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In November 32-year-old Danny Shaune Clemons was released from the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Greensburg (after having served five years for assault and burglary) and was by custom given $75 by the state to tide him over. Less than an hour later, while waiting for a train to take him to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where a job awaited him, he was robbed.
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According to the Economist, a government scientist in Wales discovered a way to grow four-leaf clovers after cracking the plant’s genetic code last year. He plans to start marketing them this year.
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Robert G. Hill, 24, was shot to death in Tarpon Springs, Florida, in September and his roommate was wounded, allegedly by Charles W. Sutton, who had become exasperated that the roommate would not acknowledge the magnificence of Sutton’s car.
