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                <text>&lt;b&gt;Ewen MacAskill in Blacksburg&#13;
Tuesday April 17, 2007&lt;/b&gt;&#13;
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Alec Calhoun, an engineering student at Virginia Tech, described today an individual act of bravery by one of his professors that saved his life.&#13;
Mr Calhoun, 20, had been in Room 204 in the college&amp;#39;s Norris hall taking a class in solid mechanics. "We heard what sounded like an enormous hammer. We though it was construction. The scream told us it was something else."&#13;
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The killer, having murdered two people two hours earlier, had started a shooting spree in the classroom next door. "I thought pretty early on that I was going to die. I started knocking desks over [to make a barricade]. Others were pulling the windows down. It is lucky someone thought of the windows."&#13;
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After reaching safety, he immediately phoned his father, James, a teacher, to tell them he was safe.&#13;
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                <text>In consideration of the fee of GBP 0.00 ("the Fee") Guardian News &amp; Media Limited ("GNM") grants the Licensee the right to: publish on its website for 10 years.&#13;
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