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To: Stormweaver who wrote (5786)	4/28/1999 7:00:00 PM
From: Jacalyn Deaner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

James - Australia doesn't want anyone - and you can go visit but you can't stay. I'm going to Alaska in September for a month and will check it out up there. When I was there in 1970 they didn't want anyone up there either, but as long as I have money this time, I can at least look around, I am sure. BUT I will always come back to TEXAS; someone has to fight the Chinese when they come up from the Panama Canal in 2000!! Thank God for NAFTA, HA, Hey, I hope you are making money on the market while thinking about all these things. It can sure get ugly in the world - get into EDIG, even NOW it is only going to keep going with the deals with lucent, TI etc, and the huge block buys; perhaps in 2 months see $13 range. Good Luck, Jacalyn

To: Stormweaver who wrote (5786)	4/28/1999 8:10:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Student Shot Dead At Canadian High School 07:06 p.m Apr 28, 1999 Eastern By Jeffrey Jones TABER, Alberta (Reuters) - One high school student was dead and another undergoing surgery after a boy described as unpopular opened fire at a school in this western Canadian town Wednesday, hospital authorities said. Police have taken one person into custody in the first major outbreak of violence at a North American school since the massacre that claimed 15 lives at a high school in Littleton, Colorado. The victims were sent to a hospital in nearby Lethbridge, Alberta. The shooting occurred around lunchtime at W.R. Myers High School in Taber, a sleepy farming community of 7,200 people in a region known for its sugar beets and corn, roughly 175 kilometers (109 miles) southeast of Calgary, Alberta. Regan Valgardson, a grade nine student at the school, sobbed as she described in a CBC interview her encounter with the shooter, whom she described as unpopular and a frequent target of derision from other students. ''I was crossing the hallway to go to the washroom. I just saw the one boy lying on the ground bleeding. I asked the boy with the gun what he was doing and he said: 'Get lost','' Valgardson said. Witnesses who were at the Taber school said it was ringed in yellow crime-scene tape and surrounded by emergency vehicles. No one was allowed in or out of the building. Students said the school will be shut Thursday and Friday. Matt Anderson, a grade 10 student at the school, said the two students who were shot were in grade 11 and the boy in custody was a grade 9 student who was receiving home schooling after dropping out. Police were not immediately releasing details. ''One of my teachers came in and told us that no one was to leave the classroom for any reason and they locked all the doors so nobody could get in. And then I heard an ambulance,'' said grade 11 student Kristen White, who added that she was friends with the injured boys. ''I was very afraid. I didn't know what was going on.'' White said three people were targeted by the shooter but only two were wounded. ''My friends didn't know (the shooter) because there were three people that were shot at and one of them didn't get shot, he told me that he never met...the guy who did it,'' she said. White said she and her friends discussed the Columbine massacre, which was the bloodiest school shooting ever in the United States, often in the past week. Two high school students launched a gun-and-bomb attack at Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, killing 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives. Twenty others were injured and nine of those were still hospitalized Wednesday. Threats of bomb and gun violence have plagued North American schools in the past week. ''We just thought it was kind of stupid that somebody would do something like that, come into a school, and I never would have thought it would have happened here in such a small town,'' White said. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.