great product for the army."

The business owner replied to an e-mailed interview request, and was informed how his message had been read. The man confirmed it had been sent from his address, but that it had been a joke by a friend. He also stressed that he would never sell products to Iraq.

Joke or not, such deals with Iraq are legally risky -- if not outright illegal.

A 1990 U.S. executive order prohibits transactions between American companies and Iraq, according to Joseph Wilson, former deputy chief of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq and an adjunct scholar with the Middle East Institute. The U.N. sanctions imposed in the wake of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait further restrict trade of "militarily useful items" with Iraq, Wilson said.

An excerpt from a U.N. document known as the Goods Review List (PDF) containing a list of chemicals, biological agents and other prohibited items was repeatedly e-mailed to the Iraqi president's account from several Uruklink users over a one-week period in mid-August. A file attached to the messages was infected with what appeared to be a variant of the Yaha computer worm.

The presence of strict U.N. controls didn't stop the chairman of one London company from e-mailing Saddam on Aug. 9 with an offer to mediate Iraq's purchase of unspecified products from western Europe.

"Please consider this letter as secret ... I ensure you absolute secrecy," the e-mail stated.

A Buenos Aires businessman repeatedly e-mailed Saddam in early August offering technology "stolen from the National Transportation Safety Board of United States" and designed to "enlarge the security of flight in helicopters."

According to the author of the message, the technology was worth $40 million.

International interest in e-mailing Saddam was apparently piqued in October 2001, when Iraq's leader sent a long-winded personal response to a message from Chris Love, a Pennsylvania resident who had pleaded with Saddam to seek peace with the United States.

Saddam's 3,300-word message, which included the first detailed condolences by Iraq's leader following the Sept. 11 attacks, garnered considerable media coverage. Love said in an interview that he was even forced to stop answering his phone and to disable his e-mail account after receiving a barrage of interview requests.

According to Wilson, Iraq has a "well-oiled propaganda machine" and messages like Love's "kind of play into Saddam's hands. He likes nothing more than to be able to parade some misguided people as proof that Americans don't support their government."

Nine months after Sept. 11, however, as President Bush began turning up the heat on Iraq, Americans also wrote to criticize Iraq's ruler.

A man who identified himself as a former U.S. paratrooper and Persian Gulf War veteran e-mailed on June 25 that he regretted that "a political solution decision was made before my friends and I had a chance to completely wipe your cartoon character of a leader off the face of this earth."

One AOL user sent Saddam a one-word message: "Imminent." Attached to the Aug. 6 e-mail was a photograph of an atomic mushroom cloud.

An Internet user from London chided Saddam for hoarding Iraq's oil wealth for himself while the country's citizens die of starvation. "You really are a most cynical regime," wrote the author of the e-mail, which was dated Aug. 10.

Comments about Iraq's oil resources figured into several of the messages. An Australian resident suggested in July that Saddam cut off oil to neighboring Turkey, which the message's author said was America's No. 2 ally after Israel. The e-mail said Iraq could also tighten the screws on Turkey "if they cooperate with America" by threatening to use biological and chemicals weapons on Turkey.

Though some analysts say Iraq's U.N.-mandated Persian Gulf War reparation payments -- which currently stand at more than $43 billion -- have mortgaged the future of Iraq's economy, a financial services firm in Canada was apparently still hopeful.

In a July 1 e-mail addressed to "Iraqi Presidency," the chairman of the company proposed a "future relationship" with Iraq.

The company, located in Montreal, specializes in "the movement and leveraging of financial instruments" as well as "conversion of currencies" and "offshore activities," according to the e-mail.

One pragmatic AOL user urged Saddam on July 28 to cooperate fully with U.N. inspectors as the best way to avoid war.

"Please allow the weapons inspectors into your country so that the illegitimate leader of my country, the U.S.A., who perpetrated a coup and stole the election, will not have an excuse to attack your country. If you would do that it would take away his power and weaken him and make you look like the bigger man," she wrote.

Another Internet user, who identified himself as a 20-year-old Mormon from Utah, wrote that he prayed for the day when Iraqis have plentiful food, medicine, clothing and other necessities.

But the author of a July 19 message said he was frustrated about his inability to help bring about such changes.

"To me it is all politics. Wars and disputes are not about right and wrong, nor are they about good versus evil, but they are about power," he wrote.

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A Ukrainian miner smokes after going on strike at a mine in the town of Gorlivka, in Ukraine's eastern Donestk region, October 16, 2002. Workers at dozens of coal mines in eastern Ukraine launched a three-day strike on Wednesday, to demand better working conditions and increased state financing to help the ailing industry. REUTERS/Alexander Khudotioply

Filipino workers push a giant shoe, said to be the world's largest, to a podium in preparation for its unveiling in Marikina city, Oct. 21, 2002. Shoe manufacturers constructed the 18-foot shoe to promote the local shoe industry. (Reuters/Romeo Ranoco)

An airliner is silhouetted against a full moon, October 20, 2002, in Tempe, Arizona. (AP Photo /Matt York)

U.S. President George W. Bush is framed by an American flag at a South Carolina welcome at the Jimmy Doolittle Flight Facility in Columbia, October 24, 2002. REUTERS/Larry Downing

John Lee Malvo, 17, left, and John Allen Muhammad, are seen in this recent family photo in Louisiana, provided by Muhammad's former sister-in-law Sheron Norman, Thursday Oct. 24, 2002, in Baton Rouge, La. Muhammad, a 41-year-old Army veteran and the teenager described as his stepson were arrested at a roadside rest stop Thursday for questioning in the three-week wave of deadly sniper attacks that have terrorized the Washington, D.C., area. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sheron Norman)

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"Imagination is More Important Than Knowledge"

One of hip-hop's greatest enigmas, DMX, will unravel a good deal of the mystery that surrounds him when he launches his autobiography.

"E.A.R.L., The Autobiography of DMX" hits bookstores in early November and features the rapper's story in his own words.

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Review of BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE by eonline.com:
Michael Moore has big Bowling balls. Who else would pull an ambush interview on NRA president Charlton Heston at home? Or hang out with the brother of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols? Or have the nuts to show the security tapes of the Columbine High School shooting tragedy? Roger & Me's Moore does this and more when he examines America's fascination with firearms in his latest highly-opinionated documentary. The liberal political humorist doesn't find many solid answers, but asks a lot of good questions along his somewhat meandering way--if you must know, he loosely and sarcastically equates bowling with the reason for the Columbine shootings. He even gets a shock of his own when he gets a major corporation to reexamine their firearm-sellin' ways. A strike? Not quite, but a good score nonetheless.

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Police Hunt for $1.5 Million Necklace Thieves

Bahraini police are searching for two European men suspected of stealing a $1.5 million diamond necklace from a jewelry show, newspapers said Sunday.

The English-language Gulf Daily News said the necklace, an exquisite creation of renowned jewelers Cartier, was on display Friday at the Jewelry Arabia exhibition when the two men struck.

"An employee at the stand handed it to them (the suspects) to inspect, then turned to deal with another customer," the paper said, quoting an official at the shop which ran the stand.

"When he turned back, one man had vanished with the necklace and the other man melted into the crowds in the ensuing confusion," the paper added.

The paper said the necklace was insured. Renowned jewelers such as Chopard also had their glittering ware

Bank Robbed by Own Security Guard

An Israeli bank was robbed at gunpoint Sunday by its own security guard, who made off with 100,000 shekels ($21,000), police said.

A police spokesman said he expected police to catch the guard, who fled on foot, soon because "we know everything about him."

The guard was employed by a security company that has a contract with Bank Leumi, Israel's second largest bank, bank spokeswoman Ricki Carmi said.

She said the guard went into the Leumi branch in the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva after the bank closed to customers but bank employees were still working and told a teller to give him the money.

Carmi said the bank was investigating the incident with the security company, whose guards are licensed to carry weapons.

Cousin's Tell-All Book Doesn't Faze Eminem

Calculating and timed to the letter, a woman who wrote a scandalous, tell-all book about the Detroit rapper was hawking the book on a local radio station.

Eminem is not one to grant interviews, nor say anything outside of giving his opinion through his music, but he did give a call-in to a radio show to dispute the author's claims and clear up some misconceptions.

"I thank God every day that he gave me the talent and strength to get through everything I've been through," Eminem said.

Eminem has had his share of people trying to jump on his celebrity band wagon.

In August 2000, his mother, Debbie Mathers, sued him for defamation because of how she was depicted in some of Eminem's songs.

But J.R. "Jen" Watkins -- who is the cousin of Kim Mathers, Eminem's ex-wife -- said that her book, "Cleaning Out My Closet," was more of a way to "get things off my chest."

"It started as a project and a kind of message to Marshall, too," Watkins said during the radio interview.

"I have no way to get in touch with him. He's just broke off all ties without any explanation," Watkins said.

The woman has said that she practically "brought up" Eminem's daughter, Haley.

Kim Mathers, who is also featured prominently in the book, called in to the station, too.

"That's my cousin, Jennifer, sitting in the studio with you right now. What I have to say is first and foremost that she wants to talk about how I'm a family-wrecker. Let's talk about how she wrecks her family, how she dates her aunt's ex-husband... The real reason she stopped speaking to me is because I wouldn't have sex with her and her husband," Mathers said.

Eminem told the radio audience that the book doesn't faze him.

"The people who end up writing books about me, end up back in their little trailer-trash homes anyway. They think they're going to get a little money and it ends up flopping and back firing in their face," he said.

Kim Mathers believes that the reason her cousin wrote the book is because she was trying to get revenge on Eminem.

"The fact of the matter of her writing the book is that she's mad because she tried to get with Marshall. He didn't want to see her in that way and because he cut off ties with her she's pissed," Mathers said.

Eminem backed up his ex-wife's statement "100 percent."

When asked to confirm the rumors that he and Kim were back together, Eminem said that the two have a friendly relationship because of their daughter.

Meanwhile, a source says that J.R. Watkins and her husband, Mike, had every intention of releasing the book to coincide with the media splash that would happen when Eminem's movie "8 Mile" is released on Nov. 8.

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Jay-Z Says He Would Have Liked To Be On Braxton Track

"Zero," Jay-Z said on Friday about the amount of influence Toni Braxton's "Me and My Boyfriend" had on the making of his " '03 Bonnie & Clyde," which features Beyoncé Knowles.

Both songs use music and lyrics from Tupac's "Me and My Girlfriend," and last week Braxton publicly accused Jigga of stealing her idea to take from Pac's musical love story of a man and his gun. Members of the Roc-A-Fella family quickly came to Jay's defense and now Mr. H-to-the-Izzo tells his side of the story.

"If I heard Toni Braxton's record, my thing is, I would want to be on it with her," he explained. "I wouldn't want to take it from her. I don't even think like that. My first thought would be, 'Maybe I could call her up, maybe I could get on that record.' The most obvious [explanation] is it's neither one of our records. It's not like you made an original idea. She's not in hip-hop, but it happens in hip-hop often. We go to sample the same thing and my record came out first. I'm sorry. What can I do?"

Jay was off to Miami over the weekend to shoot a commercial for his November 12 release, Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse. From October 26 to 30, he and Beyoncé will be in Mexico to shoot the video for " '03 Bonnie & Clyde" with director Chris Robinson. The clip will be loosely based on one of Jay's favorite movies, 1993's "True Romance," which starred Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette as two lovers on the run from cocaine dealers.

Jay has released another song from Blueprint 2 to the mixshow and mixtape DJs called "Hovi Baby." At a listening session last week in New York, Jay said it was his "barbershop argument" song. On the cut, Jay tells why he is not to be messed with on the mic.

Metallica's Ulrich Asked To Work With RZA On Tarantino Score

Rap/metal collaborations are getting pretty stale, but here's one that might actually rock like a pup tent in a hailstorm.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has been asked to work with RZA from Wu-Tang Clan on the musical score for the next Quentin Tarantino film, "Kill Bill," according to RZA's publicist.

Scheduled for release sometime next year, "Kill Bill" is a martial-arts flick about a female assassin who is betrayed and almost killed by her peers. Five years later, she awakens from a coma and seeks bloody revenge. The movie stars Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu and LaTanya Richardson.

RZA's inclusion in the movie score was a natural choice. In addition to producing the score for the Jim Jarmusch flick "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," he's obsessed with martial-arts movies, and has used plenty of kung-fu imagery with the Wu.

"Kill Bill" is the first soundtrack for which Ulrich been asked to help write original music.

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Nicolas Cage Sells Comic Books for $1.6 Million

Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage has sold his personal comic book collection, including a copy of Superman's 1938 pulp debut, at auction for more than $1.6 million, organizers of the sale said on Friday.

The 400 items in the catalog, collected individually over the years by Cage, were sold Thursday night to various bidders in a sale conducted by the Heritage Auctions house of Dallas in conjunction with the Mint of Kansas City, Mo.

"He had a very good eye for quality," Heritage Auctions chairman James Halperin said of Cage's collection.

Cage's copy of Action Comics #1, the 1938 comic featuring the first appearance of Superman, sold for $86,250, more than $15,000 above its estimated value, auction organizers said.

A 1940 comic book, Detective #38, featuring the debut of Batman's sidekick, Robin, fetched nearly $121,000. Another 1940 publication, All-Star Comics #3, which introduced the Justice Society of America, the first superhero team including the Green Lantern, Hawkman and the Flash, sold for $45,000.

"This is a real treasure trove of high-quality material from the Golden Age of comics," said John Petty, director of Heritage Auctions' comics branch.

No explanation was given for why Cage, 38, who won an Academy Award for his role in "Leaving Las Vegas," was selling off his comics collection.

Zookeepers Suspended for Eating Animals

Two zookeepers in a small northwest German town have been suspended and put under police investigation for eating the zoo's animals, police said on Friday.

A police spokesman in Recklinghausen north of Cologne said the keepers in a section of the zoo popular with small children had slaughtered and barbecued five Tibetan mountain chickens and two Cameroonian sheep.

"The animals were in the 'pet' zoo where all the children would go to stroke them," the spokesman said. Suspicious zoo managers called police after the animals went missing.

Peru Finds Inca Burial Site at Machu Picchu

Peruvian archeologists have discovered the first full Inca burial site at Machu Picchu since the famous mountaintop citadel was discovered 90 years ago, officials said on Saturday.

"It's important because nothing like this -- a burial site and all that goes with it -- has been found since the Bingham era," Machu Picchu's administrator, Fernando Astete, told Reuters, referring to the U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham who rediscovered the Inca citadel in 1911.

"The find is significant because of the funeral objects, such as stone and clay pots and five metal objects accompanying the remains of bones of a person, probably a woman," he added.

He said other excavations in recent years at the atmospheric gray stone site, perched at an altitude of 8,200 feet on top of a mountain near the edge of Peru's southern jungle, had yielded some bone fragments but not Inca graves.

"Studies will confirm the sex and determine the age of the person who was buried, but the objects that were found around the body point to it having been a young woman," he added.

Machu Picchu, which was built more than 500 years ago, is Peru's top tourist attraction and a U.N. World Heritage site, drawing some 500,000 foreign visitors a year.

"When the citadel of Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911, 172 tombs with human remains were found, but over the years only bones have been found. It's only now that a complete burial site has been uncovered," Astete said.

The Spanish conquerors of Peru never stumbled upon Machu Picchu, near the southern Andean city of Cusco, some 684 miles southeast of Lima, and the site was only discovered when Bingham and local guides came across the vegetation-covered ruins.

Cusco was capital of the Inca empire from the 13th to the 16th century. The Inca empire stretched from Colombia to Chile.

Astete said well-preserved ceramics, including a stone pan and clay pot, as well as bronze pins, a mirror and clasps, were found in the burial site.

The site was discovered a week ago in a sector of Machu Picchu that was used by the Incas as a viewing place. Archeologists have been excavating there for several months, and found the grave some 31.5 inches (80 cm) below the surface.

Astete said Machu Picchu had not yielded all its secrets yet. "Not everything has been discovered, there are parts which have not been investigated yet by archeologists," he said. Another group of investigators found new stone terraces, water channels, a garbage dump and a wall at Machu Picchu in June.

The burial find will be put on display where it was found to encourage tourism, he added. This cash-strapped Andean nation is betting on tourism as a big money spinner and most visitors to Peru make the trip to Machu Picchu.

Spanish matador Manuel Jesus 'El Cid' is gored in the thigh by a bull during a bullfight in The Maestranza bull ring, in Seville, October 12, 2002. El Cid was taken to hospital with a 25-centimeter gash in his thigh. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

A man puts packing hooks through his cheek in Phuket province, 690 kilometers (428 miles) southwest of Bangkok, Thailand, to celebrate the annual Vegetarian Festival Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002. Every year around early October devout Buddhists in the overseas Chinese community celebrate the nine-day festival, during which some perform acts of self-mortification including body-piercing, although such acts are not part of mainstream Buddhist faith. (AP Photo/Kiti Tungkul)

Jay-Z Album Preview: Hova Ups The Ante With Blueprint 2

After fending off naysayers for years, Jay-Z finally decided to back down when making his latest, The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse.

No, Jigga isn't giving up his claim-staking to hip-hop's crown — he's upping the ante, all at the urging of his crew, with a double album.

"I didn't want to do it," Jay, seated next to Memphis Bleek, said Wednesday night at Bassline Studios. "These guys talked me into it. I knew it was gonna be difficult to follow The Blueprint. [Then] I started recording a lot of songs, and the songs were coming out so good."

Of the 40 songs Jay recorded with producers such as the Neptunes, Kanye West, Dr. Dre, Timbaland and Just Blaze, 20 cuts, along with four bonus tracks, will appear on The Blueprint 2, which has a more eclectic sound than the soul-based soundscape of its predecessor.

"[Tracks on The] Blueprint were all familiar," Jay said. "This one, I wanted to take it everywhere. ... Some next sh--."

Jigga steps into the reggae realm for "If You With Me," which Sean Paul is scheduled to lay vocals on. From there, Jay touches rock with the Heavy D-produced "Guns and Roses," which features Lenny Kravitz.

Over guitar thrashes, Jay, who rhymes "I'm the young Ralph Lauren/ Michael Corleone on the microphone," also raps about earning his bachelors by dating models and actresses and how his invisible rhyme book leaves other MCs shook. Meanwhile, Kravitz sings, "Life is like guns and roses/ Bittersweet like friends and foes-es/ Some get chosen."

On "Excuse Me," Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes does some high-pitched crooning ("Excuse me/ What's your name?/ Lady, what's your name?/ ... So contagious, I can't take it"), Jay playfully goes into a sing-song flow, taking from Luther Vandross' "Take You Out."

"Excuse me, miss/ What's your name?" he starts off before later playing off Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa." "I see some ladies tonight that be rollin' with Jay-Z, Jay-Z."

He adds, "I have one chef, one maid, I just need a partner to play spades with," trying to tell the ladies he wants them to fall for Shawn Carter and not Jay-Z.

Jezebels steer clear, though — "Sisters and Bitches" breaks down the differences between the two. "This is gonna be a shocker, but listen to the whole song," Jay said with a smile before playing the track.

"Sisters work hard/ Bitches work your nerves," he rapped on record a few moments later. "Sisters hold you down/ Bitches hold you up/ ... I love all my sisters but don't love no bitch."

A guy who's been known to fling the b-word around every now and then, Dr. Dre, produced and spits on the remix to "The Watcher." (The original version was featured on Dr. Dre 2001.) The beat starts off with creepy lifeline beeps, and then thunderous string plucks come in. Truth Hurts sings, "I know y'all got your eyes on me/ Feel you watching me/ It ain't hard to see that you can't see me," in between the duo's verses. Rakim closes the song, flowing with the lyrical acumen he displayed in the late '80s.

Scarface, most of the Roc family, Faith Evans, Beyoncé Knowles of Destiny's Child, LaToiya Williams and Sadat X also pop up throughout the LP. One old-time crooner also helped Young Hova get his point across, though he didn't lay down live vocals.

"You might have heard this sample before," Jay said with a light chuckle as the engineer cued up "I Did It My Way," which samples the classic "My Way."

"We used the Paul Anka version — that way it was cheaper," Jay said. On the song, he likens himself to Frank Sinatra, Damon Dash to Sammy Davis Jr. and Kareem "Biggs" Burke to Dean Martin.

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Jay-Z Camp Refutes Toni Braxton's Tupac-Biting Claims

You can call Jay-Z a lot of things, but his Roc-A-Fella family says a thief is not one of them.

On Tuesday (October 8), Toni Braxton and her camp sent out a statement claiming that he bit her idea to redo the 1996 Tupac Shakur song "Me and My Girlfriend" (see "Deja Feud: Jay-Z, Toni Braxton Tracks Sample Same Tupac Song").

"I had no idea about Toni Braxton's [song]," said Kanye West — producer of the contentious Jay-Z track, "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" — on Wednesday (October 9). "She can't act like ain't nobody ever heard 'Me and My Girlfriend' before. People hear the song all the time. I can [understand her complaint] if it [was] an original song."

"'03 Bonnie & Clyde," the first single from Jay-Z's The Blueprint 2 LP, features Beyoncé Knowles and uses a similar chorus and beat to Pac's original (see "Jay-Z, Beyonce Are 'Bonnie & Clyde' On First Blueprint 2 Single"). Meanwhile, Braxton samples Pac's music and vocals from "Me and My Girlfriend" for "Me and My Boyfriend," which is slated to be the second single off her More Than a Woman LP, due in November.

Braxton said her song was recorded over the summer and alleged that Jay only decided to do "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" after she played her cut for a friend at Def Jam Records. In response, Kanye West said that he brought the remake idea to Jigga after listening to a friend's Makaveli album one night.

"I popped the CD in and started playing songs," recalled Kanye, who was attending a Roc-A-Fella press conference to promote the "Paid in Full" movie and an accompanying tour and soundtrack. "I went to 'Me and My Girlfriend' and was like, 'Oh, sh--, this joint would be crazy for [Jay-Z] and Beyoncé.' He had told me a week before that he needed a joint for him and Beyoncé. I remember he called [and] said, 'We got this joint, it has to be the best beat you ever made. Just picture if you got my first single — Hov and Beyoncé — how big you would be then.'

"So I went home and called my dog E Base, who plays a lot of instruments up at Baseline [studio] for me and [producer] Just Blaze," West continued. "[E] came through. I programmed the drums in 10 minutes, and then he played all the different parts. This version is all live bass, live guitars, [live] chords on it. I brought it to Hov that night, he heard it, he thought of the video treatment before he thought of the rap. He just knew it was gonna be the one."

Roc-A-Fella co-CEO Damon Dash, who also announced the signing of longtime underground champs M.O.P. at Wednesday's press conference, defended the Jiggaman as well.

"Jay is a talented dude. I don't think he would steal anything intentionally," Dash said. "It's an ill coincidence, and things happen for a reason. We'll see what happens behind it.

"I read it in the paper, and Jay and I were talking about it this morning and it was a little funny," Dash recalled. "I know he didn't intentionally make the same record she made. I don't think he even heard it. [My] reaction is, 'Sorry, it wasn't intentional.' Jay makes records and puts them out. This sh-- is music. It's just music. We don't sit around and have a blueprint to f--- anybody's life up. The music business has been good to us. I'm not getting into any beef or nothing over music."

Deja Feud: Jay-Z, Toni Braxton Tracks Sample Same Tupac Song

Get ready to do a double take when you turn on your radio. Four heavyweight music stars will be duking it out with similar variations of the same Tupac Shakur song.

Jay-Z and Destiny's Child's Beyoncé Knowles recorded a new version of the 1996 Tupac track "Me and My Girlfriend" for Jay's upcoming Blueprint 2 - The Gift and the Curse, but they weren't the only ones in a Makaveli mood. Expectant pop singer Toni Braxton also interpreted the West Coast rap track with the help of Murder Inc. producers Irv Gotti and Chink Santana.

Braxton's "Me and My Girlfriend," which will appear on her More Than a Woman, due in November, contains the same chorus as Jay-Z's "Bonnie & Clyde," along with a sample of Tupac's original vocals.

An Arista spokesperson said Braxton invited a friend from Def Jam, Jigga's label, to listen to the song a few months back. "Imagine our surprise after turning on the radio and hearing the new Jay Z single 'Bonnie &Clyde,' featuring Beyoncé," the spokesperson said. "It's the same song. They even use the same Tupac sample. Frankly, she is insulted and disappointed."

Calling in to a New York radio station, Braxton said, "Jay-Z and Beyoncé are messing with my money. They're trying to steal my mojo."

Murder Inc. had no comment, and Jay-Z could not be reached.

99-year-old sprinter is star of games

A 99-year-old sprinter is one of the stars of the World Masters Games in Australia.

Charles Booth carried the torch down an avenue of honour at the opening ceremony in Melbourne.

The event has attracted more than 25,000 competitors aged between 24 and 99 from 97 countries.

The athletics track and field competition is to feature many competitors in their 80s.

They include former 400 metre world record holder Mike Johnston, who is 81.

Weightlifting competitors include 90-year-old Vladimir Younger, who aims to beat relative youngsters to clinch gold.

The squash event is expected to be dominated by 87-year-old Vic Hunt, the father of seven-times squash world champion Geoff Hunt.

The state of Victoria hopes to gain a £44.74 million boost from the games, which close on October 13.

Snoop Says, 'It Is Cool To Say No To Drugs'

Snoop Dogg isn't himself in his new video, and it has nothing to do with not smoking pot anymore.

Something else has taken over his actions.

"A little Snoop Dogg fan of mine, he's got my little action figure doll and somehow, some way, he makes the action figure move me, so whatever the doll does, I does," Snoop explained on the set of the video, directed by Diane Martel (Eve, N.E.R.D.).

"He's controlling me and making me knock things over, touch people in different ways. And I finally meet up with him and get control of him and grab my doll back and just save the day.

"It's a nice, fun video," the laid-back rapper continued. "I'm just trying to have fun and leave the violence to the left. I got violent [songs] on my record, but this video's a fun [song], and it's all about me having fun."

The Neptunes-produced "From Tha Chuuch to Tha Palace" is Snoop being himself, dropping brag rhymes like "I still got the gin and juice in hand."

"It's just sayin' I'm back, even though I ain't never went nowhere," Snoop explained. "It's been two years since I had a song on record, so [I'm] just lettin' everybody know that I been listenin', I been hearin' about this and that and whatnot, and I'm back to take my throne back from all these suckers in the game."

In general, Snoop's sixth album and first on his own Doggy Style label, Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss, is about celebrating his successes and reclaiming the respect he feels is due.

"I was the under-boss in the beginning, and I moved up to the captain and I became a general," the rapper said, recalling his days on Suge Knight's Death Row and Master P's No Limit labels. "And now I'm the muthaf---in' boss, so I paid the cost to be the boss. It speaks for itself."

Along with the Neptunes, Snoop's November 26 release features production work from DJ Premier, Hi-Tek and Jelly Roll as well as guest vocals by Ludacris, Redman, Lady of Rage and others. Jay-Z also appears, along with Nate Dogg, Soopafly and producer Just Blaze on the track "Lollipop."

And speaking of lollipops, Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss includes what is bound to be a memorable dis track in "Pimp't Slapped".

"Anybody that calls me out is a lollipop, a sucker," Snoop said as he licked his own pop. "I never paid no attention to him, but it just got to a point to where it was like every time I put a record out, [Knight] put a record out with me on it. And [he's always] talkin' about me and tryin' to get at me and just doin' negative things towards me and mine, so I just wanted to stand up to him and let him know that I ain't no punk and I ain't no little boy. I'm a grown-ass man and the way you bring it is the way you gotta take it."

While "Pimp't Slapped" also calls out Kurupt and Xzibit and appears to address frustrations about other West Coast rappers not standing up to Knight, Snoop said his only beef is with the Death Row founder.

"I got love for everybody that I started with, Dr. Dre, Daz ...," Snoop said. "I still love Kurupt even though he made a stupid-ass move by signing with Death Row, doing whatever he doing.

"I respect Dr. Dre to the utmost," he continued. "When I make a record, I always present him with a CD before I put the record out to get his say so on it, to hear what he thinks about it, what's strong, what's weak, what's good, what's bad. I know and understand what Dr. Dre means to me. Without Dr. Dre, without Warren G, without these key people in my life, Snoop Dogg wouldn't be where he is, because they believed in me before the whole world got a chance to see and hear who I was."

Who exactly Snoop is these days has the hip-hop world wondering, now that the man known for rapping "rollin' down the street smokin' indo" has gone clean. The news came as such a shock that rumors of health issues immediately ensued.

"I been smoking weed and drinking every day of my life for the past 10 years, and I just wanted to get high off of life and take a new direction and see what it sounds like and what it looks like from that point of view," Snoop said. "I'm also coaching my son's football team, and being around kids five days a week, I wanted to be inspirational to the kids because they all look up to me. And I wanted to give 'em something to look up to, because it is cool to say no to drugs, and that's what I'm doing right now.

"I'm 30 years old, and as you get older you get wiser, and that's what it's all about," he continued. "No, I don't have lung cancer, and I don't have throat cancer. I wanted to become a better Snoop Dogg, feelin' good, full of water, proteins, cholesterols and all kinds of stuff to keep me alive — lollipops and Big Macs."

Irv Gotti Shooting Ja Rule, Bobby Brown, Charli; Reveals Remixes List

While he probably won't be wearing the Gumby haircut or dancing in biker shorts, Bobby Brown will soon be back up to his old tricks.

Brown is set to make a full-blast return in front of the cameras alongside Ja Rule in the video for the rapper's "Thug Love," which is shooting next week in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The clip, which is the first from Rule's The Last Temptation LP, due November 19, will be directed by Murder Inc. head Irv Gotti.

I.G. is looking to make the most of his time on the West Coast and keep his director's chair extra warm and cozy. Right after shooting wraps on "Thug Love," he'll helm the video for "Hey Charli," the lead cut off of Charli Baltimore's December 3 release, The Diary ... You Think You Know.

All this comes in the wake of the completion of production on the remix video to "The Pledge." According to a spokesperson for the Inc., that video features Nas and Ja Rule trading verses while standing at a podium in a mock conference. Clips of Ja's next movie, "Half Past Dead," are also shown in between shots of the two rappers.

"The Pledge" remix appears in the film as well as on Irv Gotti Presents ... The Remixes, which drops October 29.

For a feature interview with Irv Gotti and Murder Inc., check out "Murder Inc.: In Gotti We Trust."

Irv Gotti Presents ... The Remixes track list, according to Def Jam:
Big Remo - "The Remixes" (Intro)
Ashanti - "UnFoolish"
Ashanti, Charli Baltimore, Young Merc and D.O. Cannon - "I'm So Happy (Remix)"
Ashanti, Ja Rule and Nas - "The Pledge (Remix)"
Caddillac Tah and Ja Rule - "O.G. (Remix)"
"Boss" (Skit)
Toni Braxton and I.G. - "No More Love"
Caddillac Tah, Ja Rule and Ashanti - "Come-N-Go"
Caddillac Tah - "Poverlous"
"Spanish Dancing" (Skit)
Mary J. Blige and Ja Rule - "Rainy Days (Remix)"
"Moreno" (Skit)
Scarface - "Baby (Remix)"
Young Merc, D.O. Cannon and Black Child - "Hard Livin' "
Caddillac Tah, Black Child and Ja Rule - "No One Does It Better (Remix)"
"Remo Back" (Skit)
Young Merc and D.O. Cannon - "We Dem Boyz"
Crooked I - "Baby (Remix)"