No visas required for six countries

President Bush, trying to eliminate a major source of contention with allied nations, announced yesterday that the United States is rescinding visa requirements for citizens of six European countries and South Korea. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and South Korea will be added to the US visa waiver program in about a month. Each of those countries allows US citizens to visit without obtaining a visa. Bush said all of the countries added to the list agreed to take specific steps, such as coming up with tamper-proof, biometric passports that are difficult to forge. (AP)

LOS ANGELES - The former chief of UCLA's cadaver program pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in selling donated body parts to medical, drug, and research companies in a scheme that netted up to $1 million, prosecutors said. Henry Reid, 58, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit grand theft, with a special allegation that he damaged or destroyed more than $1 million worth of school property, which refers to the donated bodies. Under a plea agreement, Reid could be sentenced to four years and four months in state prison. He also agreed to cooperate in the trial of a codefendant, and to repay $100,000 to $1 million to the program.(AP)

LOS ANGELES - Former first lady Nancy Reagan has been released from a Los Angeles hospital where she was treated for a fractured pelvis. Spokeswoman Joanne Drake said in a statement yesterday that Reagan has returned home and doctors expect a full recovery. Drake says doctors have prescribed a regimen of daily physical therapy and a reduced public schedule. (AP)

LOS ANGELES - A team of researchers from Los Angeles has discovered a "dinosaur graveyard" in southeastern Utah that is yielding a wealth of fossilized animals and footprints from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The centerpiece of the new finds is the well-preserved skeleton of a 150-million-year-old sauropod that researchers have named "Gnatalie" because the scientists were "eaten alive" by gnats while they were excavating it earlier in 2008. (Los Angeles Times)