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Oct 31 1966
The Acid Test Graduation! Ken Kesey hosts, among others. "The question is no longer CAN you pass the Acid Test, but DID you pass the Acid Test."
Month: October 2003
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"If you have endured great despair
then you did it alone,
getting a transfusion from the fire,
picking the scabs off your heart,
then wringing it out like a sock." ~"Courage," Anne Sexton
From waterangel006
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Thousands Given Wrong STD Results
CRANBROOK, British Columbia - About 3,000 people got the wrong results when they were tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia over an 18-month period, health officials say.
Because of a faulty diagnostic machine in this southeastern British Columbia town, test results for the two sexually transmitted diseases were reversed.
The manufacturer's notice blamed incorrect installation of "optical bundles" and said the company was working with Health Canada to ensure a prompt recall.
"Neither the costs anticipated with this recall, nor the impact on BD's ProbeTec ET instrument business, are expected to be significant,"
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Nothing says the holidays like baby Jesus made from Legos
By The Associated Press
(10/27/03 - FEDERAL WAY, WA) — Legos are anything but kids' stuff to Dan Parker. The Washington state man is a professional Lego builder.
He's now working on a life-size nativity scene for a church organization in the St. Louis area. He's not revealing the client or the cost.
Building with Legos went from a hobby to a fulltime job, when Parker was laid-off in 1999.
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MOVING STAIRS GRIND SALLY TO DEATH
Oct 29 2003
By Janice Burns
A SCOTS holidaymaker died in agony yesterday when an escalator opened up and crushed her.
University professor Sally Baldwin, 62, screamed as the cogs of the metal walkway sucked her in to a gaping hole.
``Part of the floor just suddenly opened up and the poor woman fell in.''
An Italian train driver may lose both his legs after he was dragged in to the machinery while trying to save Sally.
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Nurse fired after force-feeding chocolate to diabetic
BBC |
"A Derbyshire nurse has been struck off for force-feeding a diabetic student with a chocolate bar... Margaret Dale had refused to help engineering student James Bailey at the former High Peak College in Buxton in September 2001. He was told to 'go home and stop causing a scene' when he complained of feeling ill. Mr Bailey said she refused to call for an ambulance for him when he collapsed at the college. Shortly after collapsing he awoke to find a Mars bar being forced into his mouth, a hearing was told."
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