Down Under jewel hunt

A recent issue of New
Scientist magazine
reports that Australia’s
national research orga-
nization CSIRO has
already made three
sales of its US$3,500

“phalloblaster” device,
which inflates the geni-
talia of dead insects to
make it easier to classi-
fy them.

Its’ official name is the
“vesica everter,” and it will
work on genitalia as small as
those. of — moths — with

,, Wingspans of 2. millimetres,

Hazard, Kentucky
‘Charles 'S, Wooton, 27, was
“arrested recently and accused

“.of- putting ‘outa contract to
have* his -mother killed. for -
insurance money on Mother’s

ay as she left work in a hos-
ital: cafeteria,

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; Minneapolis ‘firefighter
Gerald ‘Brown; 55, was fired
in1995 for abuse of sick leave.’
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state arbitrator and
reinstated * with.” 18°
months’: back. pay. He . was
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ccording toa recent arti-
in| the “New: England
‘Journal <. of © Medicine, - in
anuary.:1995: alone,» about
2500 Saban refugees housed
¢ U.S. Naval base at ’
Guantanamo mutilated them-

‘selves’ severely’ in. order to’.

“qualify for speedy entry to the |
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” President:Clinton declared all
-fefugees eligible for i immigra- ,

“Among, the “self-inflicted”
injuries ' of choice: injecting
diesel ‘fuel into ‘the fron
applying‘ molten plastic to
ee e econd- and third-
degree burns; creating blood
_in ‘the urine by urethral trau-
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tendon.

At.a recent public South
Carolina Board of Education
meeting, -board member
Heary Jordan, 52; was a argue

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recording of the meeting
obtained by the Columbla
State newspaper, Jordan then
sald, “Screw the Buddhists,
and kill the Muslims, Put that
in the minutes.”

Explaining his comments a
few days tater, Jordan said:
“Both of those, religions
aren’t really religions, They're
cults, if you define a cult as
someone who worships some:
one other than Jesus Christ.”

The Hong Kong Standard
reports that the 14. “year mar:
riage of Ms, Pan Oi-lin and
Mr. Leung Cheung has just
been annulled by the Hong
Kong High Court, five years

after the wife had been con- :
victed of bigamy for taking up

with another man.
The court found that the
traditional Chinese wedding

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rites had not been followed
— specifically, that at the cer-
emony, Pan had not present:
ed her in-laws with a cup of
tea, Thus, the bigamy convie-
tion was overturned,

A court ordered Lisa
Stiller, 47, of Las Vegas, to
catch up ‘with her $180-a
month child support pay-
ments for her three teenagers
or go to jail.

Stiller's attorney said she
earns about $1,000 a month,
and vannot afford the pay-
ments, especially since her ex-
husband, - Steven Scroggin, -
earns about 13: times that
much as an investment man-
ager. He was able to win cus-

_ tady of the kids largely on the
' grounds that he could better
pravide for them,

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