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so this is what the education budget may be headed towards. i can’t imagine what’s going through this guys head. this guy in oklahoma thinks it’s a good idea to have bulletproof textbooks in case you need to run away from some person who is shooting up the school.

A retired veteran and candidate for Oklahoma State School Superintendent says he wants to make schools safer by creating bulletproof textbooks.
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Bill Crozier says the books could give students and teachers a fighting chance if there’s a shooting at their school.

“Our experiment was as scientific as we could make it, just two or three people who had been in the military,” says Crozier.

Crozier, who is running for state superintendent, took to an open field near Minco to see if a text book could stop a bullet during a school shooting. He believes students could use the reading material while running away from an attacker.

“The reason we are doing this experiment,” he says, “is because there was a kid in Fort Gibson who was shot in the back but the bullet did not penetrate his textbook.”

Meet Peter. Peter is a 79-year-old English retiree. Back in WW II he served as a radar technician. He is now an international star.One year ago, this would not have been possible, but the world has changed. In the past 12 months, thousands of ordinary people have become famous. Famous people have been embarrassed. Huge sums of money have changed hands. Lots and lots of Mentos have been dropped into Diet Coke. The rules are different now, and one website changed them: YouTube.

It’s been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn’t stay wet. But only YouTube created a new way for millions of people to entertain, educate, shock, rock and grok one another on a scale we’ve never seen before. That’s why it’s Time’s Invention of the Year for 2006.

But if YouTube is the Invention of the Year, who exactly invented it?