THREE -MEMBERS of San
Francisco's Bay Area Carnivorous
Plant Society have plead guilty to
: Smuggling more. than 200 rare
plants into the U.S. from Asia.

Said another society member,
who speculated on. their. motive:
“Carnivorous plants can really give
you. an obsession... I started out
‘with ‘a.-Venus's. flytrap. 35 years
ago... You get one and you want
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that attaches to the floor: of ‘the
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from designer: Bruno Ferrera, a‘.
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tiered. cocktail-waitress.
that holds:250 ¢ canapes;
a 30-inch- high, porcelain-headed

doll ‘of: Indiana. University .basket-..

“ball coach’ Bobby Knight, wearing
traditional: red. sweater
Converse sneakers, from local doli-
Tom Alberts; for $545;

ine of- toilet-seat - lids: in the

lape -.of,, guitars’ -(electric” and
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family photos. but we have an
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The Consumer Product Safety
Commission has ended five years
of deliberation on what to do about
five-gallon buckets.. which it
deemed dangerous to toddlers who

“ might fall into them and drown.

In May 1994, the agency tenta-
tively had decided to order manu-
facturers to redesign the buckets.
However, it has now decided mere-
ly to require warnings on the pails.

Amy Brasher. 45, was-uarrested.

“in San Antonio after a mechanic

notified police that 18 packages of
marijuana were packed alongside

the engine of her car, which she.

had turned over to the mechanic for
an oil change.
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clater’ said she did not realize that
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the hood to change the aif!

_Last month in Amarillo, Texas;

citizen Joe Brooks, spotting a man. ~

who was fleeing police officers in a
public. park,’ galloped: after him on

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