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Bits and Pieces - Fifth Edition - April 14, 2002
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DATE: Monday, Apr. 14, 2003



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Bits and Pieces - Fifth edition

Here is what happening in the exciting world of Bits and Pieces around the world.

Farmers put a live chicken through a wood cutter to show people that doing so is how to make chicken nuggets. Then in Germany, a father wish he can say to his kid �Don�t do as I said or do�. As in Los Angelas, a first time for a first kiss, while a chicken scratch notebook went to a high bidder for a huge price that is out of this world or Space (def. No puns intended). Thieves break into the safe at the the prision so they can add extra stuffing for their pillows while a French book is hard to sell especially those that buy those freedom fries. A mother mistakens a lizard for her son and lastley but least is Monica Lewinsky is co-hosting in MR. Personality. Hopefully she doesn�t inhaled her blow up job. (again no pun intended)

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01. Farmers Put Live Chickens in Wood Chippers - LOS ANGELES - Two California poultry farmers who fed some 30,000 live chickens into wood chippers will not face criminal charges because they had permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture prosecutors said on Friday.

But a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States called the farmers "callous and barbaric" and disagreed with the decision not to prosecute them.

The farmers needed to destroy the chickens because they were "spent" -- or no longer able to produce eggs -- and could not make chicken soup out of them because the farms were under quarantine for the poultry virus Exotic Newcastle Disease, District Attorney's spokeswoman Gayle Stewart said.

Stewart said the men, who run a poultry farm near San Diego, asked a senior veterinarian with the Agriculture Department if they could employ the wood chippers and were given permission.

"Once they had permission we decided that they did not have any criminal intent," Stewart said.

02. Like Father, Like Son as Police Nab Drunk Drivers - BERLIN - A German father and son lost their driving licenses within hours of each other for being drunk at the wheel, after the son got caught and the inebriated father went to pick him up, police said on Monday.

"First the son came off the road under the influence, so police took his license. Then the father set off for the scene of the accident, got stopped and was also found to be over the limit, so he had his taken too," said a police spokesman in the southern town of Hildesheim.

03. LOS ANGELES - Daytime television viewers -- considered to be among America's most conservative audiences -- will see their first on-screen lesbian kiss next week, ABC television said on Monday.

The kiss will take place during the April 22 episode of the Emmy-award winning soap opera "All My Children," making what ABC said would be a first in the world of daytime television.

It comes in a scene featuring gay teen character Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel who came out as a lesbian in 2000, and her new friend Lena (Olga Sosnovska) who "in a moment of truth and true love ... comes to terms with her feelings."

04. NEW YORK - A flight document carried to the surface of the moon during the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969, and signed by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin fetched nearly a quarter of a million dollars after an all-day auction on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Swann Galleries said.

Highlight of the auction was a "Data Card Book," essentially a navigational notebook that also bears smudges of moon dust that was the property of Aldrin. The 8 by 10.5 inches (20 by 27 cm) document containing 16 numbered pages on 11 loose leaves sold for $222,500 to a unnamed Pennsylvania dealer specializing in 19th century art and autographs.

Both Aldrin and commander Neil Armstrong recorded critical data values to enable spacecraft maneuvers, gallery spokeswoman Caroline Birenbaum said.

Most data recorded was for input to the flight computer which started the actual engine burns, but was also used to fly the lunar module Eagle down to the moon's surface, return the astronauts to lunar orbit after landing and have them rendezvous with the spacecraft Columbia

05. Thieves Break Into Safe -- at Prison

Mon Apr 14,10:27 AM - LONDON- Thieves in Britain broke into a safe and stole 650 pounds ($1,020) -- from a prison.

A UK prison spokesman said on Monday that the crime took place in the reception area of Spring Hill open prison near Aylesbury, around 40 miles northwest of London. The thieves also broke into prisoners' lockers.

Police are investigating the Friday night break-in, the spokesman said.

06. A Hard Sell? Book Tells Americans How to Be French CHICAGO - It may be as ill-timed as opening a new storefront business in downtown Baghdad -- a book telling Americans how they too can be like the French.

But its principal author, chef Robert Arbor, says his "Joie de Vivre: Simple French Style for Everyday Living" is "beyond politics" and will quench a thirst deeper than the current tempest in a demitasse.

So does publisher Simon & Schuster, which says the timing may work in the book's favor -- offering closet Francophiles in the United States a guide to pursuing the politically incorrect in the privacy of their homes without having to sneak out to a French restaurant, even as U.S.-French ties are iced by disagreements over the Iraq war.

Arbor, who owns nine New York and Boston restaurants, including seven Le Gamin Cafes, says his book of pictures, recipes and reminiscences about living a good life every day will sell because French culture has survived worse, including wars and revolutions.

07. Funeral for Lizzard Believed to Be Son - BANGKOK, Thailand - A woman in central Thailand held a funeral for a monitor lizard believed to have been the reincarnation of her 12-year-old son, who died in a road accident nearly two years ago, a report said Monday.

Jamlong Taengnian, 53, and her relatives gathered at the family's house on the outskirts of Bangkok for the ceremony following the death of the reptile Saturday afternoon, The Nation newspaper reported. A photo of Jamlong's deceased son, Charoen, was placed beside the reptile's lifeless body. "I am so sad. I feel as if I have lost my son a second time," Jamlong was quoted as saying. Hundreds of people had visited the house in Nonthaburi, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles north of Bangkok) in recent years to see the lizard allegedly possessed by the dead boy's spirit and thought to bring good luck. The lizard was first found lying under a photograph of Charoen during his funeral in June 2001 and reportedly followed the boy's parents to their home. Jamlong named the lizard Yui, her son's nickname, and allowed it to sleep in her bed and gave the lizard milk and yoghurt, her son's favorite foods, reports said. Monitor lizards, which have gray skin marked by yellowish scales, live near water and are good swimmers and tree climbers. They are not aggressive.

08. Lewinsky to Host Dating Reality Show -NEW YORK - Handbag maker, gossip-column fodder and former presidential intern Monica Lewinsky has a new gig: host of a dating game on Fox called "Mr. Personality."

"I've come to realize that I've already had my own reality show," Lewinsky told Newsweek for a story in this week's editions, out Monday.

"Mr. Personality," which debuts April 21, will feature a stockbroker named Hayley and 20 masked men vying for her affection. Hayley must choose a man based on his inner beauty.

In addition to hosting the show, Lewinsky offers dating advice in her role as Hayley's confidante.

The woman who has pleaded for privacy in the past told Newsweek she realizes she is a public figure.

"I walk down the street and people recognize me," Lewinsky said. "That happened before I decided to do this show, and it will happen after."

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