22 — Friday, February 28, 1997 — North Shore News

Survival of
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NEWS OF THE

ACCORDING to a recent
Newspaper story, young
mothers in large Japanese
cities have adopted the city
park as a forum for vying for
status. .

‘Some young mothers
interviewed claimed they
were “scared” to take their
toddlers to the parks (to make
their “park debut”) because
of the established cliques of
mothers: who dominate the

_ facilities. .
. Guidebooks teach the
proper “park behavior”;
~ “department stores feature the
. proper “park clothing”; and a
recent satiric movie depicted
a park ruled by 50 authoritar-
. jan mothers.
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In Singapore, which is so
pristine that even public
gum-chewing is illegal, police
expressed concern last month
about the recent crisis of
apartment dwellers in high-
nse buildings who casually
toss their belongings out the
window.

. Fifty-one people were
arrested last year for throwing
objects raneing from TV sets
to tricycles to flower pots.

“The - Times of London
reports that Bombay (whose
_name was recently changed to
Mumbai) became the first city
in India.to ban public spit-
ting, which the reporter
described as “one of the two
most ubiquitous of male
habits” in India (the other
being public urination).

According to the Tismes,
“Boys barely old cnough to
walk can be heard practicing
guttural sounds, which is
regarded as macho.”

Arecene Los Angeles Times
story described what
Argentine writer Tomas Eloy
Martinez called the country’s
obsession with “emotional”
necrophilia toward its promi-
nent citizens.
Frequently, corpses of
luminaries such as Juan Feron
are dug up and either cele-
brated or desecrated, to
excite national pride. (The
hands of Peron’s corpse were
sawed off by a zealous grave
robber in 1987 and have not
been recovered; last fall, a
judge ordered Peron’s body
to be disinterred yet again so

that a DNA sample could be -

taken as evidence in a
woman’s claim that she is
Peron’s legitimate daugh-
ter.)

The Associated Press
reported jasz- mec: on the
three-year al .i-sinoking
policy of ki: : wsics of
New Ee : hich not
only forbies ag up at
work bir subjects each
employee and visitor to a sniff
test of his breath and clothing
performed by receptionist
Jennifer Walsh.

Those with an odor so
strong that it is likely they
smoked within the last two
hours or so are not allowed
in.

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Reuters news service
reports that the 400-mile
route from Moscow to St.
Petersburg is being worked
by gangs of arnied thieves
who rob and hijack cargo
trucks.

And last summer on the
runway at the airport in
Perpignan, France, gunmen
halted a taxiing Air France
airliner that had just landed
with 167 passengers and stole
moneybags containing about
$800,000.

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Working in concert, the
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White Rock Horseshoe Club
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