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According to an August report from the Associated Press, several insurance companies in France now offer policies to compensate parents of bullying victims, covering eyeglasses that might get slapped off a kid’s face and trendy designer clothes that might inspire beatings.
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Adesmeytos of Athens, Greece, reported on August 13 that, because so many people had left town for a national holiday, it had no news worthy of putting on the front page….Jim Schmitt, a high school physics teacher in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is undergoing treatment for rabies after a bat flew into his mouth during an early-morning run….A California prisoner on highway work detail was using a portable toilet when a truck driver drove off with it, oblivious to the inmate’s screams as he drove to another site at 40 miles per hour….In Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, folk artist Stephen Huneck opened a dog-themed church (“all creeds, all breeds, no dogma”) to honor canines’ spiritual and utilitarian service to humanity.
