ICORDING to
November Boston Globe story,
upper-crust restaurants in
New York and Boston have
taken to adding genuine gold
flakes to some dishes, not
merely as garnish but with the
expectation that they be
eaten. Boston’s Riba restau-
rant recently offered “risotto
of summer’s golden squashes
with leaf of 24-carat gold.”
Said the owner, “It’s so thin
and weightless thar by the
time you eat it, i?s gonzo.”
She added, “There's a feeling
of plenty around. People are
fecling rich.”

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In October, Derck Farmer,
42, who s rved 18 years in
prison for the murders of a
civil rights activist and a police
officer in Dayton, Ohio,
passed Ohio’s bar exam and
was sworn in as a lawyer.
However, two weeks earlier,
Kevin Kapel was denied per-
mission to take the same exam
because of insufficient “char-
acter and fitness” to become a
lawyer; Kapel’s criminal
record consists only of charges
that he stole a girlfriend's cat
and once tried to take his car
back illegally from a mechan-
ic. (Farmer's application was
helped by the strong Support
of his presiding judge and two

other judges.)

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Latest bra technology: In
July, London art student
Kursty Groves told reporters
she had developed a proto-
type “Techno Bra,” which
’ houses in its lining a global
ositioning satellite locator,
heart-rate monitor and cell

phone transmitter, to be a
vated if the wearer is attacked
(which supposedly produces a
heartbeat distinct fi am that
produced by exercising or
passion). Also in July, a report
of an American
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
study indicated success with
the battery-operated vacuum
bra that removes air from its
nvo domes so that breasts are
ked forward; 15 women
testers grew b
one cup size after 10 weeks.

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Latest religious messages:
Tensions grow daily in rural
Eatonton, Ga. (60 miles
southeast. of — Atlanta),
between the Putnam County
sheriff iatent on enforcing
agricultural zoning laws and
the 80 African-American dis-
ciples of Chicf Black Eagle
Malachi York, who has built a
religious retreat, with shops

Society of

an average of

and) 40-foot-high

called Tama-Re: Ey

West. Yor!

who says he was born in the
galaxy Hiyuwn and) who
invented the group's Arabic-
English-blend language,
Nuwabic, teaches thar a space-
ship will fand in 2003) and
rake away only 144,000 cho-
sen people.

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Also, in the Last Month: A
jail warden accidentally fell to
his death from the ceiling on
top of a conjugal- -visit couple
he was spying on (Tapachula,
Mexico). The vear-old investi-
gation of a used-car. sales
man's murder was stalled
when police discovered that
the man was hated by so many
people (Edmonton, ‘Mberta):

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