Headlines for: 12-02-2001

GEORGE HARRISON REINCARNATED AS JAPANESE ROYALTY? WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. (Wireless Flash) – The Japanese royal couple’s new baby may turn out be a Japanese Beatle. According to reincarnation expert Dr. Bruce Goldberg, the new baby may

RESEARCHER: ‘BRITS MANIPULATE AMERICANS WITH THEIR ACCENTS’ PHILADELPHIA (Wireless Flash) – Americans may not be under British rule but they are suckers for the accent according to a British-born professor at Philadelphia University.

SAVING PRIVATE...MC HAMMER? WASHINGTON (Wireless Flash) – Everyone wants to do their part for the war effort – including rapper MC Hammer. The early ’90s big pants proponent was so devastated by September 11

ALKA-SELTZER TURNS 70 (DEC. 3) ESCONDIDO, Calif. (Wireless Flash) – It’s a big day for Alka-Seltzer – 70 years ago today it first “plop-plopped” into stores. One of the folks bubbling over with enthusiasm for the big day is the 74-

VIDEOGAMERS PREFER ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ TO ‘HARRY POTTER’ SAN DIEGO (Wireless Flash) – Online video game players have spoken: they’re backing Lord of the Rings over Harry Potter – and they’re taking no prisoners.

‘LINCOLN LOGS’ CELEBRATE 85TH ANNIVERSARY HATFIELD, Pa. (Wireless Flash) – One of America’s favorite building blocks will turn 85 years old this month – Lincoln Logs. The simple brown-stained interlocking logs were created in 1916 by John

QUAIL EGGS IN OUTER SPACE WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Wireless Flash) – Could human embryos develop normally in outer space? Scientists at Purdue University have hatched a plan to find out using quail eggs.

‘POPSTARS 2’ SINGER WILLING TO RAP IN POLISH LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – So far, the cast members of TV’s Popstars 2 are only singing in English, but one of the singers is prepared to rap in Polish.

TORENGOS TURN OUT TO BE TORTILLA CHIPS LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – Harry Potter moviegoers who were teased with a mysterious movie trailer for something called Torengos may be sorely disappointed.

FLASH LITES: RIP ‘N’ READ POP CULTURE RECAP LONDON (Wireless Flash) – 69-year-old Joan Collins says she now regrets posing in a corset and stockings to promote the play Over the Moon, which closed over the weekend. Collins says she refused to pose at