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Pop star Michael Jackson made a brief trip to a local hospital Thursday evening to be treated for dehydration, sources told NBC News, another sign of stress as his trial nears an end. His defense team is set to wrap up its closing arguments Friday, followed by the prosecution's rebuttal and then jury deliberations. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8083261/

Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
Alex Witt in for Keith tonight.

Keith blogs: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7873141/#050516b

Two years into the war in Iraq, as the Army and Marines struggle to refill their ranks, parents have become boulders of opposition that recruiters cannot move. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/nyregion/03recruit.html?

Natalee Holloway disappeared on the last night of a trip to Aruba to celebrate her graduation from high school. Four days later, the Alabama teenager is still missing, despite an extensive search of the Dutch Caribbean island. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8079019/

As movie buffs and the media descend on the Vineyard this weekend to mark the 30th anniversary of Jaws, memories from that summer of blood are flowing like, well, blood from the great mechanical shark's mouth. The film, widely considered the first summer blockbuster, was shot here over more than five months in 1974. http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2005/06/03/jaws_fest.php

Monica Novotny reports: Wing Women... Women who help men.... you'll have to see for yourself.

Keith's Favorite Five of the week.

That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.

Finally,
Two Nepalese climbers were on top of the world this week - not only because they reached the top of Mount Everest but because they got married there in what was believed to be the first wedding on the summit. It was a brief ceremony with no procession, champagne or band - only piles of snow and a breathtaking panorama for bride Moni Mulepati, 24, and groom Pem Dorjee, 23, as they exchanged their vows at 29,035 feet on Monday. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEPAL_EVEREST_WEDDING?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
The two lovebirds then promptly passed out from lack of oxygen and rolled all the way down the mountain. Their honeymoon ambulance awaited.

-- Carey Fox

Countdown Home: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

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Canadian law enforcement officials took charge of a passenger jet that was escorted by fighter jets to Halifax International Airport on Friday after it sent out a false hijacking alarm en route from London to New York. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8085449/

Johnson & Johnson said Friday it was recalling several varieties of its Tylenol painkiller for children due to confusing packaging information that could lead to young patients being given overly high doses of the over-the-counter medicine. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8085957/

Floods caused by torrential rain have turned vast tracts of farmland in south China into muddy lakes, razed mountain villages and destroyed more than 36,000 homes, possibly killing hundreds of people. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8085092/

The United States on Friday warned its citizens in Indonesia of a terrorist plot to bomb hotels in the capital, and the country's police chief also cautioned that fresh attacks were likely. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8080408/

Saudi Arabia and three other U.S. allies in the Middle East are among countries added to a State Department list of nations that are not doing enough to stop international human trafficking, a practice the department described as modern-day slavery. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8085619/

U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8080407/

Employers throttled back hiring in May, boosting jobs by just 78,000, the government reported Friday. The most sluggish pace of payroll expansion in nearly two years dramatized the erratic behavior of the nation's job market. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8083413/

Teens seeking work for summer face fierce competition. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8076613/

Holy summer movies, Batman! 'War of the Worlds,' 'The Fantastic Four' and a glut of zombies wait to greet you. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7806448/

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[SmileMaker]

1. Are you with the show? n/t

[Catchawave]

2. Um, yes :)

Sorta :=)

[SmileMaker]

5. Um, what does yes :), sorta :=) mean? Are you Keith? The newsletter guy?

I'm not part of the KOEB, even though I do think that Keith is pretty hot - mostly because he's smart.

I thought Dan Rather was looking pretty hot last night too, on the ugly Larry King show. Cheney, Bush and even Clinton didn't impress me because none of them talked about things that were very meaningful.

Speaking truth to power causes people who do it to age well. Dan Rather did it well last night.

[rkc3]

3. Wing women helping men - I love it.

KO should have some fun with that tonight.

[orleans]

4. hey hey hey

(pssst. did you sign the letter?
pass it on. tell your friends.
here's the link)

[Califooyah Operative]

6. yesterday when i watched countdown, they showed a commercial

leading into it, saying that countdown on a tuesday night at 8 i believe beat cnn in the raitings. that made me smile.

[napi21]

7. Did you hear Howard Fineman saying Pentagon story today

about urinating on the Quran confirmed the Newsweek story? The only thing Newsweek did wrong was state this info was in a Gov't report.

In my opinion, it probably was in a Gov't report, and when this newsweek report game out, the Pentagon removed the info to make the magazine look bad!