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 | | She drew a large mural of jumbled words representing, she said, the rantings of an "obsessive, compulsive, paranoid" madman, but that, too, was interpreted by the teacher as a threat to her. |
 | | In Clacton, England, in March, a freak gust of wind propelled Chris Grimes, 17, holding his oversized kite, for a half-mile at a height of 25 feet, until he touched down in a mud bog. |
 | | And in Fairhaven, Mass., in May, a 65-year-old woman was hit by lightning and lifted from the ground into the back of a pickup truck, reaching a height of 12 feet, according to witnesses; she was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford but not seriously injured. |
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