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pharmaceutical division of
Japan ‘Tobacco, the world’s
third-largest cigarette compa-
ny, bought the rights to lung-
cancer vaccines now ou

development by the U.S.
firms Cell Gene and

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are the cause, treatment and
potential prevention of lung
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Officials in Suwon, South
Korea, showing off their 580
plush public restrooms to
reporters in November, hint-
ed that the toilets were one
sure way toward greater world
“In this era of global-
ization,” said a nment
cultural official, “it is impor-
tant to become the leader in
the wort id in the cleanest bath-
rooms.”
Toilet seats are heated, vio-
lin music plays, and tasteful

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Texas, October).

Michae! Nikkanen got only
probation for rape, in’ part so
he could keep attending his
son’s hoe games (Ontario
Court of Appeal, October)

Karine Gaelle Epailly,
got a suspended sentence in
the death of her infant daugh
ter, whom she abandoned
outside ino nea ‘ing rain
(Alexandria, Va., October}.

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The Continuing C In
July, Athens, Greece, dentist
‘Theodoros Vassiliadis was sen-
tenced to four years in prison

based on the testimony of

seven former patients.
Though Vassiliadis termed his
techniques “pioncering,” the
patients described odd-look-
ing dental plates that were
inserted with screws that were
more than an inch long
{allegedly taken from
Vassiliadis’ television set) and

that pierced their sinus cavt
ties.
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ter a $20 million school
cutback in Ontario earlier in
the year that limited funding

North Shore News - 11

for special education, three
parents of disabled) children
wrote Premier Mike Harris
offering to donate their kid-
Revs to raise cnough Money to
restore the budget.

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lover; the jury accepted his
defense of “sudden passion”
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