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...during fifth period, Alisha Golden, 12, heard the fire alarm sound. Alisha wondered, in passing, why her math teacher looked surprised and then heard someone say it was Drew Golden (who is no relation to Alisha) who pulled the alarm. Despite fleeting suspicions that it was a false alarm, the exercise proceeded, and Alisha kept moving, lining up at the side exits as prescribed by the drill. The kids, a little giddy at this momentary reprieve from math and English, poured out the side entrance into the midday sun--a steady stream of energy and youth, vulnerable flesh racing straight...
Suddenly, the fire alarm began its high caterwauling screech. An instant later, we, the Luau crew, protected from the elements only by aloha shirts, shorts, slippers, and a few layers of delicate flower leis, were asked to leave the building and brave the 20 degree weather. We trembled outside for about a half an hour, waiting for the fire department. The conversation drifted quickly from the initial euphoria of the success of the luau to how much we missed home and why the heck we were in Boston in the first place. "Why'd you come to Harvard?" someone asked...
ASTROWATCH Omega's Speedmaster Professional X-33 is no ordinary timepiece. Designed for astronauts, the $3,000 watch can resist temperatures up to 200[degrees]F, peal out an 80-decibel alarm (nearly as loud as a freight train) and track mission time. If it's good enough to be used in space, it's good to go on earth...
...they could have gotten the guns, Doug Golden, grandfather of 11-year-old suspect Andrew, told reporters the boy had admitted stealing seven of his rifles and pistols -- and pulling the fire alarm that began the ambush -- when Doug spoke to him in jail Wednesday. If true, it raises new questions about where the responsibility of gun-owning adults ends...
...Craighead County Sheriff Dale Haas said, "There's no explanation in my opinion why an 11-year-old or 13-year-old would do something like this. It breaks my heart." Haas says the boys were heavily armed and lying in wait in nearby woods when the alarm was pulled inside the school. When apprehended, they were running in the direction of a white van loaded with guns and ammunition. The connection of the van to the shooting is not yet known...