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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Yoko Minoura / The Bulletin
November 3, 2004
Ross Ballou bent over his desk, setting a mousetrap-like latch to hold down the arm of the catapult he'd built from scrap wood.
The seventh-grader's catapult, or "pig-apult," meant to send plastic pigs aloft, was triggered by a small electric motor that pulled a string tied to the....
