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...Mitch Maddox before he changed his name) has turned himself into a sort of wired groundhog, vowing to spend an entire year ordering everything he needs to live, from food to furniture, over the Internet. Like a switched-on Thoreau at a virtual Walden Pond, he devised the stunt to teach mankind that the age of e-commerce is here--and that it is good...
...using a novel defense: Internet addiction. Campbell pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, with his lawyer claiming the young man's actions occurred in a semi-delusional state, the result of being lost in cyberspace. But if history is any indication, the defense will prove little more than publicity stunt - Campbell's lawyer, Ellis Rubin, has previously waged unsuccessful modernity-based defenses, including television addiction and Prozac-induced nymphomania...
...temperatures. At dawn on the ever popular Chatham Islands, six people parachuted to see the first sunrise from above the clouds. At Jerusalem's Golden Gate, which some predict will be the site of Jesus' second coming, police arrested entertainer Dudu Topaz, who dressed up as Jesus as a stunt for his TV show. Near Montpellier, France, cave explorer Michel Siffre, who has been underground for a month and no longer has any sense of time, thought Friday was Dec. 27. And in Chicago, The Jerry Springer Show offered "Y2Lovers," a daring episode in which people were confronted by both...
BRANDI CHASTAIN The Bra that Shook the World. Soccer stunt was hit, but don't try it on any (eek!) senior tour...
BEEF: Big Business bad for little guy STUNT: Senioritas in granny getups performed protest songs to tunes of old standards...