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ed but injured no one. This was because "the sparsely populated region is uninhabited."

Headlines can cause all kinds of confusion, i

From Indiana: "Yellow perch decline to be studied." From Washington: "Man shot accidentally dies." From Illinois: "Myths are far from true."

The most innocent sentences have a way of tangling themselves into knots. From upstate New York: "Hobson was arrested at a Grand Island hotel room where he supposedly operated out of." In North Carolina, Lora Carlisle "decided to go to Arby's for lunch so she drove over to pick up herself a sandwich." Little problem with syntax there.

The Reuters news agency supplied a story from a meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It appears that 25,000 infants are injured every year in accidents with walkers. The contraptions allow children "to sit in a seat and bounce around a room before they can walk with the aid of rollers on the bottom."

That called to mind an item from Jacksonville, Fla., where a , series of sailboat races was about to begin. "The owners are really excited about

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