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After Attack GRAPHIC IMAGE! NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee says she repeatedly warned the animal's owner that the primate was dangerous and could hurt someone. In a telephone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, Charla Nash said she saw the chimpanzee throw large objects around his cage, flash his teeth and pound the bars so violently his hands would bleed and the cage had to be rewelded. Nash, who appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Wednesday, said she told the owner, Sandra Herold, eight or 10 times he was dangerous.

A Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee revealed her horribly disfigured face to a national TV audience today after talk queen Oprah Winfrey lifted the veil off her face. Charla Nash, 56, told Oprah she usually walks around the Cleveland Clinic with her hat and veil so she doesn’t frighten any hospital visitors.

She was beautiful but wanted to be more beautiful. This is a horror story. YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS HORRIBLE STORY TO BELIEVE IT

Never-before seen photo shows Neil Armstrong's face as he first walks across the moon 19th July 2009 An amazing new photograph showing Neil Armstrong's face through his space suit visor has come to light. [Pics in URL] The image was shot by the movie camera mounted on the lunar lander famously called 'Eagle', but the frame lasts for only a fleeting moment. It shows Armstrong's face in clear view as he walks across the lunar surface. Face first: Neil Armstrong has been presented with a copy of the picture He was the first man to walk on the moon, taking...

The tattooist embroiled in a row with a teenage girl who claims he tattooed 56 stars on her face when she only asked for three has said he will help pay for them to be removed. Rouslan Toumaniantz said today that Kimberley Vlaminck 'absolutely' agreed she wanted 56 stars tattooed on the left side of her face. But now the 18-year-old is suing Toumaniantz, claiming she had asked him for only three stars - and had fallen asleep during the procedure, waking up to a nightmare in her Belgian hometown of Courtrai.

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-crt-555.html Justice Department Launches Investigation into Federal Crimes in Connection with the Murder of Dr. George Tiller The Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas have launched a federal investigation into federal crimes in connection with the murder of Dr. George Tiller. The federal probe will consist of a thorough review of the evidence and an assessment of any potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) or other federal statutes. The federal investigation will be conducted in close coordination with the Office of the Sedgwick County, Kan.,...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman. Connie Culp stepped forward Tuesday to show off the results of the nation's first face transplant, and her new look was a far cry from the puckered, noseless sight that made children run away in horror. Culp's expressions are still a bit wooden, but she can talk, smile, smell and taste her food again. Her speech is at times a little tough to understand. Her face is...

Anger Issues: Obama's STFU FaceBy Owen Thomas, 7:00 PM on Fri Jan 23 2009 During the campaign, Barack Obama presented himself as the sunny heir to Ronald Reagan's style of optimistic Americana. But this series of clips tells a different story. This is Obama when he gets angry. Our new president doesn't get pissed off per se. He's famous for his cool. But he does get ticked. During the primary, he held back lest he seem unchivalrous to Hillary Clinton. When John McCain started ranting in the debates, Obama restrained himself lest he be perceived as being mean to an...

BOSTON — Me-ouch! Veterinarians performed an unusual surgery to reattach the face of a cat they believe was injured by a car's fan belt, probably because she tried to stay warm under the hood. Edgar, a 4-year-old long-haired feline, went missing from her home in Winthrop for three days last week. When she finally came home, her owner found her in

PITTSBURGH -- A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said. Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m. Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Sen. John McCain hasn't campaigned in North Carolina since the primary election. But some people used Sen. Barack Obama's Saturday rally as a chance to show their support for the Republican nominee. Their numbers didn't compare with those who turned out to support Obama, but the Republicans' enthusiasm for McCain was just as strong. No official date has been set for McCain to visit the Tar Heel State, but he did recently increase the number of paid campaign staff in North Carolina from about 20 to about 30. That's an effort to defend a state that hasn't...

Warning: If your neighbor's got an "Obama '08" bumper sticker or lawn sign, you might want to double-check your door locks at night. The One has commanded his Purveyors of Change to go forth and proselytize to the unbelievers. And they're not going to be knocking gently like Avon Ladies. Barack Obama, you see, is done fixing souls. ------- When Republicans get aggressive, it's "dirty." When Obama gets aggressive, it's "feisty." Exorteth the One: "I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are...

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois today exhorted his supporters to get extremely aggressive in their communities to persuade their neighbors to vote for Obama in November.Speaking to a crowd in Elko, Nevada, Obama was quoted by the AP as urging the people to be his 'ambassadors':"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face. "And if they tell you that, 'Well, we're...

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Ancient king's face revealed By using the terracotta facial reconstruction technique a Danish scientist and sculptor have recreated the faces of both King Svend Estridsen and the oldest Dane ever found King Svend Estridsen has been dead for over 900 years but Danes can finally get a realistic view of what the former monarch looked like thanks to a coroner and a sculptor. A cast of the king's skull was taken at the beginning of the 1900s and has been used by the two men to create a vivid likeness of the ruler's face using the terracotta technique. The technique...

Why Face Symmetry Is Sexy Across Cultures And SpeciesHigh and low symmetry composite faces for macaques, Hadza, and Europeans. All images are normalised on inter-pupillary distance to control relative image size, have been made perfectly symmetric, and each high/low pair possesses the average colour information of both. Perceptual differences are then dependent on shape differences between high and low symmetry faces that are independent of symmetry. (Credit: Image courtesy of Public Library of Science) ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — In humans, faces are an important source of social information. One property of faces that is rapidly noticed is attractiveness. Research...

Berkshire Museum puts a face on its mummy By Jenn Smith, Berkshire Eagle StaffFriday, April 18 Article Last Updated: 04/18/2008 06:29:43 AM EDT PITTSFIELD — The mummy has returned. And he has new tales to tell. One of the county's most beloved relics — the nearly 2,300-year-old corpse of the ancient priest Pahat — is back on view at the Berkshire Museum's recently reopened Ancient Civilizations gallery. But now, thanks to modern forensic science and technology, specialists have been able to put flesh to his bones, creating a three-dimensional reconstruction of Pahat's head. Further research has also revealed that Pahat...

At first glance, it seems to be an ordinary snap of a group of young people. But look more carefully and there appears to be an extraordinary, ghostly presence among them. Peeping out between the knees of two of the girls is the face of a child. Ghostly: A ghoulish child stares back as a little girl cries in Matthew Summers' photo The eerie image - clear enough to show a pair of eyes, a nose, a mouth and hair - was captured by 17-year-old Matthew Summers on his mobile phone as he and his friends were preparing to go...

BOSTON, January 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday against a new Massachusetts law that creates a 35-foot "buffer" zone around abortion clinics.  The law essentially eliminates free speech rights within the zone by restricting pro-life advocates from sharing their message with people entering the clinics. "Pro-life advocates shouldn't be penalized for expressing their beliefs," said ADF-allied attorney and lead counsel Michael DePrimo.  "The buffer law is breathtaking in its scope.  It obviously was designed and intended to squelch pro-life speech, but it prohibits much more, such as labor...

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Hubby and I just had the privilege of viewing Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" in the Basilica of S. Mariua Delle Gazie (Milan, Italy). Even the best photographs of this masterpiece don't capture all the details. Question: There appears to be the image of a face in the folds of St. Barthomew's robe, to the lower left of his hand. He is the leftmost figure in the painting. St. Bartholmew was skinned alived and crucified upside down in the 8th century. The image in Da Vinci's painting is similar to St. Bartholomew as painted by Michelangelo in "The Last Judgement"--the...

Tutankhamun's true face to be revealed By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent Last Updated: 2:55am BST 22/10/2007 The true face of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt 3,500 years ago, is to be revealed to the public for the first time. Only a handful of experts have ever seen Tutankhamun's true likeness To coincide with the opening of the exhibition of the treasures of Tutankhamun in London next month, Egyptian archaeologists are to put his mummified body on display in Luxor. Only a handful of experts have ever seen the 19-year-old pharaoh's true likeness. Though not the most important of...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2007 – Sharing military experiences with the American public injects a human element into events often conveyed through the cold glare of television’s nightly news, a group of well-spoken servicemembers said here Oct. 2. “The numbers that you hear on TV of soldiers dying, the numbers that you hear that we’re going to bring 30,000 (troops) home, … I just put a face to those numbers, and we all do,” Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Jeffery Duncan told American Forces Press Service. Duncan, a 40-year-old senior aircraft maintenance supervisor with 21 years of service, completed a...

Judge Reserves Judgment in Canadian Case on Abortion Protests Outside Abortion Facilities VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Judgment has been reserved in the "Bubble Zone" case concerning protest within a proscribed geographic area near abortion clinics. The Canadian Religious Freedom Alliance (Alliance), represented by legal counsel, Julie Owens, presented arguments Sept. 13 and 14 at the B.C. Court of Appeal in defence of freedom of speech for those protesting within the "bubble zone" around abortion clinics.  This action arose from B.C. resident, Donald Spratt's, December 1998 conviction under the B.C. Access to Abortion Services Act, on charges...

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - September 5, 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa. Now declared "Blessed," she continues to inspire disciples of Christ worldwide. My own interaction with her came shortly after I took leadership of Priests for Life. I asked if I could visit with her in Calcutta, and spent a week with her in June of 1994 discussing the new ministry I was leading, and the direction of pro-life strategy overall. Two events that had recently occurred shaped our conversations. One was the speech she had given in February at the...

CHICAGO - Artists, sculptors and photographers knew Abraham Lincoln's face had a good side. Now it's confirmed by science. Laser scans of two life masks, made from plaster casts of Lincoln's face, reveal the 16th president's unusual degree of facial asymmetry, according to a new study. The left side of Lincoln's face was much smaller than the right, an aberration called cranial facial microsomia. The defect joins a long list of ailments — including smallpox, heart illness and depression — that modern doctors have diagnosed in Lincoln. Read MORE.

Queen Nefertiti: More than a pretty face German scientists have discovered that the world's most beautiful woman allowed herself to be sculpted with wrinkles to appear more beautiful. Maybe wrinkles are not so bad, after all, some German scientists have discovered. In ancient times, such laugh lines and wrinkles around the mouth improved the face of Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen acclaimed as the world's most beautiful woman. X-ray pictures of the bust by a computer tomography machine at the nearby Charite Hospital in Berlin revealed that the sculpture is a piece of limestone with details added using four outer layers...

BOSTON (AP) - Brigham and Women's Hospital has given a surgical team permission to perform partial face transplants to certain disfigured patients, a newspaper reported. Brigham and Women's is the second U.S. hospital to make public its plans to offer the rare medical procedure, The Boston Globe reported. The first hospital was the Cleveland Clinic. To date, only three partial face transplants have been announced worldwide. Two were performed in France, and one in China. Critics argue that it's unethical to expose patients to the risks of a transplant for a non-lifesaving procedure. The newspaper reported that Brigham and Women's...

Cats in the Swedish town of Söderköping are facing a crackdown, after the council issued a ban on free sex and on pooping in the flowerbeds. Environmental and planning officers in the town, 180 kilometres south of Stockholm, have demanded that cat owners place litter trays outdoors. They have also said that cats not being used in breeding programmes should be castrated.

The face, not the body, attracts a mate 12:00 13 May 2007 NewScientist.com news service Body builders and gym buffs, look away now. It appears that the opposite sex is much more interested in your face than your bulging biceps or elegant figure, especially if you're a man. At least that's the upshot of the first study to assess how much faces and bodies contribute to someone's overall attractiveness. Twelve women and 12 men took part in a trial to assess the attractiveness of people in photographs, on a scale of 1 to 7. Some participants saw the entire person,...

Schools allowed to ban face veils Teachers need to be able to see pupils' faces, the DfES says Schools will be able to ban pupils from wearing full-face veils on security, safety or learning grounds under new uniforms guidance set to be issued. In February, a 12-year-old girl failed in her High Court attempt to overturn her Buckinghamshire school's niqab ban. Ministers promised revised guidance for England taking that into consideration. It says efforts should be made to accommodate religious clothing but stresses the importance of teachers and pupils being able to make eye contact. The issue of religious dress...

MUSLIM women will have to make sure their face is fully visible when they have a photograph taken for the government's new access card. The proposed system will replace the Medicare card and be compulsory for any Australian who wants to access up to 16 other government health and welfare services. In its submission to a Senate inquiry examining the access card legislation, which is currently before parliament, the government provided examples of a how a photograph would be taken of a person wearing a headscarf.

Which is the true face of 12,000 years BC? NICK PISA IN ROME "TRAVEL back through time and space to the edge of man's beginnings... discover a savage world whose only law was lust!" ran the tagline for One Million Years BC, the "caveman" film starring Raquel Welch. One can only hope that ancient ideals of feminine beauty were somewhat different, after scientists revealed for the first time what Stone Age women really looked like. Thea, who lived more than 14,000 years ago, was reconstructed by sculptors working with anthropologists using computer technology. Experts have recreated the faces of men...

Researchers re-create Washington's face Fri Feb 16, 7:02 PM ET PHOENIX - Researchers at Arizona State University and the University of Pittsburgh have mixed technology, art and science to re-create the real face of George Washington. Using anthropology, 3-D scanning and digital reconstruction, the 2 1/2-year project has culminated in new life-size figures of the nation's first president and some say the images are the most accurate yet of Washington at a younger age. There is Washington at age 19 as a land surveyor, Washington at 45 during the Revolutionary War, and Washington at 57 when he took the presidential...

The new face of British life By Paul Willis Last Updated: 11:41am GMT 02/02/2007 These two images illustrate clearly the changing face of British life. Mr Britain: How the average man has changed over last 45 years The picture on the right shows what an average man might look like if his features represented the proportional ethnic make-up of the UK today - more than 90 per cent white, 5 per cent Asian and almost 2 per cent black. The face reflects the probable features of a white male with two Asian great great grandparents and one black great great...

RURAL RETREAT, Virginia — A calf with two faces, born last week at a farm here, has been drawing a crowd. The calf breathes out of two noses and has two tongues, which move independently, according to farmer Kirk Heldreth. There appears to be a single socket containing two eyes. There are two lower jaws, but only one mouth. "It's the craziest thing I've ever seen," Heldreth said. During the calf's birth Dec. 27, Heldreth said he first thought there were two calves. The calf was the product of artificial insemination, meant for superior breeding. "Genetically, this is one of...

Scientists recreate (less ugly) face of Dante By Malcolm Moore in Florence Last Updated: 2:26am GMT 12/01/2007 Dante Alighieri did not, after all, have bulging eyes or a pointed chin — but his enormous nose was true to life, according to scientists who have created a replica of the poet's face by measuring the remains of his skull. The 3D reconstruction, based on skull measurements, alongside Botticelli's portrait of Dante Alighieri The researchers at the University of Bologna have pieced together the "true face" of Florence's favourite son and discovered that it was very different from the portraits of him...

Yang Huimin, a 28-year-old man from Central China's Henan Province, had what he thought was a pimple on face when he was 4. Mother tend on Yang Huilin, called the "lion-faced man," (R) at the Beijing-based No 304 Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army on March 10, 2006. Yang was operated on yesterday and doing well so far, chief surgeon Li Anmin said. Another operation will be scheduled as Yang's physical condition warrants. A small pimple acquired at four grew covering the entire left side of his face during the next 24 years. The man is 28-year-old. But during...

Face scans for air passengers a step nearer By Tim Hall Last Updated: 2:47am GMT 07/12/2006 Passengers at Heathrow had their fingerprints taken for the first time yesterday, in tests which could lead to routine biometric scanning at Britain's airports. A high-tech scanner was unveiled by the Government and eventually all passengers could be required to have iris and face scans. Initially, passengers are being invited to have their fingerprints scanned in return for skipping boarding queues. If the scheme, known as miSense, proves succesful, it could be rolled out across the UK. Yesterday Liam Byrne, the immigration minister, said...

Women pay more attention to others' gaze 17:00 29 November 2006 NewScientist.com news service Roxanne Khamsi Women follow the gaze of a familiar face more readily than men do, researchers suggest, after carrying out a curious, small study. Michael Platt at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, US, and colleagues asked 32 volunteers to watch a screen that showed the face of either a stranger or a colleague looking to the right or left for 200 milliseconds (one-fifth of a second). The participants then waited to see whether a dot appeared on the right or left of a...

Child from Kfar Qassem catches strange looking fish off coast of Herzliya and runs home to show his friends, and maybe place it on display in nearby mosque. Dr. Golany, a marine biologist says it is a common guitarfish, not kosher to eat, but a delicacy in Gaza Erez Erlichman Published: 10.24.06, 21:10 The child Ayub Mahmoud Atwa abu Saaluk was surprised – really surprised. He was so surprised, that as soon as he saw the frightening site, he immediately dropped his fishing rod, got to his knees and began preying to Allah. No, it wasn't the burning bush, nor...

Judges across several Western states could soon face new limits on their authority and threats to their independence, as conservatives campaign for ballot measures that aim to rein in what they describe as "runaway courts." Frustration among the right has been building for years, especially since the high court in Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2003. Politicians and pastors have accused judges of ignoring the public will and legislating from the bench. On Nov. 7, voters will be asked to do something about it. South Dakota's ballot contains the most radical provision: It would empower citizens to sue judges over...

NEW YORK - The $300 billion the United States has spent prosecuting the war in Iraq could have been better used stabilizing Afghanistan against the resurgence of the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview broadcast Sunday. “Three hundred billion dollars? You give that to Afghanistan and we will be heaven in less than a year,” Karzai said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The cemetery where all face Mecca By Jonathan Wynne-Jones and Tom Harper (Filed: 24/09/2006) The graves in a new cemetery are to be aligned with Mecca – for Muslims and non-Muslims alike – in a move that has upset many Christians. Burial plots have, by tradition, pointed east, in line with Christian beliefs. But a council in the East Midlands has taken the controversial decision to position thousands of headstones in a new £4 million cemetery facing in a north-easterly direction. High Wood cemetery in Bulwell Muslims bury their dead facing north-east because they believe that they look over their...

THE nation's attorneys-general will consider banning books that praise terrorism and placing fresh restrictions on reality shows like Big Brother when they meet tomorrow. The federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, has placed these proposals on the agenda following the uproar over the "turkey slapping" incident on Big Brother this month and after only two of eight "hate" books he submitted to the Classification Review Board were banned a fortnight ago. Mr Ruddock has told his state and territory colleagues the difficulty of banning the books shows that present classification codes "may not provide sufficiently clear guidance" at a time when "there...

Afghans struggle in face of drought By Mark Dummett BBC News, Kabul Deh Sabz is now arid and dusty Deh Sabz, in the local Dari language, means "green village". But this year Deh Sabz, near Kabul, like much of Afghanistan, is dusty and brown. The river beds are dry and crops are failing since the winter snows, and then the spring rains, were lighter than expected. "It's a drought. Yes we can get some water from our well, but it's not enough," explains Zahir. He uses a generator to pump water into irrigation channels that keep at least a handful...

6/13/2006 - KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. (AFPN) -- As this base struggles with housing shortages from Hurricane Katrina's wake, Airmen being assigned here accompanied by family members need to have a plan before they leave their current assignment. Due to Katrina, permission for servicemembers to bring their family members to Keesler has become much like those for an overseas assignment. Airmen now must obtain authorization for their dependents' concurrent travel before coming here. For concurrent travel to be approved, Airmen must have a feasible housing plan for their families, due to the lack of affordable housing on the Mississippi...

For love and money, Koreans turn to facial tucks By Su Hyun Lee The New York Times SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2006 SEOUL Fat is something that most people would want to remove from their cheeks. Kim Eun Young, however, had her cheekbones plumped up by a cosmetic surgeon in the hope that her husband's business would blossom. "People say that the fortunes of a husband and a wife go hand in hand," said Kim, 36, a housewife. "But I've never had plump cheeks and two fortune-tellers told me that this meant that money would slip away." In South Korea, where...