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• The Worst Prison Guards The largest number of convicts ever to escape simultaneously from a maximum security prison is 124.
  This record is held by Alcoente Prison, near Lisbon in Portugal....
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  Although the insurance-company doctor testified that his bones had healed properly and that he was fully capable of walking, the judge decided for the plaintiff and awarded him $...
• hardcore signature virus: "As a juror in a Trial by Jury, you have the right, power and duty to acquit the defendant if you judge the law itself to be unjust.
  -- John McPherson, mcpherso@macvax.ucsd.edu...
• Failed Attempts To Break Records In September 1978 Mr.
  Terry Gripton, of Stafford, failed to break the world shouting record by two and a half decibels....
• The Least Perceptive Literary Critic The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax.
  A most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to give a public reading of his latest poem....
• And after you do all that work: An in-house IRS study revealed in February that the agency loses two million tax returns and related documents annually.
  One employee said that when preparing for audits, he routinely requests taxpayers' files from the state agencies because they are more likely to have the documents....
• The Worst Car Hire Service When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck as a joke.
  Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California....
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  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....