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Deer Barges Into N.C. Newspaper Office 1 hour, 44 minutes ago Strange News - AP EDEN, N.C. - Employees of the Eden Daily News scattered when a deer barged through the front door of the newspaper office, jumping over desks and hitting a glass window before running out the same door. During the brief commotion around noon Tuesday, the doe spread blood around the office from injuries she received and toppled a Christmas tree. Advertising representative Mike Redman jumped across a counter when he saw the deer heading toward him. Redman eventually held open the door until the deer finished...

Adam Noble (Nov. 4), whose opinion I respect, responded in the Exponent to a letter by Bill Arevalo (Oct. 27), a student who frequents his university while carrying a loaded gun concealed on his person. Mr. Noble expressed his disdain with the carrying of arms on campus. However, he should visit Tel Aviv University in Israel, where it is possible to see some students coming to study with fully automatic assault rifles (me included) as well as privately owned pistols. This does not infringe upon its academic atmosphere at all. As far as I know, there has never been a...

Backwoods brothers searching for parents November 07 2003 at 09:27PM Two half-starved brothers who recently emerged from the British Columbia wilderness, claiming to have lived in near isolation since birth, are in limbo as Canadian officials try to determine how to help them. Thomas, 22, and William Green, 16, were discovered some weeks ago camping in the bush behind a general store in Vernon, British Columbia, by residents who have since given them food, clothing and shelter. The brothers said they had been born and raised in the backwoods by American parents who call themselves Mary and Joseph, but have...