24 ~ Sunday, June 28, 1998 — North Shore News

No wonder postal workers have issues

AN assistant to U.S. vice-pres-
ident Al Gore told The New
York Times that Gore's
“Hammer Award,” to the
New York Police Department
for creative excellence in gov-
ermment, “will probably be
FedExed” to the mayor
(rather than seni by U.S.
Postal Service Overnight
Mail).

Scientific American maga-
zine reported recently that a
team of researchers ar a U.S.
"Department of Agriculture lab
is making great strides in man-
wiacturing human growth hor-
mone (HGH) by harvesting it
in the urine of rats.

Apparently, “uroplakin”
genes, which are ideal for
growing other genes, are pro-
duced only in bladders, and in
“fact the bladder may be the
only place genes for HGH can
be placed without causing the
rat to grow. very large.
Previously, some mamunais’
milk has been ased for harvest-
ing, but urine is much more
plentiful.

New York Supreme Court
Justice Herman Cahn _ has
tuled that calling a woman a
bitch is not necessarily defam-
atory.

“too imprecise and open to
speculation” to allow the

fainti:S to: win her slander. -

Rwsuit But in January, a court
‘Cologne, .:...Germany,
‘iiposed a four- month: license

~. “suspension and an 1,800-mark :

‘fine’ on: a* 22-year-old man

- because, during a twaffic alter- -
“cation; he- had insulted 2.36-'

“year-old” female. driver by
“yelling, “Typical woman!”
“ecole :

“Researchers: ‘at

stone. anid’a’ tennis ball.

Researchers. said ‘also : thar. ;
© crabs have well- -developed :
--vision but: still approached the |:

© three: bogus targets with’ great

Renowned Israeli surgeon :

Jacob "Lavee ‘said: he would
soon: attempt: the world’s first
Heart, transplant: in: which a
human receives a pig’s heart.

’ Lavee ‘added he was ‘confi-
on dent of overcoming the. two’
"big obstacles: (1)-fhough his -
;.. likely heart recipieiz would be.
.. Jewish, several leading author-

< ities said the ban on eating pig

‘meat:should not stop the. use.

The term, Cahn wrote, is’

: the:
: University of Wales recently...
told ‘the: Ties of London® that’

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erful incumbent Dan Burton
fast. November for Indiana’s
6th congressional seat.
According to an
Indianapolis Star report,
Hidal igo has impersonated a
local female judge; was impris-
oned for doctoring a check;
was arrested (but acquitted)
for offering oral sex to an
undercover policeman (and
maintains anyway that he is a
virgin); and has extensively

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name of former “Charlie's
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to get entree to various local
events and people,

Plainfield, Connericutt —
A religious sect called God's
House has filed a $200,000
lawsuit against the state
Department of Children and
Families tor sending to foster

care the young daughter of

sect leader Sister Rachael.

According to the Sister, the
fitde girl is very important to
the sect in that she is the result
of Rachael’s impregnation by
Gad.

The following people were
hit by trains in May: Mr.
Heath Hess, Hornell, New
York (didn’t hear the whistle
because he was taiking on a
cell phone and covering his

other car to block out the dis-
tracting noise); Jesse Jones,
San Mateo, California (trizd to
beat a train by driving around
a flashing railroad crossing
gate); Brian McArdle, 27,
Burlingame, California (sitting
on the edge of a station plat-
form, thought the train, could
go by without hitting, him);
and David Flannery, 22,
Berkeley — Springs, West
Virginia (won a game of “Who
Can Stand on the Tracks
Longer in Front of a Vrain).
2e¢

Jim Gordon, a candidate
for South Carolina's clected
agriculture commissioner,
recently told a campaign-stop
audience that the two most
important issues stifling the
family farm are access to tech-
nology and “the homosexual
agenda.”

“How docs that relate to
agriculture?” he asked rhetori-
cally, “We can’t have Bob and
Bob being married”. withour

hurting the concept of the
family farm.

Green Stare
University — psychobiologist
Jaak Panksepp told the
Associated Press that rats are
among the most plavful of ani-
mals and love to be tickled.

Panksepp measures rats’ joy
by instruments that detect
their high-pitched sounds that
humans cannot hear and by
the thousands of small nips
they take at his fingers as he
coochy-coos the napes of their
necks.

Bowling

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Bemidji, Minnesota —
Police raided a methampheta-
mine fab and discovered that
several of the workers making
the drug were local jail
inmates on aw ork-release pro-

The alleged meth kingpin,
aiso a local contractor, had

requested the inmates for his
legitimate business, but then
diverted them.

Pietra Thornton (estranged
wife of actor Billy” Bob
Thornton) told USA Today
recently that she was proud of
her surgically enhanced
breasts. ;

“(Sjuddenly —everyone’s
looking,” she said. “God gave
me this body, and I shouldn’t
be ashamed of it.”

Iraly’s controversial lav
forbidding the payment of
ransoms was circunwented in
late 1997 by: the. family. of.
prominent busiressman/kid-
nappee Giuseppe  Soffiantini,
who gathered about $2.3 mil-
lion and was ready to pay but.

‘never coutd’ because the kid:
nappers’: drop-point - instruc-.
tions were lost i in the. mail.

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