Bass master really a mistress

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MARCIA Fann, 37, won the
prestigious Bass’n Gal Classic
Star XX bass-fishing tourna-
ment in Athens, Texas.

Fann cheerfuily discioscs
that she was formerly a man,
having been surgically
changed sometime in the
1980s.

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An ancient fear of penis-
shrinking sorcery periodically
surfaces in Ghana, the latest
being instance in
December.

Mobs beat’ seven men to
death in Accra and injured
others in Tema, all on rumors
that the men had the power to
make others’ genitals disap-
pear by a mere touch. Police
said the rumors were spread by
criminal operatives so that
crowds of hysterical men
would gather, making it easier
for the criminals to pickpocket
wallets.

Japanese researchers at
Tokyo University and Tsukuba
University said they will begin
testing a project to surgically
implant’ microprocessors and
electrode sets, and eventually
microcameras, into- Arnerican
cockroaches for a variety of
possible missions, including
espionage surveillance and
searching for victims in earth-
quake rubble.

The equipment, which can
also: receive remote-control
signals to command the cock-
roach’s movements, weighs a
10th of an ounce, twice a typ-
ical roach’s weight but sull
only a 10th of what it poten-
tially can carry.

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The Idaho High Sckool
Activities Association rejected
a proposal by the superinten-
dent of public instruction for
extracurricular firearms com-
petition in junior high schools.

But in neighboring
Wyoming, a House committee
approved a bill that would
lower the minimum age for
big-game hunters to 12.

Dozens of schoolteachers
from the state of Bihar
stzipped in front of the Indian
parliament to prorest low
wages.

And the Defense
Intelligence Agency, ina
memo disclosed by The
Washington Post in October,
reported the emergence of a
Liberian leader known as
“General ‘Butt Naked’,”
“trom his propensity for fight-
ing naked,” which he “proba-
bly believes terrorizes the
enemy and brings good suck.”

And Meaux, France, high
school philosophy teacher
Bernard Defrance was sus-
pended fast month for his ped-
agogical game in which he
removes an article of clothing

each tme a student stumps
him with a nddle (sometimes
losing everything).

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The New York Times reports
that the Taliban movement in
Afghanistan is presiding over
such a bankrupt economy that
a viable career field now has
men (women are forbidden to

work at all) raiding, cemeteries
of human bones, which are
then sold to dealers in Pakistan
as animal bones co be fash-
ioned into cooking oil, soap,
chicken feed and buttons.
Skulls must first be broken
up to preserve the ruse that
only animal bones are involved.
ees

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Journal story reported that the
city jail (capacity 134) in the
seattle suburb of Kent,

Washington, does a brisk busi-
ness charging petty criminals
frem around the state $64 a
day to serve their sentences of
up to 40 days in comfortable
settings.

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