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IN 1998, News of the Weird
reported on a married couple
forced to live apart because
the American husband was
barred from Canada, and the
Canadian wife was barred
from the U.S. (both because
of criminal records), and
who could spend time
together only on the U.S.-
Canada bridge at Niagara
Falls, which they regularly
did.

Another couple in the
same situation apparently
had decided a while back that
meeting on the bridge was
not good enough,

In February 2000, Shawn
Gibson was convicted in St.
Catharines, Ontario, for the
sixth time for entering
Canada illegally to see his
wife, and sentenced to five
months in jail.

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Attorney Michael
Lazaroff, 50, pleaded guilty
in St. Louis in June to feder-
af charges that he gave clients
extravagant gifts over the
past seven years, totaling
$380,000, but then surrepti-
tiously inflated their bills
with phoay charges in order
to mabe clients pay for their
own gifts. Lazaroffs “gen-
erosity” included concert
tickets and trips to Las
Vegas.

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Britain’s national patent
office disclosed in March
that it had received a first:
poet/waitress Donna
Rawlinson MaclL.can’s appli-
cation for a patent on herself.

MacLean told The
Guardian newspaper that
her application qualifies (that
she meets the legal standard
of “novel” and “usefal”): “It
has taken. 30 years of hard

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from unauthorized exploita-
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Pedro Valls Feu Rosa, a
state supreme court judge in
Brazil, has developed the
artificial-intelligence — soft-
ware program) Electronic
Judge so that clerks operat-
ing laptop computers at the
scenes of traffic accidents
and other disputes can dis-
pense even-handed justice by
inputting facts and having
the program reach judicial
decisions instantly.

ccording to an April
report: in’ London's The
ludependent, most parties
seem satisfied to have their
cases tried while they are still
fresh, with witnesses present,
but the inventor acknowl-
edges that his program is not
appropriate for cases requir-
ing complex interpretations
of the law.

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Several. press accounts
from Cambodia recently
reported on the emerging
preferred form of retaliation
by that country’s spurned
boyfriends: to splash battery
acid in the woman's face.

A Deutsche Presse-Agentur
story found a dozen victims

in Phnom Penh during the:

winter. A similar but short-
lived fad in 1997 saw dozens
of jilted men toss hand
grenades at their would-be
girlfriends.

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The Manehester (Conn.)
Journal Inquirer reported in
March that heroin was so
cheap in nearby Hartford
that one police ficutenant

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{Alice Lake turn-off)

The Squamish Triathton Association advises
travellers of a scheduled closure and delays
at the Alice Lake turnoff / Squamish Valley
Road (9km north of Squamish) on Sunday,
July 23rd, :2000, for the “Squamish Triathlon
- A Memorial to Bob McIntosh” as follows:

Sund ly 23, 2000
ROAD CLOSURE
from approximately
9:20 am to 9:40 am

INTERMITTENT DELAYS
from approximately
9:40 am te 10:10 am

The Squamish Triathlon Association apolo-
gizes for any inconvenience caused to trav-
eliers and requests their patience to allow
this very important community event: to

take place.

All proceeds from this event go to the
Robert W. Mcintosh Scholarship Fund. :

had seen the price as low as
$2.50 per dose (a 10th of a
gram), which would mean
that someone buying it in a
convenience store parking
fot, for example, would be
paving less for it than a pack
of cigarettes sold inside.

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In March, Remy Bricka
set out from Los Angeles to
“walk” to Sydney, Australia,
using a pair of boatlike skis
and a long paddle and tow-
ing a catamaran behind fum
containing supplies and a
place to sleep.

And in April, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, hospital
worker Willie Nugent raised
money for charity by “swim-
ming” across a river in down-
town Dublin, Ireland,
despite the fact thar he can-
not swim; instead, Nugent
crawled across a bridge, in
movements resembling a
breast stroke. (The swimmer
made it, bur the walker's
catamaran was wiped out by
a storm on the first day, and
he had to quit.)

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The Environmental
Protection Agency told
reporters in) May that it
could not begin cleanup of
the toxic Kim-Stan landfill

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near Roanoke, Va., because
whoever owns it has been
hiding out ever since a bank-
ruptcy proceeding in 1990.
The government cannot
legally begin to stop the leak-
ing of cadmium, manganese,
zine and aluminum into the
nearby Jackson River without
the owner’s permission.

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A 39-year-old man com-
mitted suicide in downtown
Tokyo in May by jumping
eight flights off of the Keio
department: store building;
he Janded on pedestrian
Shinya Obata, 27, who was
seriously injured but sur-
vived.

Less lucky was Yang Shu-
hui, 26, who happened to be
walking under where the sui-
cidal Ms. Hsu ‘Tzu-jung, 36,
landed in a seven-story
March leap in Taichung,
Taiwan; both died.

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