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In a study of the psychological well-being of 91 Canadian customs officers earlier this year, researchers at the Kingston Sexual Behavior Clinic in Ontario concluded that those officers whose work consists of looking at pornography all day showed no ill effects. (Canada generally has stricter laws against pornography than most U.S. states because authorities more readily accept that viewing pornography is dangerous.)
In May the city council in Raleigh, North Carolina, was set to approve a request to rezone land on behalf of Schlotzsky’s Deli. At the last minute the executive vice president of the North Carolina Restaurant Association, whose office is next door to the proposed site, said the group is opposed to having a restaurant there, citing parking problems among other reasons.
Grown-ups
Peterborough, Ontario: In October Robert McKellar, 36, pleaded guilty to spying on female coworkers through a two-way mirror in the employee changing room at a local Kentucky Fried Chicken. And in July police said Darren Laite, 26, was discovered lurking in the tank of a women’s outhouse just east of town.
