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After her 11-year-old son was suspended from school in November for twice bringing in a loaded handgun and dozens of rounds of ammunition to show his classmates, Linnea Holdren of Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, said the matter was beyond her control. “Well, I can’t lock up his guns,” she reportedly responded to a police offer of a free gun lock. “They belong to him and he has a right to use them whenever he wants to use them.” In January the boy was expelled for at least a year, and the 43-year-old Holdren, who is a special-education teacher at the school, was suspended and charged with felony endangerment.
Cultural Diversity
According to a December article in the Edinburgh paper the Scotsman, documents recently discovered in Moscow archives revealed that in the mid-1920s the Soviet government ordered scientists to crossbreed humans and apes into a race of “living war machines” that would be “insensitive to pain” and “indifferent about the quality of food they eat.”
Recurring Themes
