Occupation Londscoper Hobbies . Basketball, niountoin biking American Beauty Complete horticulture apprenticeship Recent film Future plans of South Stuart devel- PNIVERSIPY Floriaa professor Wilkinson recently oped a robot that fu with sugar and which the professor hopes will be able to power itself even more versatilely by cating vexeta- tion (although unlike sugar, which produces only water and carbon dioxide as byproducts, vegetation would create waste-disposal problems). According to a July BBC News report, E. colt bacteria are provided to break down the food and convert icinto ele : People Who Are Not Like You and Me: Police in Durham. N.C., said thar the three TF old boys rushed to Duke Hospital on the evening of July 28 with gunshot wounds to the leg had actually shot one anoth- er, voluntarily, Said a police spokesman, “They wanted that status symbol of telling their friends they were shot.” News of the Weird has reported several times recently on the cockfighting, which is. still jegal only in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana, and is under constant — criticism from state legislatures and animal-rights activists. itself” “sport” of Howe 20 fing woa June New York Times story, the cockfighting infrastruc ture (33-state breeding industry plus designer-drug developers to enhance reost- ers’ fighting performance) is flourishing, and cockfighting continues illegally in) many other venues (for example, raided events this year ia and New York City). Furthermore, an anti-cockfighting bill in Congress, with broad bipar- tisan support, has been derailed, according tea July Washington Post) story, because of the influence of the breeding industry. wan Competent Criminals: T’Chacka Mshinda Thorpe, 25, was arrested in’ Lenehburg, Va., in May and charged with possession of cocaine after a brief chase; police caught up to him after Thorpe tripped on his low-riding bagyy pants, fell, and fractured his femur. And in March, Edney Raphael, 39, running from a stabbing in Philadelphia with a bloody knife in his hand, was captured following a foot chase; he had turned his head to see where the offi- cers were and run smack into a parking meter. Least Ferries gear up for traffic TRAVELLERS are reminded to plan ahead when using BC Ferries during the last long weekend before school begins. Trattic is heavier from the mainland to Jancouver Island and from Horseshoe Bay to the Sunshine Coast all day today and Saturday morning. The reverse is true on Sunday evening and on Monday, when the greatest demand is from Vancouver Island and Langdale back to the nisinland. The number of foot passengers returning to the mainland is generally greatest in the early evening on the holiday Monday. Over the 1999 Labour Day weekend, 69,052 vehi- cles and 240,331 passengers were carried on the Tsawwassen/Swartz — Bay, Horseshoe Bay/Departure Bay, Horseshoe Bay/Langdale and — the Tsawwassen/Duke — Point routes. This year, sailings between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay will be every hour on the hour from 7 am. to 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Extra sailings are scheduled on Friday and Sunday at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. There will be eight conventional ferry sailings between Horseshoe Bay and Dep.ture Bay, between 6:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. plus extra PacifiCat sail- ings depending on the day. Between Horseshoe Bay and Langdale, the summer schedule continues with eight round trips daily. On Monday, Sept. 4, extra sail- ings are scheduled from Langdale at 3 p.m. and 10:10 p.m.; from Horseshoe Bay at I} p.m. Passengers are reminded that the fall schedule .on these ferry routes begins on Monday, Sept. 11. Travellers wanting to book a vehicle reservation or obtain. more information on BC Ferries’ sailings can visit the Web site at www.beferries.com or call the automated information y line at 1-888-724-5223. Passenger service agents are available from 7 a.m. ‘to 10 p.m. seven days a week in Victoria at 386-3431 or throughout B.C. at 1-888- BC-FERRY. ;! Annual Sale! “ANS. Lhe = “Monday = Saturday: 705: 30 pm’ Tess rive: West. Vancouver 922: 3933 Wednesdays - hiphop/R&B night with DJ's Alibaba and Jial14 Thursdays - 80's music - 80's prices & Pool Tourneys every Thurs! 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