Article: Search intensifies for Vermont student `Time is essential,' say police; parents ask help

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- FBI agents and National Guard troops joined a desperate and intensifying search yesterday for a 21-year-old student who disappeared four days ago, sending fear rippling through this leafy college town.

The smiling face of Michelle Gardner-Quinn, a senior at the University of Vermont, beamed from dozens of "Missing" posters plastered on campus that said she was last seen early Saturday dressed in a gray peacoat and green cardigan, wearing a nose stud and carrying a black Puma purse with a white stripe. She had been partying with friends at a series of downtown Burlington bars Friday night.

With each passing hour, hopes of finding the young student alive diminish, ...

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