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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20070725
Author:Hedy Weiss

'HOW CAN YOU RUN WITH A SHELL ON YOUR BACK?'

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Most of them are not exactly detention types. Yet for various reasons, there they are, six teens stuck in the school library -- and on a sunny, late spring day near the end of the term no less. To make things even worse, they are being overseen by that most harried of all humans, a substitute teacher.

As it happens, the students' misfortune becomes our delight as "How Can You Run With a Shell ...

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