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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has asked that a man awaiting trial for cannibalism be forced to become vegetarian. Christopher McCuin, 25, was arrested and charged earlier this

month with killing, cooking, and partially eating his girlfriend. Now a letter from PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich to prison officials asks that he be prevented from “contributing to

any more suffering and death by placing him on a healthy, humane vegetarian diet.” The request will not be honored, prison officials say, and McCuin will “be fed like everyone else.” A man

who tried to jump off the Empire State Building with a parachute is suing the building’s owners for $12 million, claiming they de­famed him. Jeb Corliss, 31, was planning to parachute from

the skyscraper’s observation deck in 2006 but was tackled and restrained by security guards. Corliss was charged with reckless endangerment, but the charge was dismissed, and now Cor­liss

says he was defamed because there is no law against jumping off a skyscraper. “They say he acted illegally,” said Corliss’ lawyer, Mark Heller. “He did not, and it was defamation for them to

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