Sickening.

A student was doing a class assignment illustrating the rights laid out in the Bill of Rights.

The student took a photo with an anti-Bush poster, and dropped off the film to be developed.

The Wal-Mart photo department called the police, who called the Secret Service.

"Halfway through my afternoon class, the assistant principal got me out of class and took me to the office conference room," she says. "Two men from the Secret Service were there. They asked me what I knew about the student. I told them he was a great kid, that he was in the homecoming court, and that he'd never been in any trouble."

Then they got down to his poster.

"They asked me, didn't I think that it was suspicious," she recalls. "I said no, it was a Bill of Rights project!"

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Disappearing rights

Like the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, fill this mug with a hot beverage and watch the articles in the Bill of Rights fade away. Link.

A fine line

An investigative report by ABC on security at nuclear reactors is raising issues about journalistic ethics.

Both university officials said the interns should have identified themselves as being from ABC News.

"I think the ethics is somewhat questionable," Shultis said. "It's a fine point when they were trying to misdirect or mislead."

But ABC said it's likely they would have been treated differently as reporters. The point was to show how a terrorist could pose as a student and easily be a threat, Ross said.

"We were students," said Dana Hughes, a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism student who worked on the project. "We were interested in the programs. We did not hide our cameras. We were hiding in plain sight. It wasn't as sneaky as they were making it out to be." Link.

Words, words, words

The BBC presents the etymology of British swear words, here.

The Chicago web publication Gapers Block asks for the funniest non-obscene words, here.

Also from the BBC, 20 of the best unusual non-English words, here.