22 — Wednesday, February 18, 1998 — North Shore News

| Making the skin crawl

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

A recent letter to the New
England Journal of Medicine
from Dre Rachel L. Chin
described a woman's intec-
tion from bortly larvae that
she picked up in Peru.

The patient was looking at
spots on her legs when she
saw things start to wiggle
out, Eventually, seven matur-
ing bugs, which had been
gestating in the infection,
emerged before she got med-
ical help.

In August, after an inves-
tigation, police in Compton,
California, announced that
they no longer believed that
high school English tea. her
Shannan Barron, who is
black, was the victim of a
racist feces-dumping attack,
as she had claimed.

Their most helpful evi-
dence was the crime lab’s
finding that the feces on her
pants came from the inside
and thus that it was probable
that Barron had, as the police
chief put it, 2 “personal acci-
dent.”

In 1988, Iranian Merhan
Nasseri, then 46, landed at

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his passport, and United
Nations refugee certificate,
had been stolen,

French authorities would
not fet him jeave the airport,
and there he has been ever
since, in Terminal One, lag-
gage at his side, reading,
writing in his diary, studying
economics, recciving food
and newspapers from airport
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Charles de Gaulle spokes-
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is kind of a place between
heaven and earth; he has
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On the heels of reports
thar Sweden forcibly steril-
ized 60,000 people with infe-
tior genes berween 1935 and
1976, Stockhoim’s second-
largest newspaper
Aftonbladet reported that
government-supported den-
tists had force-fed candy to
mentally handicapped people
in 10-year experiments to
help) determine whether
sugar facilitates tooth decay.

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The Times of London
reports that 10,000 current
or former Irish soldiers have
filed claims that they suffered
hearing loss while in the mil-
itary, either on firing ranges
or playing in army bands.
Judges have been rewarding
them to the tune of about
$33,000 per claim, on aver-
age.

In addition, reported the
Times, just recently the first
claim was filed against the

army for compensation for
skin cancer, by an trish sol-
dier on a peacekeeping miis-

sion in Lebanoa who said be
should have been issued sun-
screen.

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