NEWS LITE : DON'T GO BREAKING ELTON'S PACEMAKER.British pop singer Elton John Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. was released from London's Wellington Hospital Wellington Hospital is Wellington, New Zealand's main hospital located in the suburb of Newtown on Riddiford Street. It is the main hospital run by Capital & Coast District Health Board (C&CDHB), the others including Kapiti Helath Centre, Kenepuru Hospital and Porirua Hospital the on Saturday after having had a pacemaker surgically implanted. ``I feel very well,'' John told journalists gathered at the hospital's entrance. ``I'm a bit stiff, a bit sore, but everything went really well,'' he said. The singer was diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia cardiac arrhythmia n. See cardiac dysrhythmia. Cardiac arrhythmia An irregular heart rate or rhythm. Mentioned in: Holter Monitoring, Stress Test cardiac arrhythmia after he fainted while playing tennis at his Nice home in southern France Southern France (or the South of France), colloquially known as Le Midi, is a loosely defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean Sea, Italy, and Switzerland south of the . List rates best, worst of Cabinets Washingtonian magazine credits recently resigned Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Robert Edward Rubin (born August 29, 1938) is an American banker who served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton Administrations during a time of peak performance for the U.S. economy. for stabilizing global financial markets, saving the Mexican economy and preventing Asian economic problems from becoming catastrophes for the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , and calls him the fifth-best Cabinet secretary in the century. Nos. 1 through 4, in descending order: George C. Marshall, Harry Truman's secretary of state and author of the Marshall Plan Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II. The Marshall Plan took form when U.S. ; Carter Glass, Treasury secretary under Woodrow Wilson, who implemented the Federal Reserve System; Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Richard Nixon, for opening relations with China; Henry Morgenthau Henry Morgenthau may refer to:
Washingtonian also listed the five worst: John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general and a ``mastermind'' of Watergate; Albert Fall, Interior secretary to Warren Harding, convicted in the Teapot Dome scandal Teapot Dome scandal Secret leasing of U.S. government land to private interests. In 1922 oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., and Elk Hills, Calif., were improperly leased to private oil companies by Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who accepted cash gifts and ; Andrew Mellon, Treasury secretary in the Calvin Coolidge and Harding administrations, blind to the coming crash of 1929; Earl Butz, Nixon's Agriculture secretary, a joker and ``national embarrassment''; James Watt, Ronald Reagan's Interior secretary, who insulted blacks, Jews and ``cripples'' and is said to have mishandled public lands. Liz really Angel, AIDS group says Elizabeth Taylor has been honored for her longtime support of Project Angel Food, a meal-delivery program that serves homebound home·bound adj. Restricted or confined to home, as of an invalid. AIDS patients. She received an Angel Award over the weekend at the organization's 10th anniversary celebration in West Hollywood. ``It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another,'' Taylor told the audience, including actresses Shirley MacLaine and Camryn Manheim, and singer Barry Manilow. ``Elizabeth Taylor is simply the finest choice to receive this award,'' said John Gile, project director. ``Not only has she been supporting Project Angel Food since day one, but she has also led the way around the world to break down barriers in the fight against AIDS,'' Gile said. ``We just love her, and this is our way of saying thanks.'' Over the past decade, more than 7,000 individuals with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. or AIDS have received meals through Project Angel Food. Ex-mates on same nonromantic cruise Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley were back together again over the weekend, not as husband and wife, but in a protest against nuclear power plants from the deck of a boat. The divorced singer and model reunited Saturday for a cruise on Long Island Sound as part of the Standing for Truth About Radiation organization's protest against the Millstone nuclear power plants. Both celebrities are members of STAR. Others in the organization stood on shore and called for a shutdown of the reactors. The protesters want the Millstone millstone Either of two flat, round stones used for grinding grain to make flour. The stationary bottom stone is carved with shallow grooved channels that radiate from the centre. The upper stone rotates horizontally, and has a central hole through which grain is poured. plants shut down permanently. Madonna gets new namesake: a walk Madonna is lending her name to this year's AIDS Walk on her home turf. Organizers of the Detroit-area charity event hope she do more. The pop superstar, who grew up in Bay City and the Detroit suburb of Rochester, has agreed to serve as spokeswoman for the Sept. 19 fund-raiser, said Jim Domanski, president of the AIDS Walk organization in Detroit. Madonna offered her support through an organization that represents AIDS fund-raisers nationwide, Domanski said. Rapper takes a rap from Trinidad cops American rapper DMX See DMX512. was arrested on obscenity charges during a concert in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, prompting a bottle-throwing protest by his fans in the audience, authorities said Sunday. Police who led DMX from the stage Saturday night fired their guns into the air to control the angry crowd. DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was being held in jail Sunday pending a court appearance today. Using obscene language in public is illegal in Trinidad. Authorities did not immediately say what words Simmons was charged with using. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) SUPER FIT PUSH IT TO LIMIT Steve Cochran and Gloria Cochran climb the cargo net, while Melissa Worley crawls through the mud pit, during the fourth HI-Tec Adventure Racing Series at Cedar Hills State Park south of Dallas on Sunday. Almost 300 three-member teams competed in the day's sporting events and special tests. Michael Ainsworth/Dallas Morning News Brian Laudermilk/Fort Worth Star-Telegram (3) Taylor |
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