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Terry John Wilson, 53, was charged with murder in Houston in September when the man he had hired to rough up his wife’s suitor accidentally killed him. Wilson told police he had only wanted the suitor, who was a bowling partner of the Wilsons’, to suffer broken arms and legs so that he could no longer bowl, thus becoming less attractive to Mrs. Wilson.
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Dearborn, Michigan, police officer Brian Yinger was suspended in October and ordered to undergo psychotherapy. Police chief Robert Deziel said Yinger’s offense was that he writes the number 7 European style, with a horizontal line through it, thus “confusing” department clerks.
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The government of Ukraine sponsored a competition, which closed December 31, to determine the best way to seal the destroyed nuclear reactor that caused the disaster at Chernobyl in 1986. The government seeks a solution that will guarantee safety from radiation for 100 years, and it is willing to pay whoever designs such a system the equivalent of $20,000, not including construction costs. The cost of designing and building a system that would ensure such safety, according to U.S. officials, is closer to $250 million.
