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Nicaragua’s first escalators, installed in a shopping mall in Managua in December, have terrorized many shoppers, according to a February Miami Herald report. One middle-aged woman who was afraid to step off leaped from the escalator onto the floor, lost her balance, and stumbled through the food court, knocking over tables and slamming into a wall.
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According to a December Denver Post story, Katy Emery, 27, agreed to again serve as a surrogate mother for her sister, Judi Conaghan of Chicago, who has been advised against becoming pregnant because of a heart condition. Emery, the family black sheep, and Conaghan had been estranged, but Emery agreed to the first pregnancy because, she said, she was trying to shed the image of “the bad kid I’d been through my teen years.”
Mathematics professor David Liu of the University of Alberta was named Canadian professor of the year in January. Liu received the award mostly because of the math clubs he has established for disadvantaged youth, but also partly because he taught himself to work out equations upside down so that students could follow his explanations from across his desk.
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