Police: Students plotted slaying
Police said a group of seventh-graders had an elaborate plan to slay faculty and classmates at their school. The arrest Saturday of six students in North Pole, Alaska, marks the nation’s second breakup of an alleged Columbine-style school attack this week. Five Kansas teenagers were arrested Thursday in a plot at their high school, police said.
College bans myspace.com
Del Mar College students now have to use computers outside the school’s system if they want to use myspace.com. The community college in Corpus Christi, Texas, blocked the site in response to complaints about sluggish Internet speed on campus computers. An official said that heavy traffic at MySpace was eating up too much bandwidth.
Pigeons notbird flu threat
City folks, don’t worry. Nobody expects pigeons will spread the deadly bird flu virus. Pigeons are not immune from the virus, but tests indicate the birds pick it up only when they are exposed to high doses, and do not always become infected. Infected pigeons carried the virus about 10 days, but they were infectious for only about two days.
New terror war plans approved
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has approved the most ambitious plan yet to fight terrorism and retaliate more rapidly and decisively in the event of another major attack on the U.S., defense officials said. Details of the plans are secret, but in general they are said to envision an expanded role for the military and elite Special Operations troops.
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A ghost? We’ll let you know
A paranormal research team is investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be haunted. The team visited a whaling ship in Mystic, Conn., where visitors talk of a man in 19th Century clothing smoking a pipe, silently working below deck.
