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SHOPPER Bryan Cote parked his $2,000 bicycle in the wrong spot at the Salvation Army store in Concord, N.H., and a sold it for S15. e 8 6

A group) of Albanians demanded that the U.N. Mission in Kosovo put its mas- cot stray dog, Unmik, to sleep because he is “Serbian.”

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A fastidious fingerprint-wip- ing burglar was caught in Pittsburgh when he slipped up and left a print on the foil wrap- per ofa stick of gum.

*¢ 6 The founder of Cliffs Notes, the aid for the reading- averse, finded an endowed chair in English at the University of Nebraska.

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A Barbados pet-shop owner was arrested by customs in Miami trying to smuggle in 55 tortoises (value $75 each) in his pants.

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Saskatchewan _ physician John Schneeberger, 38, implanted a thin, 6-inch tube of someone else’s bioad in his own arm in order to beat a DNA test ordered because tvo female patients said Schneeberger raped them. He cut open his bicep, inserted the tube, and pushed it down to the crook of the arm from which blood is usually drawn. He confessed to his scheme early in his.trial in Regina in September, but said he was forced to do it to protect him- self because someone had bro- keni into his house and stolen a used condom.

However, in December, Schneeberger was convicted.

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A two-day, hands-on euthanasia technology conter- ence was held in Seattle in November, in which various techniques and products were presented, with the most promising — invention — the “debreather” submitted by a Vancouver, British Columbia, man. The device’s mask and hose run to a jar containing a substance the man would net identify but which he said made death from lack of oxygen “quick and painless” because it filters out carbon dioxide, thus supposedly preventing the body’s natura! panic reflex.

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In October, Cape Town, South Affica’s tourist manager Sheryl Ozinsky said her office

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was planning to issue a recom: mended list of top-echelon brothels (even though prostitu- tion is iHegal) to help reduce crime and HIV. And in August, Robin Pike of Cape Town said national tourism officials had approved his marketing plans to draw European swingers to South Africa to sample its spouse-swappers. And in July, rancher Johan Maree said he planned to stock his wild-game farm near Ellisras, South Africa, with prostitutes and charge vis- itors about $45 a head to trv to shoot them with paintball guns. ee 8

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southern Ca Mau has not slept, even under doct.:ts’ care, since 1967. She tires normally and rests, but cannot sleep. In a 1986 Reuters dispatch from San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, with quotes from several of that country’s leading neu- rologists and hospital officials, a man. was reported not to have engaged in what is medically regarded as a sleep state in 40 years, though he did rest and close his eyes, especially when administered narcotics.

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