Up in Arms: Buckingham Palace is upset...

Up in Arms: Buckingham Palace is upset about a safety promotion poster that uses a picture of Prince Charles and misuses the Queen’s English. The British Safety Council issued the poster, which pictures a pained Charles with his arm, broken in a polo accident, in a sling. The poster says: “One in three of all accidents are (sic) caused by falls.” Buckingham Palace said the council did not have permission to use the photograph; the safety council said it was for public information only and so permission was not required.

New Life: A Mexican teen-ager flew home late last week from Tampa, Fla., after major surgery to correct his congenital disfigurements. “He came in with a mask covering him completely. He’s going out in a baseball cap,” said surgeon Mutaz Habal of Pablo Hernandez-Pina, 18. Surgeons moved the youth’s right eye socket to his face from over his ear and built him a nose. A section of skull was used to build a forehead; two ribs were made into cheekbones. “Pablo does not look like an animal--he is human now,” said his mother, Severiana Hernandez-Pina.

Write On: Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, John Edgar Wideman and other authors will be in Washington today for the PEN-Faulkner Award for Fiction gala at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The gala’s theme is “A Sense of Place,” with visiting authors using that theme in readings. The day’s activities include a tour of the Senate, lunch with members of Congress in the LBJ Room, hearing oral arguments at the Supreme Court and meeting with justices.