In Spokane Washington,  they made a list, but they should have checked it twice.  In a December newsletter to the families of elementary school students, Spokane Public
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A dozen Chinese teenagers have been caught in a failed plot to sneak into Canada by masquerading as kung fu masters from the famous Shaolin Temple, state media reported Friday.
The 12 had no martial arts experience but joined a team of genuine kung fu performers from a school in Henan province, also home to the [...]

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PATNA, India (Reuters) - Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site, officials and residents said.
“I have stopped going to school after many dead people walked out of their graves and came into my dreams, [...]

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Best-selling Canadian author Yann Martel, worried about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apparent lack of interest in the arts, sent him a book on Monday and said he would continue doing so once a fortnight.
Martel, who wrote the novel “Life of Pi,” was upset that Harper had paid no attention during a recent parliamentary ceremony to [...]

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A law protecting library records’ confidentiality has hamstrung officials pursuing a man who reportedly masturbated among the books at the Neenah Public Library earlier this month. City Attorney James Godlewski said the library can’t turn a surveillance video of the man over to police without a court order.
“That is state law,” Godlewski said Monday. “The [...]

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Canadian researchers said on Wednesday they have produced the world’s smallest published book, a story of a turnip contest that will require readers to use an electron microscope.
The book, entitled “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, measures 0.07 mm by 0.10 mm and was made using a focused gallium-ion beam to carve out spaces around each [...]

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School district officials are trying to identify who watched $250 worth of pay-per-view pornographic movies using a school cable television box, officials said.
Someone after business hours used one of the five cable boxes in the Board of Education building to order the films, priced between $4.95 and $9.95.
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A substitute teacher’s tool for silencing chatty kindergartners — clothespins — doesn’t wash with school officials.
Four boys said spring-type clothespins were placed over their upper or lower lips for talking too much in class, Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School principal Mike Johnsen wrote in a letter to parents this week.
Ruth Ann Stoneburner, a retired school nurse who [...]

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Students in Tajikistan driving expensive cars may find their names in the local press under an anti-corruption measure announced on Friday by President Imomali Rakhmonov.
The long-serving leader ordered officials at the Agency for Financial Control and Fighting Corruption investigate the incomes of students and school pupils with expensive cars and publish their findings, his Web [...]

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Twenty-two years ago, Mahlon Webb Jr. wrote a note, put it in a bottle and tossed it into the ocean at a North Carolina Beach. Five years ago, he got a call from a woman on Grand Cayman Island saying she’d found the bottle.
Last week, Webb made the same type of call, this time to [...]

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