LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two headless goats, three decapitated chickens, a beheaded rooster and a dove or possibly pigeon have been found on a scenic Southern California beach in the past week, puzzled police said on Thursday, Police in Laguna...

IBM and Linden Lab trying to set up avatars that can travel a fully integrated virtual world Internet... but will your giant chicken Second Life character find friends on Virtual Laguna Beach?

Before she wages her big chicken protest for PETA, Pamela Anderson spent Labor Day hanging out with Rick Solomon on Malibu Beach.

Mr. & Mrs. Chicken Fried take a Gondola Dinner Cruise in Newport Beach. What a romantic date location!

MIAMI -- Swimming in Biscayne Bay off the Rickenbacker Causeway, one doesn't have to look very far to find the remains of chickens, ducks and other birds washed up on the shoreline of the beach. Animal cruelty investigators believe the carcasses are the remnants of Santeria, a religion steeped in controversy for its practice of animal sacrifice.

The South Beach diet is a diet plan started by Miami, Florida, area cardiologist Arthur Agatston which emphasizes the consumption of "good carbohydrates" and "good fats". Dr. Agatston developed this diet for his cardiac patients based upon his study of scientific dieting research. The diet first appeared in a book of the same name published by Rodale Press. The official website of the diet can be found at South Beach Diet Online.Dr. Agatston believes that excess consumption of so-called "bad carbohydrates", such as the rapidly-absorbed carbohydrates found in foods with a high glycemic index, creates an insulin resistance syndrome—an impairment of the hormone insulin's ability to properly process fat or sugar. In addition, he believes along with many physicians that excess consumption of "bad fats", such as saturated fat and trans fat, contributes to an increase in cardiovascular disease. To prevent these two conditions, Agatston's diet minimizes consumption of bad fats and bad carbohydrates and encourages increased consumption of good fats and good carbohydrates.The diet has three phases. In all phases of the diet, Dr. Agatston recommends minimizing consumption of bad fats.