RESEARCH published
in the Journal of
Archaeological Sctence
suggests a valuable role
for an assistant
researcher.

A research director wanted
to learn whether small bones
found at a dig were from an
animal that died there or from
an animal that had been eaten
by the animal that died there.
An assistant was fed a boiled
shrew and had his bowel
movements tracked for three
days, then boiled and ana-
lyzed.

The director concluded
that the human stomach basi-
cally mashes up the eaten
shrew'’s bones during, diges-
tion.

Catan

Artist Todd Alden made
News of the Weird in October
1993 after he asked 400 art
collectors to deliver to him in
cans samples of their feces for
a display.

In May 1996, Alden’s
show featuring 81 such cans
was scheduled to open in
Manhattan, but the New York
Observer revealed Alden’s
claim to be a hoax in that only
one collector had actually
contributed as instructed. (It
was not revealed what was in
the other 80 cans or why even
one collector had complied
with Alden’s request.)

Said Alden, “There is a
whole subtext to this thar is
between me and my thera-
pist.”

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In a recent Washington
Post story on infant actors in
the TV industry, children’s
‘advocate Paul Petersen said
that in 1995, premature twins
born two months early were
aused in’ a live-birth scene on
the program ER only one
month after their actual birth
(and thus only eight months
after conception).

"They were smeared with
cream cheese and jelly to sim-
ulate the look of babies at
birth.

eee

On the California ballot
this year is the question of
whether suffering ill people
may be prescribed marijuana

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Shrewd (and

asa pain reliever.

The ballot initiative is a
product of members of San
Francisco's Cannabis Buyers*
Club, a three-year-old) salon
run by Dennis Peron, who
currently risks arrest by selling,
marijuana daily to those who
can prove they are ill,

Peron also supplies enter-

tainment and games and a 12+:

step program — for those
wanting to leave heroin and
cocaine in favor of marijuana.

Air New Zealand — has
announced it will permit
cockpit crews on internation-
al flights to nap during peri-
ads of low activity as long as
one person remains awake,

The airline said that it thus
hopes to end “unofficial and
uncontrolled” napping,
which it said pilots on all air-
lines do,

The airline also issued
instructions on how to awak-
ena pilot: It should be done
“in a normal tone of voice.
An attempt should be made
not to. startle the waking
flight crew member.”

Editor Martha Jette was
eased out of her job after 10
years at the weekly Dundas
Review in June after a dispute
with the publisher.

She had run a_ story
accepting the claim of local
singer “Danny Boy,” who had
convinced her that he is the
reincarnation of Jesse Garon
Presley, Elvis’ stillborn twin,
and that he was given life in
order to continue Elvis’
gospel work.

Said Jette, “Who can
ignore a miracle?”

According to the San Jose
Mercury News, the only injury
from the May 21 Calaveras
earthquake (magnitude 4.7)
near San Francisco was to
Edvardo Meneses, 21, who
thought the quake was a
break-in in his home,

He grabbed his gun, and
as he was running: up the
stairs to protect his mother,
he shot himself in the leg.

Newburgh, New York —
Employees of the Advanced
Medical Imaging clinic forgot
that Brenda Revella, 42, was
in the claustrophobia-induc-
ing MRI machine when they
recently locked up for the
night.

The patient lies in a tube
27 inches wide with the top
of the tube only four inches
from his or her face. Revella
managed to wiggle out three
hours later.

Youth Ambassador Tour

An evening of music
. from around the world
wre 7:30 pm, August 23, 1996
:} XNorth Shore Alliance Church

201 East 23rd, North Vancouver

7 Benefit concert for World Vision
and North Shore Harvest

Tickets $5.00 at Sign of the Fish Bookstore

Non-perishable food donations for North Shore

Harvest will be received at the door.

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