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(AP) — An armed teen-ager briefly held 10 elementary children and a teacher hostage Tuesday at his former elementary school before surrendering to authorities. No one was injured. The former student at Pioneer Elementary School gave up after talking with members of a police SWAT team said, police spokesman Matt Brown. The standoff lasted about an hour. “He came here with a purpose but thank goodness he didn’t carry it out,” said Brown. There were still several people in the room at the time the student surrendered. The children were about 13 or 14 years old, Brown said. It was not immediately known what prompted the situation. Other students were bused to a closed high school, where parents could pick them up. Courtney Smith, who lives across the street from the school, said she saw the suspect enter the school grounds at about 11:15 a.m. He was wearing camouflage and had a hood over his head, but she did not see a weapon. m Researchers say they defeated scheme^ implemented to protect digital musi LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of researchers claims to have defeated four different technologies being developed to prevent com puter users from listening to copy righted music for free. Researchers at Princeton Univer sity, Xerox PARC and Rice Universi ty said they were able to remove in visible security measures placed on four music files by the Secure Digital Media Initiative (SDMI)— a group of 200 music, telecommunications and consumer electronic companies. Any reasonably sophisticated com puter pirate intent on illegally distrib uting copyrighted music files could do the same, the researchers said. The claim, if true, strikes at the heart of ef forts to protect copyrights and prevent people from listening to music for free using technology such as Napster. “I believe all four of these schemes would have been cracked by pirates if they had been deployed,” said Ed ward Felten, an associate professor of computer science at Princeton. An SDMI representative said Mon day that it was too early to verify the researchers’ claims, but that complete • circumvention of all four security schemes was a “fairly low probability event.” He said that even if the tech nologies were defeated, it would not prevent SDMI from devising strong and effective security measures. “I expected some would have fall en,” said SDMI’s Talal Shamoon. “This is part of an empirical process to get the best technology.” In September, SDMI issued a public challenge and offered a prize to anyone who could break or “hack” various security measures designed to protect tiles from being improper ly copied or distributed. Foort measures — each devised by ferent technology company- volved an invisible watermari; could be detected by a digitak player. Two other measuresinv different technology. The security measures ar; signed to prevent illegal < songs sent over the Internetfrot ing played on a computer! portable digital music player vices that comply with SDMh reject any tiles without the in security measures. The Coffins found in search fo sect kids Firefightin while extir house reac STATE PARK, Maine (AP) team searching for the bodies of children missing from a religious apparently located a pair of si coffins Tuesday. A member of the Massachiu sect led the search team to thesp Baxter State Park after repoi reaching a deal with prosecutors Maine Warden Lt. Pat Dorian the items believed to be coffins located with the help of cada sniffing dogs and probes that put in the ground. Wardens wen patched to the site with shovels plastic bags. “They have found the They’re going to try to exhum' bodies this afternoon." Doriani * „ The search of the 20l)M>J: Ga. wilderness preserve beawa(yay‘BatuUion ter sect member David Comeau Student athle ther of one of the two missingbaP' ^ments on tf agreed to lead authorities to the ies in exchange for immunity fr prosecution for himself and his? He was part of a search team was flown into a remote area vial plane, said Mark Latti, spokes for the Maine Department of Ini Fisheries and Wildlife. The Mi road was at least five miles Acting on tips from former members, police searched Baj mad J neh’ petrify crowds, ig to recently n 'esbythe Regist leir performan assroom lags be the Texas AA plation. According to t irollment figure. 1 ' ion rate for stuc as 63 percent, c percent for State Park several times last yOTiese are the r found nothing. lailable figures b Eddie Sirois, chief of staff fori ition rates are der tol district attorney Paul F. Walsi ;ars after a class confirmed that Walsh, prosecutors tiding to NCAA In some cases, idual sports are They have k gap widens I mp rrraHnatizNn ra found the site, Hr ’he graduation ra all players and m They're going ti try to exhumt | t The dala reflf z ( lation record of s the bodies thh fNin the 1993 fear and counts s afternoon. Ites as those stud! leived athletic scf — Pat Don* Bart Childs, c Maine Warden Lieutentf 1 ou •flomputer science la aid the failure ol state police accompanied Comeau ties to graduate i his lawyer, Robert George, to Mu -suit, of different However, Sirois would ; ‘There’s too cuss broadcast and newspaper ref that came he in Boston about an agreement tween prosecutors and Corneau. Authorities have been looking the deaths of Corneau’s son, Jed ah, at birth, and Samuel Robidf who allegedly starved to death at 10 months after he stopped m They were concerned that the! members’ rejection of conventf medicine and other beliefs mayfo contributed to their deaths. Sect members, based in the soil eastern Massachusetts city of Ai boro, do not recognize the legal? tern and remained silent for mol before a grand jury investigating! boys’ disappearance. Corneau, 33, was one of A members of the group jailed for fusing to respond to the grandju?] questions. He was freed lastmoi after taking the Fifth Amendmeiilj Corneau’s pregnant wife, Reft: ca, 32, was recently held in stateoj tody after a judge expressed coi for the well-being of the child. She gave birth last week girl, who remains in state custody til her fate is decided by thecoi nd never really e students,” Cl It’s easy to get he hoopla and student’ part o ithlete.’ ” 71°/o 63°/(