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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>News of the Weird <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Salt <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tribune</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Will work for crack: Andrew Uitvlugt, candidate for mayor of
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Kelowna</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">British
Columbia</st1:State></st1:place>, proposed in November to coax drug addicts
into public jobs, such as trash collection, by rewarding them with crack
cocaine, on the theory that the work would be so fulfilling that they would
ultimately decline the drugs. (He finished fourth out of five candidates.) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hair don'ts: (1) Pontypool, Wales, bus driver Mark Davis had
his hair colored red, with an actual (small) fir Christmas tree woven in, along
with a string of lights (according to a December BBC News report, with photo).
(2) An October profile in the Jamaica Star reported on barber Darain Housen,
40, who is well-known in St. Thomas parish as the guy who has shaped his
bristly hair in the form of a baseball cap, with the bill extending out a couple
of inches over his forehead. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Compiled by Chuck Shepherd<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Take care and Happy New Year, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used up,
totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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