Countdown’s Top Five
- The two men vying for the nation`s top job share the same name, .
- Obesity now soon to edge out smoking as the most preventable in the United States.
- In other deadly sin news...
- for the first time in six years and seemingly most happy to be there.
- According to her entertainment lawyer, here are the top three offers to Aliyah and her family.
- $700,000 worth of from cadavers and sold over a six-year period.
- Top four prices for all of your various body parts, as research and published by
- The president goes after his rival`s record. John Kerry continues to . Last week's Bush ads don`t seem to have made any difference.
- The approval ratings of the last five presidents with eight months to go until re-election:
- One man who may be thankful he`s not facing approval ratings of any kind,
Five numbers that shape this day
- $1.74, the average price of a in the U.S.
- 8.7 million, the number of performed in the U.S. in 2003
- Fourteen, the new proposed in California.
- Four, the number itself considered to be extremely , because it sounds too much like their word for death, the government had today ordered it banned from all citizens' license plates.
- $998,328.45, the change was waiting for from a Wal-Mart cashier in Covington, Georgia.
Today’s Top Three Newsmakers
- O.J. Simpson is accused by DirecTV of using illegal electronic devices to .
- A judge in Los Angeles has ruled that the daughter of Orson Welles in fact does have the right to her father received for the screenplay for "Citizen Kane."
- Tom Brokaw has had to that when he leaves his "NBC Nightly News" chair, it will be to go into politics, specifically, says the latest rumor, as the vice president of the United States.
Let's Play 'Oddball'!
- This is a "" exhibit at a Thailand zoo where dogs and pigs and tiger cubs all live together in one big sinful of interspecies getting along.
- It`s the classic story people buying pets, then losing interest in them and ultimately trying to lose the pets themselves. Inhuman and unfair, if you`re talking cats and dogs, a disaster of Noah`s Arc proportion, if you`re talking .