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Now the Children Glow with Promise

A Chicago teacher has been accused of punishing disruptive students with prolonged electric shocks, using a spark-plug and a current-producing crank.

Death-Styles of the Rich and Famous

The Green River Cemetery Green River Cemetery is cemetery in Springs, New York in East Hampton (town), New York.

The cemetery which was originally intended for the blue collar local families (called Bonackers) of the Springs neighborhood who supported the ocean mansions in East Hampton (village),
 in East Hampton East Hampton or its variants is the name of several places in the United States:
  • East Hampton, Connecticut
  • East Hampton (town), New York
  • East Hampton (village), New York
  • East Hampton Hospital Trust, the setting for the British sitcom Green Wing
, Long Island, is now so popular as a gravesite grave·site  
n.
A place used for graves or a grave.
 among the rich and famous that all future gravesites have been booked in advance.

Spoken Like a Veteran

Paul Cameron Paul Drummond Cameron (born November 9, 1939) is an American psychologist and sex researcher. While employed at various institutions including the University of Nebraska he conducted research on passive smoking and several other topics, but he is best known today for his , a Christian conservative psychologist, told Rolling Stone magazine that he feared gay sex would supplant heterosexual sex because "marital sex is boring, and generally it doesn't deliver the kind of sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual sex does. The evidence is that men do a better job on men, and women on women."

The Court Awarded Him 3 Free Nights

A man filed suit against a topless club, claiming a dancer gave him whiplash whiplash n. a common neck and/or back injury suffered in automobile accidents (particularly from being hit from the rear) in which the head and/or upper back is snapped back and forth suddenly and violently by the impact.  during his bachelor party when she bumped him with her breasts.

He Thought the Sign Said Yanni ...

A California man is filing suit against the rock band Aerosmith, claiming he suffered permanent hearing loss after attending one of their concerts.

Those Walkers Can Do a Lot of Damage

An insurance company filed suit against the family of an 81-year-old woman who was killed by a truck. The company sought $2,800 for damages they claim the woman's body did to the truck.

And It Offends the Natives

New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 subway conductors have been encouraged to stop saying "please," as in "please stand clear of the doors," because it takes too much time.
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Date:May 1, 1999
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