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14 September 2003

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  When Voters Were Identified by Goiters, Missing Fingers and Tattoos   (Los Angeles Times)
  • Beginning in 1892, well before the driver's license became a universal form of identification, copperplate handwritten logs gave physical descriptions of voters, often noting missing limbs and other characteristics inflicted by a rough-and-tumble frontier life.*


    •   Germophobic NASA to Smash Galileo Probe Into Jupiter for Fear of Contaminating Moon   (Associated Press)
  • NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter to make sure it doesn't accidentally contaminate the planet's ice-covered moon Europa with bacteria from Earth.


    •   Yoko Ono to Go Naked for Peace   (Reuters)
  • John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono could end up stark naked on a Paris stage as she performs her one-woman art show "Cut Piece", in which members of the audience are to cut off pieces of her clothing.


    •   More Obstacles to Family Togetherness at the Dinner Table: New Diets and Picky Eaters   (Associated Press)
  • Making dinner was tough enough before Junior became a vegan and Dad got on his low-carb, meat-eater's diet. Now planning a meal and cooking it is not only time-consuming, it's complicated.


    •   Conviction Upheld in Mailing of Garbage   (Associated Press)
  • A three-judge panel upheld the conviction of a woman who sent a holiday-wrapped package filled with rotten oranges, banana peels and hairballs to the owner of a neighboring apartment building.
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