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A pair of students at Mark Twain JHS School 239 for the Gifted and Talented in Brooklyn were a little too enterprising for their own good. They were "hauled out of class yesterday after trying to peddle a homemade chemical bomb." While the school will discipline them, they were arrested and charged with conspiracy.

After a parents of a rejected student filed a class action lawsuit, the Department of Education asked a federal judge to overturn a 1974 ruling that set in place quotas to keep the school 40% minority and 60% white. The DOE wants the court to overturn the ruling immediately so the 2008-2009 will be quota-free.