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JONESBORO, Ark.: The death count has risen to five in Arkansas after two camouflage-clad boys -- aged 11 and 13 -- opened fire on middle school students assembling for a fire alarm Tuesday. Eleven others are wounded...
...Sheriff Dale Haas said the two boys, now in custody, were heavily armed and lying in wait in nearby woods when the alarm was pulled inside the school. When apprehended, the suspects were running in the direction of a white van loaded with guns and ammunition, although the connection of the van to the shooting is not yet known...
...suspects offered no explanation for the shootings, but a classmate said one of the boys had recently broken up with his girlfriend. A third boy, thought to have pulled the alarm, is still being sought. The dead students, all girls, have been identified as Natalie Brooks, Paige Ann Herring and Stephanie Johnson, all 12, and Brittany R. Varner, 11. Teacher Shannon Wright, 32, died after surgery. Nine of the wounded were also girls...
BRUCE WILLIS False alarm on the asteroid, but Bruno's big summer movie enjoys an early milewide billboard...
Poor dorm-room lighting might be excusable if libraries or other study spaces were Harvard student's places of learning. Rooms are rightfully the place of choice for schedule and fashion reasons--in whose library can you read in pajamas and slippers and have an alarm set to wake you if you happen to doze off? And besides, House libraries and those in and around the Yard do not themselves have such good lighting--beyond the Lamont reference room, the light fixtures provide more ambience than illumination. We can't read by mood alone...