22 - Wednesday, November 25, 1998 — North Shore News sounds like A parental pamphlet on cop- ing with marijuana use by kids, written by a Utah criminology professor and recommended by U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, identities as a warning sign of dope use “excessive — preoccupation with social issues, race rela- tions, environmental issues, etc.” (Also mentioned, accord- in to an October Washington Post report, were more traditional tell- tale signs such as staying out all night, needing more money, and showing interest “in Ras Tatari religion.”) e@coe Arecent Associated Press dispatch reported that about 1,000 people turned out on a “sunday night on a hillside near Alcla de la Selva, Spain, to caress a 17-by-17-foot rock formation that resem- bles a toad. The rubbing is said to bring success in love, the lottery and civil service exams. Rayong, Thailand — Eiphr i inmates escaped from during the time that all guards were hunched over a TV set watching the World Cup) =match _ between - Germany and Croatia. A nearby = monitor showed the breakout in progress on the jail’s closed- circuit systern, but apparent- ly the game was too engrossing for the guards to notice. Clinton County, New York — A jailer was fired for rigging one of the closed- circuit monitors to carry the final episode of Seinfeld, even though there were no inmate incidents. ACCORDING to med- ical tests, Khyl Hardy, age six, Was bitten by a poiso- nous taipan snake. “Phe lad and his mother say it happened when he reached under his seat on an Ansett Airlines flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Perth to retrieve a lollipop he hed dropped and flr a sting. (The snake way not found.) And last mouth, passen- gers and crew on an Air Canada tight to England spent 20 minutes trying to catch a dive-bombing bat thar had been brought aboard in) a passenger's carry-on bag. Echo, Oregon —_ Astonished workers semod- eling city hall recently ven- tured into the 4,000- square-foot attic, apparently unused since the building opened in 1976. Because of holes in the roof and the windows, pigeons have been roosting there for decades, and it took a professional waste- removal crew a week to clear out the five and a half tons of droppings. Said the city manager, “I's a wonder the ceiling didn’t collapse.” July marked the start of a Georgia program, “Better Brains for Babies: Maximizing Georgia’s Brain Power,” to provide a classi- cal-music CD to every baby born in the state. Gov, Zell Miller was per- suaded by research showing that such music energizes parts of the brain that might otherwise fall permanently into disuse. 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