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FIRST Things First: In July, a
British Army helicopter, help-
ing on an archacological dig
near Red Deer, Alberta, experi-
enced a wild swinging of its
cargo and was forced to jetti-
son it in order to stabilize the
chopper. The cargo was a large
package of dinosaur bones said
to be 68 million years old,
which was smashed into splin-
ters. Said the pilot, “I’m very
sorry.”

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According to a story on the
Agence France Presse wire,
Stepan  Kovaltchuk, 75,
emerged from 57 years of liv-
ing in his sister’s attic in
remote Montchintsi, Ukraine,
in September, having hidden
first from the Nazis and later
from Sovict military recruiters.
He apparently was not aware
of Ukrainian
and came out of

passed away,’

And three weeks later, a
man identified only as Lu was
arrested in Xinyuan county,
China, for having stolen about
“$15 in 1987, He had been hid-
ing from police in a 3-foot hole
underneath the floor of a clos-
ct in his house, emerging only
at aight:

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In August, the school dis-
trict in. Columbus, Ga.,
assigned aides to alter textbook
photos of Emanuel Leutze’s
famous Washington Crossing
- the Delaware painting because
some grown-ups thought parts
of Washington’s pocket watch,

Be ig against. his: thigh,

books. (Arians northern
suburbs). mercly snipped -the
. page from its textbooks. | .

(000.
Soliitions ‘to J
- Overcrowding:..In “April. in
‘ Alberton, Prince, > . Edward

located
two

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independence . .
house’.
only because his sister had j just .

-my attorney

Island, ludge Ralph
Yhompson gave drunk drives
Dennis Joseph Peters, 45, only
a suspended sentence for his
fourt conviction, citing
Peters’ medical claim that he
should not be jailed because he
gets claustrophobic.

And jailers in Quebee City
sent drug trafficker Michel
Racine, 57, home in July
because the jail did not have
furniture big cnough to
accommedate the 450-pound
man.

And in August, jailers in
Independence, Iowa, released
four Amish men who were
serving time for vandalism,
concerned that the lockup’s
modern canveniences (TV,
running water) would corrupt
the prisoners.

- oog- :
Uh-Oh!: Cox:-News Service
reported...in ‘August that
Florida .. state-agency .DNA

“paternity testson child:sup-

port-resisting: men found that
36% of 1,025 “fathers” in four
countics were not the fathers
after all, Hawever, Florida
courts are splic on whether
even a negative DNA test will
relieve men of support cespon-
sibilities once. they ¥ voluntarily
begin paying. woe

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According. to police in
Honolulu, Denny Usui, 28, at
first told investigating officers
in July that his grandmother

wasn’t home, but when they ©

insisted on looking around, he
became progressively - more
help ful: “Oh, I don’t. know,
she might be here.”” Then,
otgah OK, she’s inthe show-

” Then, “Oh, go-inside; my

grandma’ bathroom is inside;
c “Oh; °

room.” Then;'

she’ 's dead. Sho’s in’ the: show-

” And fieally (but: probably
too late), “I dos: want to say -
anything else until I speak to
because’ this is a
felony and I never committed a:
murder, before.” ;

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Angeles Times report, about +0
violent male offenders (includ-
ing murderers) at the Preston
Youth Correctional Facility
near Sacramento, Calif., are
thriving in a program. that
teaches the — rchabilirative
effects of sewing. The tough
guys sticch, knit and crochet
booties and blankets for pre-
mature babies and to achieve
what one teen (an armed rob-
ber) called sewing’s “calming”
effect.

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Firefighters in Nixa, Mo.,
failed to make it to.a burning
house ina cul-de-sac in May in
time to save i. The problem,
said the fire chief, was that too
many people were attending a
crowded yard sale in a nearby
house and were reluctant. to
move their. cars to -allow: the
engines to pass. And, said the
chief, “When we were ‘pulling
out the hoses, they were trip-
ping ¢ over them to get a look. ”

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Ewwwww, Grose!: More
than 63,000 people vi

Marino, Calif, in July and

August to see the rare (consicl-

ered by some botanists as their
holy grail}, huge Sumatran

ited the:
Huntington Library in’ San‘

titan arum plant blossom to
produce the world’s largest
flower. It is al.o possibly the
world’s most putrid, resem-
bling rotting flesh and luring
not bees but dung beetles.
Coincidentally during the
ran, renowned botanist
Bastiaan J.D. Mecuse passed
away in Kirkland, Wash., at age
83; he was best known for his
work with the large voodoo
lily, which produces half-
pound flowers that gencrate
their own feat anda stench
comparable io the titan
arum’s. .

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Food in the News: Yogurt
developed . for the Russian
space program, using bacteria -
rom cosmonauts’ . saliva “to

_bolster. the : immune. system,

will go on.sale to the public
soon, according to an August
report in New Sectentist maga-
zine.

And in May, Elichi Urata,

.. 59; was rescued afterbeing list:
for. 15 ‘dayson a+ 7,700-foot
-peak in the ‘Japanese moun-.-
“iains near Nagano; for. the last :
° 14 days; he had nothing to. éat -

except . nvO.' jumbo . squeeze:
tubes cf mayonnaise, whicit'he
daubed: on ice to ‘make snow