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Student Detention

October 16, 2010 12:00 am • Last Updated: October 16, 2010 2:05 am

LAURENT CIPRIANI/AP

Police officers restrain a high school student during a demonstration against retirement reforms in Lyon, central France, on Friday. French students intensified blockades of high schools and universities Friday as the fourth day of nationwide strikes over the government's retirement reform snarled train travel and sent worried drivers to the pumps ahead of possible fuel shortages.

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