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CHARLES Cornell, 31,
recently won dts Jawsut at the
Migh Coure in London,
England and was awarded
about $100,000 in damages.

Cormnell’s insurance bust
nesses failed when sales plum
meted following his automo
hile accident. In the crash, he
received ahead inyury that his
doctors said left him with a
gentler, more amiable person-
aliry that Cornell said is
unsuited for the insucaines
business,

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The Toronto physician
who was sued tor a botched,
paintul penile-lengthening
surgery is Dr. Robert Stubbs.

And the Food and Drug
Administration’s spokesper-
son on inquiries about the
new = anti-impotence __ pill
Viagra is Janet Woodcock.

Steve Thompson, wildlife
biologist at Yosemite National
Park, telling The New York
Times that the cause of 600
car break-ins by bears in 1997

"NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

mostly was tood left in’ the
seat: “My problems start
when the smarter bears and
the dumber visitors interss.t.

On the day betore Good
Friday, Dr. Ernesto A. Moshe
Montgomery consecrated the
Shrine of the Weeping Shirley
MacLaine in a room in the
Bera Isracl Temple in Los
Angeles.

Inspired bv a vision he said
he had while riding in’ the
actress's private jet,
Montgomery also said a large

photograph oof him with
Machaine was “observed
shedding tears,” which had
mapired pravers and resamony
of miraculous heakngs.

Rellevitic, [Hingis — Ar 10
pan. oa April 9, polwe
blocked a lane of traffic so that
dos Zeus and Chelsea could
continue their bref mating
interlude, before a Hamane
Society employee arrived to
carry thent ava.

Five days carlicr, in a small
holding area adjacent toa
couruoom in Reading,
Pennovivania, a male and
female prisoner had sex in
front of ovo male inmates
while Judge Stepien B.
Lieberman conducted busi-
ness about 10 feet away.

Tangier Island, Maryland
~~ On reviewing the proposed
site for shooting the Warner
Bros. movie Message tn 4
Rortle, starring Paul Newman
and Kevin Costner, town

a intormed the produc
ers thae they were took tor
ward ¢. the filming but thar
the script would have to be
changed to chiminate all curs
img, sex and alceholic bever-
Anes
ee @

San City, Arizona -- Joe
Paul has been keeping scare at
Anvona Diamondbacks games
this year, not of runs and hits
but of instances of baseball
players spitting. which Paul
says violates state law, entorce-
ment oof which be hays
demanded in letters to iealth
quthonties.

According to an exchange
of ictters excerpted in The
Wall Sercee Journal, the
Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality, acting
on the complaint ef a neigh-
bor, scolded 2a Montcalm
Counry landowner for “con:
struction and maimenance of
nvo wood debris dams across
the outlet: stream of Spring
Pond.”

Sunday, May 10, 1998 - Nortn Shore News — 27

er Salesman

The Ceparrmental corre
spondence reminded him chat
2 permmt ws reguired tor such
“irherentiy: dangerous” con
striwuon and tire atening tain
agappst ans torthyr Munaithe
red qe.”

Subsequent wivesttganion
by the department revealed
the dams to have been built by
beavers.

eft 8

Associated: Press
report diseased that since
Tyo), Americans have sent
the US. Treasure more than
$56 milton im valuntary von
tributions toward reducing
the nauonal deo.

Gifts are mostly checks for
S15 or 80, but one
Minneapolis woman gives
$3,000 4 year,

In 1994. an anonymous
patron sent at $20 million,

A recent

Helena, Montana -- A
jury has ruled that prison offi-
daly overrcacted during 4
199) not and ordered them
ty pay money damages to 13

indaates
Five omen who were
hogtied for several hours atter
the not were awarded $1,000
each, eight men who ‘were
subrectud to rectal scare
were awarded S9 cach.

hes

Des Moines, lowa -- Abby
Kisiing has fled a wrongful-
Rong lawsuit against the
telecommunications tirm USA
Global Link Inc., claiming she
was terminated because she
doesn’t believe in) transcen-
dental meditanen,

Almost. aloof the firm's
employees meditate on com-
pany time, and many are grad-
uates of the nearby Maharishi
University of Management.

Russian onaval captain
Alexander Buzinov recently
told a Moscow TV interview-
er that he is employed as an
astrologer tor the military,
examining “planetary
rhythms’ effects on the
Earth’s surface.”

He said such rhythms led
him to successfully predict
three personnel firings last
year, along with terronst acts
in Caucasus, a Siberian trans-
port plane crash, and several
of Boris Yeltsin's medical
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