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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired February 13, 2004 - 05:45   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Tony Campion is live for us in London to tell us what's on the front pages over there.
TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, yes, let's start with a pretty serious story, actually, Catherine. We have here the, you know, Internet pervert ruined the life of a 12-year-old girl. This is a story of Tony Studebaker who -- Toby Studebaker, who you'll remember was the former U.S. Marine. And he has now essentially been proven to have solicited underage sex with a 12-year-old English girl. He flew her to France and they had their, I don't know what do you call it, affair. I'm not even sure that that's the right word.

And now he's been found guilty at a court in Britain, but only on two very minor counts. Because of the way the international laws work, in Britain he can be prosecuted for abduction. OK, that's, you know, fairly serious. And also incitement to gross indecency, but he can't be prosecuted on any kind of under age sex charges, per se, because the offense took place in France, although he does run the risk that he is going to be extradited to the United States for that to happen.

Well this obviously -- you know this is a huge story as far as the U.K. is concerned. And here you have -- that was the "Express (ph)" front page I showed you. A double page spread, the e-mail predator and there's a picture of the guy and this is "The Sun" today.

And the big debate is, you know, he found this girl through an Internet chat room. It was actually NeoPets.com, a very innocent Web site, ostensibly. I mean you know the Web site is set up for the support of your pets. We've all heard of Lighttime (ph) and Goshes (ph) and stuff. You know kids get a pet online and they have to look after it. And people who like these pets, these virtual pets, say they teach responsibility and stuff.

But if you've got -- you know in itself, it's kind of a cute idea. But if you have got sort of people entering these chat rooms with devious intent, then you've got to ask, you know, what kind of security needs to be established around it? This is a big debate, anyway. People are calling for the chat rooms to be closed down. So that's what is on the front pages.

CALLAWAY: All right. What's, you know, on the second and third pages, any good stuff?

CAMPION: Well, you know there are one or two really interesting ones. Let me just start by telling you this is something that I found on the inside pages of "The Independent."

CALLAWAY: OK.

CAMPION: And the headline here, one plus one equals two. You can't miss it.

CALLAWAY: The mathematician story.

CAMPION: A mathematical formula reveals the secret, exactly, of happy marriage. Who would have thought that a happy marriage was based on math? An Anglo-American team of psychoanalysts and boffins and you know all that kind of people, they have put together this formula of body language.

They have taken couples and they have studied them. And they have sort of looked at the way they interact and looked at the number of smiles and the number of times they lean towards each other and lean away and all this kind of thing. And worked out a formula for predicting whether or not that marriage is going to last. And then they studied the people and they found out if that marriage did actually last.

And they recommend that this is an astonishingly successful formula. They recommend they can actually predict marriage success rates just by some kind of weird mathematical formula and you study the people and you write it all down. I don't know, I think if I was -- happily this is all behind me now, I hope. But you know if I was, you know, going on a date and some woman produced a computer and said OK, I'm going to watch you and study, I don't think I would find that at all attractive. You wouldn't see me for dust. But anyway, that's another one out there.

CALLAWAY: Numerology not for you is what you're saying, right?

CAMPION: OK.

CALLAWAY: All right, thanks. See you later, Tony.

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Aired February 13, 2004 - 05:45   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Tony Campion is live for us in London to tell us what's on the front pages over there.
TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, yes, let's start with a pretty serious story, actually, Catherine. We have here the, you know, Internet pervert ruined the life of a 12-year-old girl. This is a story of Tony Studebaker who -- Toby Studebaker, who you'll remember was the former U.S. Marine. And he has now essentially been proven to have solicited underage sex with a 12-year-old English girl. He flew her to France and they had their, I don't know what do you call it, affair. I'm not even sure that that's the right word.

And now he's been found guilty at a court in Britain, but only on two very minor counts. Because of the way the international laws work, in Britain he can be prosecuted for abduction. OK, that's, you know, fairly serious. And also incitement to gross indecency, but he can't be prosecuted on any kind of under age sex charges, per se, because the offense took place in France, although he does run the risk that he is going to be extradited to the United States for that to happen.

Well this obviously -- you know this is a huge story as far as the U.K. is concerned. And here you have -- that was the "Express (ph)" front page I showed you. A double page spread, the e-mail predator and there's a picture of the guy and this is "The Sun" today.

And the big debate is, you know, he found this girl through an Internet chat room. It was actually NeoPets.com, a very innocent Web site, ostensibly. I mean you know the Web site is set up for the support of your pets. We've all heard of Lighttime (ph) and Goshes (ph) and stuff. You know kids get a pet online and they have to look after it. And people who like these pets, these virtual pets, say they teach responsibility and stuff.

But if you've got -- you know in itself, it's kind of a cute idea. But if you have got sort of people entering these chat rooms with devious intent, then you've got to ask, you know, what kind of security needs to be established around it? This is a big debate, anyway. People are calling for the chat rooms to be closed down. So that's what is on the front pages.

CALLAWAY: All right. What's, you know, on the second and third pages, any good stuff?

CAMPION: Well, you know there are one or two really interesting ones. Let me just start by telling you this is something that I found on the inside pages of "The Independent."

CALLAWAY: OK.

CAMPION: And the headline here, one plus one equals two. You can't miss it.

CALLAWAY: The mathematician story.

CAMPION: A mathematical formula reveals the secret, exactly, of happy marriage. Who would have thought that a happy marriage was based on math? An Anglo-American team of psychoanalysts and boffins and you know all that kind of people, they have put together this formula of body language.

They have taken couples and they have studied them. And they have sort of looked at the way they interact and looked at the number of smiles and the number of times they lean towards each other and lean away and all this kind of thing. And worked out a formula for predicting whether or not that marriage is going to last. And then they studied the people and they found out if that marriage did actually last.

And they recommend that this is an astonishingly successful formula. They recommend they can actually predict marriage success rates just by some kind of weird mathematical formula and you study the people and you write it all down. I don't know, I think if I was -- happily this is all behind me now, I hope. But you know if I was, you know, going on a date and some woman produced a computer and said OK, I'm going to watch you and study, I don't think I would find that at all attractive. You wouldn't see me for dust. But anyway, that's another one out there.

CALLAWAY: Numerology not for you is what you're saying, right?

CAMPION: OK.

CALLAWAY: All right, thanks. See you later, Tony.

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