federal wildlite officials
believe that the voracious and
largely indestructible Asian
swamp cel has somehow made

its way toe within a mile of

Florida’s Everglades National
Park and poses an imminent
threat te its balance of nature,
according toa September Wall
Street Journal report. The
three-foor-long eel apparently
eats anything in its path, has no
known. enemies, survives. in
salt- and fresh water and on
land, can change genders in
order to facilitate year-round

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time, and is so durable that one
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months with nv food or water.

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-Anne and Lucy Abolins
filed a S4-nillion fawsuit in
May against the owners of the
house they formerly rented in
Edmonton, Alberta, |: from
| Which their 114 cats were con-
fiscated by health inspectors,
-}who’ ruled in june 1999 thar
“the feces-laden dwelling was
uninhabitable. Contrary to
‘neighbours’ claims that the
Abolinses. had lowered their
neighbourhood’s value, the
sisters now say that their own
lives were ruined by the health
inspectors and that notoriety
has made it impossible tt
them to find new living qua
ters. (In August 2000, a judge
fined the -sisters for housing
code. violations; and Lucy
Abolins then called the SPCA

“the Anti hrist” for taking her
cats away.) » :

‘In®: September, a jury. in
Tacoma, Wash., ordered the
state Department: of
Corrections to pay $22 million

- ‘tothe family ofa woman killed
cted . felon

(domestic assault) on proba-
tion ran a red light and bit the
woman’s car, concluding that
the department somehow
ought to have supervised: the
man better, The governor's
office said it would appeal the
verdict, questioning the state's
ability to monitor the driving
behavior of its 53,000 proba.
tioners, 2+ hours a day.

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Not My Fault: According
to an Associated Press report
in August, quoting lawyers
close to the cave, the Cathotic
Diocese of Nashville,
planned to
“comparative fault”
lawsuits filed by boys who
claimed to have been sexually
molested by former priest
Edward McKeown, Such os
defense would allow — the
church to reduce its damages
by showing that other people
had know ledge of McKeown’s
continued abuse and did not
warn authorities of it. Among
those other people the church
regards as culpable are the 21
other victims who were abused
but reznained silent.

992
People Who Can't Catch a
Break: Mark Sims, 24, filed a
lawsuit in August against
Ottawa (Ontario) Civil
Hospital, alleging that a misdi-
agnosis (of cancer) caused a
doctor to remove one of his
testicles, which at that time was
the size of a “baseball.” Sims
now says it was obvious . that
the swollen testicle was. not

cancerous but mer

of an_office-party
strip club, a visit during which
Sims ultimately found himself
onstage with-a dancer, who
“suddenly, without warning”
whacked his scrotum. Sims

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