Dartmouth College has been unable to curb a rising number of “personal clean-up” offenses, those involving grossly inappropriate placement of vomit, urine or feces. The Fall term saw as many as three incidents involving feces in showers, and one involving feces on a staircase. In total, 31 personal clean-ups were reported.
A group of mostly Western volunteers will leave London this weekend on a convoy bound for Iraq to act as human shields to defend Iraq’s development of weapons of mass destruction. In Bucharest, more than 100 Romanian communists said Tuesday they would also travel by bus to Iraq to protect Saddam Hussein. In previous conflicts Saddam forced victims to become human shields.
Despite having his neck almost completely severed, 18-year-old Marcos Parra is now recovering thanks to experimental surgery which reattached his head. After the accident the only thing holding his head on the rest of his body was his spinal cord but now, four months later, he back on the basketball court and enjoying life.
A man in Besancon, France, who erased his drunk driving record from a police computer and replaced it with a winking “smiley face” emoticon has been sentenced to a suspended licence and a fine. The 19-year-old computer whiz altered his arrest record after he found an unattended computer while waiting for his drunk driving hearing.
DiPaolo Baking Company Inc, the largest neighborhood bakery in Rochester, New York, was shut down by the state this week after inspectors found 3,000 pounds of bread contaminated with filth and bird feces. In addition to the contaminated bread the state destroyed 300 pounds of ice that had slime and mold and found food handlers had dirty hands and were not wearing plastic gloves.
Three people were shot early Sunday morning in New Bedford, Massachusetts, following a baby shower. None of the injuries appeared life threatening, according to police.
A Ugandan man with an advanced case of AIDS was beaten into a coma after he urinated in a well to try spreading his fatal illness to others. Other villagers took him to his father’s home after the beating but he is not expected to survive.
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