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NO COMMENT Melting Pot From a story in The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, on the General Mills company's decision to put a new face on Betty Crocker: "The resulting face, predict some...
...Now he must agree to undergo counseling or face the loss of his job...
...Extinction Crunch A story in the Anchorage Daily News from Ketchikan, Alaska: "A supermarket pulled a candy called 'North American Endangered Species Bars' off its shelves this week after a complaint from a Ketchikan Pulp Corp...
...is concerned that a character named Spa'am in an upcoming Muppet movie will tarnish the image of the spiced-ham product...
...It's ripe...
...Nobody Here but Us Warheads A letter from the Clinton Administration to the International Court of Justice on the legality of using nuclear weapons, reprinted in the newsletter Peacework: "It is unlawful to make civilians or civilian objects the object of attacks as such...
...And a second failed test could cause him to be fired...
...The kids want everything given to 'em.' " Frontiers of the War on Drugs An Associated Press story headlined Chicago man flunks drug test because he has 'shy bladder' ?? the ordeal faced by Roy Trumblay, an employee of Peoples Gas Co.: "Trumblay drank twenty ounces of water—all the clinic allows—and it didn't help...
...The list includes: windup toys, skateboards, video games, puppets, jigsaw puzzles, newsletters, rubber stamps, crayons, ski suits, bathing suits, sweatbands, berets, nightshirts, belts, and aprons...
...Here is one you may not have heard: non-payment of the license fee is the reason why 14 percent of jailed women are there...
...Things are changing...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Petersburg Times on a local election in Pinellas County, Florida: "Armed with her voting card, Shannon Weatherby went Tuesday to cast a ballot for the first time in her eighteen years...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Wilson: 'He's been biding his time on this, knowing all along what he was going to do when the time was ripe...
...Her hair length may also come down lower than today's just-below-the-ear length...
...Hormel filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit against Jim Henson Productions on Friday in federal court in New York...
...These features should appeal to the growing Hispanic, Asian, and black markets...
...Women's lib...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...At this point, there was no way I was gonna go,' Trumblay said...
...The lawsuit describes Spa'am as an 'unsavory-appearing feral pig' and alleges that the movie's producer has 'intentionally portrayed the Spa'am character to be evil in porcine form.' " Frontiers of Corrections From an article in The Economist magazine: "One of the peculiar things about Britain is the television license...
...Mike Barnes, manager of the local Carrs Quality Center, said the worker was concerned that the chocolate bars were raising funds to support the Endangered Species Act and would threaten his job...
...had to be twenty-one to vote...
...was a wreck.' Because the cup was empty, a Peoples Gas physician informed Trumblay he failed the test—just the same as if he had shown traces of drugs...
...Patent and Trademark Office to make a legally protected trademark out of his well-known first initials...
...Jeffe said of Mr...
...Gloves are nowhere to be found...
...NO COMMENT Melting Pot From a story in The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, on the General Mills company's decision to put a new face on Betty Crocker: "The resulting face, predict some diversity experts, will be a woman with a slightly tan complexion, Asian-looking eyes, and a slightly broader nose...
...Governor Stews A correction in The New York Times: "A news analysis article on Saturday about the politics behind Governor Pete Wilson's role in eliminating affirmative-action programs at University of California campuses rendered a word incorrectly in a quotation from Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a former legislative aide in Sacramento...
...sawmill employee...
...Simpson requested the trademark rights on a whole host of merchandise...
...The suit seeks unspecified damages and demands that the boar's name be changed...
...Hormel Foods Corp...
...He started building the tower in 1993 using various unspecified adhesive materials...
...Trumblay hasn't been back to work since...
...Civics Lesson From a story in the St...
...This rule would not be violated by the use of nuclear weapons to attack targets that constitute legitimate military objectives...
...O.J.™ Not Guilty From a Knight-Ridder story in the Wisconsin State Journal: "Orenthal James Simpson has petitioned the U.S...
...Then she met the poll worker at Tamarac-by-the-Gulf condominiums, and her plan to vote . . . was foiled...
...Warner Wienecke, seventy-six, the clerk in charge] called Weatherby's complaint annoying...
...There are lots of well-known arguments against it: that it is unfair to tax people just for having an ordinary consumer good or that it sustains an over-padded bureaucracy at the BBC...
...He offered to give a blood sample instead, but that wasn't the fluid the test requires...
...She said I had to be twenty-one to vote,' said Weatherby...
...Yu Qian fashioned his dental edifice from 28,000 human teeth, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday...
...I had to be twenty-one to drink,' he said...
...He's picked.' She did not say, 'He's pickled.' " Biting Commentary An Associated Press story from Beijing: "A Chinese dentist is trying to raise awareness about dental hygiene by word of mouths—a tower of human teeth eight feet four inches tall...
...Spam Spat From a story in the Wisconsin State Journal: "The maker of SPAM just can't stomach the latest attempt to poke fun at the canned luncheon meat...
Vol. 59 • November 1995 • No. 11
