Michelle, to whom Dana gave the Tylenol, accepted the suspension. Dana and her mother, Anne Wilkins, appealed the suspension to the Hamilton Board of Education, which then voted 3 to 2 to uphold the school's decision.

Wilkins is now appealing to the Butler County Common Pleas Court.

Paint Turned Sour

BERKELEY, Calif.--All Nancy Skinner wanted was an ecologically correct paint.

But the all-natural, milk-based paint turned sour and the stench drove the Berkeley councillor out of her home three months ago. Despite scrubbing and repainting, the house still smelled like old socks, and Skinner and her daughter are rooming with friends.

"It really knocked you over," concurs paint distributor Eugene Dunlap.

He says the problem was not the paint but the painter, who should have known better: The paint had gone bad in the can before it ever hit the wall.

"Our product is very simple. We don't put any preservatives in it so it has a limited shelf life," says Dunlap, who runs the Davis-based Sinan Co.

Skinner, an avid and now somewhat embarrassed environmentalist who did the indoor decorating job herself with a friend, says the mildly rancid smell of the paint got worse after it was applied during the Thanks-giving holidays.

THE Quote OF THE WEEK

"You're from California. Chill out." --Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton to Jerry Brown, speaking pseudo-hipese in a debate of all the Democratic presidential candidates on ABC News Thursday night.   Compiled by Joshua W. Shenk with news reports from The Associated Press and The New York Times