16 — Friday, October 4, 1996 —

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OLLIE King, 38, was arrest-
ed as he allegedly sought to
buy drugs in a suburb of
Atlanta in June during his
lunch-hour break from: serv-
ing on a jury. And in July, Li
Baolun, 33, was arrested in
Beijing, China, and charged
with being the thief who,
during his lunch hours over a
four-year period, walked into
more than 1,000 government
offices and stole money from
unattended workers’ desks
and belongings.

Armed with descriptions
of the perpetrators, police
fairly quickly made arrests in
robberies in Chicago in
August and Oshawa,
Ontario, in March because
thieves were unsuccessful in
biending with the crowds as
they walked away with their
loot. According to police,
Jude Bradshaw, 41, was still
‘wearing the green hat and
purple pants he wore to rob
the Chicago bank, and the
36-year-old man who robbed
the Oshawa Discount Centre
had made no effort to dis-
guise the metal hook he uses
in place of a hand.

Just before the
Republican convention in
August, a man carrying three
suitcases climbed a 400-foot
radio tower in Miami and
told onlookers he would stay
there until he was selected as
Bob Dole’s running mate.
His political platform: more
horses and bicycles, less
asphalt and pornography.
And in Dallas, after becom-
ing enraged at Dole’s nomi-
nation on Aug. 14, Ernest
Comegys, 70, went to his
bedroom, grabbed a hand-
gun, fired several shots at his
cousin and stepdaughter, and
then shot himself to death,

The government — of
Zimbabwe announced in
June that ir was not opti-
mistic about filling the vacant
position of hangman after the
resignation of Tommy
Griffiths, 72, an Englishman
who had held the part-time
post since the 1950s, Though
dozens of men are on death
row, no local person will take
the job because of a national
superstition about taking
someone’s life without per-
sonal motive.

The New York Times
reported in April that ento-
mologist P. Kirk Visscher and
two colleagues set out to
challenge the conventional
wisdom that a human should
only very carefully atrempt to
extracr the stinger after a
honeybee attack. Their thesis
is that speed of removal, not
style, is more important, and
they tested it the only way
they knew how: Dr. Visscher
took about 50 honeybecs
over several days, methodical-
ly rubbed each against his
skin until it stung, extracted
the stinger, and measured the
welt. Said Visscher, “That’s
the price of fame and for-
tune.”

A San Francisco Chronicle
Labor Day story described
several local jobs that might
make its readers appreciate
their own. University. of
California at Davis scientist
Francine Bradley was inter-
viewed because she trains
workers to perform the man-

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ual insemination of turkeys,
from drawing the semen to
implanting it. (Turkeys
genetically bred for massive
breast-meat sections cannot
comfortably mate on their
own.) Recommended
Bradley, “You have to devel-
op a relationship with your
tom.”

Also in that issue of the
San Francisco Chronicle was a
report on Martha Huerta,
who pulls an eight-hour shift
at ABC Diaper Service in
Berkeley, Calif, where she
feeds sviled diapers through
ap electronic == counting
machine and on to the wash-
er. Her tools are gloves and
an electric fan, although, said

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