Boston Sunday Herald
January 25, 1998

Mike Pingree's
Through the Looking Glass
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Gee, where could it be?

During a routine physical examination in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Lucimaria 
Feitosa Santos, 15, found out that one of her kidneys is missing.

She had two the last time she checked. That was in 1988 when she went to 
the hospital to have kidney stones removed.

Her parents have filed a complaint against the hospital.
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Something in common

Nongnut Mafukon, 20, was waiting for the crowd to leave a fifth-floor 
parking garage in Bangkok, Thailand, so she could kill herself when she 
saw Narongrit Luecharatsami, a despondent and weeping 21-year-old soldier, 
who was there for the same reason.

They talked it over, wrote suicide notes and jumped together to their deaths.
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Wages of sin are high

A prostitue in Geneva took her pimp to court because, she claimed, he 
took 90 percent of her hard-earned income for himself.

The court agreed and awarded her $110,000, including interest.
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A judge for the future

Valdir Pozza, a machinist in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who severed a tendon in 
his little finger, was denied compensation in 1993 by Judge Edmundo Filho, 
who said the pinkie is not that important, and anyway, it will disappear 
through evolution.

The judge's ruling was overturned last week.