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IGNATIUS $ Piazza, 40, has
completed S3-million worth
of infrastructure toward his
planned gated community 50
miles from Las Veras in which
every resident will be trained
in firearms use, creating what
he calls “the safest town in
America.” According to an
April USA Today story, the
town of Front Sight will have
(by fall 2002) 12) shooting
ranges, a private school and a
convenience store to) service
buy of its 177 lots, which
cost $275,006 cach (but come
with various perquisites,
including an Uzi).

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A March Reuters news ser-
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“body farm,” a three-ac ¢ plot
near Knoxville in which 20
corpses at a time are set up to
rot under various circum-
stances so that homicide inves-
tigators (including, recently,
Yugoslav war-crimes
researchers) can study the
stages of the decomposition
process. The farm is best
worked during winter; during
hot, humid months, when
maggots clean a body to the
bone in two weeks, the stench
is overpowering.,

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Research: Short schoolboys
are twice as likely as tall
schoolboys to get bullied
(British Medical Journal,
March); female inmates in soli-
tary confinement are lonely
(University of — Alberta
researcher, January); many
women who work outside the

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home feel stressed (AFL-CIO
poll, March); and drivers need
to keep their minds (and not
just their ¢ on the road
CGJournal of — Experimental
Pochology: Applied, March).

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The lawsuit by the family of
the fate cold-blooded bank
¢ Emil Matasareanu is set
for a September retrial after a
hung jury in’ March on
whether the city of North
Hollywood, Calif, should pay
because police officers might
not have taken the mortally
wounded Matasareanu to the
hospital soon cnough. The
body-armour-wearing — gun-
man and his partner provoked
a televised, 44-minute, day-
time fight with police in
3997 in the bank's parking los,
firing more than 1,200 rounds
from their automatic weapons,
wounding 17; Matasareanu
was hit 29 times and bled to
death.

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People Who Are Just So
Upset: Ms. Cleanthi Peters,
57, filed a $15,000-plus law-
suit in Orlando, Fla., against
Universal Studios for Jast
year’s Halloween Horror
Nights exhibit; she said she
expected it to be frightening
but that it was too frightening.
And Charles Settles filed a
$2,000 lawsuit in Brunswick,
Ohio, in January against his
son’s high schoo! baseball
coach, arguing that, because
the team was so bad (winless
on the season), it lost out on
an all-expense-paid trip to a
Florida tournament.

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Bizarre Workplaces:
National Labour Relations
Board lawyers argucd ata
March hearing that Tenneco
Packaging plant (now named
Pactiv), in) order to disrupt
unien organizing in July 1999
ar a plant in Beech Island,
S.C, had activist-employee
Gary McClain arrested and,
with the help of trendly local
law-enforcement, committed
to a mental institution for nwo
weeks under the pretense that
it feared workplace viole!
, icials. said it was

Aikea County sheritf chased
MeClain down on the road
and arrested him the day after
a big organizing meeting.
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Also, in the Last Mont
handcuttfed stolen-car suspect
allegedly took $23 from a state
trooper’s wallet while in cus-
tody in the front seat of a
cruiser (Frederick, Md.). A 39-
year-old driver, scheduled to
report to prison in nvo weeks
for his fourth DUI conviction,
drove drunk and collided with
another car, killing a five-year-
old boy (Stockton, Calif.).

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