CNN Interactive, September 7, 1997.

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown proclaimed Saturday as "Martin McGuinness Day" and gave him the key to the city. "The struggle you are engaged in is a very noble one," Brown said.

[Ed.: Mr. McGuinness is chief negotiator for Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.]

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A fire that burned 700 acres of forest near Los Angeles was started when an environmentally aware camper dutifully burned his used toilet paper.

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USA Today, September 2, 1997:

Jonnie Barr might lose his job, because he brought a men's magazine to work. But it wasn't Playboy, Penthouse or Hustler. The Olympia, Wash., waste water treatment plant operator bought Esquire to work. The city says Esquire is "inappropriate and offensive reading material." Barr says he threw the magazine away but somehow it wound up on the desk of a female co-worker. She complained that the lingerie ads were offensive.

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