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When hundreds of Los Angeles high school students told administrators they planned to walk out of school to attend last week's protest by the liberal "World Can't Wait" group calling for President Bush's impeachment — the L.A. school district decided not to discipline them. Instead, the district provided school buses and a staff escort to transport some 800 students from 10 schools to the rally and back. School officials said students would attend the protest with or without their permission, and the district's chief operating officer told KNBC, "Our issue...was safety, and I think we fulfilled our mission." — FOX...

Spend 40-plus hours a week with the same people and sooner or later you're bound to have some friction. But the term friction doesn't begin to cover what goes on in some workplaces. It's a Jungle Out There According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than a million acts of workplace violence are reported each year. Most injuries sustained were from incidents involved punching, hitting, kicking and biting. A number of altercations involved superiors and subordinates. A Maxim magazine survey found that 7 percent of its mostly male readers have had a physically violent encounter with their boss. Seventy-four...