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Birthday surprises
ANAHEIM. Calif Ornta: Elizabeth Tayler will celebrate her 6Oth birthday Thursday with Mickey Mouse and 1.000 invited guests al Disneyland. reports AP
The theme park routinely is rented by companies or groups for private gal firings. but the actress is the first Individual to reserve it.
Her guests will gather after the park closes Thursday evening. They 'll go on rides and have a cake cutting ceremony tn front of Sleeping Beauty Castle, said Lisa Del Favero. a spokeswoman for Taylor.
There will be other "surprises" for the actress wtw will have "happy birthday" sung to Iwr by a celebrity whose Identity la secret. Ns Del Favero ssSd.
Its not Michael Jackson she said His attendance was uncertain
'Please, he whispered— 'I'm sorry' she responded
TOKYO: About 40 young lonely heart* stood In two lines outside the aquarium Ihey had just visited, men facing the women for the ritualistic proposal time' that ended a daylong bus tour, reports AP
Each man approached a woman, asking for a date. Kenji Yushima. 23. ran to one woman he had hardly talked with, extended his name card and shyly whispered: "Please." Almost Instantly, she responded. Tm sorry "
The excursion arranged by a tour group firm called The Neat. Is part of a growing matchmaking market for young Japanesc
The company schedules such trips every weekend and other companies offer similar one day bus tours or short ski trips for singles seeking mates
Traditionally, matches In Japan have been arranged by parents and friends of young adults. But with young Japanese moving away from home and Into the frenetic pue of urban Ilie an Increasing number of people seem Io be having trouble meeting members of the opposite sex.
By the time men enter their 3Os and w<««nen enter their late 20s. they often are desperate
At first glance. I could tell these guys were not my type." said Tamaki Numazawa. a 24 year old receptionist wearing a tween Jacket and blue Jeans who paid dlrs HO for the tour Men paid dlr* 96
It Is such attitudes that have led to some criticism of the tours
"People are looking for some perfect partners as If they were choosing good* says Koichi Yamazaki who writes, book* on youth culture In Japan
'Donor' nevertheless Sinner'
ALEXANDRIA: Cecil Jacobson, the infertility doctor charged with fraud and perjury, acknowledged Wednesday that he used his sperm to artificially inseminate his patients, but insisted that was not wrong, reports AP.
And "it is my firm testimony that I did not he' to them about donor Identities. Jacobson testified during his second day on the witness stand "I was never that frequently used as a donor "
The defence rested Its case after Jacobson s testimony. After hearing from additional prosecution wltiu-ascs arid closing arguments, the jury Is expected to begin deliberations Thursday
Under cross-examination by prosecutor Randy Bellows. Jacobson said he did not commit perjury in a 1989 sworn statement in which he said he did not donate sperm to his own patients.