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After David Moyer, 26, a first-year MBA student, won the "bomb of the week" award for a comment deemed "most inappropriate" by his section-mates, he stored the prize in his dormitory mailbox while he went to lunch...
...Moyer was just finishing lunch and heading to his next class. Only about 20 minutes later, as the bomb squad safely carted away what was called a "practice" grenade, did the truth came...
When a dean pulled Moyer from class to ask why a bomb might be in his mailbox, the student said he had lost the keys to his room and had been late to lunch, so he thought he would "safely" put the device in his box until he could obtain a new set of room keys...
...victim of circumstance," Moyer said...
...about 10%. Result: this year the school fund raised $15.5 million in interest for its member districts. Voters are happy because the earnings keep property tax increases down. Nor are the school revenues tied up for long periods of time: districts can write checks on the fund. Says Linford Moyer, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials: "The fund's advantage is that we have broadened the possibilities of return on investments without jeopardizing safety...