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AS IT IS 2015-08-25 Americans Driven by 'Gut Instinct' to Act in Train Attack Three Americans, a Briton and a French citizen stopped a heavily-armed gunman on a high-speed train in France last week. The Americans said later that gut instinct -- a fee

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