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projects funded

NORTH Vancouver's
natural environment
recently received a help-
ing hand from the
Canada Trust Friends
_of the Environment
Foundation.

~The... foundation —con-
tributed more than $26,000 to
support.a variety of environ-
mental projects on the North
Shore. The Seymour Salmonid
Society received funding for its
Gently Down the Stream edu-
cation program. The hands-on
program is designed to give
students a unique opportunity
to. fearn abour — fisheries
resources, hatcheries and forest
ccology.

Ridgeview elementary
school was provided with
funding for the revitalization

of the forest area on the
grounds of the school. Work
included the construction of
trails and the planting of
indigenous plants and trees.

Canada Trust sct up the
foundation in 1990.

The company’s cmployees
and customers serve as volun-
teers on chapter advisory
boards to evaluate each fund-
ing application. Residents can
become involved by applying
to participate on an advisory
board, make a contribution
through a branch, or apply for
funding support.

Canada Trust matches cus-
tomer contributions up to $1]
million annually. For more
information contact Brian
Blackwood, North. Shore
coordinator, Friends of the
Environment —_ Foundation,
922-1288.

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NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

VENTURA, California — A
Hindu man, Mukesh K. Rai,
has filed a lawsuit against Taco
Rell for causing him to do
“the equivalent of eating his
ancestors.”

His lawver contends that
by Taco Bell negligently sub-
stituting a beef burrito for a
bean burrito, his client
required medical attention
and was forced to miss work,
and will have to travel to India
for “purification.”

Taco Bell offered to calm
the anguished Rai by
exchanging the beef burrito
for a bean one but, according
to Rai, refused to refund him
the price difference berween
the two.

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota
— The family of Karen
Seaton, who died in 1995
when she fell off a barstool
and hit her head at Wild
Willie’s with a .441 blood-
alcohol reading, filed a lawsuit
in January against the bar for
having served her too much
to drink,

The London Daily
Telegraph reported recently
on the thriving addiction clin-
ics of Dr. Robert Lefever, who
specializes in helping people
who are obsessed with helping
other people.

Among the 500 patients a
year he sees in London and
Kent are a number of women
who compulsively marry alco-
holies so they can cure the

Another
recently — hospitali
exhaustion after caretaking an
overweight woman, including
obsessively rolling her in her
wheelchair to many places she
did not want to go.

Washington, D.C.
Anoki P. Sultan has filed a law-
suit against Roman Catholic
Archbishop James Hickey,
claiming that the Church was
responsible for the devil’s tak-
ing over his body in 1983.

Sultan said that would

account for his being our of

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work so much, dropping out
of college, seeking mental-
health treatment, smoking
cigarettes, ppeaking in
tongues, and engaging in
homosexual acts. He sought
either $100) million or an
exorcism. (The lawsuit was
dismissed. )

In a recent issue of New
Scientist magazine, researchers
in Germany wrote that a type
of hermaphroditic flatworm
mates through what they call

enis fencing.”

In the presence of another,
a worm lashes out with its
penis to attempt to inject
sperm, but the potential mate
might have similar ideas itself,
and in bouts that last up to an
hour, cach attempts to insem-
inate the other. Often both
worms are left punctured.

University of Texas sociol-
ogist David Buss reports that
his interviews of 107 couples
reveal that certain behaviors
are highly correlated with a
tendency toward infidelity.

Among them: arriving late
for dinners or meetings;
spending lots of time looking
in the mirror; forgetting
thank friends for favors,
laughing at injured animals;
running up debts; and walk-
ing out of a room without
turning off the light.

A British research team,
writing in a recent issue of
Nature Genetics, identified a
gene disorder that makes
some people smell like rotting
fish, almost without regard to
their cating or hygiene habits.

Most people produce a
certain enzyme to absorb a
particularly smelly protein
made by bacteria in the stom-
ach, but those who can’t pro-
duce the enzyme see the pro-
tein scep out through their
breath or perspiration.

Said a researcher, “These
are severely isolated,
depressed and lonely people.”

Before a soccer game in
[stanbul against visiting
Bursaspor, police arrested 114
fans and confiscated 12]
cleavers and scintitars, which
was a good thing because the
home ream lost, 3-2.

And with a minute left in
Yugoslavia’s national champi-
onship basketball game before
7,000 fans in Belgrade, some-
one fired a tracer rocket that
hit acting mayor Milan Bozic,
causing severe burns and set-

ting off a melee.
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Physicians reported in a
recent: issue of the British
medical journal The Lancet on
a 44-year-old woman who had

been treated for a bout of

spontancous orgasms.
The incidents occurred

approximate’ every two

lasted for about a

sand, according to the

ans, “were neither par-

arly pleasurable nor satis-

fying because they were ont of

her control.”

Doctors detected — an

abnormality on the right side

of her brain and treated her
with an epilepsy medicine.

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