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In September engineers reported that Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium is corroding because so many fans, unwilling to miss a few minutes’ action by waiting in line for the rest rooms, relieve themselves on the terraces. Also in September, Macedonian soldiers captured a very modest Albanian border officer who had wandered across the line; he said the Macedonian trees provided better cover for answering nature’s call than the sparse vegetation on his own side. And a 35-year-old man was convicted in Nara, Japan, in the same month for reaching into the next stall at a public rest room and maneuvering a wire-and-cup contraption to capture the occupant’s fresh urine, which he told the judge he needed for a skin condition.
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Crises in the Dog Community
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Two cousins in Evergreen, Alabama, clubbed each other in the face with farm tools (including a scythe) in a dispute over corn bread, jelly, and chitterlings. AIDS doctors at a conference in Swaziland warned that U.S.-donated condoms would easily break in use because they were too small for the country’s men. A 15-year-old girl in Skokie pleaded guilty to assault for beating up her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend, blackening both his eyes when he wouldn’t kiss her after their prom last May.
