From: glen mccready 
  To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:24:55 -0400

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:05:02 -0400
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com
Subject: All The News That's Fit To Print

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Sunbather Bakes to Death in Britain, Police Say

    LONDON, June 29 (Reuter) - A man baked himself to death while
sunbathing on a remote British beach during a heatwave, police said
on Thursday.
    The man, in his 40s and wearing shoes and shorts, was found in "severe
distress" on a remote nudist beach near Hastings, in southern England, on
Wednesday.
    "A post mortem examination will be carried out today to establish the
exact cause of the death," a police spokesman in Hastings said. "The
indication is that he died of severe sunburn and there are not thought to
be any suspicious circumstances."
    Temperatures have soared above 80 degrees F (27 Celsius) this week
across Britain, which is above the average and far warmer than recent
cool, cloudy weather.
    The man, who has not been named, was dead on arrival at hospital.

[I think this raises several questions, not least of which is, "What
 was the fellow doing with shorts on at a nudist beach?"  RWH]

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Three Filipinos Find Frog A Fatal Appetiser

    Manila, July 11 (Reuter) - Three Filipinos on a drinking bout died of
poisoning after eating a frog they saw jumping out of a canal, thinking
it was a delicacy, police said on tuesday.
    Two others were in serious condition in a Manila hospital after
sharing the same amphibian which they did not know belonged to a species
of poisonous bullfrog.
    Filipinos love appetisers when drinking and eat just about anything
to go with their beers, usually those with supposedly aphrodisiac powers
-- such as dogs, frogs, beetles, snakes, lizards and crickets, usually
fried. Some prefer rotten eggs made into pies.
    Police said the frog had jumped out of a murky canal on Sunday night
when the five drinking companions saw it, chased it and fried it.
    They quickly began convulsing and three died on reaching the hospital.