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This morning's This Is True (www.thisistrue.com) reported that an 11th-grade 
student in Pelham Manor, N.Y., got in trouble at school and with the police because 
he was supposedly researching how to conceal a gun. It turns out he was actually 
researching the state's gun laws. The student didn't get into trouble, but the 
troubling aspect of the whole incident was that the student was reported to the 
school by the Pelham Public Library. The library director said while it wasn't the 
library's procedure to investigate patron reading habits, she felt that she should 
notify someone so she called the school. According to This Is True, the incident 
was reported in the White Plains Journal News.

If you go to the website to read Cassingham's commentary, note that this is a site 
that makes fun of real news items.  The last comment in the article is satire, not 
reality.

Carol Simpson
University of North Texas (mod. serv.)
Denton, Texas
csimpson at carolsimpson dot com

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