Occupation .... snveity gredvate Recent book . . Conversations with God Activities. . photography, singing, art Future plans. .enlertcinment indushy — either behind or in front of the screen WARNING to) Dorks: Two British researchers tod New Netenrist magasine in December that they have developed prototype software to assist in crime-prevention by moniioring surveillance cam- eras and electronically identify- ing, be image pixels, people whe are moving around in sus- picious ways. As an example, said one of the developers, someone awkwardly approach- ing a car is probably up to no good. However, privacy advo- cates Were alarmed at the news, fearing that police would tar- get people who are merely gawky. a0%3 The Litigious Society: Kendall Breaux, serving a life sentence for killing two bank tellers during a 1998 heist, filed a lawsuit in October in Thibodaux, La., against his getaway driver, James Dunn, for injuries Breaux suffered when their car crashed into a slow-moving train during the police chase. Qoo0qg Marlene Hoffman filed a $1 somiltion lawsuit in Georgetown, — Texas, in December against the Dr Pepper Co., which sponsored a college football halftime punt- catching promotion that she didn’t win. Hoffman was selected to stand on the 50- yard line and receive punts from = a___kick-simulation machine (catch one, $50,000; two, $250,000; all three, $1 million} and.was told that balls wouid come down in the gen- eral vicinity of the 50-yard line. She caught none because, she said, her three balls came down too far away: on the 44-, 45- and 42-yard lines. 900 {n November, a jury award- ed Andrea Karlen of Milford, Cona., $500,000 for injuries incurred in what all parties acknowledge was a mere “fender bender” in 1991. Karien's medical witnesses said the accident ciggered post- traumatic stress disorder (from. her memories of childhood inte a major depression and panic attacks, and resulting in at feast 4000 psychiatric ses- sions. “The unlucky auto-acei- dent defendant was a state judge who has now been nom- inated to a federal court. 4343 Leading Economic Indicators: From a pamplhilet distributed by the new Russian anti-materialist. group, Union of Revolutionary Writers (according to a September New York Tines report): “The half-eaten hamburger left by the dead man on the streets is now a revolutionary hamburg- er. O00 Recent Deaths in Pittsburgh's Death Community: On Nov, 23, a 42-year-old auto body shop worker was killed when the ambulance he was working under fell on him. Three days later, a 35-vear-old worker at the Charticrs Cemetery was killed when a backhoe slipped and its front bucket struck the man in the head, knocking him into the newly dug grave. 200 Recent Addictions: Daisy Hales pled = guilty — in Haymarket, South Yorkshire, England, in September to stealing books to feed her habit of eating paper. And researchers told a con- ference in Los Angeles in October that more men than Sunday, February 13, 2000 —- North Shore News - 17 eck alert! Suspicious geek alert women suffer from “body dys- morphic disorder” — peopie who imagine themselves horri- bly ugly and deal with it by radical plastic surgery and peculiar disguises. And Canada’s National Post reported in October on polvdipsia (“self-induced water intoxication”), Which causes addicts to guzzle water to the point of getting high (ae which point it becomes life-threaten- ing), including some who furtively drink from toilet tanks. O30 People Who Are Not Like You and Me: Subtenants Stuart and Susan Levy were at last fined $8,000 in December by a New York appeals court, but not before they had refused to move from their rented Manhattan apartment for 1] years after being given their 30-day notice to vacate by the tenant, who said in March 1985 that she needzd to move back in. Because of the Levys’ delay tactics, it took seven years for the principal tenant even to get a formal rul- ing that the Levys had to move. After that, the Levys stalled for four more years by claiming that the principal ten- ant should pay all of their legal fees for the 11-year battle. 00a Also, in the Last Month: New York City finally removed “telephone psychic” from the list of jobs it subsidizes for its welfare-to-work program, A woman filed a lawsuit against a famboyant obstetrician who carved his three-inch initials into her abdomen after a par- ticularly pleasing Caesarean section (New York City). Miracles were attributed to apparitions in Housron (dried we-cream splotches, resem- bling the Virgin of Guadalupe, on a basement floor). The University of Florida intro- duced the U.S.'s first Doctor of Plant Medicine degree pro- gram, to rival those for veteri- narians and physicians. Federal drug agents busted a 2,000- customer cocaine-home-deliv- ery business ($25 “small” order; $150 “large”; Domino”s-like, 30-minute delivery (New York City). FUNDS A Motivated Investor? 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