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I was playing a round with the new google print

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)which allows you to view books online and I stumbled across a book titled:

Duh! "The stupid history of the human race..." and found this while doing a search on model rocket:

"it doesn't take a hugh federal bureaucracy to accomplish something really dumb. Even the local school board can manage the deed.

a 13 yr old Arizona boy was inspired to build a model rocket after seeing the movie October Sky, the strory of NASA rocket scientist Homer Hickman. The boy took his rocket, made out of a potato-chip cannister and fueled with

3 match heads, to school. School officials classified the rocket as a weapon and suspended the boy for the rest of the year, based on the Zero-tolerance weapons policy."

I guess they never heard of amateur rocketry huh?

shockie B)

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shockwaveriderz
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Do they say when and where (what city in AZ) this happened?

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bit eimer

bit nope sorry..

shockie B)

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shockwaveriderz

"bit eimer" wrote in news:55waf.564$zu6.399@fed1read04:

One google search later: Thirteen-year-old David Silverstein, a seventh-grader who was suspended for the rest of the school year for bringing a homemade rocket to Desert Sky Middle School, has caught the attention of scientists, a Ph.D. from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and just plain folks who were surprised that school officials would take such drastic measures.

...as discussed in this newsgroup back in March 1999.

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GD

Perhaps what we really need is a zero tolerance policy for government stupidity, and government corruption. Best solution would be to make it a capital offense.

-- Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L >>> To reply, there's no internet on Mars (yet)!

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