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NEWS of the Weird reported
in 1988S on an Indianapolis
substitute teacher's suspension
for arranging for the well-
behaved kids in her titth-grade
class to line up and spit on the
ones that had) b bad, as
they walked the fine. Among
this year’s classroom fine-up-
and: punish incidents: A sixth-
grade teacher allegedly
assigned good kids to line up
and punch oa bad one
(Somerset County, NJ, Ma

a preschool princi

urged good four-yearolds to
line up and bite a bad one
(Boston, June: and, in fact,
second-grade teacher
Madeline Raven, 27, allegedly
had good kids line up and spit
ana bad one, which forced the
teacher to find the boy anoth-
er shirt since the one he wore
to school was thus covered
with saliva (Sugar Land, Fexas,
April).

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A June Wall st
dispatch from Toky
the trend of “serial diver
Young married women desir-
ing to keep their maiden
names on official documents
circumvent Japanese law by
momentarily divorcing when a

vet Journal

government document is
needed, and then usaally
remarving their husbands
immediately afterward. And
cosmetics frins’ sales of prod-
wets to reduce or mask the
odour of Snoneal” are boom:
ing, according to a March
Panes report; poneal
a chemical released in
xreater quantity as people age
and in) super-hygienic Japan
creates the unpopular “old
man’s smell.”

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In May, Italian female bas-
ketball star Fabiana
Benedettini, 30, surprised her
family and the sports world by
abruptly taking vows as.anun
and joining the Santa
Margherita of Cortona sanctu-
a Also recently becoming
nuns in’ Italy: a marchesa,
Ginevra Rossi di Montelera; a
hotel heiress, Maria Luisa De
Angelis (who abandoned ber
husband and children in’ the
process}; an industrial hei
Idina Ferruzs
star, Maria” Ciancio,
and, at least joining a convent
temporarily, a porn star, Luana
Borgia.

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st 11, 2000 - North Shore News - 11

iv York Tintes
dis cho from | Zhdanove,
Russ (just
Mongoliai reported on the
cultural use of vadka as holy
water in that Buryat- region,
whose predominant religion is
shama . Mongol devotees
sometimes sip vodka during
the entire 90-minute services,
which brings, according to
one shaman, “moral calmne
and the improved ability tw

to God” (althoug h
: m includes more thar,
100 gods).

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First things first: Catholic
priest’ Charles Mente
was stabbed by a parishi
during conte

rd but re’

fy the man who did it becaus
of his vow of confidentiality.

north oof

And at Christmastime 1999, a
drunken guest disturbed the
Cistercian monks of Caldey
Island (Wales) by singing
Welsh hymns and carols while
they were celebrating their 12
hours of “Great Silence,” but
no one moved to quiet the
guest because, after all, the
monks could not speak.

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Also in the Jast month: A
foot-long iguana
aped from captivity,
prompting a police alert, given
its propensity for aggression
toward menstruating women
(St. Austell, England). A
soiled diaper, in a plastic bag
left in a 100-degree sun for
three days, combusted, setting
afire the walls of two apart-
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