Radio, Internet determined
to kill off secret of'Survivor'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES - After East
Coast television viewers learn
who the "Survivor" winner is
tonight, can the well-kept secret
hold for a few hours more until the
rest of die country tunes in?
Not if some radio stations and
Internet sites have their way.
"We’d probably tell. That’s
what we do,” said a mischievous
Mark Thomas, assistant program
director for Los Angeles station
KFL
But listeners will get fair warn
ing if they want to avoid knowing
who claims the show’s $1 million
prize before "Survivor” airs in time
zones outside the East The two
hour finale is set for 8-10 p.m.
tonight on CBS.
At Denver station KDA, a dis
claimer will precede any
announcement
“I think people react negative
ly to a party pooper,” said Jerry
Bell KDA!s news director. “If some
body’s driving home we wouldn't
want to blow it for him.”
Overeager fans can go directly
to the Internet. As soon as news
reports move with the winner’s
name, Yahoo! plans to post them.
The Denver Post Web site, among
others, said it will put the informa
tion up as soon as it’s available.
Not everybody is rushing to
spill the beans. Los Angeles news
radio station KFWB plans
restraint, said news director Crys
Quimby.
“It’s been ongoing for such a
long time, I prefer not to spoil it for
anybody inadvertently,” die said
KNX, a CBS station that will
broadcast the “Survivor” town hall
meeting airing after the show, also
plans to keep quiet “It’s like tear
ing out the last page of a book and
reading it You just don't do that,”
said KNX news director Robert
Sims.
Non-CBS TV stations are
unlikely to make a big deal about
the show, which has been a sum
mer hit for CBS. KNBC in Los
Angeles said whether it airs the
result at all will be up to the pro
ducer of its 11 p.m. newscast
Though the series was filmed,
and the winner selected months
ago, the outcome has remained a
secret
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Nausea drug could treat alcoholics
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CHICAGO - A drug used to
fight nausea in cancer patients
can help the most difficult-to
treat alcoholics significantly
reduce their drinking, research
suggests.
Success with the drug
ondansetron comes amid a
growing search for new medica
tions to help treat a disease that
affects some 14 million
Americans.
In the past half-century, just
two drugs have been approved
to treat alcoholism, though
studies on a number of others
are under way.
Researchers from the
University of Texas Health
Science Center in San Antonio
reported preliminary results
with ondansetron in
Wednesday’s Journal of the
American Medical Association.
Ondansetron worked in
patients with early-onset alco
nousm, wno represent aoout 3.5
million of the nation’s alco
holics, said Dr. Bankole
Johnson, a psychiatrist who led
the study.
These alcoholics, who devel
op problem drinking at or
before age 25, are believed to
have a biological predisposition
toward alcoholism. They often
respond poorly to counseling,
exhibit anti-social behavior and
have a high relapse rate.
An imbalance between two
chemical messengers in the
brain, serotonin and dopamine,
is believed to create a craving for
alcohol in early-onset alco
holics, Johnson said.
Ondansetron’s ability to regu
late the serotonin-dopamine
interaction may explain why it
was effective only in such alco
holics, he said.
The study involved 271 alco
holics who were given
ondansetron or a dummy pill
twice daily for 11 weeks. Weekly
behavioral therapy also was
included.
Three different doses were
tested, with the middle dose
proving most effective.
Alcoholics on that dose had an
average of about 11/2 drinks
daily compared with nearly 3
1/2 drinks daily for the placebo
group.
They also abstained from
drinking for an average of about
70 percent of the study days,
compared with 50 percent for
the placebo group.
The findings could lead to
better ways to treat alcoholism
and to tailor treatment to specif
ic types of alcoholics, Dr. Henry
Kranzler of the University of
Connecticut wrote in a JAMA
editorial.
Glaxo Wellcome Inc. makes
ondansetron. The National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism funded the study. t
Japanese firms sued for slave labor
■ Lawyers want reparations,
saying two Japanese firms
used Chinese captives as slave
laborers from the 1930s until
the end of World War II.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers
pursuing reparations for World
War II atrocities sued two
Japanese companies Tuesday
on behalf of Chinese people
used as slave labor.
The lawsuit, which seeks
class-action status, names
Mitsui and Mitsubishi groups as
companies that used slave
laborers to produce rubber,
grain and coal during a period
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beginning in the 1930s and con
tinuing until the war ended in
1945.
"During their forced servi
tude in Japan, the Chinese
workers were tortured and
starved,” the lawsuit said.
Attorney Barry A. Fisher said
Chinese children were sent to
work in coal mines, and victims
were transported in ships and
trains under inhumane condi
tions.
"Chinese citizens were herd
ed like cattle into trains and
loaded into cargo ships," he
said, adding that many died
aboard ships, and their corpses
were tossed overboard.
Messages requesting com
ment were left on phone
machines at a Cypress office of
Mitsubishi and the New York
headquarters of Mitsui
Fisher, who was involved in
reparation suits in Germany,
Switzerland and Austria, said
the lawsuit seeks payment for
labor that was never compen
sated, as well as damages. The
suit asks for the companies to
turn over “ill-gotten gains” from
that era.
He said the lawsuit could
involve hundreds of thousands
of Chinese people.
The lawsuit was filed in
Superior Court under a law
passed by California last year
that allows cases involving
World War II slave labor to be
filed until the year 2010.
It was one of several filed
recently against Japanese com
panies alleging slave labor dur
ing the war.
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