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Home Schooled Missionary Student Kills Four

The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
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The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household. Murray’s father is a neurologist and a leading multiple-sclerosis researcher.
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Today’s Linux Calendar Output

Dec 08
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
Dec 08
James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
Dec 08
First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
Dec 08
Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
Dec 08
Mother’s Day in Panama
Dec 08
Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay
Dec 08
Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
Dec 08
John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
Dec 08
Afflux (50th of the Season of The Aftermath)
Dec 09
Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
Dec 09
Independence Day in Tanzania
Dec 09
The Who’s “Tommy” premieres in London, 1973
Dec 09
Aujourd’hui, c’est la St(e) Pierre.
Dec 09
2. oder 3. Advent

Wales: Wikipedia OK for Students

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are “bad educators”.Speaking at the Online Information conference at London’s Olympia, he played down the long-running controversy over the site’s authority.He said young students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work.Mr Wales said the site, which is edited by users, should be seen as a “stepping stone” to other sources.As long as an article included accurate citations, he said he had “no problem” with it being used as a reference for younger students, although academics would “probably be better off doing their own research”.

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