Teachers stage fake gunman attack on sixth-graders

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 9:39 AM EDT (CNN)

Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.

us-news, teachers, fake-attack, poor-judgment

Satellite navigation system takes woman's car onto train tracks

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2007 2:25 PM EDT (BBC News)

A 20-year-old student's car was wrecked by a train after she followed her sat nav system onto a railway track. You should never put your full trust in technology...

technology, satellite, navigation, nav-system, train, car

Investigator finds reasonable grounds for claim of atheism firing

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2007 9:14 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

An investigator for the Maine Human Rights Commission has found reasonable grounds for a manager's claim that he was fired from his job at DeCoster farms because he's an atheist....DeCoster brought up God in a conversation, and Cantwell responded by saying he was an atheist and d …

religion, atheism, maine, firing

Bechtel Withdraws From Iraq

Seeded on Sun Nov 5, 2006 10:04 AM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)

"Bechtel Corp. went to Iraq three years ago to help rebuild a nation torn by war. Since then, 52 of its people have been killed and much of its work sabotaged as Iraq dissolved into insurgency and sectarian violence. Now Bechtel is leaving."

world-news, iraq, bechtel, war, us-news

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