16 ~— Sunday. September 27, 1998 - North Shore News

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THE New York City Board of
Education has revoked the
diplomas of 61 Brooklyn high
school students (and is
reviewing the records of 113
more).

Principal, Marcia Brevot
had waved them through with
full credit for “interdiscipli-
nary” courses such as
“Wifllcball theory” (physical
education), “flower-arrang-
ing” (botany), and “sports
rotisserie leagues” (math).

Dickson and Cynthia
Unoarumhi of south London,
England, told reporters
recently that they believe they
hold the record for the largest
number of white children
(three) burn to a black couple.

The Guinness Book of
World Records people appar-
ently agree because they are
inaugurating the category

_mext. year” with the
Unoarumhis’ achievement.
Possible explanations for the
children’s ‘fate include a
genetic regression, a parent’s

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7 Sony Corp. . recently
announced ‘it will modify its
-- popular ‘Handycam video

: caméra after a Japanese maga-
dine'revealed that 2 $7 filter
“used with the Jens’ - infrared

feature: could enable users to -

: see underneath the clothing of
- -lightly dressed people.
An’. Associated —_ Press
* reporter likened the effect to
‘seeing: a body through 2 thin
~- curtain rather than viewing
someone ‘nude, but that did
not stop a brief run on the
cameras _ before Sony’ ‘s
announcement.

A “28-year: -old Michigan
man drowned in July in an
apartment-house pool while
winning a game with his
friends as to who could hold
his:breath under water the
longest.
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Students from Madrona
Middle School, __ visiting
California Superior Court to
tearn about the legal system,
were ushered by their teacher
into a trial in session despite a
warning to the teacher that the
subject matter was “sensitive.”

Virrually the first thing the
kids saw was, in a child

molestation case, the prosecu- '

tor’s propping up two 10-inch
dildos on me viling of the
witness stand so as to make
her line of questioning more
vivid for the jury.

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Petty-theft defendant

Ronnie Hawkins, acting as his
own lawyer in a California

courtroom, thought: inces-
santly talking back to Judge
Joan Comparet-Cassani was a
good strategy.

The judge had other ideas.
Hawkins had been fitted with
a remote-controlled = “stun
belt” under his clothing, and
the judge ordered a bailiff ta
send Hawkins a bone-ratthng
50,000 volts of electricity,
causing him to grimace and his
body to turn as taut as a board
for the cight-second blast.

Five days later in Oakland,

Brian Tracey Hill suffered the
same fate during jury selection
on an assault charge.

However, Hill was behav-
ing perfectly; a sheriff's
deputy had leaned over in his
chair and accidentally nudged
the stun belt’s trigger.

From time to time News of

the Weird has reported on the
Muctuating value of the late
Italian artist Piero Manzoni’s

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personal feces, which he
canned in 1961 as art objects
in 90 tins, 30 grams at a time.

The Baltimore Sten ceport-
ed in 1993 that one tin sold
for $75,000 at the top of the
market.

The latest sale, in July
1998 ar Sotheby’s in London,
was for about $28,800.
However, even with the drop
in price, as Forbes magazine
pointed out, Manzoni's feces
is still about $1,000 per gram,

almost 100 times the price of

wold ($9.50 per gram).
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Daytona Beach, Florida —
Michael H. Egli was found in
contempt of court earlier this
month. He had tried to get
out of jury duty by sending
the court clerk two messages
announcing that he “hate(s)”
“(epither for blacks}, cops and
judges.”

Egli has a kidney condition
that requires regularly sched-

uled dialysis and was surprised
when the judge told him he
would automatically have
been excluded from jury duty,
anyway.

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Perth, Australia — The
Egual Opportunity Comm-
ission rejected a claim of racial
harassment by American Jon
Debellis, 41, who said co-
workers had forced him into
psychotherapy by constantly
calling him “the Yank”.

You tracked down the » lyrics to an old song,

traded jokes with a pal in MELBOURNE, and
transferred funds between BANK accounts.” .

All of it while at the library.

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