| Cage's naked intruder sent to rehab
The naked intruder that Nicolas Cage found in his home last year has been ordered to undergo six months of drug rehab, according to officials. Robert Dennis Furo, pleaded guilty to one count of stalking during a court appearance just outside of Los Angeles. A judge dropped two charges against the 46-year-old and gave credit for time already served. Cage and his family were at their waterfront home in the exclusive, gated community of Newport Beach on October 1 when Furo entered the house. The National Treasure star found Furo standing near a bathroom wearing nothing but one of his leather jackets. The Oscar-winning actor confronted him, asked him to remove the jacket, escorted him outside, and called a security guard. Furo's lawyer, Jack Kayajanian, said his client was in a stupor caused by sleeping pills and the prescription pain killer Vicodin.
An Elephant never forgets good nutrition
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Jessica Sierra sentenced to 1 year in rehab
TAMPA, Fla. - A judge is sending Jessica Sierra to rehab. The former "American Idol" contestant was sentenced Monday to a yearlong stint at a California rehabilitation clinic and three years' probation. Sierra, 22, was arrested last month for disorderly intoxication and resisting officers. She remained jailed Tuesday in Tampa. .
Hope for new cancer therapies
The team is absolutely on the mark with this work. It's enormously promising,'' said Erik Thompson, a breast cancer scientist with St Vincent's Institute and the University of Melbourne. That's so, he said, as the group - led by Joan Massague, head of the cancer biology and genetics program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York - have revealed key steps breast cancer cells take when they spread to the lungs and bone in a process called metastasis. "Metastasis is what's killing people with cancer,'' said Associate Professor Thompson. "The pathways which allow tumour cells to spread through the body and stay there, resistant to chemotheraphy, are exactly the pathways we have to understand and conquer,'' claimed Professor Thompson. Melbourne-based oncologist and breast cancer scientist Geoff Lindeman agreed, but cautioned that the findings must be proven in clinical trials.
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