From: glen mccready 
  To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org
  Cc: cln@geek.com.au
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 11:11:33 -0500

Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev@bostic.com>
Forwarded-by: Joseph Harper <joeha@MICROSOFT.com>
Subject: Excerpted: WhiteBoard News for Monday, December 22, 1997

New York, New York:

The Brooklyn Bridge is for sale, and on a home-shopping channel, no less.

It's no scam. The city will keep the bridge, but the top bidder can put
his or her name on the sweeping span, the Daily News reported today.
Bidding on the televised program starts at $25,000,

The plan would add the bridge to the city's Adopt-A-Highway program.

The winning sponsor who donates upwards of $25,000 toward the
5,989-foot-long landmark's yearly maintenance costs could get his or her
name affixed to a plaque on the bridge, officials at the city Department
of Transportation said.

The money would help pay the costs of litter removal, stairwell cleaning
and graffiti removal on the world's first steel-suspension bridge, which
opened in 1883.

Margaret Forgione, director of arterial maintenance for DOT, told the
newspaper, "To a large corporation, they may not blink an eye. For an
individual, it may be a very substantial donation... It's a very generous
thing to do. They're giving something to the city that means a lot to all
New Yorkers."

Several celebrities are Adopt-A-Highway participants, the News said.

Both Bette Midler and Robin Williams have adopted sections of highways in
the metropolitan area. So has the Mets.

Bidding for the Brooklyn Bridge program is slated for a Jan. 2 broadcast
on the QVC home-shopping channel between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.

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Sydney, Australia:

Who's the fastest chicken-sexer, an Australian or a Korean?

That question is at the center of a unique industrial dispute at an
Australian poultry farm, where a decision to hire South Korean
chicken-sexers has ruffled local feathers.

Chicken-sexers determine the sex of chicks, with males being fattened for
sale and females sent back to the breeding pens. A group of Australian
sexers say they are being forced to take a pay cut or be replaced by
Koreans.

The decidedly unglamorous job is performed by examining the backsides of
one-day-old chicks or inserting a tube to view the birds' sex organs.

Poultry firm Steggles says Koreans are more accurate chicken-sexers and
it has hired five to boost productivity at its Hunter Valley plant, 75
miles northwest of Sydney.

Steggles denies it plans replacing locals with foreigners, saying the
Koreans are in Australia as trainers because the error rate by local
chicken-sexers is double world standards.

"It's not so much the speed, but the accuracy that we want to improve,"
managing director Philip Stanton said. "We are finding too many males in
our flocks when they mature."

Australian chicken-sexer David McDowell said local chicken-sexers inspect
700 to 800 chicks an hour, compared with the Koreans' 500. He said Koreans
have an error rate of five percent, compared with the Australians' 2.3
percent.