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City pawnbrokers face tougher laws

Liam Lahey Contribsting Writer

NORTH Vancouver City council has

Couneil believes it has made it more difficult for. criminals to peddle their stolen goods on the North Shore.

backed tougher rules for pawnbrokers.

“Ina unanimous move Nec. 21 council supported the RCMP’s recommenda- tions to stiffen regulations in the city’s business Heence bylaw.

“1 don't believe the sug- gested changes (to the bylaw) are oncrous,” Coun. Bob Fearnley said. “PE think they’re quite reasonable con- sidering the (amount. of) stoten goods that moves

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Ms. Ma Yulan. 41. owner of a restatmant and: bathhouse in Beams. was convicted ot lowing ier dostesses ta engage insex tec hire and was sentenced to death.

A recent Associated: Press dispatch described the work of commercial feech and Magwot suppliers who sell to hospitais tor medical treat- ments,

A Welsh firm. Biopharm Ltd. moves apout 20,000 7.3-contimetre- long leeches avear at S17 cach to suck blood through delicate, clogged: veins to restore cir: culation,

Acunit of the Princess of

Wales Hospital in Bridgend, Wales, produces sterilized maggots to ett decayed skin on a wound to speed the healing process (price: S90 por LOO maggots). Boasts Dr. Stephen “Thomas, who guards his secret technique for sterilizing tly eggs. “Our maggots are cleaner than che pauent.”

The state of Punjab, India, has announced that its 18-month search for its most honest) government officer

Qwhich carried an award of

more than $2,000) was over, because they couldn't find anyone werthy.

However, as parr of die same program, the govern: mene revealed thar it had found 300 corrupt officers worthy oof — prosecution. (india was recently named as the world’s cighth most cor- rupt country by an interna- tional watchdog organiza- tion.)

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Winchester, Tennessee — The latest episode of inmates acting as winemakers was dis- closed by the Chattaneaqa Times in. October, reporting, on missing sugar from the pantry oof the Franklin Country Jail.

Authorities traced the sugar to neo dozen inmates

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The Hotel de Sab Phava altitude, 12.2000 feet and recently renamed the OT Salt Palace and Spaj ins the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia is a P2-room setup in’ which the walls, beds. tables and chairs blocks of salt.

According to an) August Associated: Press travel story, the rooms go for 530.4 night and have one salty smell Glthough during the rainy season, the walls are covered with brine).

A 29-vear-old man was accidentally run over in September by a tractor-trciler on the trafttie-jammed Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago after he got out of his car to

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