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Crump, BC Tel’s senior vice-
president and chief financial
officer will sign the charter of
cooperation.

Councillors, business lead-
ers and others will be in
attendance at the Northlands
Club House.

Phoney as a million-dollar bill

ACCORDING tu New York
City police, Sidonia Williams
tried to open a Lord & Taylor
charge account by flashing a
piece of U.S. currency in the
amount of $1 million.

There is no such denomi-
nation — Williams” was creat-
ed by pasting 0's onte a $1
bill and cunning it through a
color copier. She cheerfully
pointed out that she had 194
mere just like it in her bag
and insisted to the federal
magistrate that she had com-
mitted no crime.

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Johnstown, New York —
Earl Zea, 34, removed his
penis with pruning shears last
month because, he told the
district attorney, 2 man was
interested in him romantical-
ly, and he thought if he
removed his organ, the man
would leave him alone.

During a recent review of
University of New Mexico
Hospital expenses, the Board
of Regents found that in
1996, a hemophiliac patient
(a boy who has since died)
received a genetically engi-
neered blood-clotting medi-
cine that cost $2.4 million
over a three-month period.

A hospital official
explained that che clotting
agent is so rare, they were
unable to negotiate a volume
discount. The university said
it hoped Texas, where the boy
lived, would pick up the tab.

The business school at the
University of California at
Berkeley has appointed
Ikujiro. Nonaka to an
endowed position (sponsored
by $1 million from Xerox
Corp. and its Japanese affili-
aic) as Distinguished
Professor of Knowledge.

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A University of Maryland
entomologist warned that
people should not wear dog
flea collars to ward off bugs,
noting that human skin is far
more sensitive to the ingredi-
ents than animal! fur.

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writing in a British Medical
Association journal, told of a
golfer who developed hepati-
tis from the “agent orange”

defutiant used by his golf

course — the duffer had the
habit of licking his ball for
good fuck before cach drive.

The Wall Street Journal
reported in May on the grow-
ing, market for designer cloth-
ing for the very young.

One New Jersey home-
maker reported spending
$20,000 on clothes for her
two-year-old daughter.
Among opular toddlers’
items: a 0 Versace black
motorcycle racket and a $329
denim jacket-and-pants set
from Moschino.

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The New York Post reports

chat New “York state has pro-
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transplant operations (cusnng
taxpayers about $1 million)
for illegal aliens during the 18
months since Gov. Pataki
promised to end the practice.

State officials cited by the
Post’ said they knew of
“dozens” of cases over the
years in which foreigners flew
into the city, applied for
Medicaid, received the expen-
sive transplant — surgery
(including sex changes), and
then flew home.

St. Peters, Missouri —
Robert A. Jackson, 17, and
another man were arrested
last month and charged with
robbing a convenience store
and a Citgo gas station.

According to police, after ”
the first robbery, Jackson
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back in exchange for a jump-
start.

The clerk started the car,
then called police, who were
in the area looking for
Jackson when he allegedly
pulled the second job.

Steven Richard King, 22,
was arrested recently for try-
ing to hold up a Bank of
America branch in California
without a weapon.

He used his thumb and
finger to simulate a gun, but
unlike most robbers who use
this tactic, he failed to keep
his hand in his pocket while
doing it. The teller, realizing
he had nothing to fear, mere-
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