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Firefighters called
twice to building

LIGHTNING didn’t
strike twice, but fire-
fighters made two
trips to a West
Vancouver apartment
building Thursday.

A crew applying a tar-
based seal tos patio at 555
13th Street failed to prevent °
svrrounding trees and shrubs
from igniting.

West Vancouver Fire
Departmeni was called to the
site at 10 a.m. and again at
3:15 p.m.

The fires were controlled
using garden hoses and fire
department equipment.

A large amount of smoke
entered a ground floor suite.

Several residents of the
building suffered smoke
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A July Wall Street Journal dis-
patch trom Brazil described a
$1.2 million employee morale
program at the Volkswagen
plant near Sao Paulo, which
centres around a medieval
courtyard in which workers
can escape into characters from
Camelot and King Arthur's
Round Table. A VW executive
said the company chose the
themes for their inspirational
messages in periods of
upheaval (¢.g. employees’ con-
fidence in withdrawing
Exealibur from a rock will
niake them ignore looming
layoffs in Brazil and at VW).

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Washington, D.C., vanity-
press author Ralph Vitale faces
a big tax bill after a U.S. Tax
Court finding in April that dis-
allowed $9,000 in prostitute
visits as “research” expenses for
his novel set in a Nevada
brothel. Vitale said he was just
a Stickler for detail in his char-
acters, but one reviewer said
the average woman in the
book “has the complexity of a
blow-up doll.”

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Pro wrestling’s former
women’s champion — Rena
“Sable” Mero filed a $110 mil-
lion lawsuit against the World
Wrestling Federation in Junc,
claiming that her sport is too
“obscene, titillaring” and “vul-
gar” for her taste. Mero is a
sometimes Playboy model
whose signature wrestling
move was standing over her
fallen opponent and grinding
her pelvis at her. :

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In March, about 5,400
descendants of a Welsh pirate
filed papers to revive their law-

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lay claim to 77 acres of prime
real estate around Wall Street
in New York City (including
the World Trade Centre): an
estate valued at about S680
billion.

Pirate Robert Edwards sup-
posedly was given the land by
the British Crown in exchange
for the boory from his raids of
Spanish galleons. The descen-
dants argue that the statute of
limitations should not apply
because of colonial New York
record-keeping errors.

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Least competent criminals:
Shawn Socha, 35, was arrested
in Huntington, W.Va., in Juac
as a fugiave from justice and
now faces bank robbery and
other charges in Ohio. He
blew his cover when he called
the Huntington police to ask if
they had seen any arrest war-
rants out on him.

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Crises in the workplace:
Greater Manchester (England)
police officer Jackie Smithies,
36, recently had breast-reduc-
tion surgery so that she could
fit painlessly into inside-the-
uniform body armour, accord-
ing to a May report in The
Times of London. She went
from a 36-F to a 36-C to com-
ply with the armour directive
tor all officers on the street.

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Recent contested firings:
University of Victoria (Briush
Columbia) sociology professor
Jean Veevers, fired after being
convicted of running a large
marijuana-growing operation
in her home (December 1998)
(now challenging her firing,
arguing that the crime was nor
relevant to her job); hospital
secretary Joan Ramprasad, 55,

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in tongues at work (but claim-
ing freedom of religion); and
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