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World AIDS Day service. He also said he had been rushed off his feet last week by a hectic schedule. ---- Page 2 NEW SITE FOR PLASTIC SURGERY HTH New site for plastic surgery A US consortium's plans to establish an outpatient plastic surgery clinic in Bermuda are moving closer to realisation. Bermuda Ocean Surgical Society chief executive officer Richard Rymland said the group had settled on two sites and had reached a price agreement on one of them. ---- Page 2 FRANK AIDS LESSON FOR STUDENTS CON ED AID UNS Frank AIDS lesson for students It was a lesson in pure condom-sense -- delivered with brutal frankness -- to a room full of teenagers entering what could be the most dangerous days of their lives. The featured speaker in the first of series of forums held at the BIU's Dr. E.F. Gordon Memorial Hall brought into the focus the hard realities of AIDS. ---- Page 3 TEEN SLAYING ACCUSED IN COURT MUR Teen slaying accused in court Seventeen-year-old Justis Raham Smith was arraigned in Supreme Court yesterday where he pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder in the July 3 death of Canadian teenager Rebecca Middleton. ---- Page 3 SHOPPERS MAKE A COMEBACK BUC Shoppers make a comeback Retailers are generally pleased with the start of this year's edition of the Christmas shopping season. ---- Business, Page 11