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    Tommy Lee says he was just minding his own business watching Alicia Keys perform at the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas when Kid Rock came up and punched him the face, TMZ.com said.

    In a posting on his Web site, TommyLee.tv, the rocker said he was in the front row of the show hanging out with magician Criss Angel when his ex-wife, Pamela Anderson, "who I love and adore," approached and sat on his lap.

    "I get a tap on the shoulder from Kid Pebble," he said of Anderson's other ex-husband. "I stand up and embrace him with a semi-hug and say: 'Hey, dude. What up?' He punches me in the face... Well, if you wanna call it that! More like a b**** slap!"

    Lee said that before he could knock "this jealous, no-career-havin' country bumpkin out," security guards for the Palms casino and hotel separated them.

    "So, I'm fine and, of course, leave to my room with police and owner George Maloof. The rest is paper work and (crap.) Anyway, I would like to apologize to Alicia (Keys) and George and MTV for the disrespectful (crap) caused by a piece of (crap) called Kid Pebble."

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    THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11th

    In 1963...In Los Angeles, fans bought the unauthorized Bob Dylan release The Great White Wonder. It is generally credited as the first bootleg album.

    In 1964...The winner of a Mick Jagger impersonation contest held in Greenwich, England, revealed that he was really Chris Jagger, The Rolling Stones frontman's younger brother.

    In 1964...The Beatles played The Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. The band requested that the audience be desegregated.

    In 1965...The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" went to number one on the English singles chart. This was two months after it became a chart-topper in America.

    In 1967...Fresh from the release of Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles headed out in a psychedelic bus with their entourage to begin filming The Magical Mystery Tour.

    In 1968...The Beatles recorded 34 takes of "Glass Onion."

    In 1974...The roots rock of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell and The Band filled England's 80-thousand-capacity Wembley Stadium.

    In 1977...It was announced that David Bowie would duet with Bing Crosby for a Christmas special. The two later performed a version of "Little Drummer Boy."

    In 1979...The Who played their first gig without the late Keith Moon. Kenny Jones of The Faces sat in on drums when the band played Passaic, New Jersey's Capitol Theatre.

    In 1979...On the first date of his American tour, Tom Petty unveiled a banner that posed the question "Why MCA?" Petty was complaining because his label Gone Gator had been sold to the industry giant.

    In 1984...Nearly 17-thousand Bruce Springsteen fans crammed Philadelphia's Spectrum to see "The Boss" play the first of a six-night stand. The show set a new attendance record for the venue.

    In 1987...Reggae star Peter Tosh was murdered in Kingston, Jamaica. The former Wailer's home was invaded by robbers, who shot the "Legalize It" singer. Police apprehended only one of the three murderers.

    In 1987...At the MTV Video Music Awards, Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" won Video of the Year.

    In 1995...Green Day turned down an invitation to play on Sesame Street because they "couldn't handle a mosh pit full of five-year-olds."

    In 1996...David Bowie became the first artist to release a new single on the Internet 24 hours before it was due to hit radio. The song was "Telling Lies."

    In 1996...Michael Hutchence of INXS pleaded guilty to assaulting a photographer who waited to ambush him outside a hotel. He was staying with Bob Geldof's ex-wife Paula Yates. Hutchence was fined 600 dollars.

    In 2000...The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland unveiled The Jimi Hendrix Surround Sound Theater and Exhibit.

    In 2003...Jewel postponed her North American tour after her longtime bassist, Termome "T-Bone" Hannon, died from a stroke. He was 39.

    In 2003...In the midst of big autumn tours, Bruce Springsteen, Cher, Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac refrained from playing on the second anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks.

    In 2004...Fred Ebb, the lyricist for the classic musicals Cabaret and Chicago, died at his New York home.

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    When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly. The FDA found "reasonable assurance" the device was safe, and a sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies."

    But neither the company nor the regulators publicly mentioned this: A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.

    "The transponders were the cause of the tumors," said Keith Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, explaining in a phone interview the findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich.

    Leading cancer specialists reviewed the research for The Associated Press and, while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Some said they would not allow family members to receive implants, and all urged further research before the glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people.

    To date, about 2,000 of the so-called radio frequency identification, or RFID, devices have been implanted in humans worldwide, according to VeriChip Corp. The company, which sees a target market of 45 million Americans for its medical monitoring chips, insists the devices are safe, as does its parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, of Delray Beach, Fla.

    "We stand by our implantable products which have been approved by the FDA and/or other U.S. regulatory authorities," Scott Silverman, VeriChip Corp. chairman and chief executive officer, said in a written response to AP questions.

    The company was "not aware of any studies that have resulted in malignant tumors in laboratory rats, mice and certainly not dogs or cats," but he added that millions of domestic pets have been implanted with microchips, without reports of significant problems.

    "In fact, for more than 15 years we have used our encapsulated glass transponders with FDA approved anti-migration caps and received no complaints regarding malignant tumors caused by our product."

    The FDA also stands by its approval of the technology.

    Did the agency know of the tumor findings before approving the chip implants? The FDA declined repeated AP requests to specify what studies it reviewed.

    The FDA is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, which, at the time of VeriChip's approval, was headed by Tommy Thompson. Two weeks after the device's approval took effect on Jan.

    10, 2005, Thompson left his Cabinet post, and within five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions. He was compensated in cash and stock options.

    Thompson, until recently a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, says he had no personal relationship with the company as the VeriChip was being evaluated, nor did he play any role in FDA's approval process of the RFID tag.

    "I didn't even know VeriChip before I stepped down from the Department of Health and Human Services," he said in a telephone interview.

    Also making no mention of the findings on animal tumors was a June report by the ethics committee of the American Medical Association, which touted the benefits of implantable RFID devices.

    Had committee members reviewed the literature on cancer in chipped animals?

    No, said Dr. Steven Stack, an AMA board member with knowledge of the committee's review.

    Was the AMA aware of the studies?

    No, he said.

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