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FRANKFORT, Ky. - A woman who slipped on dog feces and hurt her ankle while she was shopping at a Petsmart store deserves a jury trial, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The Boone Circuit Court granted Petsmart a summary judgment in September 2001, and dismissed Vickie Jenkins' claim that store owners were negligent in her fall. Jenkins had testified in the original case that she shopped at the store at least once a week for about six years, and never encountered animal feces or urine on the floor. She told the court that on April 23, 1999, she...

  Source:  Xinhua News Agency Date:  07/01/2002 03:10 Document ID:  FA20020701790000020 Subject(s):  XIN; Buddhist; Local; Water     Ancient meditation cave discovered in north China Story Filed: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:10 AM EST SHIJIAZHUANG, Jul 1, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A mysterious and previously inaccessible cave in Fengning Manchu Autonomous County, in north China's Hebei Province, s now thought to be an ancient place of meditation for Buddhist monks. The cave is located on Mount Lama, 30 kilometers northwest of the county proper of Fengning. According to historical records, for more than 500 years, local people could see only...

10,000 ancient bamboo Documents ("Slips") unearthed in Hunan Story Filed: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:49 AM EST CHANGSHA, Jul 1, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- More than 10,000 bamboo slips dating from the Warring States period (BC.476-BC.221) have been unearthed from an historic site in central China's Hunan province. Gao Chongwen, director of the archaeological institute of Beijing University, said the find was the largest of its kind and would offer more clues for archaeological research. Chinese archaeologists discovered the slips in a 16-meter deep well in an ancient city which was located at Liye village, Longshan county in Hunan,...