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A Canadian bank is collecting tens of thousands of unwanted tennis balls, which it says it will recycle to reduce noise levels in primary schools.
 
The donated balls will be sliced open and stuck on the bottom of the legs of school chairs and tables to muffle classroom noise and make it easier for students to learn, Montreal-based National Bank of Canada says.
 
Last year, the first time it held the drive, National Bank collected more than 53,000 used tennis balls and gave them to 150 primary schools in the province of Quebec, Lamarre said.
 
A three-member U.S. ballistic missile crew fell asleep while in possession of classified launch codes for nuclear missiles, the Air Force said on Thursday.
 
But the launch codes were old and had been deactivated, and there was no actual security breach, according to an Air Force investigation that found only a violation of procedures.
 
The incident, which occurred July 12 at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, is only the latest embarrassing error involving the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
 
The same installation was the site of a mix-up last year in which nuclear weapons were loaded by mistake onto a B-52 bomber that then flew across the United States to a military base in Louisiana.
 
That foul-up, which was followed by revelations that the Air Force had also sent nuclear fuses to Taiwan by mistake, prompted U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates to take the unprecedented step of firing the Air Force's civilian and military leadership last month.
 
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