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China‘s official, Xinhua News agency reported that surgeons at a military hospital in Chongging had successful- lv removed two of the three tongues of farmer Xian Shihua, 32, enabling him to eat and speak comfortably for the first time in 20 years. His 13-inch birth tongue remains; the other two (three inches cach) had grown dur- ing adolescence. News of the Weird report- ed that in January 1998, the executor of the estate of the late Larry Lee Hillblom (founder of the DHL inter- national courier — service) Wednesday, October 28, 1998 — North Shore News — 11 The Club lives up te name dereed to pay out S9O milion to four Pacific [stands teen: agers if they could) prove pacenity by Hillblom’s DNA. 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