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The Week In News rad came to work at a bank teller in Cleveland – and walked off with $215,000 stuffed into a paper bag at the end of his shift. After making off with the funds, Conrad, then 20, simply vanished. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, the bank robbery was one of the biggest in the city, and the sum would be worth $1.7 million today. On Friday, the federal law enforcement agency announced that it had identified Conrad and that the bank robber – who changed his name to Thomas Randele – had been living in Boston since 1970. The U.S. Marshals Service said, “A year before the Cleveland bank robbery, Conrad became obsessed with the 1968 Steve McQueen film. The movie was based on the bank robbery for sport by a millionaire businessman, and Conrad ... bragged to his friends about how easy it would be to take money from the bank.” The case was finally solved after decades of investigation, when federal authorities traveled to Massachusetts last week and confirmed that Conrad
had lived the rest of his life out in Boston. Conrad died of lung cancer in May of this year, in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He was 71.
Off Course
A penguin flew a bit off course when it was found 1,800 miles from its home. This week, an Adelie penguin was found on a New Zealand beach – the third member of its species in history
to be found so far from its homeland. The Kaikoura Wildlife Hospital said the young penguin, native to Antarctica, was fatigued and reluctant to return to the sea when it was found hundreds of miles from home. Eventually, though, after receiving TLC from the hospital, the waddling fowl was released in the Banks Peninsula in the hopes that it could find its way back home. Locals nicknamed the penguin “Pingu.” David Ainley, an ecologist and expert on Adelie penguins, noted members of the species are known to travel far when they are outside of their breeding season, but it was unusual for one of the birds to show up in New Zealand. Must have taken it a waddle to get there.
PhD at 89 Want to retire? Nah, there’s so much more to do. Take the case of Manfred Steiner,
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who is celebrating earning his doctorate in physics at the young age of 89. Steiner, who previously earned a medical degree and a doctorate in biochemistry, said his attention turned back to physics after he retired at age 70 from working as a hematologist at Brown University. He had always wanted to study physics, but went into medicine instead at his family’s urging. He said retirement allowed him to start taking physics classes at Brown.
“It’s an old dream that starts in my childhood,” Steiner related. “I always wanted to become a physicist.” Steiner took it slow but steady –
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