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Friday. July 14, 2000 - North Shore News

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ACCOMPLISHED toy inventor Brian Walker, 44, told) the

Newhouse News Service pune that he would, by newt susimer,

aon hiniselfon the world’s first hamemade space shot (blasting
14.000 mp.b.. tea height of 30 ites, using 10 tanks con

8 7.000 pounds of hydrogen perovide as fuel, at an overall

ase Of $250,000). The spaceeratt he built is nine feet tall, will

di troma 20 toot dong trailer, and has a capsule that will

return hing to earth via parachutes. A jet propulsion engineer at
Cal Tech said: Walker's plan was actually pretty sound, in theory,

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Lean Times for La Cosa Nostra: Despite a massive tederal, state
and Jocal law-enforcement operation against organized: crime
gambling and loan-sharking in south Florida, capped by a six:
count federal indictment in June, the evidence actually revealed
rather dismal business prospects for the Colombo crime family in
the area. According to the indierment, Colombo muscicman “Joey
Flowers” Rotunno and his crew earned gambling income of le:
than 52,000 a day.

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Orthopedic surgeon Nicholas Cappello had his licence lifted in
April by the Arkansas Medical Board for as many as 20 botched
surgeries featuring such errors as metal plates ‘screwed to the
wrong bones or screws missing the bone altogether. And patient
Robert Banks sued the Earl K. Long Medical Centre in Baton
Rouge, La., in March, complaining that he went in for a heart
bypass in 1995 bur came out merely circumcised (which doctors
said was a necessary antecedent to the surgery because he required
monitoring equipment). (For unrelated reasons, the sur-

geons decided, after setting Banks up, not to do the bypass.)

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In March, in the heat of a battle in the Mexican legislature over
adopting daylight savings time, opponent Sen. Felix Salgado pur
forth his strongest argument: Advancing the clocks an hour will
reduce daylight time in the morning, curtailing many “man-

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Also, inthe Last Month: A Leeshe Safeway emplover of
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buying a few blemished, discounted trait without management
authorization,

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