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August 18, 2002     

ONE THAT GUNS DOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS:  Mikhail Kalashnikov, the 82-year-old Russin general who invented the AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle, said in a recent interview that he wishes he'd designed something to help people: "A lawn mower, for example."     

AND I'M SURE THEY WILL: As police pursued him at a high rate of speed, a man who robbed the Bank of America in Irvine, Calif., started throwing the money out his car window causing other motorists to pull over and gather it up. The robber was chased down and arrested.     
Police have asked that people who picked up the money turn it in as soon as possible.   

ONE TOUGH OLD DUDE: A 90-year-old man went out to tend his beehives behind his Vienna, Austria, home without wearing protective clothing, and was stung a thousand times. He survived. Doctors were astonished.     

OUTSIDE!? WE SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT: Takashi Ishizuka, a high-ranking member of a Sumiyoshi-kai criminal gang, was in the critical care unit of a Tokyo hospital recovering from a failed assassination attempt. Several policemen were outside his door to prevent his enemies from finishing the job. To no avail, alas.     
A gunman outside simply walked up to the window of the first-floor of his room and shot him repeatedly settling the dispute with finality.     

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE: Teachers at Mount Vernon Middle School, one of the poorest performing in Los Angeles, have been informed that they must follow a new dress code that prohibits, among other things, pierced tongues. Some of them rallied in protest.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists.html

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