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June 23, 2002     

NOT BAAAAAD LOOKING AT ALL: A group of women who work in Maine's wool industry posed in various stages of undress in calendar called "Wearing Wool: Celebrating the Ancient Art of Spinning and the Ageless Beauty of Women."     
Though the ladies range in age from 33 to 70, they are not as unattractive as you might think. If you want to see it, go to www.wearingwool.com     

HEY, WHERE'D EVERYBODY GO? A dozen police officers, acting on a tip, were closing in on a fast-food restaurant in Seattle where a bank robber was holed up. But the sound of gunfire down the block sent the cops scurrying off, because they assumed it was the robber "cranking off rounds."     
It turns out the shots were fired by a military honor guard at a veteran's funeral. The robber fled the restaurant while the cops were gone.   

IT WAS THE HUMANE THING TO DO: A woman who committed adultery was sentenced to be stoned to death in Funtua, Nigeria, but was given a stay of execution for two years to wean the baby she bore out of wedlock.     

HEY, BUDDY, YOU OK? A man came into the Union County Courthouse in Tennessee where he suffered a heart attack and opened a hallway door to look for help apparently thinking it was the door to an office.     
But it was a broom closet. He staggered in and died. A janitor discovered the body a few days later.     

AHHHH, THAT BREEZE FEELS GREAT! Now that it's summer, some 300 people will soon descend on Tiergarten park in the center of Berlin for a huge "naked stroll" to demonstrate for the right to sunbathe nude in the park. Many Germans want to confine nude sunbathers to restricted beaches.     
Organizer Peter Nieherke said that making him wear clothes in public is "almost racism." He normally jogs through Freiburg clad only in running shoes.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
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