| PETA Asks That Accused Cannibal Not Eat Meat in Jail
Animal rights group PETA has asked the jail housing a man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly eating her body parts not to feed him meat, the activist organization told FOXNews.com. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals faxed a letter Thursday to the Smith County Sheriff's Jail in Tyler, Texas, asking that 25-year-old Christopher Lee McCuin be placed on a strict vegetarian diet to prevent him from being "involved in any senseless killing" while he's behind bars, said PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich. "Only in a culture where people routinely kill and eat living, feeling beings — corpses — would anybody think to kill and either eat or pretend to eat a human corpse," Friedrich said in a phone interview. Click here to read the letter.
Out of the woods: Forager Faber is a master in the wild
Until you know your trees and plants, forget about finding mushrooms," he said. Unlike the stereotype of the secretive forager, he freely shares most sites. "There are so many chanterelles out there, dying in the woods," he said. "You can't pick them all!" But this also might relate to his feelings toward chanterelles. They are "boring and monotonous" to pick. With some mind-of-their-own mushrooms, like matsutakes, conditions can be perfect to find them and they still might never surface. Chanterelles are always where you would expect them to be. He doesn't eat chanterelles, either. "Pssssh. Never." His tastes go more toward the hazelnut flavor of hedgehogs -- some small dimpled "bellybuttons," others big "sweet tooths," both showing a snowy-white, quill-like pattern under their caps.
Body Over Mind
As the weather starts improving, try parking the car a little farther than you usually do, or give it up completely on some days and take short walks to run your errands or to go to the mosque. Take the stairs instead of the elevator, going up quickly for a cardio workout, and climb the stairs two at a time for a great stretching exercise. (MJ) Fighting the FlabStaying healthy without piling on the poundsTHERE'S A HUGE difference between theory and practice when it comes to the Holy Month. All Muslims know that Ramadan is supposed to be 30 days of spirituality and self-sacrifice, a chance for one to cleanse both body and soul, but the majority of us tend to do just the opposite. From a health standpoint, what actually takes place during Ramadan is quite frightening. As soon as the hilal (crescent moon) has been spotted and the announcement of the start of Ramadan has been made, we all switch into ‘fasting mode,' which usually means three things: gastronomic overindulgence, sleep deprivation and marathon television viewing.
Tower Records to be scratched from Strip
Preservation of what once was the Sunset Strip's most colorful place has turned into a black-and-white issue in West Hollywood.
Preservationists complain that city leaders blocked their application to have a former Tower Records building declared a historic resource because color photographs of the brightly painted building were attached to the paperwork instead of black-and-white pictures that officials said were required.
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US shoppers brave the cold as stores lure them with big discounts
New York in November can be bitterly cold. New York at the end of November at four o’clock in the morning is especially so, yet yesterday, under black night skies and with breath casting trails in the chilly air, that was the time that America began a key period in its retailing year. The day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday because it typically marks the point in the year when retailers go into the black, is the biggest shopping day of the year and kicks off the Christmas retail period. Yesterday, however, there were more nerves than usual behind the tills of the country’s big stores. Would the summer’s credit crisis and America’s housing slump dampen sales? Many stores were promising 90 per cent discounts on electrical items, furniture, clothing and footwear from sales that started at 4am yesterday.
Where Macy's, Nordstrom and J.C. Penney fail, T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and ...
Just look at TJX Cos., owner of TJ Maxx and Marshalls. In a day of downbeat retail sales reports, when many retailers lowered their earnings forecasts, TJX bucked the trend Thursday by raising its fourth-quarter earnings forecast.
With so many department and specialty stores stuck with racks of clothing and piles of sweaters after a weak fall and tepid holiday, off-price merchants like TJX can swoop in and make great deals with stores eager to generate sales.
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U.S. troop reductions likely to slow down this summer
Eight others were wounded in a separate bomb attack in the capital's central Karrada neighborhood. Weapons in wrong hands : Weapons the U.S. provides to Iraqi security forces may still be ending up in the hands of terrorists, insurgents and criminals, the Defense Department inspector general told Congress on Tuesday. Appearing before the House appropriations defense subcommittee, inspector Claude Kicklighter said his office received complaints nearly a year ago from Turkish officials that weapons intended for Iraq's military were being used by militant groups in Turkey. FROM WIRE REPORTS .
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