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- <title>
- Nov. 11, 1991: Miscellany
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 11, 1991 Somebody's Watching
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MISCELLANY, Page 83
- </hdr><body>
- <p> IT'S NOT IN THE MAIL. For Los Angeles County residents who
- still haven't received their federal income tax refund, it's
- time to get on the phone. Last week the IRS shredded 8,642
- uncashed checks worth nearly $5 million because they had been
- returned as undeliverable. The checks will not be reissued
- unless the taxpayers call in. Failure to contact the IRS could
- cost one Beverly Hills resident $229,015--the largest shredded
- refund.
- </p>
- <p> GO-GO GORILLA. Timmy, a 497-lb. silverback gorilla from
- the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, left his mate Katie last week for a
- fling at the Bronx Zoo with four breeding beauties.
- Animal-rights activists fought the temporary move, but to no
- avail. They argued that Timmy is being used as a stud pony and
- not being treated as a "sensitive male." Katie, who is
- infertile, will be entertained by Oscar, a silverback from the
- Topeka Zoo, until Timmy returns.
- </p>
- <p> CELIBACY SENTENCE. Alberto Gonzales, 27, of Salem, Ore.,
- carries the AIDS virus and knows it, but he did not tell his
- girlfriend during their two-year relationship. After pleading
- no contest to a felony-assault count for transmitting the virus,
- Gonzales was given an unprecedented sentence: he is not allowed
- to have sex or even dates for five years. Officials concede this
- will be difficult to enforce, but Gonzales will be strictly
- supervised and will have to wear an electronic surveillance
- device for six months. Judge Janice Wilson said she will send
- Gonzales to jail if he violates the order.
- </p>
- <p> DOWN ON HIGHS. America is starting to kiss off its
- infatuation with marijuana. The National Institute on Drug Abuse
- says the number of weed smokers dropped one-third last year, to
- 20.5 million, from a 1979 high of 31.5 million. Reasons cited
- for the decline are rising prices, fewer supplies and the plain
- fact that it's just not cool anymore to use the stuff.
- </p>
- <p> TRANSPACIFIC TRAGEDY. The conceptual artist Christo's $26
- million project started as a transpacific wonder; it ended in
- bi national disaster. Last week a worker was electrocuted while
- taking down one of the 1,340 20-ft. blue umbrellas unfurled
- along 12 miles of Japan's landscape. A week earlier, high
- California winds toppled one of 1,760 yellow umbrellas opened
- as part of the same project. Lori Rae Mathews, 33, was crushed
- by the 485-lb. parasol. Removing the ill-starred display will
- take months.
- </p>
- <p> QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
- </p>
- <p> "Now he fits in with my antiques."
- </p>
- <p>-- Jacqueline Jackson, on her husband Jesse's 50th
- birthday.
- </p>
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