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Saturday, September 17, 2005 09:00 PM PDT

Today's Most Popular News: Power-dressing man leaves trail of destruction Rescuers Find 76-Year-Old Man in Big Easy Chavez: U.S. Plans to Invade Venezuela Croatian Zoo Features Humans Exhibit An Uncertain Future for San Joaquin River Sun Activity Produces Impressive Auroras Biologists Encouraged by Ferrets' Progress After 55 Years, Vet to Get Medal of Honor Fraternities Face Pressure to Clean Up Cleveland Doc Wants to Try Face Transplant Cajun Party Revives La. Locals' Spirits Depp Immortalized at Hollywood Theater Money Earmarked for Evacuation Redirected Allen: Mayor's Return Plan 'Problematic' Early warnings raised doubt on Bush disaster plans Military May Play Bigger Relief Role Chavez Criticizes U.N. Reforms in Speech Blair calls BBC coverage 'full of hate of America': Murdoch Ex-Destiny's Child member finds hip-hop edge H&M Says Kate Moss Apologized for Drug Use Power-dressing man leaves trail of destruction Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:30 am PDT Reuters - An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Full Story Top Rescuers Find 76-Year-Old Man in Big Easy Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:57 pm PDT AP - Day after day, for more than two weeks, the 76-year-old man sat trapped and alone in his attic, sipping from a dwindling supply of water until it ran out. No food. No way out of a house ringed by foul floodwaters. Full Story Top Chavez: U.S. Plans to Invade Venezuela Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:02 pm PDT AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he has documentary evidence that the United States plans to invade his country. Full Story Top Croatian Zoo Features Humans Exhibit Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:11 pm PDT AP - Ever feel like a caged animal? Visitors to Zagreb's zoo can find out what it is really like to be in a cage. Full Story Top An Uncertain Future for San Joaquin River Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:34 pm PDT AP - It begins as fresh snowmelt, streaming from Mount Ritter's gray granite faces into Thousand Island Lake, a bouldered mirror. The clear blue water spills out through a narrow canyon, and the San Joaquin River is born. Full Story Top Sun Activity Produces Impressive Auroras Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:36 pm PDT Reuters - A huge sunspot has been blasting Earth with magnetic clouds for weeks, producing some of the most vibrant and visible summertime auroras in years, according to NASA scientists. Full Story Top Biologists Encouraged by Ferrets' Progress Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:36 pm PDT AP - Wildlife biologists believe that black-footed ferrets released into the wilds of Colorado are thriving — and breeding — as the state tries to build a self-sustaining population of the mammal considered to be the rarest in North America. Full Story Top After 55 Years, Vet to Get Medal of Honor Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:52 am PDT AP - Tibor Rubin kept his promise to join the U.S. Army after American troops freed him from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War II. Full Story Top Fraternities Face Pressure to Clean Up Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:33 pm PDT AP - A year after a freshman pledge died of alcohol poisoning at the University of Colorado, fraternities are again recruiting fresh-faced 18-year-olds — but this time against the school's wishes, and under a cloud of fear that one more scandal could shut them down. Full Story Top Cleveland Doc Wants to Try Face Transplant Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:55 pm PDT AP - In the next few weeks, five men and seven women will secretly visit the Cleveland Clinic to interview for the chance to have a radical operation that's never been tried anywhere in the world. Full Story Top Cajun Party Revives La. Locals' Spirits Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:49 pm PDT AP - Their homes are bursting with guests. Their schools are overwhelmed. Traffic has been at a standstill for three weeks since thousands of New Orleans hurricane evacuees arrived in search of shelter. But Lafayette, the capital of Cajun country, still knows how to party. Full Story Top Depp Immortalized at Hollywood Theater Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:25 pm PDT AP - The hands that were replaced with cutlery in "Edward Scissorhands" and wore gloves in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" are now immortalized in concrete. Full Story Top Money Earmarked for Evacuation Redirected Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:36 am PDT AP - As far back as eight years ago, Congress ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a plan for evacuating New Orleans during a massive hurricane, but the money instead went to studying the causeway bridge that spans the city's Lake Pontchartrain, officials say. Full Story Top Allen: Mayor's Return Plan 'Problematic' Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:33 pm PDT AP - A weakened levee system and a lack of drinkable tap water will make it "extremely problematic" to follow the New Orleans mayor's timeline for allowing residents to return to the evacuated city, the head of the federal disaster relief effort said Saturday. Full Story Top Early warnings raised doubt on Bush disaster plans Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:19 pm PDT Reuters - In the months before Hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush sought to cut a key program to help local governments raise their preparedness, and state officials warned of a "total lack of focus" on natural disasters by his homeland-security chief, documents show. Full Story Top Military May Play Bigger Relief Role Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:59 am PDT AP - President Bush's push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil. Full Story Top Chavez Criticizes U.N. Reforms in Speech Sat, 17 Sep 2005 04:01 pm PDT AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized United Nations reforms on Saturday, saying they would permit powerful countries invade developing ones whose leaders are considered a threat. Full Story Top Blair calls BBC coverage 'full of hate of America': Murdoch Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:35 pm PDT AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has complained privately to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch that the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina carried an anti-American bias, Murdoch said at a conference here. Full Story Top Ex-Destiny's Child member finds hip-hop edge Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:53 pm PDT Reuters - Destiny's Child may be dissolving after finishing its world tour, but longtime fans of the group can look forward to the February 2006 release from former member LeToya Luckett. Full Story Top H&M Says Kate Moss Apologized for Drug Use Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:59 am PDT AP - Supermodel Kate Moss acknowledged to the Hennes & Mauritz clothing chain that tabloid allegations that she recently used cocaine are true, an H&M spokeswoman said Saturday. Full Story Top

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