A bit of lighter news:

Several Harvard students had the police called on them by the staff of the Harvard Co-op, the student-run bookstore that stocks books required for courses. Their offense? Copying down the ISBN numbers of course books.

They were doing so to facilitate a very clever website that aggregates prices of books from various online sellers, allowing students to navigate to those sites and get bargains. (As a person who spent about $600 on course books per semester–the costs of being a History major–I have to say it sounds like a wonderful idea, and I hope the template spreads far and wide.)

Anyways, the cops arrived, informed the Co-op that no crime had been committed, and left. The students continued copying down ISBN numbers.