Columbine

Columbine
by Dave Cullen
Published 3 Mar 2010

Neither did the wave of upscale suburbanites who began flooding into Jeffco in the late 1970s, overwhelming Columbine’s student body. New Columbine went for fern bars and Bennigan’s, or private parties in their split-level “ranch homes” and cathedral-ceilinged McMansions. Cassie Bernall’s family was New Columbine, as were the Harrises and the Klebolds. Mr. D arrived as Old, but evolved with the majority to New. Old Columbine remained, outnumbered but unfazed by the new arrivals. Many older families lived in actual ranch houses built half a century earlier on the small horse ranches occupying most of the area when the high school was constructed. Columbine High School was built in 1973 on a dirt road off a larger dirt road way out in horse country.

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Independently, and collectively, most of the thirteen families came to that conclusion quickly. Students reached the opposite consensus. They spent the spring battling for the idea of Columbine, as well as the proper noun: the name of a high school, not a tragedy. They were repulsed by phrases bandied about like “since Columbine” or “prevent another Columbine.” That was one day in the life of Columbine High School, they insisted. Then the tourists arrived. Just weeks after the tragedy, even before students returned, tour buses started rolling up to the school. Columbine High had leapt to second place, behind the Rocky Mountains, as Colorado’s most famous landmark, and tour operators were quick to capitalize.

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“When you’re thinking about doing something that could get you in trouble, remember, I care about you,” he said. “I love you, but remember, I want us all together. We are one large family, we are—” He left the phrase dangling. That was the students’ signal. They leapt to their feet and yelled: “COL-um-BINE!” Ivory Moore, a dynamo of a teacher and a crowd rouser, ran out and yelled, “We are…” “COL-um-BINE!” It was louder now, and their fists were pumping in the air. “We are…” “COL-um-BINE!” “We are…” “COL-um-BINE!” Louder, faster, harder, faster—he whipped them into a frenzy. Then he let them go. They spilled into the hallways to wrap up one last day of classes. Just a few hours until the big weekend.

Parkland: Birth of a Movement
by Dave Cullen
Published 12 Feb 2019

Word of the trip spread, and more students wanted to come—mostly low-income kids who could never afford a trip like this. The congregation had been through Columbine, and was happy to support them. More signed on, and eventually about fifty came. The Douglas and Columbine students would perform a service day together on the anniversary: making a stone garden path at a local memory care facility, and upgrading the landscaping at Dave Sanders Memorial Softball Field just outside the school. It was named for the Columbine teacher who died saving students. The weather was gorgeous, the trees just leafing out for spring. Columbine students took them up to Lookout Mountain, and scrambled around Red Rocks Amphitheater.

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Much of the team had drama class with these kids every day. 4 The Douglas group traveling to Columbine was supportive of the MFOL kids. Some came from undocumented families, so they were keeping a low media profile. Others just didn’t feel comfortable in the role. But they wanted gunmen to stop shooting them. Many echoed Brian’s sentiment appreciating the MFOL kids speaking up for them. They all appeared onstage at the Columbine rally that night, and a few gave rousing speeches. The highlight of the trip was a meeting with Columbine survivors. About a dozen, plus a handful from other mass shootings, met them in a private session in the Columbine auditorium. Frank DeAngelis told them how pissed off he got at all the people telling him what he should feel.

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The iconic photograph was published in the Rocky Mountain News, which deservedly won the 2000 Pulitzer for Breaking News Photography for its collection of twenty Columbine photographs. The Rocky went bankrupt and its site disappeared, but the photos are all collected at the Pulitzer site mentioned in the bibliography. The CNN ratings I document are from 1999, and which I included in Columbine. We rechecked the number of consecutive New York Times front pages from its archives. All information on the Columbine shooting in this book comes from Columbine, which we carefully vetted at the time. Many basic logistical details about the attack in it come from the Jefferson County sheriff’s report, but see the endnotes for details.

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner
Published 2 Jan 2003

Stuart Fischoff, founder of the Media Psychology lab at California State University in Los Angeles, said in an address to the American Psychological Association later in 1999, “but because two phenomena are both disturbing and coincident in time does not make them causally connected… There is not, I submit, a single research 211 study which is even remotely predictive of [events like] the Columbine massacre.” Murderers, after all, had proven that they could find inspiration in anything–the White Album, Taxi Driver, Catcher in the Rye. How many acts of violence had the Bible inspired? After Columbine, however, few had the nerve or the knowledge to defend games. Jon Kate, a writer for Rolling Stone and the tech community Slashdot, posted several essays that assailed the media’s stereotypes of geeks and gamers.

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As Carmack returned to his desk, he went back to work on a game that was going to be id’s most gleeful shooter yet: Quake III Arena. But, after Columbine, would people want–would the market allow–his or Romero’s games again? Jonn Schuneman gripped his bowling ball tighter as the talk turned to Doom. Romero’s stepfather, now in his sixties, had been coming to this bowling alley more frequently since retiring, and he could usually count on relaxing with a good game. But not today. The people next to him, like millions across the country, were talking about the horrific events at Columbine High School. Kids today, they’re being corrupted by these violent videogames like Doom.

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Romero had long relished the day he could sit down with his boys, Steven and Michael, and play through the worlds he created. They were ready for that day, Romero decided, when they were eight. After Columbine, though, Romero kept these opinions to himself. He wasn’t being sued like id, but why say anything anyway? You talk to journalists and they’re going to take what you say and twist it any way they want into their story and it will only end up looking bad. The last thing Romero wanted was more bad press. Even before Columbine, after all, he’d been getting more than his share. The avalanche of trash talking–in the press and in the community–broke the moment the eight members of the Daikatana team, or, as they became known, the Ion Eight, had walked out Ion Storm’s emerald doors a few months earlier, in November 1998.

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
by Radley Balko
Published 14 Jun 2013

The other major incident from the late 1990s that proponents of militarization often cite in justifying SWAT teams is the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. But if the justification for SWAT teams is to have a team of brave, highly trained, highly professional, well-armed, and well-protected cops to intervene in such tragedies, Columbine is a particularly unfortunate example. Though there were eventually eight hundred police officers and eight SWAT teams on the Columbine campus, the SWAT teams held off from going inside to stop shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris because they deemed the situation too dangerous.

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When the town of Ithaca, New York, reformulated its SWAT team in 2000, for example, Assistant Commander Peter Tyler was asked why a college town with virtually no violent crime needed a SWAT team in the first place. He pointed to Columbine and similar mass shootings. “I think it’s naive for anyone to think it couldn’t happen here in Ithaca,” he said. Perhaps. But in a different context, Ithaca Police Chief Richard Basile later explained that the reformulated SWAT team would save taxpayers money because its smaller size made it more efficient at its primary duty—serving drug warrants.65 A 2002 Miami Herald article on the spread of SWAT teams in Florida noted that “police say they want [SWAT teams] in case of a hostage situation or a Columbine-type incident. But in practice, the teams are used mainly to serve search warrants on suspected drug dealers.

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University of Virginia psychologist and education professor Dewey Cornell, who studies violence prevention and school safety, has estimated that the typical school campus can expect to see a homicide about once every several thousand years—hardly justification to rush out to get a SWAT team.68 Yet many college campuses now have their own paramilitary police teams, and many cited Columbine and Virginia Tech as the reason they needed one. A recent example is the University of North Carolina–Charlotte Campus Police Department, which started a SWAT team in 2011. Lt. Josh Huffman explained why it was necessary: “The purpose for creating the UNCC SWAT Team is to protect the community and prevent the loss of life. We must be prepared to respond to high risk situations such as those tragedies that occurred at Virginia Tech and Columbine.”69 The number of campuses that will ever host a mass shooting or hostage taking may be vanishingly small, but most campuses produce more than enough pot smokers—and thus dealers to supply them—to keep the SWAT team busy once it’s up and running.

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists
by Joan Smith
Published 5 Apr 2019

Horrifying in itself, the Toronto incident also signalled the risk of copycat attacks by adherents of what appears to be a growing cult, just as the Columbine massacre has been referenced by a whole series of school shooters. * Santa Fe High School, Texas Shortly before eight a.m. on Friday, 18 May 2018, a teenage boy opened fire in an art class at a school in Texas. The suspect, who was wearing a black trench coat like the ones worn by the Columbine killers, used a Remington shotgun and a revolver legally owned by his father to murder eight students and two teachers, while another thirteen people were injured.

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He was accused alongside his friend, Alex Bolland, but Wylie was described as the ringleader in a plot to shoot teachers and blow up the school they attended in Northallerton. Both boys, who were only fourteen when they were arrested in 2017, hero-worshipped Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, perpetrators of one of the most notorious school shootings in American history at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. Wylie carried out Internet searches on how to make nail bombs, boasting in his diary that he intended to commit ‘one of the worst atrocities in British history’. Despite his youth, he was already a committed racist and right-wing extremist, telling the police that he wanted to kill people who were ‘infecting the gene pool’.29 But what most commentators missed was the key role of domestic abuse in the build-up to the plot, with some of the most disturbing evidence coming from Wylie’s ex-girlfriend.

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Tragically, his victim broke down while she was giving evidence and talked about how much she missed him, suggesting that she had become habituated to abuse. Wylie was convicted of unlawful wounding as well as conspiracy to murder, and was sent to prison for twelve years, while his accomplice, Bolland, got ten years. The case aroused huge interest, but press reports focused on the Columbine angle, demonstrating how easy it is to miss the close connection between private and public violence. * The next generation Just as the number of adults affected by domestic violence tends to be underestimated by the general public, the same is true of the proportion of children living in abusive households.

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
by Charlotte Alter
Published 18 Feb 2020

THOUGHTS & PRAYERS “another high school: Columbine”: Michael Elizabeth Sakas, “In 1999, Columbine Felt Like a Galvanizing Moment for Gun Control,” NPR, All Things Considered, April 20, 2018, npr.org/2018/04/20/604070881/19-years-ago-columbine-felt-like-a-galvanizing-moment-for-gun-control. “gunshots to the chest.”: ABC News Special Report on the Columbine High School shootings, April 20, 1999, youtube.com/watch?v=ejBrRrTJbS4. “shot her in the neck.”: Mark Obmascik, “Columbine High School Shooting Leaves 15 dead, 28 Hurt,” The Denver Post, April 21, 1999, denverpost.com/1999/04/21/columbine-high-school-shooting/.

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Before: the peace and prosperity of the 1980s and 1990s, the sense of safety, the widespread illusion that America was on top of the world. Millennials would be the first to grow up in the After. THOUGHTS & PRAYERS APRIL 20, 1999 LITTLETON, COLORADO “Good evening, everyone. The reaction of so many people today was, oh, no, not again—another high school: Columbine.” . . . COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING LEAVES 15 DEAD, 28 HURT: The shootings were the latest in a series of school shootings since 1997 that have shocked the nation and led to calls for tighter security and closer monitoring of troubled students. . . . We currently have four, Peter. We have two girls and two boys, they’re all in serious condition.

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VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING LEAVES 33 DEAD: She walked toward her class, preoccupied with an upcoming exam and listening to music on her iPod. On the way, she said, she heard some loud cracks, and only later concluded they had been gunshots from the second round of shootings. . . . “All this comes at a sobering moment, just five days before the anniversary of the Columbine high school massacre.” . . . THAT WAS THE DESK I CHOSE TO DIE UNDER: The first thing he saw was a gun, then the gunman. “I quickly dove under a desk.” . . . After every shot, he thought, “OK, the next one is me.” But shot after shot, and he felt nothing. He played dead. . . . “He came into our class, shot the person who was sitting next to me, shot our professor, and then I hid under the desk, and then he proceeded to shoot everyone else in our class.” . . .

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
Published 25 Sep 2023

In 2021, armed citizens killed two: Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2021, Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University, 2022. John McDonald, the security chief: Zusha Elinson, “In Columbine’s School District, Former Students Are Tracked to Prevent Attacks,” The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-columbines-school-district-former-students-are-tracked-to-prevent-attacks-1519830001. “So many of the weapons”: Author interview with James Densley. “We’ve got a problem, a societal problem”: Quotes from Gerry Dinkel drawn from author interviews.

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At a press conference following the shooting, the local police chief said Drega’s use of an AR-15 made police, armed with handguns, feel like they had brought “a tennis racquet to a machine gun fight.” In 1999, the problem of mass shootings again took over the front pages. On April 20 of that year, eighteen-year-old Eric Harris and seventeen-year-old Dylan Klebold shot their way into Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado. They murdered twelve fellow students and one teacher, as many of the victims pleaded for their lives. The two outcasts wounded another twenty-four people and unsuccessfully tried to set off bombs in the cafeteria. They roamed the campus for forty-seven minutes before they shot themselves, ending what was then the deadliest school shooting in American history.

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They were in favor of a stronger prohibition, but that wasn’t on the table. Renewing the ban was better than nothing, Malte told them. “Better than nothing isn’t really a good call to arms,” he said. Everyone left bitter and divided. As the gun-control movement splintered, the NRA grew stronger. Gun owners rushed to join the group after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, fearful of new laws that never materialized. The group claimed about 4 million members in 2003. The NRA’s magazine, American Rifleman, was number two in America for generating ad revenue in 2001, trailing only Maxim, the men’s magazine that featured pictures of barely clad women.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
by Alexandra Robbins
Published 31 Mar 2009

Because Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold wore Goth-like fashion, demonstrated technological sophistication, and were social outcasts, each of those characteristics came to be suspect in other students; the combination became a dreaded stereotype. “We needed to know who was a good guy and who was a bad guy, and nerds and geeks seemed to be mostly in the enemy camp,” psychologist David Anderegg observed. Columbine “changed the world in many ways but one of the most immediate ways was a nationwide persecution of Goths, nerds, geeks, and perceived misfits of all kinds. . . . The nationwide panic that set in after Columbine had all the characteristics of a witch hunt.” Panicked and pressured to implement politically expedient measures to prevent further massacres, schools mobilized to root out potential killers.

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Recent studies have called the link between relational aggression and perceived popularity “robust” and “remarkable.” Psychologists point out that high-status cliques teach the exclusionary behavior that may be the foundation for eventual racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. Eric Harris, one of the two Columbine murderers, had a secret too. He wasn’t raised in Columbine; his family moved there from Plattsburgh, New York, where he played soccer and Little League baseball, earned good grades, and was a boy scout. In Plattsburgh, administrators would not have singled out Harris as a potential school shooter. Harris’s secret? Before he moved to Colorado, he was popular.

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There has to be a plan to reduce exclusionary behavior and harassment. Even three years after two alleged bully victims orchestrated the Columbine massacre, the school still did not have an anti-bullying program in place. No matter how ineffective students claim these programs might be—and even if the programs do fall short—it is nevertheless crucial to have an adult whom kids can turn to for help. As the mother of a friend of the shooters said in 2002, “There has to be, in every school, someone these troubled kids can go to . . . Columbine does not have an anti-bullying program. One lady said to me, ‘You can’t expect them to do it this fast.’

Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself From Harmful People
by Joe Navarro and Toni Sciarra Poynter
Published 6 Oct 2014

Bovsun, Mara. “14 Years and Nine Tiny Corpses Later, Authorities Finally Took Action on Murderous Mother.” New York Daily News, March 20, 2011. Accessed August 20, 2013. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/14-years-tiny-corpses-authorities-finally-action-murderous-mother-article-1.122089. Brooks, David. “The Columbine Killers.” New York Times, April 24, 2004. Accessed June 1, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/24/opinion/the-columbine-killers.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm. Brown, Robbie, and Campbell Robertson. “Standoff in Alabama Ends in Boy’s Rescue and Kidnapper’s Death.” New York Times, February 4, 2013. Accessed May 8, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/boy-is-safe-after-alabama-hostage-standoff.html?

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And after each of these events, after the mayhem is over and the victims are buried or patched up (the latter no doubt traumatized for life, as are their families), the question is asked: “Who could do something like this, and could it have been prevented?” When these violent events happen, they dominate the news and preoccupy us for months (the massacres at Virginia Tech; at Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary School; and in Oslo, Norway, to name just a few). Unfortunately, these horrible mass killings happen all too often. In America alone, they occur on average 18 to 20 times per year.1 Coming at us with almost metronomic frequency—more than one per month—such events are almost numbing.

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Combine rigid thinking, a fixed ideology, and selective memory with irrational fear and you have the toxic broth of hate—not the dislike you or I might feel, but an uncompromising, dehumanizing hate.8 Add pathological narcissism to the mix and you have people willing and able to act on their hatred with horrific cruelty: walking into classrooms and calmly gunning down students as they scream and cower. This is exactly what happened at Columbine High School (1999), thanks to two paranoid teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who narcissistically saw themselves as special and entitled to take the lives of others. For many of these paranoid personalities, violence becomes the solution because nothing else will achieve their out-of-bounds aims or do so fast enough for them.

Urban Gardening: How to Grow Food in Any City Apartment or Yard No Matter How Small
by Will Cook
Published 19 Nov 2012

BALCONIES COVERED BY PINE TREES When you have pine trees surrounding your balcony, you’re going to have to deal with the extra shade and annoying pine needles that will litter your balcony floor. You don’t want pine needles inside of your potted plants because it will turn the soil acidic. Make sure to remove them as soon as possible. If you don’t have time to maintain your plants frequently, you can choose plants like astilbe, columbine, azaleas, bleeding heart, hosta and heuchera (along with some other perennials), which love acidic soil and shady conditions. BALCONIES THAT ARE DAMP AND COOL For the gardeners who live in areas of the world that aren’t hot and dry, and have a balcony that faces the northeast, you can plant ferns and perennials that like shade.

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You can either purchase a seed starting kit or just use a homemade one using an egg carton with drainage holes at the bottom. Just set the egg carton on top of a tray or plastic bag, so that the excess water is captured. Keep in mind that not all seeds have to be started indoors. Some you can go ahead and plant into the soil of your outdoor containers and they will sprout just fine (such as sunflowers, columbine, poppies and a variety of others). Plants that you will need to start indoors include petunias, broccoli, peppers, snapdragons, marigold, coleus, lettuce, tomatoes and zinnias. It can’t be stressed enough how important it is to first research the plants that you plan to grow, so that you can know exactly how to start their seedlings.

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Here is a list of others: Browallia Oxalis Polka-Dot Plant Fuchsia Sweet Potato Vine Lobelia Viola Balsam Beefsteak Plant LIST OF SHADE-LOVING PLANTS Here is a list of shade-loving plants: Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) Peace lily (Spathiphyllum floribundum) Bush lily (Clivia miniata) Spider plants (Chlorophytum comosum ‘Variegatum’) Primrose (Oenothera speciosa) Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium caeruleum) Meadowsweet (Astilbe spp.) Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica) Columbine (Aquilegia spp.) Foxglove (Digitalis spp.) Flax lily (Dionella spp.) English ivy (Hedera helix) Coleus (Solenostemon spp.) Fuchsia (Fuchsia spp.) Impatiens species Variegated ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea 'Variegata') Variegated lily turf (Liriope muscari) Bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis, formerly classified as Dicentra spectabilis) Hosta (Hosta plantaginea) Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum) Jumpseed (Persicaria virginata) Japanese anemone (Anemone hybrida) Azalea (Rhododendron spp.)

Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs
by Eric Peterson
Published 1 Jan 2005

down Interstate 25 from Wyoming to New Mexico and strands thousands at Denver International Airport. 1997 Gary Lee Davis, convicted of the 1986 abduction and murder of a Colorado farm wife, is executed by lethal injection, the state’s first execution in 30 years. 1998 The Denver Broncos win the Super Bowl, defeating the Green Bay Packers. ■ ■ The stunning victory saves the Broncos the indignity of becoming the first team to lose five Super Bowls. 1999 The Broncos win the Super Bowl again, this time defeating the Atlanta Falcons. 1999 The worst school shooting in United States history takes place in suburban Denver inside Columbine High School, leaving 15 dead. 12/19/08 11:39:51 PM 2002 One of the worst wildfire seasons in history hits Colorado, with about 1,000 fires burning some 364,000 acres across the state. The biggest fire, southwest of Denver, burns 138,000 acres and destroys 133 homes. 06_382288-ch02.indd 17 ■ ■ ■ 17 2 LO O K I N G B A C K ■ there was a great deal of prejudice against those of Japanese ancestry throughout the United States at the time, Colorado Gov.

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Supreme Court struck down the measure in a 6-to-3 vote, saying that, if enforced, it would have denied homosexuals constitutional protection from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. On April 20, 1999, in a suburb of Denver, two students shook the city, state, and nation when they went on a shooting spree through Columbine High School. They killed 12 students and one teacher before turning their guns on themselves in the worst school shooting in the nation’s history. Now in the 21st century, the state’s attention has turned to controlling population growth. With Colorado’s growth rate well over the national average, both residents and government leaders question how this unabated influx of outsiders can continue without causing serious harm to the state’s air, water, and general quality of life. 3 T H E L AY O F T H E L A N D First-time visitors to Colorado’s Front Range are often awed by the looming wall of the Rocky Mountains, which come into sight a good 100 miles away, soon after you cross the border from Kansas.

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The America That Reagan Built
by J. David Woodard
Published 15 Mar 2006

From their vantage point they could see the first floor cafeteria, just filling with students, and each was covering a main exit from the school.48 Columbine was a school, like hundreds of others in the suburban United States, where athletic prowess was granted a license. An investigative report subsequently found that athletes could bully, haze, and harass other students without fear of reprisal. The homecoming king, a star football player, was on parole for burglary, yet still was permitted to play. The school’s state wrestling champ was allowed to compete, despite being on court-ordered probation.49 The fact that Harris and Klebold were social outcasts probably made them conspicuous targets for taunting. One Columbine student said the ‘‘trench coat mafia’’ ‘‘didn’t look like other people’’ and ‘‘didn’t dress or act like other people.’’

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The ‘‘jocks,’’ the ‘‘preps,’’ the ‘‘rednecks,’’ the ‘‘artists,’’ the ‘‘cheerleaders,’’ the ‘‘non–college prep,’’ and the ‘‘nerds’’ all existed in a kind of tense adolescent association of nonconformity. At 11:10 A.M. on Tuesday, April 20, 1999—Hitler’s 110th birthday—two students who were notorious outsiders arrived at Columbine High School in Littleton, a suburb of Denver, Colorado. The school had 1,800 students; about half were beginning to go to the ‘‘A’’ lunch. Eric Harris, eighteen, and Dylan Klebold, seventeen, found their identity in what was known as the ‘‘trench coat mafia,’’ a group that boasted about owning guns and taking pride in their social alienation.

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It is impossible to say in retrospect, but it is known that they were both fans of the rock group Rammstein and favored violent video games like Doom. Harris was on an antidepressant, and the two maintained a web site where they openly showed hatred for people in Littleton, especially their teachers at Columbine High School. The crime story, reconstructed from interviews and security tapes after the massacre, read like something from a fictional Stephen King horror script. Dylan Klebold shot one student in the head at close range without a second thought. In the library the gunmen shouted, ‘‘All jocks stand up!

The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain
by Daniel Gardner
Published 23 Jun 2009

Shortly after the Jonesboro massacre, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 71 percent of Americans said it was likely or very likely that a school shooting would happen in their community, while a USA Today poll taken following the Columbine massacre got almost the same result. One month after Columbine, a Gallup poll found that 52 percent of parents feared for their children’s safety at school; five months later, that number was almost unchanged at 47 percent. As hideous as the Columbine massacre was, it didn’t change the fact that most schools, and most students in them, were perfectly safe—a fact that politicians could have hammered home but did not.

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So the story inside America’s schools was clear when Indicators of School Crime and Safety was first issued in 1998, and it remains clear today: Murdersin schools are so rare that the risk to any one student is effectively zero, and rates of serious violence have dropped steadily and dramatically. Of course this isn’t people’s sense of reality—thanks mainly to the fact that on April 20, 1999, two heavily armed teenagers walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. They murdered one teacher and twelve students, wounded twenty-four, and stunned hundreds of millions of people around the world. The Columbine massacre got massive news coverage. The Pew Research Center found that almost seven out of ten Americans said they followed the event “very closely,” making it by far the biggest story of 1999 and the third-biggest story of the entire decade.

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In part, that’s because of a calculation every political adviser makes in crises like these: The politician who says the event is tragic but doesn’t change the fact that we remain safe will be hit by his opponents with the accusation that he does not understand how serious the situation is, or worse, that he does not care. It’s a huge political risk, with no reward for those who take it. Few do. And so politicians do not struggle to quell the “unreasoning fear” Roosevelt warned against. They embrace and amplify it. The furor after Columbine faded eventually, but in the fall of 2006, the whole terrible scenario—from tragedy to panic—was revisited. On September 13, a former student entered Dawson College in Montreal with a rifle. One student was killed, nineteen injured. On September 27, a fifty-three-year-old man entered a high school in Colorado, took six girls hostage and killed one.

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
by John R. Lott
Published 15 May 2010

Thirteen were killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999; twenty-three were shot dead at Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, in 1991; and twenty-one were slain at a McDonald’s in Southern California in 1984.180 Similar horrible incidents occur in other gun-free zones around the world. The Mumbai massacre left 165 victims dead.181 Since 2001, many European countries—including Finland, France, Germany, and Switzerland—have each suffered at least two major multiple-victim shootings. The worst school shooting in Germany resulted in seventeen killed (four more than were killed at the Columbine High School attack); in Switzerland, one attacker fatally shot fourteen legislators in a regional parliament building; in Finland in 2008, an attack took the lives of ten victims.182 During a period of just a couple of weeks in April 2009, there were multiple-victim public shootings at a college in Athens, a crowded café in Rotterdam, and a supermarket in Moscow.183 Overall, the problem with gun-control laws is not too little regulation, but rather that the regulations disarm law-abiding citizens.

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These two cases also involved the fewest people harmed in any of the attacks. The armed citizens managed to stop the attackers well before UPDATING THE RESULTS IN 2000 | 195 the police even had arrived at the scene—4½ minutes before in the Pearl, Mississippi, case and 11 minutes before in Edinboro. In a third instance, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, an armed guard was able to delay the attackers and allow many students to escape the building, even though he was assigned to the school because he had failed to pass his shooting proficiency test. The use of homemade grenades, however, prevented the guard from fighting longer.

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Another puzzle is the lack of coverage given to cases in which citizens with guns have prevented multiple-victim public shootings from occurring. Given the intense concern generated by these attacks, one would think that people would be interested in knowing how these attacks were stopped. 230 | CHAPTER NINE For a simple comparison, take the justified news coverage accorded the heroic actions of Dave Sanders, the Columbine High School teacher who helped protect some of the students and was killed in the process. By the Sunday morning five days after the incident, a Lexis-Nexis search (a type of on-line computer search that includes news media databases) indicates that over 250 of the slightly over 1,000 news stories around the country on this tragedy had mentioned this hero.

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
Published 1 Jan 2007

On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into their high school, Columbine High, in Littleton, Colorado, wearing black trench coats and armed to the teeth with semiautomatic weapons and shotguns. The two proceeded to go on a killing rampage that took the lives of twelve of their fellow students and one teacher. The incident would quickly be dubbed the “Columbine massacre.” Despite the fact that the number of school shootings had dropped from thirty-two during the 1992-1993 school year to nineteen during 1998-1999, the hype around Columbine encouraged a panic about such incidents that spread throughout the country.50 It also caused law enforcement agencies at all levels to review their ability to respond to such incidents.

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Despite the fact that the number of school shootings had dropped from thirty-two during the 1992-1993 school year to nineteen during 1998-1999, the hype around Columbine encouraged a panic about such incidents that spread throughout the country.50 It also caused law enforcement agencies at all levels to review their ability to respond to such incidents. “Nobody thought that Columbine could have happened,” Ron Watson, a spokesman for the National Tactical Officer’s Association (NTOA), said at the time. “So Columbine has changed thinking. It has thrown a new wrinkle into training.”51 In September 1999, some four hundred SWAT team officers found their way to Moyock for exercises at Blackwater’s newly constructed “R U Ready High School.”52 The NTOA kicked in $50,000 to construct the fifteen-room, 14,746-square-foot mock school, but the project likely cost Blackwater much more.53 As with future projects, Prince had the means and the motivation to spend if he thought there would eventually be a payoff.

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The event drew tactical teams and police officers from every state, Canada, Haiti, Belgium, and England. By April 2000, the NTOA had put more than one thousand officers through training at “R U Ready” as police departments across the country started more and more to hear the name Blackwater. At an NTOA soiree at the time, Prince commented that events like Columbine are “a reminder that vigilance is the price of liberty, and we need well-trained law enforcement and military. There is no shortage of evil in the world.”56 On February 1, 2000, with its name spreading across the law enforcement community, Blackwater took a huge leap forward as it landed its first General Services Administration contract, creating a government-approved list of services and goods Blackwater could sell to federal agencies and the prices it could officially charge.

Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
Published 1 Jan 1992

• 10 May 1905 It is late afternoon, and, for a brief moment, the sun nestles in a snowy hollow of the Alps, fire touching ice. The long slants of light sweep from the mountains, cross a restful lake, cast shadows in a town below. In many ways, it is a town of one piece and a whole. Spruce and larch and arolla pine form a gentle border north and west, while higher up are fire lilies, purple gentians, alpine columbines. In pastures near the town graze cattle for making butter, cheese, and chocolate. A little textile mill produces silks, ribbons, cotton clothes. A church bell rings. The smell of smoked beef fills the streets and alleyways. On closer look, it is a town in many pieces. One neighborhood lives in the fifteenth century.

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From the urgency in his voice and the look in his eyes, the woman knew that he meant soon. So she waits for him, not impatiently, passing the time with a book. Some time later, perhaps on the following day, he arrives, they lock arms, walk to the gardens, stroll by the groupings of tulips, roses, martagon lilies, alpine columbines, sit on a white cedar bench for an unmeasurable time. Evening comes, marked by a change in the light, a reddening of the sky. The man and woman follow a winding path of small white stones to a restaurant on a hill. Have they been together a lifetime, or only a moment? Who can say? Through the leaded windows of the restaurant, the mother of the man spots him sitting with the woman.

Confronting Gun Violence in America
by Thomas Gabor
Published 12 Sep 2016

Several hours later, police pursued their vehicle and killed them in a shootout. 14 killed—August 20, 1986—In Edmond, Oklahoma, part-time mail carrier, Patrick Henry Sherrill, armed with three handguns, killed 14 postal workers in 10 minutes and then took his own life with a bullet to the head. 13 killed—November 5, 2009—At Fort Hood, Texas, Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and injured 32. He was convicted and sentenced to death. 13 killed—April 3, 2009—In Binghamton, New York, Jiverly Wong killed 13 people and injured 4 at an immigrant community center. He then committed suicide. 13 killed—April 20, 1999—Columbine High School—Littleton, Colorado. 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 fellow students and 1 teacher before committing suicide. (continued) 68 Confronting Gun Violence in America Table 5.1 (continued) 13 killed—February 18, 1983—In Seattle, three men entered the Wah Mee gambling and social club, robbed the 14 occupants, and then shot each in the head, killing 13.

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However, as illustrated in Chap. 13, the view that guns promote feelings of safety tends to erode when people are asked specifically about gun carrying in their community as opposed to gun possession in the home.76 While it is just the story of one individual, Heidi Yewman’s story, while perhaps not representative of how the average owner responds to gun ownership, illustrates some of the anxieties and insecurities that may be associated with gun possession.77 Yewman, an author who attended Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, the site of one of America’s worst school massacres, decided to experiment with gun possession and carrying for one month. Her experience also indicates some of the risks associated with these activities, even where the owner is a responsible individual. Only two days into my experiment … I put my purse on the counter and then spent the next hour out on the back deck.

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While the 2001 National Gun Policy Survey did not find a link, a Pew Research Center poll in 2015 found that individuals with higher levels of education were more likely to support a number of gun safety measures (e.g., expanded background checks, assault weapons ban).14,15 Duke University’s Philip Cook and Kristen Goss conducted a statistical analysis, referred to as multiple regression, to isolate the impact of several factors on attitudes toward different gun control measures.16 They found household gun ownership to be a strong predictor of gun rights, but party affiliation (Republicans are more pro-gun) and gender are also strong independent predictors of one’s position on gun policy. Highprofile shootings, such as those at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech, tend to produce a brief surge in support for gun control measures, 13 Public Opinion: An Impediment to Reform? 245 but this support tends not to last and is dwarfed by an apparent longterm shift toward a greater emphasis on gun rights.17 While a number of polls of gun owners show that they tend to support several key gun control measures, owners’ misunderstanding of laws pertaining to firearms may help account for some of their opposition to less intrusive forms of gun regulation.

The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of Firearms
by Iain Overton
Published 15 Apr 2015

It’s the sniper bullet that killed JFK. It’s Colt and Smith & Wesson. Custer’s Last Stand and Annie Get Your Gun. Quentin Tarantino, drive-by shootings and SWAT teams. It’s the deaths of John Lennon and Martin Luther King, and the oiled-up swagger of Stallone and Schwarzenegger. It’s Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, Aurora and school shootings in Oregon. And it’s endless, endless figures about guns and violence that are so disturbing they just blunt you. But perhaps it is best to start with those hard facts. Just take one decade of gun statistics in the US.1 Between 2004 and 2013, according to data from the US Bureau of Justice, over 4.5 million people were the victims of gun crime in the United States.

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He was just bothered that I was here, stumbling about in the forest with my video camera. Because my presence, in this remote province of this little-visited country, was a clear signal to him of what was to come: a bloody media spectacle. The modern mass shooter and the modern media are intrinsically linked. Columbine, Dunblane, Sandy Hook: journalists, responding to the final performance of a lone shooter, have ensured that these place names are forever marked. In news ‘if it bleeds, it leads’, so the saying goes, and that evening the news the world over led with the blood Saari had shed and the name of Kauhajoki.

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As one psychologist put it: ‘Although mass murderers often do exhibit bizarre behavior, most people who exhibit bizarre behavior do not commit mass murder.’24 Nonetheless, it is fair to say that mass shooters are often very focused outsiders who plan their actions obsessively. Many massacres have been in the pipeline for months, sometimes years: the Columbine shooting took thirteen months to plan.25 Anders Behring Breivik in Norway claimed he had been plotting his actions for five years. This planning reflects a fixated and resentful view of the world. Mass shooters want to fix their ideas in history: a sort of personal vindication through gunfire. Whereas terrorists use guns and the media to promote political or religious beliefs, mass shooters use guns and the media to highlight their own personal grievances.

Colorado
by Lonely Planet

Millwood Junction SEAFOOD $$ ( 970-533-7338; www.millwoodjunction.com; cnr Main St & Railroad Ave; mains $10-20; 11am-2pm daily, 5:30-10:30pm Mon-Fri; ) This is a popular steak and seafood dinner joint. Folks from miles around come to Mancos on Friday night for the seafood buffet ($14). The restaurant often doubles as a club, showcasing live music. Columbine Bar PUB ( 970-533-7397; 123 W Grand Ave; 10am-2am) More than a century after Columbine Bar first opened its doors, the saloon, established in 1903 and one of Colorado’s oldest continuously operating bars, is still going strong. Locals come for pints of ice-cold local brews and good pub food (mains $5), but visitors will love the Old West feel this smoky old saloon oozes.

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Giampetro ITALIAN, PIZZA $$ ( 970-453-3838; www.giampetropizza.com; 100 N Main St; mains $9-15; 11am-9:30pm; ) Dig into some consistently good, honest and soulful New York–style pizza. It’s sold by the slice and pie, along with dishes such as baked ziti with meatballs (among a dozen pasta dishes), submarine sandwiches (good trail grub) and calzones. It’s all served in a bright corner room, decorated with those kitschy red-checkered tablecloths. Columbine Cafe DINER $ ( 970-547-4474; 109 S Main St; mains $6-10; 7:30am-2pm; ) If you’re looking for a more tasteful, flavorful breakfast dive, duck into this cozy stonewall nook. It does eggs Benedict six ways, huevos and Texas-style French toast flavored with vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg! Mimi’s Fried Pies PIES $ ( 970-547-8330; www.mimisfriedpies.com; 411 S Main St; pies $3.95-4.95; 10am-6pm; ) These pies are a cross between Aussie meat pies and Southern-style pot pies, but being handheld there’s an empanada influence, and they were dreamt up long-ago in Oklahoma by Mimi’s grandmother, who most likely had never seen an empanada, so there’s that.

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Pub grub is served all day and late into the night, but you’re here for beer, no? There are four other Colorado locations, including three in Denver, but this is where their heart is. Green Fairy Bar ABSINTHE BAR ( 970-968-2222; www.greenfairybar.com; 325 S Main St; 7pm-late) A basement bar tucked into the Columbine Square building. It’s a simple spot with Spanish tile floors, wood tables and dark-wood bar and it pours absinthe, the once forbidden aperitif. Labels include St George, Leopold Brothers and Kubler. Downstairs at Eric’s BAR ( 970-453-1401; www.downstairsaterics.com; 111 S Main St; 11am-midnight; ) Downstairs at Eric’s is a Breckenridge institution.

Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security
by Daniel J. Solove
Published 28 Jun 2011

The legal scholar Stephen Vladeck notes that the concept of national security has a distorting effect on the law: “[O]ne can find national security considerations influencing ordinary judicial decision making across the entire gamut of contemporary civil and criminal litigation.”6 Although claims of national security don’t directly eliminate rights or civil liberties, they severely weaken them. National-security claims are often accompanied by calls for deference (which, as I argued in Chapter 4, are unjustified), as well as demands for secrecy. What Precisely Is “National Security”? In 1999 two high school students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, went on a rampage at the Columbine High School near Denver. 64 The National-Security Argument They killed thirteen people, injured twenty-one others, and then committed suicide. The crime, though, wasn’t categorized as a national-security matter even though it involved guns, terror, mass murder, bombs, and suicidal perpetrators.

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He was designated an “enemy combatant” and detained and tortured for years without being charged with a crime or accorded the right to a hearing. Ultimately, the dirty-bomb allegations were dropped, and he was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and sentenced to seventeen years in prison.7 Padilla was a U.S. citizen. Why was his crime deemed a national-security issue while the Columbine rampage wasn’t? The line between national-security and regular criminal activities is quite blurry. What about the Beltway snipers of 2002, who terrorized people in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia? What about Timothy McVeigh, the man who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people?

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Ciraolo, 177 Camden, Lord, 148 Canada, 144 Cardozo, Benjamin, 139 cell phones, 47 236 Index Census, U.S., 107 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 3, 8, 63, 76, 78, 84, 95; El-Masri lawsuit, 67–68; illegal torture, 67–68 Chaplin, Charlie, 7 Chertoff, Michael, 200 Chesney, Robert, 218n17 Church, Frank, 10 Church Committee, 10, 70 civil liberties, 34, 40, 55–61, 78, 80, 208; crime-espionage distinction and, 71–80; pendulum argument, 55–61; post 9/11, 59–60, 67–68, 71, 155; in times of crisis, 55–61, 66, 71–72 civil rights movement, 8 Civil War, 58, 61 Clinton, Bill, 149–50 cloud computing, 105–106, 107 Code of Hammurabi, 4 Cohen, Julie, 178 Cold War, 7–8, 58, 59, 61, 72 Colonial America, 4, 147 Columbine shootings, 64–65 communism, 7–8, 59, 61 computers, 11; cloud computing, 105–106, 107; data mining, 182–98; Internet privacy, 13, 102–110, 156–62, 164–73, 189–90; rise of, 166–67; third party doctrine and, 102–110. See also email; Internet Concurring Opinions (blog), 22–23 confidentiality, 107, 108 Congress, U.S., 5, 7, 9, 11, 40, 62, 70, 76, 129, 165, 166, 200; Church Committee, 10, 70; on national security surveillance, 10–11, 82–90, 176; on new technologies, 166–67, 173, 176; Patriot Act and, 12, 76, 155; TSP authorization, 82–90 Constitution, U.S., 3, 4, 7, 13, 42, 52, 55, 63, 80, 84, 89, 94, 95, 110, 146; privacy protection, 2–3, 6–7, 9, 11, 12–13, 35, 91–152.

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
by Tamara Kneese
Published 14 Aug 2023

With Facebook’s rebranding as Meta, past memorialization notices now contain the new logo, an indication of how unstable corporate memorial spaces really are. Web ephemerality threatens Facebook’s role as a long-term graveyard; Facebook may seem too big to fail, but it probably will not last forever. After the Columbine High School shootings in 1999, a website called Perpetual Memorials hosted memorials for the victims. The company intended to create memorials that would persist “on the Internet throughout ages to come,” but the website itself ceased to exist in July 2003.53 Web-based memorials last only as long as people continue to maintain them or particular companies remain open.

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“Why Is the Language of Transhumanists and Religion So Similar?” Aeon, June 13, 2017. aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-language-of-transhumanists-and-religion-so-similar. Sisto, Davide. Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020. Socolovsky, Maya. “Cyber-Spaces of Grief: Online Memorials and the Columbine High School Shootings.” JAC 24, no. 2 (2004): 467–89. Spigel, Lynn. “Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 8, no. 4 (2005): 403–26. doi.org/10.1177/1367549405057826. Srnicek, Nick. Platform Capitalism. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 2017.

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See also digital death care practices Carroll, Evan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) Catalyst (journal), (i) Certified Financial Analyst Institute, (i)n20 Chan, Kathy H., (i) Chan, Priscilla, (i) Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, (i) Charise, Andrea, (i) Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, (i) Cirrus Legacy, (i), (ii) Clock of the Long Now (10,000 Year Clock), (i), (ii), (iii) CNN, (i) co-authorship, (i) Cole, Nat King, (i) Cole, Natalie, (i) Coleman, Gabriella, (i) Columbine High School shootings (1999), (i) commodity fetishism, (i) communicative capitalism, (i), (ii) communicative traces: concept of, (i), (ii); digital immortality and, (i); financial and affective value of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); surveillance and, (i), (ii), (iii). See also digital assets; digital estate planning; digital remains; illness blogs Computer History Museum (Mountain View, California), (i) Cottom, Tressie McMillan, (i) Covid-19 pandemic, (i), (ii), (iii) Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, (i), (ii) Cowen, Deborah, (i) Cox, Lee Ann, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) crowdfunding, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) Csordas, Thomas J., (i)n13 Current, Michael, (i) cyborgs, (i) Dark Cloud (illness blog), (i) data: origins of term, (i).

And Never Stop Dancing: Thirty More True Things You Need to Know Now
by Gordon Livingston
Published 15 Feb 2006

We may long to win the lottery or appear on national TV. What would really improve our lives is to laugh more, think about why we’re here, and let each other merge. 12. 0738212494-text.qxd:0738212494-text.qxd 7/10/08 9:34 AM Page 13 3. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. or a time after the massacre in 1999, on a hill overlooking Columbine High School, stood fifteen crosses, memorials to both the victims and the perpetrators. Then the father and stepfather of one of the dead children removed the two crosses bearing the names of the shooters. They questioned the propriety of honoring murderers in the same place as their victims. And so, while we were still struggling with the meaning, if any, of this tragedy, we were confronted with the question F 13. 0738212494-text.qxd:0738212494-text.qxd 7/10/08 9:34 AM Page 14 And Never Stop Dancing of what attitude we should take toward it.

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Widely confused with forgetting or reconciliation, it is neither. Forgiveness is an act of letting go, of relinquishment. It is not something we 14. 0738212494-text.qxd:0738212494-text.qxd 7/10/08 9:34 AM Page 15 Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. do for others; it is a gift to ourselves. The shooters at Columbine High inflicted the death penalty on themselves. What is left for us to do to them? We do not release them from accountability by forgiving; we free ourselves from the burden of bitterness. In this sense forgiveness is a selfish rather than an altruistic act. People present themselves for psychotherapy burdened by grievances.

The End of Policing
by Alex S. Vitale
Published 9 Oct 2017

One of the immediate consequences was a rash of new laws lowering the age of adult criminal responsibility, making it easier to incarcerate young people in adult jails, in keeping with the broader politics of incapacitation and mass incarceration. It was also at the center of efforts to tighten school discipline policies and increase police presence in schools. The second major factor was the Columbine school massacre of 1999, in which two Colorado high school students murdered twelve classmates and a teacher, despite the presence of armed police on campus. This tragic incident received incredible attention due to its extreme nature and the fact that it occurred in a normally low-crime white suburban area.

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Its annual convention is a panoply of military contractors trying to sell schools new security systems, train officers in paramilitary techniques, and make the case that students are at constant risk from themselves and outsiders. Annette Fuentes attended one such convention and was appalled at the keynote speaker, an “anti-terrorism expert” with no domestic law enforcement or pedagogical training who warned the hundreds of officers present, You’ve got people in your schools right now planning a Columbine. Every town, every university now has a Cho [the Virginia Tech shooter] and in every state, we have Al-Qaeda cells thinking of it. Every school is a possible target of attack … You’ve got to be a one-man fighting force … You’ve got to have enough guns and ammunition and body armor to stay alive … You should be walking around in school every day in complete tactical equipment, with semi-automatic weapons and five rounds of ammo … You can no longer afford to think of yourselves as peace officers … You must think of yourself as soldiers at war, because we’re going to ask you to act like soldiers.31 This mindset is permeating school policing.

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This eBook is licensed to Edward Betts, edward@4angle.com on 06/08/2020 Index Abbott, Greg 189 Advancement Project 71, 170, 238n7 AFL-CIO 192 Alexander, Michelle 50–2, 142, 229, 237n41, 248n8, 249n28, 250n37 Alvarado, Daniel 66 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 14, 63, 138, 165, 179, 208–10, 213, 217, 234n47, 234n54, 239n26, 239n28, 254n10, 254n20, 257n26, 257n28, 258n29, 258n35, 258n37 American Federation of Teachers 71–2, 240n51 American Friends Service Committee 209 American Immigration Council 188, 255n35 American Legion 206 American Indian Movement 49 American Party 176 American Protective League 206 Americans with Disabilities Act 63, 147 Anslinger, Harry 132 Anthracite Coal Strike 40 Apuzzo, Matt, 213, 229, 258n43 Asset forfeiture 25, 135–6 Bacon, David 256n46 Balko, Radley 135, 229, 231n11, 232n28, 248n14, Banfield, Edward 5–6, 232n13 Baum, Dan 248n9 Bayley, David 32, 235n1 Beck, Charlie 159, 169–70 Becker, Howard 248n7 Beckett, Katherine 92–3, 229, 243n2, 245n2 Belafonte, Harry 55 Belenko, Steven 248n5 Bernal, Joe 236n28 Bernstein, Elizabeth 247n21 Biasotti, Michael 87 Bittner, Egon 76–7, 241n2 Black Lives Matter 55, 208, 218, 226 Black Panthers 49 Black Youth Project 154–5, 225, 259n2 Blackmon, Douglas 237n35 Body cameras 17, 22, 23–4, 188, 222 Boone, Levi 38 Boyd, James 94 Bracero Program 177, 191–2 Bratton, William 4, 15, 169 Broeker, Galen 235n7 Broken Windows Theory 5–7, 13, 22, 51, 53, 56, 60, 93–4, 97, 148, 168, 184, 222 Brooklyn College 213 Brown, David 27–8 Brown, Michael 11, 18, 216 Bush, George W. 22, 59–60, 123, 180, 219 Butler, Smedley 42 Calavita, Kitty 253n4 Calderon, Felipe 144 Cantu, Aaron 236n26 Carrigan, William 43, 236n5 Center for Court Innovation 101, 146, 250n48 Center for Media and Democracy 210 Central Intelligence Agency 49, 144 Coal and Iron Police 40 Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace 209 Cox, Mike 43, 236n24 Charleston City Guard and Watch 46 Chartists 36 Children’s Defense Fund 62 Chinese Exclusion Act 176 Clear, Todd 252n27 Clinton, Bill 51, 61, 129, 134, 179–80, 194 Coates, Ta-Nehisi 155, 251n63 Columbine school shooting 57 Comey, James 15 Community policing 16–17, 22, 222 Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) 49 Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) 202, 206–7 Crabapple, Molly 120, 247n20 Crawford, John 1, 10 Critical Resistance 165 Cruz, Alvin 2 Csete, Joanne 248n13 Cure Violence 174 Currie, Elliott 171, 229, 253n24 Czitrom, Daniel 229, 236n17 Daley, Robert 248n17 Dashboard cameras 22–3 de Blasio, Bill 4 Death penalty 28 Decriminalization of drugs 134, 145, 148–50; of sex work 109, 118–19, 124–8 Denver Peace and Justice Committee 209 Dewey, Susan 125, 229, 245n1, 247n23 DiIulio, John 56 Domanick, Joe 159, 229, 252n5, 253n21 Donner, Frank 203, 257n21 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) 67, 151 Drug courts 145–8 Drug Enforcement Agency 49, 130, 134, 137, 178 Drug Policy Alliance 148, 250n47, 251n55, 251n57, 251n60 Dukakis, Michael 51 Dunn, Robert 257n16 Elliot, Samuel 37 Empower Chiang Mai 122–3, 247n22 Engle, Byron 50 Evans, Rob 256n11 Fagan, Jeffrey 249n29 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 15, 49, 123, 137–8, 157, 178, 188, 201–3, 205–6, 209, 211–12 Ferdaus, Rezwan 212 Ferguson, Missouri 2, 11, 15, 18–20, 22, 215–217 Focused Deterrence 167–8 Food and Drug Administration 130 Fortner, Michael 172, 253n26 Fosdick, Raymond Blaine 236n12 Friedman, Barry 24, 229, 234n52 Friedman, Milton 5 Fuentes, Annette 59, 64, 229, 238n11, 239n31 Fusion centers 210–11 Geller, Amanda 249n29 Gage, Beverly 257n14 Gang databases 164–165; injunctions 163–5 Garcia, Ramon 189 Garriot, William 154, 229, 248n2 Garner, Eric 1, 4–5, 7 Garwood, Jesse 42 Gates, Daryl 158, 169 Gates, Henry Louis 3 General Trade Union 37 German, Michael 258n35, 258n37 Gilje, Paul 235n11 Glenn, Brendon 95 Glick, Brian 257n20 Global AIDS Act 123 Goldman, Adam 213, 229, 258n43 Goldman, Emma 202 Gottschalk, Marie 255n26 Grandin, Greg 256n49 Graham, Ramarley 141–2 Graham v.

The Narcissist Next Door
by Jeffrey Kluger
Published 25 Aug 2014

NATURAL SELECTION. fucker should be shot.” As it happened, the van owner wasn’t shot, but a lot of other people were. It happened more than a year later, and the boy himself—Eric Harris—along with his friend, Dylan Klebold, pulled the triggers, killing fifteen people, including themselves, and wounding twenty-one others at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. It was a shooting spree that until the slaughter of first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 was the most savage mass killing Americans had ever experienced. And too few saw it coming. Harris’s first therapist was not the only one gulled by his easy charm and humble mien.

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That Harris and Klebold were inept—that their propane tanks fizzled and their pipe bombs were puny and they wound up doing their murderous work armed with little more than their guns and their hate—changes nothing about their monstrousness. “Peekaboo,” said Harris at one point during the rampage, as he slammed his hand on a table in the Columbine library under which students Emily Wyant and Cassie Bernall were hiding. Then he bent down, thrust the gun under the table and shot Cassie in the head. “Who’s next? Who’s ready to die?” one of the boys asked as they prowled the library; the survivors can’t say which killer said what, because they were hiding as best they could and dared not look up.

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But it was the library that would forever be remembered as the center of the carnage—where they shot or killed twenty-two of their victims. It was in the library, too, that, their rage finally spent, Harris and Klebold took their own lives, leaving a mountain of evidence—and a mountain of mystery—behind. “The slaughter at Columbine High School opened a sad national conversation about what turned two boys’ souls into poison,” wrote Time’s Nancy Gibbs in the week that followed. “It promises to be a long, hard talk, in public and in private, about why smart, privileged kids rot inside.” That was true then, and it’s true a decade and a half later.

You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--From Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
by Lee Gutkind
Published 13 Aug 2012

Yet documentary films don’t claim to be objective or balanced. The director chooses what to show a reader and what footage to leave on the cutting room floor. And the narrator or writer interprets for viewers the meaning of the footage they’re seeing—at least from his or her point of view. Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11, and many more) insists all of his documentaries are fact-checked, which is undoubtedly true. But he selects which ideas, characters, and incidents to present—and which to leave out. The writer of creative nonfiction can be subjective and establish a personal point of view, as Michael Moore does.

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The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide. New York: Beaufort, 2007. Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. New York: Random House, 1994. Bissinger, Harry Gerard, Friday Night Lights. New York: Da Capo, 1990. Bouton, Jim. Ball Four. New York: Macmillan, 1970. Bowling for Columbine. Directed by Michael Moore. Dog Eat Dog Films, 2002. Burroughs, Augustine. Running with Scissors. New York: Picador, 2002. Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965. Churchill, Winston. Speech to Students. Harrow School, October 1941. Clancy, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984.

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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
by Sarah Vowell
Published 26 Aug 2002

Democracy and Things Like That It all started in 1999, when Joanne McGlynn’s media literacy class at Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire, invited all the presidential candidates to speak. Known to loiter in New Hampshire ceaselessly before the state’s primary elections, a whopping 50 percent of the eight major candidates accepted: Alan Keyes, Orrin Hatch, Gary Bauer, and Al Gore. They were asked to speak on the subject of school violence, not just because of the murders at Columbine earlier that year but also because a Concord High student was killed at school a couple of years earlier. Gore spoke to the student body on November 30, 1999. And, contrary to conventional wisdom regarding his charisma deficiency, he was a hit. Students Lucas Gallo, Ashley Pettengill, and Alyssa Spellman recall the event.

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He was kind of a neat speaker to see.” While the students were impressed by Gore’s easygoing manner—his form—Joanne McGlynn was pleased with his content, the way he talked about school violence. “He was very careful to describe the complicated nature of what might have caused what happened at Columbine,” she recalls. “He didn’t say, ‘It is just because those two boys played video games.’ He used a little analogy about when you catch a cold or when you don’t. He said that some kids in this auditorium had the insulation of a loving family, of teachers who cared about them, of a supportive school system and said perhaps they were insulated from some of these outside forces.

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft
by Mike Sacks
Published 8 Jul 2009

The same thing sort of happened after we did the issue about the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. I personally was really, really freaked out when Columbine happened. That hit me really close to home, because that's the kind of kid I was in high school. Wearing the black trench coat and getting picked on by other kids and feeling like an outsider. That's who my friends were. What article did you write for the Columbine issue? “Columbine Jocks Safely Resume Bullying.” It was an article about how everything was supposedly great again in Columbine. You know, “We've got metal detectors and it's all safe and we can just go back to everything the way it was before.”

Lost at Sea
by Jon Ronson
Published 1 Oct 2012

Each week in November and December, a box of Santa letters is sent over to the nearby middle school, where the town’s eleven- and twelve-year-olds—the sixth graders—write back in the guise of elves. It is part of the curriculum. Six of last year’s middle school elves, now aged thirteen, were arrested back in April for being in the final stages of plotting a mass murder, a Columbine-style school shooting. The information is sketchy, but apparently they had elaborate diagrams and code names and lists of the kids they were going to kill. I’ve come to North Pole to investigate the plot. What turned those elves bad? Were they serious? Was the town just too Christmassy? I need to tread carefully.

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We stay on track and we move on forward! We don’t let anything get us down. That’s the spirit of North Pole and the spirit of Christmas. People here are willing to put their best foot forward and be the best kind of people they can be.” “I heard about the thing with the kids over at the middle school plotting a Columbine-style massacre,” I said. At this, James let out a noise the likes of which I’ve never really heard before. It was an “Aaaaaah.” He sounded like a balloon being burst by me, with all the joy escaping from him like air. “That was a, uh, shock. . . .” said James. “You have to wonder why. . . .”

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“Pretty much all summer,” he says. “What do you do to redress the balance?” I ask. “I come here and shoot people all day,” he shrugs. “Doug,” I say as we leave the computer shop, “do you think that if the town had been more Christmassy back in April, those kids at the middle school wouldn’t have wanted to plot their Columbine-style massacre?” “Let’s just say that if the spirit of Christmas were permeating the entire soul of this community, no child would be feeling that despondent,” Doug replies. “What is the spirit of Christmas? Isn’t it peace on earth? Good will to men?” • • • WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIME. I call Jessie Desmond, my North Pole Myspace friend who hates Christmas.

Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock
Published 17 Jun 2019

Of the game that emerged, a reviewer wrote, “Not just a shoot ’em up, it offers miniature history lessons while you play, offering background on everything from the OSS to the Gestapo to V2 rockets while nostalgic art and video clips convey a sense of the period.” As such, the “original Medal of Honor remains arguably the most educational FPS ever made.”12 However, in a sign of the future controversies over videogame violence, following the Columbine massacre the game also went through last-minute changes, in which all blood and gore was removed.13 Continuing the Second World War theme, the Battlefield series started with Battlefield 1942 in 2002. It took the FPS genre in a more team-focused direction, providing larger multiplayer battles in which two teams fight over control points.

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Alone Together
by Sherry Turkle
Published 11 Jan 2011

Branscomb High School has metal detectors at its entrance. Uniformed security guards patrol the halls. There have been flare-ups; students have gotten into fights. As she and I speak, Julia’s thoughts turn to Columbine and Virginia Tech: “I’m reading a book right now about a school.... It’s about two kids who brought a gun to a dance and keep everyone hostage, and then killed themselves. And it’s a lot like Columbine.... We had an assembly about Columbine just recently.... At a time like that, I’d need my cell phone.” We read much about “helicopter parents.”5 They hail from a generation that does not want to repeat the mistakes of its parents (permitting too much independence too soon) and so hover over their children’s lives.

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Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
by Michael Shermer
Published 8 Apr 2020

Restoring the federal ban on assault weapons will not stop Sandy Hook Events because “The overwhelming majority of mass murderers use firearms that would not be restricted by an assault-weapons ban. In fact, semiautomatic handguns are far more prevalent in mass shootings.” Mass murders are unlikely to be deterred by increasing security in public places because “Most security measures will serve only as a minor inconvenience for those who are dead set on mass murder,” as in the case of Columbine, whose armed guard was unable to stop Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Is There Nothing We Can Do? If we cannot predict or prevent Sandy Hook Events, what can we do? I suggest three evidence-based actions we can take right now that could save lives. 1. Run, Hide, or Fight. There is an excellent video on self-defense on YouTube called “Run.

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Of the many proposals on the table for discussion, there is one that can be implemented today by the media: Don’t name or show the mass murderers. A September 2017 article in American Behavioral Scientist by Adam Lankford and Eric Madfis reported that as many as twenty-four mass murderers admitted that they went on their killing rampage in order to gain fame. The 1999 Columbine shooters, for example, fantasized about movies that would be made about them, which happened. The 2007 Virginia Tech assassin made a martyrdom video and sent it to NBC News, which aired clips from it. The 2011 Tucson murderer proclaimed online “I’ll see you on National T.V.!” and sure enough, there he was.

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We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by Eliot Higgins
Published 2 Mar 2021

Someone had either impersonated Roman with a fake passport, or had otherwise compromised the security of MTS, the leading mobile operator in Russia.33 The danger to open-source investigators goes beyond physical and digital threats; there is also the psychological damage. After the Christchurch mosque shootings, Andy Carvin – by then a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab – wrote a powerful warning. Like me, he had watched hours and hours of violent imagery online, from the Columbine massacre, to the Boston bombings, to the Libyan conflict, to the Syrian civil war. How else to gather open-source evidence, if not by looking unsparingly? After each story, Carvin moved to the next. Until, walking down a street in Washington, he noticed a head of cauliflower squashed on the road.

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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson
Published 1 Jul 2018

For their part, bees don’t exactly pollinate flowers out of generosity or some sense of botanical affection. They simply want nectar, pollen, or whatever other enticements are on offer, and will take them in the most efficient manner possible. Short-tongued bumblebees, for example, don’t hesitate to chew through the base of a columbine spur or honeysuckle blossom, cutting a direct path to nectar that completely bypasses the flower’s carefully crafted pollination scheme. (And once that hole is made, all sorts of other bees and insects quickly learn to use it.) Honeybees accomplish the same thing on mustards, not by chewing holes, but by sneaking up on the blossoms from behind and poking their tongues in through gaps between the petals.

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One thing is certain—the scents alone don’t attract females, since females never visit the flowers. 23 “… I cannot conjecture”: Darwin 1877, 56. 24 begets new species: For one of many fascinating studies of this process in Ophrys, see Breitkopf et al. 2015. 25 tongue length and the depth of flower spurs: The trend toward longer tongue length ranks among the strongest evolutionary signals in bees and presumably resulted from a continuing need to reach inside deepening flower spurs. For plants, developing spurs attracts a narrower, more dedicated group of pollinators and apparently leads to diversification. Spurred lineages like monkshood (Aconitum spp.) and columbine (Delphinium spp.), for example, both contain dozens of species, while a close relation, love-in-the-mist (Nigella spp.), lacks spurs and includes only a handful of species. 26 corresponding risks of dependence: Many plants in specialized pollinator relationships hedge against the downside by retaining some level of self-fertility, the ability to produce seed from their own pollen.

Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
by Brett L. Markham
Published 14 Apr 2010

Tachanid flies help keep cabbage worms and stink bugs in check; a planting of parsley or pennyroyal will give them a home. Beneficial insect attractors that bloom early include sweet alyssum, columbine, and creeping thyme. Intermediate bloomers include common yarrow, cilantro, edging lobelia, and mints. Late bloomers include dill, wild bergamot, and European goldenrod. An easy plan is to plant a few marigolds throughout the bed, a columbine plant, a bit of cilantro, and some dill. You should familiarize yourself with the properties of beneficial plant attractors before planting them in your beds. Don’t just run out Table 12: Preventative Plantings Beneficial Insect Controlled Pests Plants to Provide Parasitic wasps Moth, beetle, and fly larvae and eggs, including caterpillars Dill, yarrow, tansy, Queen Anne’s lace, parsley Hoverflies (syrphid flies) Mealybugs, aphids As above, plus marigold Lacewings Aphids, mealybugs, other small insects Dandelion, angelica, dill, yarrow Ladybugs Aphids Dandelion, hairy vetch, buckwheat, marigold Tachanid flies Caterpillars, cabbage loopers, stink bugs, cabbage bugs, beetles Parsley, tansy, pennyroyal, buckwheat and plant mint in the garden bed directly, for example, because it will take over the entire bed.

Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required
by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
Published 8 Jul 2019

Pencils rolled onto the floor and exam papers fluttered in the air. You know how when there’s bad turbulence, everyone turns to look at the flight attendant? Well, our teacher looked even paler than the walls of the classroom. That’s how I knew this wasn’t a drill. A kid at my high school had been spotted with a gun. It was June 2000, just one year after the Columbine shootings, so the police—understandably—took it seriously. It took thirty minutes, which felt like forever, to search everyone, classroom by classroom, until our principal announced over the intercom that the SWAT team had cleared the building. With shaky legs, we filed out and assembled at a designated area on the football field.

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
Published 24 Sep 2012

The nearly 3,000 deaths from the 9/11 attacks were literally off the chart—way down in the tail of the power-law distribution into which terrorist attacks fall.181 According to the Global Terrorism Database of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (the major publicly available dataset on terrorist attacks), between 1970 and 2007 only one other terrorist attack in the entire world has killed as many as 500 people.182 In the United States, Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City in 1995 killed 165, a shooting spree by two teenagers at Columbine High School in 1999 killed 17, and no other attack has killed as many as a dozen. Other than 9/11, the number of people killed by terrorists on American soil during these thirty-eight years was 340, and the number killed after 9/11—the date that inaugurated the so-called Age of Terror—was 11. While some additional plots were foiled by the Department of Homeland Security, many of their claims have turned out to be the proverbial elephant repellent, with every elephant-free day serving as proof of its effectiveness.183 Compare the American death toll, with or without 9/11, to other preventable causes of death.

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Though we can’t interpret every zig or zag in the graphs at face value, because some may represent seams and overlaps between databases with different coding criteria, we can try to get a general sense of whether terrorism really has increased in the so-called Age of Terror.199 The safest records are those for terrorist attacks on American soil, if for no other reason than that there are so few of them that each can be scrutinized. Figure 6–9 shows all of them since 1970, plotted on a logarithmic scale because otherwise the line would be a towering spike for 9/11 poking through a barely wrinkled carpet. With the lower altitudes stretched out by the logarithmic scale, we can discern peaks for Oklahoma City in 1995 and Columbine in 1999 (which is a dubious example of “terrorism,” but with a single exception, noted below, I never second-guess the datasets when plotting the graphs). Apart from this trio of spikes, the trend since 1970 is, if anything, more downward than upward. FIGURE 6–9. Rate of deaths from terrorism, United States, 1970–2007 Source: Global Terrorism Database, START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, 2010, http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/), accessed on April 6, 2010.

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The victims, for their part, had nowhere to turn, because complaining to a teacher or parent would brand them as snitches and pantywaists and make their lives more hellish than ever. But in another of those historical gestalt shifts in which a category of violence flips from inevitable to intolerable, bullying has been targeted for elimination. The movement emerged from the ball of confusion surrounding the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, as the media amplified one another’s rumors about the causes—Goth culture, jocks, antidepressants, video games, Internet use, violent movies, the rock singer Marilyn Manson—and one of them was bullying. As it turned out, the two assassins were not, as the media endlessly repeated, Goths who had been picked on by jocks.193 But a popular understanding took hold that the massacre was an act of revenge, and childhood professionals parlayed the urban legend into a campaign against bullying.

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by Elizabeth Williamson
Published 8 Mar 2022

“People like these who are doing these shootings are being put in place by some agency or the government to promote a gun grab or keep the public in fear,” John said. He noted that mass shootings seemed to be happening “like every weekend” that year. To him, that was evidence not of a societal problem but of a government plot. “Well, we know Columbine was staged,” Jones said, hedging by retreating to a well-worn theory. “They reported four different gunmen, there were one hundred and twenty-seven bombs in the building, half the school was empty, there was a stand-down, there were government mind control programs connected to both of the youth . . .

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Indeed it would have been, had King not been assassinated in 1968, six years before Halbig joined the police. Halbig bounced around the Florida public school system, working as a teacher, a coach, and an assistant principal. From 1995 to 1999, he was Seminole County Public Schools’ security director; an Orlando Sentinel article quoted him after Columbine as saying a school shooting “can happen any time [sic], anywhere.’’[5] Halbig worked as Lake County Public Schools’ risk management director from 2005 to 2009; when his position was eliminated, he said it was because he’d blown the whistle on mold issues.[6] In retirement Halbig cast about for a second act.

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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
by Nancy Jo Sales
Published 23 Feb 2016

With school shootings up nearly 70 percent in the 1990s over the ’80s, the Secret Service and the Department of Education conducted an investigation into the causes of thirty-seven attacks since 1974, finding that, “in several cases, individual attackers had experienced bullying and harassment that was long-standing and severe.” In the case of Columbine, however, bullying was not ultimately seen as a contributing factor. A lengthy FBI investigation found that Harris was a classic “psychopath” and Klebold a depressive in his thrall. Since Columbine, school shootings have continued to plague the nation; there were thirty-five with fatalities in 2014, almost all of them committed by teenage boys and young men. Cyberbullying has been increasingly discussed in the news as a possible cause, because of its concurrent rise.

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Because Jazz wasn’t blaming anyone, she was just being real; but Jazz had parents who supported her in her decision to be who she wanted to be, and Jazz’s parents had money to make that happen. The subway doors opened up and Montana slid into the sea of people. Online The problem of bullying came to national attention in 1999, with the mass shooting at Columbine High School. Media reports alleged that Eric Harris, eighteen, and Dylan Klebold, seventeen, had been the victims of bullying, and that this had contributed to their horrible massacre. After another school shooting at a California high school a year later, Attorney General John Ashcroft bemoaned an “onerous culture of bullying.”

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
by Alec Nevala-Lee
Published 1 Aug 2022

As they grew bolder, he and Lincoln ventured to the Blue Hills Reservation state park and the girls’ dorm at Milton Academy, the nearby prep school, where they hung a flower basket as a May Day prank and were almost caught when Fuller lost his glasses there. The backdrop to these memories was Fuller’s family home, which had been the first house built on Columbine Road. Its architect was Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr., his father’s cousin, and although Fuller dismissed it later as “a rather large Gay Nineties Victorian,” its elegant lines bore the influence of the Japanese Pavilion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Sunlight entered the dining room through diamond panes, and Fuller was once sent upstairs without supper for cutting his initials in a window with his mother’s ring.

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. ———. Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. Hession, Jane King, and Debra Pickrel. Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954–1959. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2007. Howard, Jane. Margaret Mead: A Life. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1984. Howland, Llewellyn, III. No Ordinary Being: W. Starling Burgess, Inventor, Naval Architect, Poet, Aviation Pioneer, and Master of American Design. Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2015. Hubbard, L. Ron. Adventurer/Explorer: Daring Deeds & Unknown Realms. Commerce, CA: Bridge, 1996. Indlu Geodesic Research Project.

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family home: Architectural background on the Milton house and the Big House on Bear Island is drawn from Margaret Henderson Floyd, Architecture After Richardson: Regionalism Before Modernism—Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh (University of Chicago, 1994), 123–25 and 430–35. The current address of the Milton house is 85 Columbine Road (RBF, “The Bear Island Story,” Series 7, B6-F14, 12). “a rather large Gay Nineties Victorian”: AMS, 9. “to get rid of the evil fairies”: Hugh Kenner, “Bucky Fuller and the Final Exam,” New York Times Magazine, July 6, 1975, 10. “gypsy camps”: RBF, “What It Was Like to Grow Up in the Boston Area,” May 1, 1979, Series 1, B2-F2, 7.

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama
Published 1 Jan 2002

But what we notice in the first instance is that random violence against other members of the community is prohibited in every known human cultural group: while murder is universal, so are laws and/or social norms that seek to prohibit murder. This is no less true among man’s primate cousins: a troop of chimpanzees will occasionally experience violent aggression from a younger male that, like the Columbine High School shooters, is lonely, peripheral, or seeking to make a point.29 But the older members of the community will always take measures to control and neutralize that individual because community order cannot tolerate such violence. Primate violence, including human violence, is legitimated primarily at higher social levels—that is, on the part of in-groups that compete with out-groups.

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Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
by Timothy Garton Ash
Published 30 Jun 2004

The profusion of guns is a real difference between America and Europe—except for parts of Europe’s “Wild East,” in the Balkans and today’s eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova), where handguns are still freely toted. It’s tempting to extrapolate from this American domestic phenomenon to foreign policy: cowboys at home, cowboys abroad. The American satirist Michael Moore does this vividly in his film Bowling for Columbine, drawing an imaginative connection between the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and the Clinton administration’s bombing of Serbia. A slightly more serious version of this argument is advanced by Robert Kagan: Americans retain a readiness to use military force in a dangerous “Hobbesian” world. Except that, from the end of the Vietnam War to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, France and Britain were generally more willing to send their soldiers into dangerous action than the United States.

The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart: 1200 Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should Be Able to Use
by Bobbi Bly
Published 18 Mar 2009

.” – Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist and mathematician serendipity (ser-en-DIP-it-ee), noun Attaining success, good fortune, or the object of your desire more through luck and random circumstance than deliberate effort. What made him an Internet billionaire was SERENDIPITY more than brains or talent. serpentine (SUR-pen-teen), adjective Snake-like in shape or movement. “For it is not possible to join SERPENTINE wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent.” – Francis Bacon, English philosopher, author, and statesman sesquipedalian (ses-kwi-pih-DAL-yin), adjective A writer or speaker who prefers big, complex words and arcane jargon to plain, simple English, or a piece of writing containing such prose.

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
Published 27 Jan 2015

At fifteen, Lands had made his first serious money—serious for a teenager, that is—running a large “guild” connected to the video game EverQuest and selling virtual goods for real money. He was already an entrepreneur. He just didn’t know it yet. “I didn’t know anything about business,” Lands said. “I didn’t even know anybody who had a business. My spreadsheet was a notepad.” This was the time of the Columbine shooting, and a gamer with long hair who had a predilection for wearing black soon found himself the focus of authorities at his school, who worried he might have similar inclinations as the two young killers who orchestrated that massacre. Having money in his pocket gave him the courage to simply quit school rather than deal with the harassment.

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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy
Published 10 Nov 2009

Experiments suggest that once a person gets “anchored” on a certain number, or argument, he may well try to cling to it by mistakenly interpreting any evidence that is presented to him as supportive, even if it is actually contradictory. (In the literature, this is known as the “confirmation bias.”) In the aftermath of the latest Columbine-style mass shooting, supporters of gun control invariably say, “I told you so,” but so do supporters of maintaining an armed citizenry. In 1977–1978, Kahneman and Tversky spent the academic year at Stanford, where they became friends and collaborators with Richard Thaler, a young economist who had done his Ph.D. at Rochester, a bastion of mathematical orthodoxy.

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Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon
by Fodor's
Published 17 Aug 2010

At the edge of a logged sequoia grove, some trees still stand at this site. Near the park’s entrance, the area is paved and next to the road. It’s the only picnic area in either park that is plowed in the wintertime. Restrooms, grills, and drinking water are available, and the area is entirely accessible. | Just inside Rte. 180, Big Stump entrance 93633. Columbine. This shaded picnic area near the sequoias is relatively level. Tables, restrooms, drinking water, and grills are available. | Grant Tree Rd., just off Generals Hwy. (Rte. 198), ½ mi northwest of Grant Grove Visitor Center 93633. Grizzly Falls. This little gem is worth a pull-over, if not a picnic.

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
by Rachel Bloom
Published 17 Nov 2020

ADOLESCENT RACHEL BLOOM No one will ever understand me and that’s the way it has to be. I am an underdog whose sheer talent will someday prove everyone wrong. And then they’ll all be sorry. (pause, then) Just to be clear, I mean that they’ll be sorry in an “I’m gonna be successful” way, not in a Columbine way. A BUNCH OF FLYERS come down from the ceiling. ADOLESCENT RACHEL BLOOM What’s this? Our school’s beloved drama and English teacher is starting a YEAR-ROUND MUSICAL THEATER CLASS? Wow, I’ll finally get to spend all of my time doing theater instead of just little community productions in the summer?

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
by Henry Jenkins
Published 31 Jul 2006

, 148 activism, 12 adbusting, 137 additive comprehension, 123, 125-128 adhocracies, 251, 254, 256-257 Adventures in Odyssey, 200 advertising, 7,12, 20, 22, 66 Advertising Age, 67-68 Aeon Flux, 101 affective economics, 20, 61-64, 70,126 affinity spaces, 177-180,183-185, 259 A i n ' t It C o o l N e w s , 55 Akira, 110 Albrecht, Chris, 138-139,149,154-155 Alice in Wonderland, 99 Alien, 114 A l Jazeera, 78 A l i a s , Marcia, 249 Alliance Talent Agency, 70 Almereyda, Michael, 151-152 A l p h a v i l l e , 228-232 Alphaville Herald, 229-231 alternate reality games, 124-127, 233 A m a z o n . c o m , 132, 200 American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, 196 A m e r i c a n Express, 69 American Idol, 19-20, 59-61, 63-64, 68, 70-71, 76-92,155 American Idol (personalities): C l a y A i k e n , 71, 84, 86, 89; Fantasia Barrino 91; Simon C o w e l l , 87-88, 90; Elton John, 91; Kimberley Locke, 84; Ruben Studdard, 71, 84-86, 89, 91 America Online, 229 America's Army, 74-79, 207 America's Funniest Home Videos, 142 amusement parks, 96 A n d e r s o n , C h r i s , 252 anime, 100-101,156-161 A n i m e Angels, 201 Annenberg Public P o l i c y Center, 225, 227 Antonucci, M i k e , 104 A O L , 86 A p p l e Box Productions, 64 A p p l e Computers, 79 A p p l e M u s i c Store, 253 Apprentice, The, 69-72, 84, 206-207 apprenticeship, 29, 238 appropriation, 18,148-149, 246 A r m s , P h i l , 192 Arrested Development, 253-254 Artificial Intelligence: A.I., 123,127 A s k w i t h , Ivan, 104, 253 assessment, 85 Associated Press, 213 astral projection, 193 A T & T Wireless, 59, 87-89, 91-92 A t o m F i l m s , 131,139, 149,154-156 295 Skenovâno pro studijni ücely 296 Index Babylon 5,117 Bagge, Peter, 93-94, 97, 101 banner ads, 65 Barnes & N o b l e , 110 Barney, Matthew, 129 Bartle, Richard, 160 Batman: Hong Kong, 111 Baudrillard, Jean, 98-99 Baynes, Arthur, 228 BBC, 242 Bear Steams, 71 "Beast," The, 123-125,127, 232 Being Digital, 5 Ben & Jerry's Ice C r e a m , 206 Benedek, Peter, 239 Benjamin, Walter, 223, 226 Benning, Sadie, 151 Berlant, Lauren, 222 Bert (Sesame Street), 1 Bertelsmann M e d i a W o r l d w i d e , 108 brand advocates, 73 brand communities, 79-80, 83, 88, 91, 216 brand extension, 69 brand tests, 79 branding, 20, 62-64, 68-72, 76, 91 brand loyalty, 72 brands, 22 Broadcasting & Cable, 89 Brock, Jack, 192 Brooker, W i l l , 151 Bruce Almighty, 200 Buckingham, D a v i d , 128, 227-228 B u d d h a , 98 Burnett, M a r k , 25, 32, 37, 42-43, 46^18, 51, 56, 69, 90, 215, 251 Burton, T i m , 115 Bush, George W., 206-207, 211-212, 216, 219, 221, 223, 230, 234 " B u s h i n 30 seconds" contest, 219-220 Business Week, 66 "Bert is E v i l , " 1-3 beta reading, 179-181 Bible, 122,193, 204 Big Brother, 51-53,109 Billboard, 61 Bilson, Danny, 97,105-106,123 Bin Laden, Osama, 221 Bioware, 162-164 BitTorrent, 251 Black Box Fallacy, 14-16, 24, 212 Black, Rebecca, 181 Blade Runner, 115,123 Blair Witch Project, The, 97,101-103, 115,119 bloggers/blogging/blogs, 212-218, 237, 241, 252 blue A m e r i c a , 235, 237, 239 B M W , 207 Bochco, Stephen, 116 Bollinger, D a n , 32-34, 51, 57 Bollywood, 4 Borders, 110 Boston, 45 brain d r a i n , 38 brain trusts, 38-40, cable television, 66 C a m p a i g n 2004, 22, 29, 208-239, 246 C a m p b e l l , Joseph, 98,120 Carey, M a r i a h , 61 Carlson, Tucker, 225, 227 Cartoon N e t w o r k , 132 Casablanca, 97-98,101 Cassidy, K y l e , 149 Castells, M a n u e l , 129 casuals, 74, 76-77, 81 CBS, 25, 36-37, 45-46, 48, 54, 57, 60, 211-213, 220, 225 cease-and-desist, 152,186,189 Celebrity Deathmatch, 148 Center for Deliberative Democracy, 235 Center for Information and Research on C i v i c Learning and Engagement, 223 C h a d w i c k , Paul, 101,111-113,125, 128 C h a n C h e n , 113 C h a n , E v a n , 124 C h a n , Jackie, 109 Skenováno pro studijní ucely Index Charlie's Angels, 108 cheating, 259 Cheney, Richard, 219, 230 Cheskin Research, 15 C h i c k - f i l - A , 200 Children's Television Workshop, 2 chilling effects.org, 188 ChillOne, 26, 28, 31-32, 34-35, 37, 39-40, 42-46, 48-51, 54-57 China, 108,110,112-113 Chomsky, N o a m , 247 C h o w Yun-Fat, 113 Christian Gamers G u i l d , 201 Christianity, 21-22, 98,100,119, 169-171,192-195,197-204 Christopher Little Literary Agency, 185 C h u n g , Peter, 101 Ciao Bella, 70 citizen, informed vs. monitorial, 208, 225-226, 258-259 citizen journalists, 240 Clarkson, Kelly, 61 "click through," 65 Clinton, W i l l i a m J., 219 Cloudmakers, 123,125,127, 232 C N N , 1-3,124,140,192, 225 Coca-Cola Company, 60, 68-69, 70, 73, 87-88, 91, 92, 207 co-creation, 105-107 code, 163 Cohen, Ben, 206 cokemusic.com, 72 Cold Mountain, 200 Cole, Jeanne, 150 collaborationism, 134,167, 169-170, 187 collaborative authorship, 96,108¬ 113 Collective Detective, 233 collective intelligence, 2, 4, 20, 22, 26-27, 29, 50, 52-54, 63, 95,100, 127, 129,170,184, 208, 226, 235, 245-247, 254 Colson, Charles, 201-202 Columbine, 192 C o m e d y Central, 224-225 comics, 14, 96,101-102,108-109, 111, 132,164, 249-250 commercial culture, 135 commodity, 27 commodity exploitation, 62-63 communal media, 245 Comparative M e d i a Studies program, 12, 68, 80, 85,151 complexity, 33, 94-95, 259 Concepción, Bienvenido, 143 Concrete, 101, 111 consensus, 86 consensus culture, 236 convergence, 2-8,10-12, 14-24, 26, 59, 64, 68, 83, 95,104,114,170, 208, 212, 220, 242 convergence, corporate, 18,109-110, 157, 259 convergence culture, 15, 21, 23,132, 137,176-177, 204, 212, 242, 247, 259-260, 248, 257 convergence, grassroots, 18, 57, 109-110, 136-137, 157, 215, 259 Coombe, Rosemary J., 189 Coors Brewing Company, 69 Cops, 132 copyright, 137-138,154,167,189-190, 248 Corliss, Richard, 127 "cosplay," 113-114 Counterstrike, 163 Cowboy Bebop, 101 Creative Artists Agency, 60, 67 Crest toothpaste, 70 critical pessimism, 247-248 critical utopianism, 247-248 Crossfire, 225 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 109, 112-113 cult films, 97-98 cultural activator, 95 cultural attractor, 95 culture.

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H o t Jobs, 71 Yellow A r r o w , 18 Yeoh, Michelle, 109, 113 Young, N e i l , 97,107,123,126 Yuen, Woo-Ping, 108-109 Yu-Gi-Ohl, 110,128-129,157 zappers, 74-76, 81-82 Zennie, Nancy, 195 Z h a n g Z i y i , 113 Z i m m e r m a n n , Patricia R., 142 Zsenya, 178 Skenováno pro studijní úcely 307 About the Author The founder and director of MIT's Comparative M e d i a Studies Program, H e n r y Jenkins is the author or editor of ten books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, The Children's Culture Reader, and Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. H i s career so far has included testifying before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing into Marketing Violence for Youth following the Columbine shootings, promoting media literacy education before the Federal Communications Commission, speaking to the Governor's Board of the World Economic F o r u m about intellectual property and grassroots creativity, heading the Education Arcade w h i c h promotes the educational uses of computer and video games, writing monthly columns for Technology Review and Computer Games magazines, and consulting w i t h leading media companies about consumer relations.

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson
Published 5 Apr 2006

If the subj ect matter of popular entertainment truly had a significant impact on our behavior (and especially the be­ havior of the younger generations) then logically we should expect to see very different trends in real-world society. Over the last ten years-a period of unprecedented fictional vio­ lence i n the American household, thanks to Quake and Quentin Tarantino films and Tony Soprano-the country simultaneously experienced the most dramatic drop in vio­ lent crime in its history. Yes, the Columbine shooters were most likely infl uenced by playing violent games like Quake, but as tragic as that event was, we don't analyze soci a l trends b y looking at isolated single examples; we l o o k at 1 92 ST E V E N J O H N S O N broad patterns in the society, and the broad pattern of the last decade is less violence, not more.

How to Be Black
by Baratunde Thurston
Published 31 Jan 2012

Beware of the white man; I’m not saying to be scared of him or to cut off communication, but beware, because when we realize that we should not be fighting each other, the tide will turn. I was thirteen years old when I wrote that and handed it in to my English teacher. If a middle school student turned in such a document today, he would immediately be sent to a counselor or detention facility, but this was pre-Columbine 1991. The number one song on the Billboard charts was the upbeat Someday by Mariah Carey, and the top television show was Cheers. It was a happier time. After class the next day, my teacher pulled me aside to discuss my manifesto. “You would never have written this if I weren’t black, would you?”

Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
by Dave Rubin
Published 27 Apr 2020

It found that major depression has almost doubled for 21-year-olds from 2009 to 2017, while the number of 22-year-olds who attempted suicide has doubled from 2008 to 2017. This sort of information is important because the root of our gun problem isn’t the weapon itself but the human beings behind them. After all, it’s a person who pulls the trigger. If you think this isn’t relevant, it may be worth noting that one of the Columbine, Colorado, shooters, Eric Harris, had Luvox (a Prozac-like, psychotropic medicine) in his bloodstream. Likewise, Stephen Paddock, the man who slaughtered fifty-eight people in the Las Vegas shooting—the worst in modern American history—had antianxiety medication in his system and had previously been prescribed diazepam.

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by Lawrence Wright
Published 17 Jan 2013

Eli Lilly, for instance, suppressed data showing that patients who were taking the popular drug Prozac—the only antidepressant certified as safe for children—were twelve times more likely to attempt suicide than patients taking similar medications. Antidepressants have been implicated in a number of schoolyard shootings, such as the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, where two students killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher. One of the killers was taking Luvox at the time. Adderall—one of the drugs cited by Cruise—is an amphetamine often prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; it sometimes causes increased aggression in children and adolescents.

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Child Care Org, 4.1, 4.2 child labor laws Childs, Joe China, 2.1, 4.1 Chinese Communists, 4.1, 4.2 Christensen, Erika Christian Science Christman, Tory Christofferson Titchbourne, Julie Church of American Science Church of Latter Day Saints; see also Mormonism Church of Satan Church of Scientology International Church of Spiritual Engineering Church of Spiritual Technology, itr.1, 7.1 CIA, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4n, 3.5, 4.1 Cine Org Citizens Commission on Human Rights Clarke, Stanley, 5.1, 5.2 Clear Body, Clear Mind Clears, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2 qualities of, 1.1, 2.1 Clearwater, Fla., itr.1, 3.1, 4.1 Clearwater Sun Clinton, Bill, 7.1, 8.1 Coale, John Coast Guard, U.S. Cohen, Leonard Collateral Collective Unconscious Colletto, Diane Colletto, John Columbia New Port Richey Hospital Columbia Pictures Columbine High School Commodore’s Messengers Organization, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1 confabulation confession conscious mind Contact Assist Contagion of Aberration “contra-survival action” Conway, Peggy Cook, Debbie, 8.1, 9.1 Cooley, Earle Cooper, Gary Cooper, Paulette, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1 Corea, Chick, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2 Corfu, 3.1, 3.2 “counter-intentions” Covertly Hostile personality Cowboy Stories Crash, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1 Creedance Clearwater Revival Creston ranch, 5.1, 5.2, epl.1 “crew chief” Crowe, Russell Crowley, Aleister, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 7.1 Cruise, Connor, 7.1, 8.1 Cruise, Isabella, 7.1, 8.1 Cruise, Lee Anne Cruise, Tom, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, epl.1 Cruz, Penélope, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2 Cuba “cult” Cult Awareness Network, 7.1, 7.2n, 7.3 Curaçao Cusack, John Customs, U.S.

Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman
by Neal Thompson
Published 2 Jan 2004

page 163, “short-arm” inspection: Author interview with Jig Dog Ramage. page 163, Friends called him a . . . “liberty hound”: Author interview with Ralph Stell. page 163, “Shep never revealed . . . who he screwed”: Author interview with John Mitchell. page 164, nearly a million men subscribed to Playboy David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994), p. 573. page 164, wondered why she stayed with him: Author interview with Betty Whisler. page 165, still managed to reach Mach .93: Author interview with John Mitchell. page 166, Rooney . . . “a little stinker first class”: Griffin, oral history. page 167, unauthorized happy hour: Author interview with Bill Geiger.

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Godwin, Robert, ed., Apollo 14: The NASA Mission Reports. Ontario: Apogee Books, 2001. Grissom, Betty, and Henry Still. Starfall. New York: Ty Crowell Co., 1974. Grossnick, Roy, and William J. Armstrong. United States Naval Aviation: 1910–1995. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997. Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994. Ivins, Molly. Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She? New York: Random House, 1991. Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed. The Shepard Families of New England. Vol. III. New Haven: The New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1973. Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York: HarperCollins, 1956. Kennedy, Paul.

Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Dublin
by Geoff Wallis

The Book of Kells Pre-eminent for the scale, variety and colour of its decoration, the Book of Kells probably originated at the monastery on Iona off the west coast of Scotland, which was founded around 561 by the great Irish scholar, bard and ruler St Colum Cille (St Colmcille in English). After a Viking raid in 806, the Columbines moved to the monastery of Kells in County Meath, and around 1653, the manuscript was moved to Dublin for safekeeping during the Cromwellian Wars. The 340 calfskin folios of the Book of Kells contain the four New Testament gospels along with preliminary texts, all in Latin. It’s thought that three artists created the book’s lavish decoration, which shows Pictish, Germanic and Mediterranean, as well as Celtic influences. 03 Places Dublin 61-184.indd 67 1/4/08 6:38:13 PM Trinity College, Grafton Street and around P L A C E S 68  HOUSE OF LORDS An Irish parliament had existed in one limited form or another since the thirteenth century, but achieved its greatest flowering here in 1782 – “Grattan’s Parliament” after the prime mover behind the constitutional reform – when it was granted legislative independence from the British Parliament.

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
by Cary McClelland
Published 8 Oct 2018

They’re just going with them wherever they want to go, being of support and helping them make sense of things. You don’t have to be a therapist to be able to do that. You have to have a certain makeup, and then you have to be trained well. But sometimes ways that people get trained as therapists can interfere with just listening. It makes me think about a scene in Bowling for Columbine. Marilyn Manson was being interviewed, and the interviewer asked him if he could have talked to Dylan Klebold, and whoever the other kid was, what would he have said to them? And he said something like, “I wouldn’t have said a thing. I would have listened. Because that’s what no one did.” In particular, there’s one subset of kids that have a really hard time accessing services: the kids who would tell you they’d known about the center for years before they ever set foot in it.

Protecting Pollinators
by Jodi Helmer
Published 15 Nov 2019

Their tenacious behavior isn’t limited to their own species; rufous hummingbirds will direct their aggression toward species weighing twice as much. The rufous hummingbird prefers nectar from flowers as colorful as their plumage; the nimble pollinators seek out plants with tubular flowers, such as Columbine (Aquilegia), Indian paintbrush (Castilleja), and larkspur (Delphinium), using their superior flight skills to move from one flower to the next at remarkable speeds. Though nectar makes up the bulk of their diet, they also nosh on insects for protein; gnats and aphids are among their favorites. The rufous hummingbird has a more extensive breeding range than other species and has been spotted from Alaska to Mexico, breeding in open areas, including mountainsides, and nesting along the West Coast, traveling more than 2,000 miles to overwinter in warmer climates.

Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
by Lee Gutkind and Purba
Published 1 Jan 1997

This is where the largest f lower beds are and the place I try out new plants just for fun. This is my favorite room because this is where most of my perennials are, or at least where most of them were born before they got transplanted to other beds. Bleeding heart, red cloud spiderwort, edelweiss, columbine, bee balm, sea pink, salvia, silver mound, primrose, lavender, hosta by the ton, yarrow, lythrum, astilbe in many colors and heights-and countless others. My cat sleeps in a huge mat of coreopsis on summer's hottest days, and at night when I get home I have to comb it upward and help it stand up straight again.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
by Phillip Lopate
Published 12 Feb 2013

The opening essay, “Small Silences,” is a superb demonstration of Hoagland at his most appealing and unfettered. He begins with lyrical recollections of his childhood move to Connecticut during World War II, and the discovery of the pond. “ ‘I’m going to the pond,’ I’d say casually to my mother; then dodge carefully past” the neighbor’s servant toward the trillium and columbine, the toadstools and fairy-ring mushrooms, the nematodes and myriapods, the blueberries or blackberries, near the opaque yet shiny stretch of hidden water, deep here, shallow there, with the wind ruffling the surface to conceal such factual matters, and cold at its inlet but warm where it fed into a creek that ran to the Silvermine River and finally the ocean.

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
by Mason Currey
Published 22 Apr 2013

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922); Pamela Neville-Sington, Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman (New York: Viking, 1997). 62. “It was my practice”: Trollope, 236–7. 63. mother, Francis Trollope: Neville-Sington, 255. 64. Jane Austen: Park Honan, Jane Austen: Her Life (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1987); James Edward Austen-Leigh, Memoir of Jane Austen (1926; repr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967); Carol Shields, Jane Austen (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001). 65. “subject to all”: Austen-Leigh, 102. 66. Austen rose early: Honan, 264. 67. “Composition seems to”: Quoted in Shields, 123. 68.

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web
by Cole Stryker
Published 14 Jun 2011

A few years ago, this sort of collaborative metahumor would have been found only on 4chan (or maybe Something Awful), but the rest of the Internet, with Reddit leading the charge, has caught up. Reddit has also reappropriated 4chan’s Ask Me Anything, or AMA threads, which have attracted some major celebrities in addition to nerd icons like moot. The all-time top verified AMA threads include those of 74-time Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, actor Bruce Campbell, Columbine shooting survivor Brooks Brown, and a former Marine One crew chief. Unverified AMA threads, which are often even more interesting, include a military whistleblower, a girl who spent 16 months as a full-time BDSM slave, a person who was caught and tortured during recent rioting in Egypt, a man who only answers questions using MS Paint, a brain cancer victim with 2–6 months to live, and a four-year-old girl (with help from her dad).

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella Lucy Bird and Daniel J. Boorstin
Published 1 Jan 1873

The wild flowers are gorgeous and innumerable, though their beauty, which culminates in July and August, was over before I arrived, and the recent snow flurries have finished them. The time between winter and winter is very short, and the flowery growth and blossom of a whole year are compressed into two months. Here are dandelions, buttercups, larkspurs, harebells, violets, roses, blue gentian, columbine, painter's brush, and fifty others, blue and yellow predominating; and though their blossoms are stiffened by the cold every morning, they are starring the grass and drooping over the brook long before noon, making the most of their brief lives in the sunshine. Of ferns, after many a long hunt, I have only found the Cystopteris fragilis and the Blechnum spicant, but I hear that the Pteris aquilina is also found.

The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
by Leigh Gallagher
Published 26 Jun 2013

After a tragic gang rape: Aliyah Shahid, “Girl, 11, Lured into Park Bathroom in Moreno Valley, Calif. and Gang Raped by 7 Teens: Cops,” New York Daily News, March 29, 2011. While overall homicides: Cameron McWhirter and Gary Fields, “Crime Migrates to Suburbs,” Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2012. Many of the nation’s highest-profile shootings have occurred in the suburbs as well, from Columbine to Aurora, Colorado, to, of course, the horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. The urban scholar Richard Florida studied data from mass shootings in recent years and found that, while the data does not cover every single episode and the geographic information is limited, the “wide majority” of such shootings, and especially mass school killings, have occurred not in urban centers of large cities but in the “small towns, burgs and villages of our suburban and rural areas.”

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William Braxton Irvine
Published 14 Feb 2009

These days, after doing what they can to save lives, authorities are quick to call in grief counselors to help those who survived the disaster, those who lost loved ones in it, and those who witnessed it. When, for example, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed in 1995, killing 168, a horde of grief counselors descended on the city to help people work through their grief. Likewise, in 1999, when three dozen people were shot by two rampaging students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, a team of grief counselors was brought in to help the surviving students, their parents, and members of the community deal with their grief.12 It is instructive to contrast these responses to disaster with the way authorities responded to disasters in the middle of the twentieth century.

What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins
Published 22 Feb 2011

Many carnivores go after moving targets and exercise the “chase, trip, and bite” mechanism exhibited by large felines, the primary predators of our ancestors. Many animals not only freeze their motion when confronted by preda-LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 27 tors, but some even play dead, which is the ultimate freeze reaction. This is a strategy that opossums use, but they are not the only animals to do so. In fact, accounts of the school shootings at Columbine and Virginia Tech demonstrate that students used the freeze response to deal with deadly predators. By holding still and playing dead, many students survived even though they were only a few feet away from the killer. Instinctively, the students adopted ancient behaviors that work very effectively.

Nashville Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
by Dk Eyewitness
Published 28 Sep 2021

The East Nashville 97 98 096-099_LAL_Nashville.indd 97 06/08/2021 12:23 096-099_LAL_Nashville.indd 98 06/08/2021 12:23 F O O D I E G I F T S poppery turns out perfect little puffs covered in sweet and savory mixes, like “sweet heat,” made with caramel, cheese, and “Nashville hot spice,” of course. You’ll be ordering bulk batches for the holidays after just one mouthful. NASHVILLE JAM COMPANY Map 4; 2806 Columbine Place, Berry Hill; ///sleep.animal.unique; www.nashvillejamco.com It’s an age-old problem here in the South: locals can’t keep up with the number of fruits and veggies springing up in their verdant gardens. Husband and wife Gary and Cortney resorted to making and sel ing jams at farmers’ markets down in Murfreesboro and, before they knew it, the pair were responsible for a jam sensation.

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
by Paul Bloom

Just as we can come to ignore the hum of a refrigerator, we become inured to problems that seem unrelenting, like the starvation of children in Africa—or homicide in the United States. Mass shootings get splashed onto television screens, newspaper headlines, and the Web; the major ones settle into our collective memory—Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Sandy Hook. The 99.9 percent of other homicides are, unless the victim is someone you know, mere background noise. Such biases are separate from empathy. But the spotlight nature of empathy means that it is vulnerable to them. Empathy’s narrow focus, specificity, and innumeracy mean that it’s always going to be influenced by what captures our attention, by racial preferences, and so on.

The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
Published 26 Jul 2011

Formerly an environmental geologist with his own consulting firm, Jim is now a professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure (www.speakingofadventure.com). Jim lives in Colorado with his two adventurous kids and his very tolerant wife. KEVIN VAUGHAN is a staff writer at The Denver Post. A graduate of Metropolitan State College, he has written extensively on the sports supplement industry, the tragedy at Columbine High School, and the criminal justice system. He has been honored numerous times for his journalism. He lives in Colorado with his wife and their three children.

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
by Steven Johnson
Published 2 Jan 1999

The few studies of laughter that preceded this one had assumed that laughing and humor were linked inextricably, but Provine’s early research suggested that the connection was only an occasional one. People certainly laughed at jokes, but that was only a small part of the story. “There’s a dark side to laughter that we sometimes are too quick to overlook,” he says. “The kids at Columbine were laughing as they walked through the school shooting their peers.” As his research progressed, Provine began to suspect that laughter was in fact about something else-not humor or gags or incongruity, but social interaction. He found support for this assumption in a study that had already been conducted, analyzing people’s laughter patterns in social and solitary contexts.

Bureaucracy
by David Graeber
Published 3 Feb 2015

In fact the only reference I could find to the term “postalization” in contemporary literature is an essay on workplace violence called “the postalization of corporate America,” decrying how an epidemic of violent attacks on bosses and co-workers was spreading from the public sector into private corporations, too. In a fascinating book called Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion from Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond, Mark Ames carefully picked through journalistic accounts of such events (which did, indeed, quickly spread from the Post Office to private offices and factories, and even to private postal services like UPS, but in the process, became so commonplace that many barely made the national news) and noted that the language they employ, which always described these events as acts of inexplicable individual rage and madness—severed from any consideration of the systematic humiliations that always seem to set them off—bears an uncanny resemblance to the way the nineteenth-century press treated slave revolts.126 Ames notes that there were remarkably few organized slave rebellions in American history.

The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters With the Human Race
by Sara Barron
Published 25 Mar 2014

Charlie got belligerent on promotional vodka samples, and when the overweight lady bartender cut him off and told him it was time to leave, he screamed, “You’re a fat fucking cunt, you know that? You’re really fucking fat.” It was awful hearing him talk this way. I mean, I enjoy a joke about incest, rape, farts, Hitler, pedophiles, September 11, Columbine, midgets, bestiality, pediatric cancer, wealthy Russians, spousal abuse, the word “Mongoloid,” the mentally disabled, homosexuals, hookers, dead hookers, anything pertaining to Jewish culture, and a large portion of race-related issues as long as the audience for whom the joke is performed isn’t entirely white.

Power
by Shahida Arabi
Published 11 Jan 2017

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(7), 294-300. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2004.05.010 Ferster, C. B., & Skinner, B. F. (1957). Schedules of reinforcement. Appleton-Century Crofts. doi:10.1037/10627-000 Fisher, H. E. (1994). Anatomy of love: The mysteries of mating, marriage, and why we stray. New York: Fawcett Columbine. Fisher, H. E. (2016). Love Is Like Cocaine – Issue 33: Attraction – Nautilus. Retrieved from http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/love-is-like-cocaine Georgia Health Sciences University. (2011, February 28). Brain’s Reward Center Also Responds to Bad Experiences. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110222121913.htm Harvard Health. (2007).

A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar
Published 11 Jun 1998

Even in the three years since the publication of this book, the transformations in Nash’s life have been as remarkable as any that will be portrayed on screen. Princeton Junction, New Jersey, June 1, 2001 Notes Prologue 1. George W. Mackey, professor of mathematics, Harvard University, interview, Cambridge, Mass., 12.14.95. 2. See, for example, David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Favycett Columbine, 1993). 3. Mikhail Gromov, professor of mathematics, Institut des Hautes-Etudes, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, and Courant Institute, interview, 12.16.97. The claim that Nash ranks among the greatest mathematicians of the postwar era is based on judgment of fellow mathematicians. The topologist John Milnor expressed a nearly universal opinion among mathematicians when he wrote: “To some, the brief paper, written at age 21, for which he has won a Nobel prize in economics, may seem like the least of his achievements.”

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Stephen Fry in America
by Stephen Fry
Published 1 Jan 2008

Do they respond to beauty in nature, for example? Can they detect, appreciate and value the difference between a dull urban sprawl and a mighty mountain landscape? * * * COLORADO KEY FACTS Abbreviation: CO Nickname: The Centennial State Capital: Denver Flower: Rocky Mountain columbine Tree: Colorado blue spruce Bird: Lark bunting Mineral: Rhodochrosite Motto: Nil Sine Numine (‘Nothing Without Providence’) Well-known residents and natives: John Kerry, Horace ‘Go West Young Man’ Greeley, James Michener, Allen Ginsberg, Clive Cussler, Antoinette ‘Tony Award’ Perry, Ken Kesey, Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney, Bill Murray, Roseanne Barr, Tim Allen, Don Cheadle, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Paul Whiteman, Glenn Miller, John Denver

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida
Published 9 May 2016

Furthermore, the violent crime rate—which has been declining across the United States—fell three times faster in America’s primary cities than it did in their suburbs between 1990 and 2008. Murders actually rose by 16.9 percent in the suburbs between 2001 and 2010, while falling by 16.7 percent in cities.11 And the suburbs have been the sites of many, if not most, of America’s mass shootings, from Columbine to Sandy Hook. Suburban governments and police departments have been slow to adjust to these new realities. That became agonizingly apparent to the whole world when Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb of 21,000, spun out of control in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown in 2015. Over two-thirds (67 percent) of Ferguson’s population is black, but only four of the town’s fifty-four police officers were black at the time.

Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges
Published 14 May 2010

But you can’t fully grasp this unless you have been in combat, and combat is something the liberal class has been able to hand off to the working class since World War II. The solitary voices of dissent that condemned the war at its inception were attacked as fiercely by the liberal class as by the right wing. When documentary filmmaker Michael Moore accepted the Oscar for his film Bowling for Columbine on March 23, 2003, he used the occasion to denounce the war, which had begun a few days earlier, as well as the legitimacy of the Bush presidency. “We live in a fictitious time,” Moore, dressed in an ill-fitting tuxedo, told an increasingly hostile audience:We live in a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president.

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
Published 17 Aug 2004

Today’s parents must also confront another frightening prospect as they consider where their children will attend school: the threat of school violence. The widely publicized rise in shootings, gangs, and dangerous drugs at public schools sent many parents in search of a safe haven for their sons and daughters. Violent incidents can happen anywhere, as the shootings at lovely suburban Columbine High School in Colorado revealed to a horrified nation. But the statistics show that school violence is not as random as it might seem. According to one study, the incidence of serious violent crime—such as robbery, rape, or attack with a weapon—is more than three times higher in schools characterized by high poverty levels than those with predominantly middle- and upper-income children.41 Similarly, urban children are more than twice as likely as suburban children to fear being attacked on the way to or from school.42 The data expose a harsh reality: Parents who can get their kids into a more economically segregated neighborhood really improve the odds that their sons and daughters will make it through school safely.

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
by Danielle Ofri
Published 1 Feb 2017

Roter et al., “The Impact of Patient and Physician Computer Mediated Communication Skill Training on Reported Communication and Patient Satisfaction,” Patient Education and Counseling 88 (2012): 406–13. 5. J. K. Rao et al., “Communication Interventions Make a Difference in Conversations Between Physicians and Patients: A Systematic Review of the Evidence,” Medical Care 45 (2007): 340–49. 6. Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness: And Other Writings on Life and Death (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992), 43. 7. D. E. Epner et al., “Difficult Conversations: Teaching Medical Oncology Trainees Communication Skills One Hour at a Time,” Academic Medicine 89 (2014): 578–84. CHAPTER 16: CAN WE TALK? 1. Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness, 52. 2. Ibid., 44. 3. From “Gaudeamus Igitur” in Stone, Renaming the Streets.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
by David Eagleman
Published 29 May 2011

As the neuroscientist Wolf Singer recently suggested: even when we cannot measure what is wrong with a criminal’s brain, we can fairly safely assume that something is wrong.23 His actions are sufficient evidence of a brain abnormality, even if we don’t know (and maybe will never know) the details.24 As Singer puts it: “As long as we can’t identify all the causes, which we cannot and will probably never be able to do, we should grant that for everybody there is a neurobiological reason for being abnormal.” Note that most of the time we cannot measure an abnormality in criminals. Take Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the shooters at Columbine High School in Colorado, or Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter at Virginia Tech. Was something wrong with their brains? We’ll never know, because they—like most school shooters—were killed at the scene. But we can safely assume there was something abnormal in their brains. It’s a rare behavior; most students don’t do that.

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
by Sarah Kendzior
Published 6 Apr 2020

Sympathy was a junk bond emotion. Sympathy was reserved for only the most virtuous victims—and even then, they always implied, it must have been the victim’s fault. Occasionally a great horror would shake Americans out of their smug voyeurism, a tragedy so awful it could not be sold as spectacle—the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine massacre—but these were dismissed as anomalies instead of sparks for future flames. Their predecessors—Ruby Ridge and the school shootings that first emerged in the early 1990s—were minimized outside the fringes, where they were immortalized with a cult-like intensity. The 1990s was a paranoid era, relentlessly unsentimental.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 2002

If humans are accidental products of the mutation and selection of chemical replicators, they worry, morality would have no foundation and we would be left mindlessly obeying biological urges. One creationist, testifying to this danger in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, cited the lyrics of a rock song: “You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals / So let’s do it like they do it on the Discovery Channel.”27 After the 1999 lethal rampage by two teenagers at Columbine High School in Colorado, Tom Delay, the Republican Majority Whip in the House of Representatives, said that such violence is inevitable as long as “our school systems teach children that they are nothing but glorified apes, evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud.”28 The most damaging effect of the right-wing opposition to evolution is the corruption of American science education by activists in the creationist movement.

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Extraterrestrial Civilizations
by Isaac Asimov
Published 2 Jan 1979

Also by Isaac Asimov: EARTH: OUR CROWDED SPACESHIP REALM OF NUMBERS EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS THIS BOOK CONTAINS THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL HARDCOVER EDITION. Published by Fawcett Columbine Books, a unit of CBS Publications, the Consumer Publishing Division of CBS Inc., by arrangement with Crown Publishers, Inc. Copyright ©1979 by Isaac Asimov ALL RIGHTS RESERVED eISBN: 978-0-307-79230-3 v3.1 To the memory of Paul Nadan (1929-1978) for whom I should have started the book sooner. Contents Cover Other Book by This Author Title Page Dedication Copyright 1 ·The Earth Spirits Animals Primates Brains Fire Civilization 2 · The Moon Phases Another World Waterlessness Moon Hoax Airlessness 3 · The Inner Solar System Nearby Worlds Venus Martian Canals Mars Probes 4 · The Outer Solar System Planetary Chemistry Titan Jupiter 5 · The Stars Substars The Milky Way The Galaxy The Other Galaxies 6 · Planetary Systems Nebular Hypothesis Stellar Collisions Nebular Hypothesis Again The Rotating Stars The Wobbling Stars 7 · Sunlike Stars Giant Stars Midget Stars Just Right 8 · Earthlike Planets Binary Stars Star Populations The Ecosphere Habitability 9 · Life Spontaneous Generation Origin of Life?

Pump Six and Other Stories
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Published 15 Sep 2010

Lidia sighed and turned from the windows, obedient finally to Nia's anxious hope that she would dress. Stephen and Lidia went on picnics together when Belari was away from the fief. They would leave the great gray construct of Belari's castle and walk carefully across the mountain meadows, Stephen always helping her, guiding her fragile steps through fields of daisies, columbine, and lupine until they peered down over sheer granite cliffs to the town far below. All about them glacier-sculpted peaks ringed the valley like giants squatting in council, their faces adorned with snow even in summer, like beards of wisdom. At the edge of the precipice, they ate a picnic lunch and Stephen told stories of the world before the fiefs, before Revitia made stars immortal.

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Published 2 Sep 2008

That’s largely due to the fact that the focus on the archetypal negative results of aggression helped papers get published and research dollars flow: grants were readily available to study the plight of aggressive kids, in the hope the findings might help society prevent aggressive kids from becoming our future prison population. The 1999 Columbine High School massacre opened more floodgates for grant dollars, as the government made it a priority to ensure students would never again open fire on their peers. There was also a tendency, according to Dr. Allen, for social scientists to assume bad behaviors are uniformly associated with bad outcomes; aggression was considered bad behavior, so scientists were really only looking for the negative consequences of it.

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum
Published 31 Mar 2002

. • In various schools students are being suspended for: bringing a bottle of the nonprescription painkiller Advil to school; dying their hair an "unacceptable" color; giving a classmate a Midol tablet for relief of menstrual cramps; bringing "drugs" to school—lemon drops; bringing a gift-wrapped bottle of wine as a Christmas gift for a teacher; another is punished for carrying a small paring knife to cut her lunch fruit; yet another, a 9-year-old boy, is punished for waving his drawing of a gun in class; a sixyear-old boy is sent home for planting a kiss on a girl's cheek; eight-year-old girls are strip-searched in school, in a search for stolen money (not found); pre-schoolers to 6th grade students are given genital exams as part of their physicals; high schools employ random Breathalyser testing to ferret out students who have imbibed alcohol; a 14-yearold girl is strip-searched and suspended for two weeks because she tells her classmates she understands how the Columbine shooters felt; and high school students are questioned by police who want to know if a chemistry textbook was for bomb-making. This while an eleven-year-old boy is being arrested and accused of incest because a neighbor saw him touching his younger sister "sexually" in their yard. He was held six weeks in a juvenile detention center and shackled in court on at least one occasion.

The Mystery of Charles Dickens
by A. N. Wilson
Published 3 Jun 2020

He had grown up stage-struck. When he was seven, his mother and father took him up to London to see the Christmas pantomime, and he had been entranced by the make-up of the clowns, their thick white face-paint, and their appetite for sausages. Harlequin and Pantaloon held him in raptures, and he ‘thought that to marry a Columbine would be to attain the highest pitch of all human felicity!’22 A little later, a troupe of them had visited Chatham, where his improvident father was working as a naval clerk, and the child had stared with wonder at the little boys ‘with frills as white as they could be washed’,23 smelling of sawdust and orange peel, and accompanied by ‘a crafty magician holding a young lady in bondage’.24 Even after he had begun to enjoy great success as a writer, after the publication of Pickwick, and in the middle of writing Oliver Twist, Dickens, at a publisher’s request, took on the task of revising a clumsily written biography of the great clown Grimaldi,25 whom he had seen perform at the Theatre Royal, Chatham.

Vertical Gardening: Grow Up, Not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space
by Derek Fell
Published 25 Apr 2011

Even common groundcovers like ‘Purple Wave’ petunias in sun and evergreen blue periwinkle in shade are better than bare soil. At garden centers and nurseries, you will mostly find ankle-high, knee-high, waist-high, and even chest-high plants, often identified on plant labels as dwarf (such as alyssum), semi-dwarf (such as columbine), standard-size (such as New England asters), and tall (such as foxgloves and delphinium). Vines are more of a rarity, because most gardeners haven't experimented enough with them to know all of their wonderful attributes. Even if you've planted or are planning to plant your garden with bedding or tall plants, consider adding ornamental vines to any bare space above chest height, and definitely think about including vines in addition to tall shrubs or trees to create the vertical component so necessary in a field of vision.

Fresh Off the Boat
by Eddie Huang
Published 29 Jan 2013

I lifted up my head, opened my eyes, and to the right I saw Emery coming out of the bathroom and that motherfucker that punched him was waiting. I was shook from the moment of silence, but I knew what I had to do and dropped my backpack. Warren was right behind me so I knew he’d scoop it. Those were the days right after Columbine so we all had to wear student IDs around our necks. I took my ID off, wrapped it around my hands, crept behind this kid, and yoked him right in front of Emery. All the Tangelo Park cats hung by the bathroom so as soon as they saw it, you heard the motherfuckin’ bird call. Kids surrounded us and formed a wall so the cops couldn’t break it up.

New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
Published 2 Apr 2018

Two Colorado state senators who had helped to pass laws aimed at limiting gun violence were unceremoniously removed from office in a special recall election held to target them for their stance on guns. This victory for gun rights advocates was remarkable coming nine months after a massacre in a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school had left twenty-six dead, most of them small children, and in a state still haunted by the 1999 killing spree at Columbine High School. Just two months after the recall election, a third Colorado state senator, Evie Hudak, preemptively resigned, simply because she knew she had stepped into the same crosshairs. The Colorado recall election is an example of the remarkable power of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies to foil those who cross them, and thus send a warning sign to others tempted to do so.

The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War
by Jeff Sharlet
Published 21 Mar 2023

The 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, where a young Trump supporter who had expressed interest online in killing Blacks, Jews, and immigrants murdered seventeen people, was one of twenty-four such shootings resulting in death or injury that year. “Parkland” for a while became synonymous with the horror, but like “Sandy Hook” before it—2012, twenty-seven dead—and “Columbine” before that—1999, seventeen dead—“Parkland” will soon enough fade, just as “January 6,” may, by the time you read this, be relegated to a footnote within an ongoing timeline of such “patriotism.” 9 In 2008 I published a history of an elite Christian nationalist movement called The Family.

Hormone Repair Manual
by Lara Briden
Published 14 Apr 2021

.: C Moran, ‘Me, drugs and the perimenopause’, The Times, 4 July 2020, thetimes.co.uk/article/caitlin-moran-me-drugs-and-the-perimenopause-mpzn2cdh2 36: In a beautiful essay called ‘The wildness of girlhood’ . . .: BM Liston, ‘The wildness of girlhood’, Overland, 2 July 2019, overland.org.au/2019/07/the-wildness-of-girlhood 37: Liston’s description of girls is in line with . . .: E Hancock, The Girl Within, New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989; Los Angeles Daily News, ‘Girls lose their sense of self before their teens, research shows’, Baltimore Sun, 2 March 1993, baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-03-02-1993061035-story.html 38: For example, in a study of women . . .: Y Beyene, From Menarche to Menopause: reproductive lives of women in two cultures, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1989. 38: According to grief expert David Kessler . . .: P Picardi, ‘What to do with the sadness you’re feeling right now’, GQ, 12 May 2020, gq.com/story/david-kessler-on-grief-and-sadness 39: It’s even more of a relief to hear it said by others . . .: J Mazziotta, ‘Gillian Anderson on dealing with early menopause: “I felt like somebody else had taken over my brain”’, People, 13 March 2017, people.com/bodies/gillian-anderson-perimenopause-depression 39: ‘When the 50-year-old woman says to herself . . .’: G Greer, The Change: women, aging, and the menopause, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. 40: ‘It’s weird that women and whales . . .’: B Alex, ‘The grandmother hypothesis could explain why women live so long’, Discover, 2 April 2019, blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/04/01/grandmothers-remain-an-evolutionary-mystery/-.XWcgPugzbb2 40: According to Stanford historian Walter Scheidel . . .: A Ruggeri, ‘Do we really live longer than our ancestors?’

All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture
by Harold Goldberg
Published 5 Apr 2011

The name Wii said, “Forget them, those executives with the high-tech boxes who yearn for the eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old hard-core gamer.” The Wii, posited Reggie, was about the rest of us, the silent majority who’d left games when they became all about shooting and violence. This wasn’t Doom or Columbine or Grand Theft Auto. This was a gaming experience for us, Nintendo would say. The Wii wasn’t about me-ness. It was about we-ness. Those who bought the Wii would come together in a tight social network that was all-inclusive. Nintendo targeted the blogosphere, particularly the so-called mommy blogs, and the moms loved it and the word spread virally across the Web.

The new village green: living light, living local, living large
by Stephen Morris
Published 1 Sep 2007

The NEW VILLAGE GREEN 245 Dan Chiras is an award-winning nonfiction writer who has published two dozen books, including Lessons From Nature: Learning to Live Sustainably on the Earth, The Homeowner’s Guide to Renerwable Energy and EcoKids: Raising Children who Care for the Earth The Bonds That Tie Dan Chiras B esides lifting our spirits, improving our health, and providing inspiration for design and guidance for creating a sustainable future, visits to natural areas provide valuable opportunities to create deep and lasting connections with the life-support system of the planet. The beauty of a grand vista, the gentle curve of the feather-soft petals of a columbine, and the eerie cry of the loon through the misty morning air – these are the things that inspire awe and open young hearts to the world outside cities and suburbs. When our hearts open, our minds quickly follow. We become allies of nature, interested in voting the conservation ticket and living our lives consistently with the love we hold for the living world.

Flame Trees of Thika
by Elspeth Huxley
Published 15 Dec 1998

Although it is so long ago, and afterwards she changed so much, I can still remember Lettice Palmer as I saw her then for the first time: friendly, eager, and above all handsome in a stylish, natural, and entirely unselfconscious manner. Her skin was the finest I have ever seen, as fresh and translucent as the petal of a columbine. Her eyes were amber-brown and her hair an unusual colour, like a dark sherry; she had the spring and cleanliness of health about her, and a trick of tilting her head back and arching her nostrils, almost wrinkling them, when attentive or amused. Major Breeches practically fawned on her, like an ecstatic dog.

The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
by George Johnson
Published 26 Aug 2013

We started with one small patch, clearing it of brush and scattering a packet of Beauty Beyond Belief wildflower seeds, a mix recommended for northern New Mexico. There were seeds for Colorado aster, goldfields, arroyo lupine, desert lupine, desert marigold, California poppy, alyssum, baby blue eyes, baby’s breath, bachelor button, black-eyed Susan, candytuft, catchfly, columbine, purple coneflower, yellow coneflower, coreopsis, cosmos, African daisy, Shasta daisy, blue flax, scarlet flax, mountain garland, gaillardia, larkspur, perennial lupine, Mexican hat, Rocky Mountain penstemon, corn poppy, sweet william pinks, and wallflower. We raked them into the dirt and let nature take its course.

Enigma
by Robert Harris
Published 15 Feb 2011

'Akelei . . . That's a flower, isn't it?' 'Ha!' Logie clapped his hands. 'You are a bloody marvel, Tom. See how much we miss you? We had to go and ask one of the German swots on Z-watch what it meant. Akelei: a five-petalled flower of the buttercup family, from the Latin Aquilegia. We vulgarians call it columbine.' 'Akelei? repeated Jericho. 'This is a prearranged signal of some sort, presumably?' 'It is.' 'And it means?' 'It means trouble, is what it means, old love. We found out just how much trouble at midnight yesterday.' Logie leaned forwards. The humour had left his voice. His face was lined and grave.

The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
by Adrian Tinniswood
Published 2 May 2016

The group of friends also played at interior decoration, extending their games until the edge between life and stage set was dangerously blurred. One wet Sunday afternoon in May 1932, Beaton’s bedroom was transformed into an astonishingly garish circus, with flowered mirrors and murals executed by his guests: Rex Whistler painted a superb “fat woman,” Lord Berners a Columbine with performing dogs (a very ungainly mastiff was caught in the agonising act of jumping through a paper hoop), Christopher Sykes [the biographer and orientalist] painted a tumbler, upside down, balancing, among other objects, a goldfish bowl on his feet. Oliver Messel created a small Negro, naked except for a pink flamingo ostrich feather worn on his head.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
Published 8 Sep 2010

Above all, there would be wildflowers in dazzling profusion, blossoming from every twig, pushing valiantly through the fertile litter on the forest floor, carpeting every sunny slope and stream bank—trillium and trailing arbutus, Dutchmen’s breeches, jack-in-the-pulpit, mandrake, violets, snowy bluets, buttercups and bloodroot, dwarf iris, columbine and wood sorrel, and other cheerful, nodding wonders almost beyond counting. There are 1,500 types of wildflower in the southern Appalachians, 40 rare types in the northern Georgia woods alone. They are a sight to lift the hardest heart. But they were not to be seen in the woods this grim March.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Published 24 Nov 2011

Today, the most common use of SWAT teams is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home. In fact, in some jurisdictions drug warrants are served only by SWAT teams—regardless of the nature of the alleged drug crime. As the Miami Herald reported in 2002, “Police say they want [SWAT teams] in case of a hostage situation or a Columbine-type incident, but in practice the teams are used mainly to serve search warrants on suspected drug dealers. Some of these searches yield as little as a few grams of cocaine or marijuana.”39 The rate of increase in the use of SWAT teams has been astonishing. In 1972, there were just a few hundred paramilitary drug raids per year in the United States.

Discover Great Britain
by Lonely Planet
Published 22 Aug 2012

Roseleigh Hotel B&B ££ ( 01298-24904; www.roseleighhotel.co.uk; 19 Broad Walk; s/d incl breakfast from £38/72; ) This gorgeous family-run B&B in a roomy old Victorian house has lovingly decorated rooms, many with fine views out over the Pavilion Gardens. The owners are a welcoming couple, both seasoned travellers, with plenty of interesting tales to tell. Eating Columbine Restaurant Modern British ££ ( 01298-78752; 7 Hall Bank; mains £11-17; dinner Mon-Sat, closed Tue Nov-Apr) On the lane leading down beside the Town Hall, this understated restaurant is top choice among Buxtonites in the know. The chef conjures up some imaginative dishes using mainly local produce and there’s a sinful list of fattening puddings.

America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom
by Meghan McCain and Michael Black
Published 31 May 2012

Who hasn’t met the paranoid, angry white guy with the buzz cut muttering about black helicopters? Most of the time, that dude is a harmless crank. When he does end up doing the unthinkable, we shrug him off as crazy. If two Muslim teenagers had gone through their high school spraying bullets like Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris did at Columbine, we would have blamed the whole religion instead of the kids. We would have said they were terrorists instead of maniacs. Is that fair? Even so, Muslims haven’t done themselves any great service in the years since 9/11. Why don’t we hear them decrying violence? Part of the problem is that they are a disparate group.

They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy
by Lawrence Lessig
Published 5 Nov 2019

Their demand was to continue to weaken competition among broadband providers. The consequence of weakened competition is always higher prices and lower quality. Congress will never respond to this obviously absurd policy choice because the power of the telecoms, even among the Democrats, ensures that a reversal of FCC policy will not happen. And twenty years after the Columbine massacre, we still to this day have no comprehensive regulation to keep dangerous weapons from deranged men—again, and obviously, because of this vetocracy. The list is endless—and too depressing to continue. You get the point: Other nations can govern themselves. Their policies might be flawed; their insights might be incomplete.

Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms
by Russell Napier
Published 18 Jan 2016

And he added that ‘any time a pickup in the market has occurred recently there’s been a ground-swell in the consumer stocks.’ 28 July: ‘The historical implications of the drops in interest rates we’ve seen since last year combined with the assumption that corporate profits won’t decline further would indicate the stock market has reached a bottom.’ John S. Brush of Columbine Capital Services, Colorado Springs, Colo. He added: ‘It seems crystal clear that inflation is going to be cooling for the next few years.’ 30 July: Leon G. Cooperman, investment policy committee chairman at Goldman Sachs & Co., asserted that ‘entry into a classical bull market must be validated by a further and sustained decline in interest rates.’

Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques From EMDR Therapy
by Francine Shapiro
Published 26 Mar 2013

We have helped to fill the void in mental health services for inner-city communities from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Oakland and for underserved populations in rural and suburban communities, Native American reservations, Hungary, Poland, China, South Africa, Ukraine, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador and beyond. We have treated and trained and sowed the seeds for healing in the aftermaths of the TWA Flight 800 crash, the school shootings at Columbine High and Dunblane, Scotland, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. EMDR-HAP volunteers typically donate at least one week per year of therapy or training time to make healing available to those who are suffering but who can least afford to pay for treatment. However, funding is required to get the clinicians to where they are most needed.

Red Moon Rising
by Matthew Brzezinski
Published 2 Jan 2007

Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005), p. 67. 89 when three hundred thousand sorties were flown: http://www.usafe.af.mil/berlin/quickfax.htm. “when we might have completely destroyed Russia and not even skinned our elbows”: David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993), p. 25. “greatest act of stupidity of the McCarthyist period”: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 138. The historic hamlet was home to fifteen thousand genteel southerners: http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/cron2a.html. 90 “We had some concerns here”: Ward, Dr. Space, p. 77. The fledgling ABC network was backing the venture with $4.5 million in loan guarantees: Piszkiewicz, Wernher von Braun, p. 84. 91 whose hourly pay in 1954 had just been increased from seventy cents to a dollar: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 386.

A People's History of Poverty in America
by Stephen Pimpare
Published 11 Nov 2008

Alexander, Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760–1800 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), 94–99, 116–17. 17 Monique Bourque, “Poor Relief ‘Without Violating the Rights of Humanity’: Almshouse Administration in the Philadelphia Region, 1790–1860,” in Down and Out in Early America (see note 3), 197. 18 Mary Roberts Smith, “Almshouse Women: A Study of Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight Women in the City and County Almshouse of San Francisco,” Publications of the American Statistical Association 4, no. 31 (September 1895): 219–62. 19 Ben Reitman, Sisters of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha (Edinburgh: AK Press/Nabat, 1937 [2002]) , 95–96. 20 Edmund Wilson, The American Earthquake: A Chronicle of the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the Dawn of the New Deal (New York: Da Capo, 1958 [1996]), 461–62. 21 Jonathan Kozol, Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988), 27–30. 22 Steven VanderStaay, Street Lives: An Oral History of Homeless Americans (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1992), 14. 23 Elliot Liebow, Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women (New York: Penguin, 1993 [1995]), 121, fn 7. 24 Gwendolyn A. Dordick, Something Left to Lose: Personal Relations and Survival Among New York’s Homeless (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997), 162. 25 Ibid., chap. 4. 26 Liebow, Tell Them Who I Am, 123. 27 Ibid., 127. 28 “Flophouses,” said one wag, are a “cheap hotel or relief station where the homeless sleep poorly and the bedbugs live well.”

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
by Richard Holmes
Published 24 Apr 2013

Their aeronauts were Gabriel Mangin (his second attempt), Louis Godard and Gaston Tissandier, and they took off from the gasworks at La Villette and Vaugirard. All three of these balloons crossed the Seine and landed safely to the west of Paris carrying mail. They also carried baskets of carrier pigeons provided by a patriotic ‘columbine’ society, L’Espérance, to see if replies to the despatches could be flown back into Paris from the sorting office in Tours. When several of the pigeons returned over the next few days, it was clear that a complete outward-and-return postal service was now possible. The Defence Council now officially announced the formation of the Paris Balloon Post.26 There were to be two kinds of delivery: monté and non-monté – by manned and by unmanned balloons.

Generation Kill
by Evan Wright
Published 19 May 2004

Many are on more intimate terms with video games, reality TV shows and Internet porn than they are with their own parents. Before the “War on Terrorism” began, not a whole lot was expected of this generation other than the hope that those in it would squeak through high school without pulling too many more mass shootings in the manner of Columbine. But since the 9/11 attacks, the weight of America’s “War on Terrorism” has fallen on their shoulders. For many in the platoon, their war started within hours of the Twin Towers falling, when they were loaded onto ships to begin preparing for missions in Afghanistan. They see the invasion of Iraq as simply another campaign in a war without end, which is pretty much what their commanders and their president have already told them.

The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by Michael Scott Moore
Published 23 Jul 2018

Pirates of old, I figured, were no less mean than Somalis. Of course I was right. What I didn’t realize was how much all pirates had in common. In the 1980s, Lou Reed wrote a song about “video violence,” about an irrational pop-fueled world where people were in thrall to explosions and gunfire on TV. His prophetic bit of doggerel came before Columbine-style gun massacres were a routine irruption of evil in everyday American life. It came before the Twin Towers fell, before the Iraq invasion, before the most lurid scenes of cinematic imagination had oozed like gore into our headlines. The rise of modern pirates buzzing off Somalia was an example of entropy in my lifetime, and it seemed important to know why there were pirates at all.

Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions
by Elizabeth Ghaffari
Published 5 Dec 2011

All six of the states in the Tenth Circuit, plus the federal government, had the death penalty, so we got a fair amount of capital litigation. __________ 3 “Hearing Her Story: Reflections of Women Judges,” see: http://law.pepperdine.edu/newsevents/events/hearing-her-story/ When I was in the circuit, there were a lot of tragedies—horrible things happened. We had the Oklahoma City bombing, the Los Alamos Labs case, and the Columbine case, to name just a few. Even so, it felt as if the time went by in an instant. Ghaffari: When you were on the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, what was that experience like? Tacha: That was from 1987 to about 1993 or 1994. Hillary Clinton chaired that commission.

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov
Published 16 Nov 2010

Geography, Economics, Environment, and Jurisdiction in Cloud Computing.” First Monday 14, no. 5 (2009). Jakobsen, P. V. “Focus on the CNN Effect Misses the Point: The Real Media Impact on Conflict Management Is Invisible and Indirect.” Journal of Peace Research 37, no. 2 (2000): 131. Jenkins, Henry. “The Chinese Columbine.” Technology Review, August 2, 2002. www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=12913&ch=infotech. Johnson, D. G. “Is the Global Information Infrastructure a Democratic Technology?” Readings in Cyberethics 18 (2004): 121. Katz, J. E., and C. H. Lai. “News Blogging in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Report on the Struggle for Voice.”

The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful--And Their Architects--Shape the World
by Deyan Sudjic
Published 27 Nov 2006

Polshek wasn’t going to risk letting the job slip out of his hands by limiting himself to just one sketch. He and his partner worked on three different designs, drew them up, and built three detailed models to explain them to an audience unfamiliar with architectural drawings. ‘We presented on the night of the Columbine massacre. He was late, which was unusual. He came in very agitated and red eyed. His first words; “Here as we speak, they are killing our children.” He gave us 45 minutes in the map room.’ Polshek advised against the greenfield site the city had offered. It was too obvious and too easy. ‘We ended up on brownfield railroad land that could act as a catalyst for development.’

The Autoimmune Connection
by Rita Baron-Faust and Jill Buyon
Published 21 Apr 2003

The Arthritis Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to Alternative Therapies and Conventional Treatments for Arthritic Diseases, Leonid Gordon and Craig Weatherby, 1999, Healing Arts Press, Rochester, VT. The Arthritis Foundation’s Guide to Alternative Therapies, Judith Horstman, 1998, Arthritis Foundation, Atlanta. The Duke University Book of Arthritis, David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD, and Susan Flamholtz Trien, 1992, Fawcett Columbine, New York. The Rheumatoid Arthritis Handbook, Stephen Paget, MD, Michael Lockshin, MD, and Susanne Loebl, 2002, John Wiley & Sons, New York. Autoimmune Hepatitis Dr. Melissa Palmer’s Guide to Hepatitis and Liver Disease: What You Need to Know, Melissa Palmer, MD, 2000, Avery, New York. Autoimmunity At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity, William R.

Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America
by Shawn Lawrence Otto
Published 10 Oct 2011

In April of 2002, then-House majority whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) quoted the evangelical Christian authors of a 1999 book when he told a Texas church group, “Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation.”†20 DeLay, who would soon become House majority leader, said he wanted to promote “a biblical worldview” in American politics.21 “Our entire system is built on the Judeo-Christian ethic, but it fell apart when we started denying God,” he had said in 2001.22 After the 1999 Columbine school shootings, he gave a speech on the House floor in which he sarcastically suggested the tragedy “couldn’t have been because our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.”23 Ironically, DeLay’s bachelor of science degree, from the University of Houston, is in biology.

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
by Jeffrey Toobin
Published 1 May 2023

Armistead and a colleague waited at the funeral home for several hours while the cremation took place. He received the box of McVeigh’s ashes, known as cremains, placed them in a backpack, and flew to Denver that night. Back at his office, Armistead placed the box in an evidence locker. (It was next to a box containing the cremains of Eric Harris, one of the two gunmen in the Columbine High School massacre; Armistead worked on that case, too.) Months passed. Finally, Nigh came to Denver to pick up the box containing McVeigh’s cremains. According to the deal he had struck with McVeigh, there would be no single final resting place. Nigh would scatter the ashes to the winds in the Rocky Mountains.

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen
Published 5 Sep 2022

Even darker moments occurred, including a tragedy that echoed the horrors to come in Christchurch years later. In the fall of 2007 an eighteen-year-old walked into a high school in Finland with a semiautomatic pistol and murdered eight people before shooting himself. He was a YouTuber. He uploaded under the handle Sturmgeist89, posting about metal music and the Columbine school shooters. In videos he held a gun and wore a black shirt that read “Humanity Is Overrated.” He described on camera how his shooting would proceed, but his footage wasn’t flagged by viewers or YouTube’s machines, so moderators never saw it. Soon after the tragedy an email arrived in Schaffer’s in-box.

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
by Jason Fagone
Published 25 Sep 2017

They hadn’t told their friends about the twenty-five-year milestone but somehow the secret leaked, and that evening, to their delight, colleagues and friends knocked on their door, offering silver-anniversary gifts. Fred and Claire Barkley brought a sterling silver round sandwich tray; Jean Chase Ramsay wore a stunning silver dinner gown; Stub and Enid Perkins appeared with an array of flowers in a glass bowl, yellow and blue and white irises, blue delphinium, flame-colored columbine, white gypsophila. To these Elizebeth added pink and yellow roses she thought to pluck from her own rosebushes, and some white and yellow honeysuckle, too, and by the time the next-door neighbor brought two huge armfuls of his own scarlet roses, the house was dizzy with fragrance. All day long, telegrams of congratulations arrived from friends near and far.

Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
by Bruce Schneier
Published 1 Jan 2000

This type of attack is relatively new in the digital world: A few years ago, computer hacks weren’t considered newsworthy, and I can’t think of any other technology in history that people would try to break simply to get their names in the paper. In the physical world, this attack is ancient:The man who burned down the Temple of Artemis in ancient Greece did so because he wanted his name to be remembered forever. (His name was Herostratus, by the way.) More recently, the kids who shot up Columbine High School wanted infamy. Most attackers of this type are hackers:skilled individuals who know a lot about systems and their security. They often have access to significant resources, either as students of large universities or as employees of large companies. They usually don’t have a lot of money, but sometimes have a lot of time.

The Best Business Writing 2013
by Dean Starkman
Published 1 Jan 2013

PATRICIA CALLAHAN is an investigative reporter on the Chicago Tribune’s Watchdog Team and was part of a team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Before joining the Tribune in 2006, she was a beat reporter at the Wall Street Journal in Chicago. She shared a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for coverage of the Columbine High School shootings. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. THOMAS CATAN is a staff reporter in the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. He joined the paper in October 2008 as the correspondent in Madrid.

Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations With Today's Top Comedy Writers
by Mike Sacks
Published 23 Jun 2014

It makes the fall of Saigon look tame. It’s all happening so, so quickly. My favorite example is from 2003, when Steve was hosting. Now, this goes back to something happening just before the commercial break that you can work off of. Michael Moore had won for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine, and he made a speech against the second Gulf war. Some in the audience booed, but we also noticed that some of the stagehands started booing him, too. When we returned from commercial break, Steve came out and said, “It’s so sweet backstage, you should have seen it. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.”

Venice: A New History
by Thomas F. Madden
Published 24 Oct 2012

Fifteenth-century Venice had seen the invention of the commedia dell’arte, a decidedly lowbrow entertainment in which a troupe of actors performed an improvisational comedy using stock characters that the audience knew well. Most such comedies revolved around a pair of lovers thwarted by an old man who eventually married with the help of a wise and witty servant. The actors wore masks that clearly defined their roles: Harlequin, a clever, humorous rake; Pantalone, a greedy, hook-nosed old miser; Columbine, the beautiful love interest; and so on. The story was, in any case, unimportant. The crowds gathered to see the acrobatic slapstick, hear the music, and laugh at the dirty jokes. And since the entire play was improvised, it was worth attending more than once. Beginning in 1738 the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni cleaned up the commedia dell’arte and brought it into the theaters for the amusement of the tourists and Venetian nobles.

The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
Published 3 Feb 1997

Langins, op. cit., p.143. 30. Ibid., p.139. 31. See Rheal Seguin, "PQ Ready to Harden Laws on Language: English Signs Face Ban in Quebec," Globe and Mail, August 29, 1996, p. Al. 32. Billig, op. cit., p.35. 33. Jack Weatherford, Savages and Civilization.' Who Will Survive? (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994), p.143. 34. Geofftey Parker and Lesley M. Smith, The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), p.122. 35. Weatherford, op. cit., p.144. 36. Anderson, op. cit., p.90. 37. Ibid., p.91. 38. Ibid. 39. E H. Kantorowicz, quoted by Llobera, op. cit., p.83. 40.

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
by Philip Coggan
Published 6 Feb 2020

Libecap, eds, University of Chicago Press, 1994 —— “The role of World War II in the rise of women’s work”, NBER working paper 3203, https://www.nber.org/papers/w3203.pdf, 1991 Goldin, Claudia, and Margo, Robert “The great compression: the wage structure in the United States at mid-century”, NBER working paper 3817, https://www.nber.org/papers/w3817.pdf, 1991 Gollin, Douglas, Hansen, Casper Worm, and Wingender, Asger “Two blades of grass: the impact of the green revolution”, Centre for Economic Policy Research, November 2016 Gordon, John Steele The Business of America, Walker Books, 2001 Gordon, Robert The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living since the Civil War, Princeton University Press, 2016 —— “The demise of US economic growth: restatement, rebuttal, and reflections”, NBER working paper 19895, 2014 Greenspan, Alan, and Wooldridge, Adrian Capitalism in America: A History, Allen Lane, 2018 Guendelsberger, Emily On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane, Little, Brown and Company, 2019 Guest, Robert The Shackled Continent: Africa’s Past, Present and Future, Pan Macmillan, 2004 Haensch, Stephanie, et al. “Distinct clones of Yersinia pestis caused the Black Death”, PLOS Pathogens, October 7, 2010 Halberstam, David The Fifties, Fawcett Columbine, 1993 Hanawalt, Barbara The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England, Oxford University Press, 1986 Hansen, Valerie The Silk Road: A New History, Oxford University Press, 2012 Harari, Yuval Noah Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Vintage, 2015 Harford, Tim Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, Abacus, 2017 Harrison, Mark “The Economics of World War II: An Overview”, in Mark Harrison, ed., The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison, Cambridge University Press, 1998 Haskel, Jonathan, and Westlake, Stian Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy, Princeton University Press, 2017 Hatton, Timothy, and Williamson, Jeffrey Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance, MIT Press, 2008 Heather, Peter “The Huns and the end of the Roman Empire in Western Europe”, The English Historical Review, vol. 110, no. 435, 1995 Heffer, Simon The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914, Random House, 2017 Hellebrandt, Tomáš and Mauro, Paolo, “The future of worldwide income distribution”, working paper 15–7, Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 2015 Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan, Penguin Classics, 2016 (originally published in 1651) Hodkinson, Stephen “Female property ownership and status in Classical and Hellenistic Sparta”, University of Manchester, 2003 Hourani, Albert A History of the Arab Peoples, Faber & Faber, 2013 Hsu, Jinn-Yuh, and Cheng, Lu-Lin “Revisiting economic development in post-war Taiwan: the dynamic process of geographical industrialization”, Regional Studies, vol. 36, no. 8, 2002 Hu-Dehart, Evelyn “Chinese coolie labor in Cuba in the nineteenth century: free labour or neo-slavery?”

The Hero With a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
Published 14 Apr 2004

I have seen too, from years of teaching sections of Campbell's work and the work of other writers concerned with spiritual and mythic life to high-school students, that, as it has ever been, the psyche cannot awaken to deeper motifs and grasp these all by itself. Most recently, while fulfilling a three-year commitment to teach and assist verv dear, very smart, and tough young people recovering from the massacre at Columbine High School, I noted once again, often within just a few pages of focusing on the language and concepts of any ancient mythic journey, that even the badly injured can regain hope to restore their hearts. They are thus inspired to find new energy for their torn spirits, tying these matters to the spiritual belief-systems they have already, or seeking out new systems that make sense to them at the soul level.

The Mission: A True Story
by David W. Brown
Published 26 Jan 2021

A place like that, connecting continental companies, cargo, and cattle, is going to bring people, and Katy grew as the pages of calendars fluttered away. The oil and natural gas helped, and there were crops, too—citrus and cotton and rice—but if you want to give someone a reason to pull up stakes and move to Nowhere, Texas, just plant a natural energy well on an open patch of ground and watch what happens. Workers drifted in first like bees to columbine and soon swarmed like hornets around a hive. Katy wasn’t the only place with rising population figures. Houston to the east had more than doubled from 1920 to 1930, reaching two hundred ninety-two thousand, after nearly doubling in size the decade before and the decade before that.173 This growth didn’t stop at people, but also the things they carried, and the things that carried them, specifically: the automobile, now affordable to the masses and eventually to eclipse the passenger rail once vital to Katy’s success.

The Best of Best New SF
by Gardner R. Dozois
Published 1 Jan 2005

Ben preferred a head shot only for his proxy, slightly larger than actual size to make it subtly imposing. “Why didn’t you inform me of Annie’s change of status?” “Didn’t seem like an emergency,” said his proxy, “at least in the light of our contract talks.” “Yah, yah, okay. Anything else?” said Ben. “Naw, slow day. Appointments with Jackson, Wells, and the Columbine. It’s all on the calendar.” “Fine, delete you.” The projection ceased. “Shall I have the doctor call you in the morning?” said the Roth proxy when Ben reanimated it. “Or perhaps you’d like me to summon her right now?” “Is she at dinner?” “At the moment, yes.” “Naw, don’t bother her. Tomorrow will be soon enough.

…

Lidia sighed and turned from the windows, obedient finally to Nia’s anxious hope that she would dress. Stephen and Lidia went on picnics together when Belari was away from the fief. They would leave the great gray construct of Belari’s castle and walk carefully across the mountain meadows, Stephen always helping her, guiding her fragile steps through fields of daisies, columbine, and lupine until they peered down over sheer granite cliffs to the town far below. All about them glacier-sculpted peaks ringed the valley like giants squatting in council, their faces adorned with snow even in summer, like beards of wisdom. At the edge of the precipice, they ate a picnic lunch and Stephen told stories of the world before the fiefs, before Revitia made stars immortal.

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
Published 30 Sep 2007

Ben preferred a head shot only for his proxy, slightly larger than actual size to make it subtly imposing. “Why didn’t you inform me of Annie’s change of status?” “Didn’t seem like an emergency,” said his proxy, “at least in the light of our contract talks.” “Yah, yah, okay. Anything else?” said Ben. “Naw, slow day. Appointments with Jackson, Wells, and the Columbine. It’s all on the calendar.” “Fine, delete you.” The projection ceased. “Shall I have the doctor call you in the morning?” said the Roth proxy when Ben reanimated it. “Or perhaps you’d like me to summon her right now?” “Is she at dinner?” “At the moment, yes.” “Naw, don’t bother her. Tomorrow will be soon enough.

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
by Kurt Andersen
Published 4 Sep 2017

And I loved that the game transformed me when I was in its world, made me feel actually scared (the adrenaline) and actually as sharp as Bond (the dopamine), in ways that reading a novel or watching a movie generally don’t. I played with my daughters, who were seven and nine at the time, each of us taking turns playing different characters. I called it quits after two years, however, because the Columbine massacre made our father-daughter pleasure in shooting and killing each other feel less fun. The strictly children’s hobby of collecting and trading baseball cards became a primarily adult thing in the 1980s, the same time that Rotisserie League Baseball was invented and became the prototype for fantasy sports.

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
by Timothy Ferriss
Published 1 Dec 2010

John Romano and Dave Palumbo, on the other hand, have been on the inside of professional bodybuilding and physique enhancement for decades. Both have seen the best and the worst outcomes in athletic chemical warfare. RXMuscle is where you can ask professionals your questions related to AAS and other performance-enhancing drugs (PED). Bigger, Stronger, Faster DVD (www.fourhourbody.com/bigger) From the producers of Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, this outstanding documentary explores steroid use in the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world: America. The cast of characters ranges from Carl Lewis and MDs to Louis Simmons of Westside Barbell. It has an astounding 96% positive rating on rottentomatoes.com. Medibolics (www.medibolics.com) This site, published by Michael Mooney, provides a wealth of information on the medical use of anabolic steroids, growth hormone, and unorthodox supplementation for the prevention of lean-tissue loss in persons with muscle-wasting diseases, including HIV.

Fantasyland
by Kurt Andersen
Published 5 Sep 2017

And I loved that the game transformed me when I was in its world, made me feel actually scared (the adrenaline) and actually as sharp as Bond (the dopamine), in ways that reading a novel or watching a movie generally don’t. I played with my daughters, who were seven and nine at the time, each of us taking turns playing different characters. I called it quits after two years, however, because the Columbine massacre made our father-daughter pleasure in shooting and killing each other feel less fun. The strictly children’s hobby of collecting and trading baseball cards became a primarily adult thing in the 1980s, the same time that Rotisserie League Baseball was invented and became the prototype for fantasy sports.

Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
by Leonard Shlain
Published 2 Aug 2004

“Technological and Social Dimensions of ‘Aurignacian-Age’ Body Ornaments Across Europe,” in H. Knecht, A. Pike-Tay, and R. White, eds., Before Lascaux: The Complex Record of the Upper Paleolithic. Boca Raton: CRC, pp. 277–99. Williams, G. C. 1975. Sex and Evolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Wilson A. N. 1997. Paul: The Mind of the Apostle. New York: Fawcett Columbine. Wilson, E. O. 1978. On Human Nature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Wilson, Frank R. 1998. The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture. New York: Pantheon. Winter, Ernst F., trans. and ed. 1961. Erasmus, D., and Luther, M.: Discourses on Free Will. New York: Frederick Ungar.

From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time
by Sean M. Carroll
Published 15 Jan 2010

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Christenson, J. H., Cronin, J. W., Fitch, V. L., and Turlay, R. “Evidence for the 2π Decay of the K20 Meson.” Physical Review Letters 13 (1964): 138-40. Coveney, P., and Highfield, R. The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time’s Greatest Mystery. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990. Crick, F. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. New York: Basic Books, 1990. Cutler, C. “Global Structure of Gott’s Two-String Spacetime.” Physical Review D 45 (1992): 487-94. Danielson, D. R., ed. The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking.

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by Craig Nelson
Published 25 Mar 2014

He did not believe in bombs, feeling that they killed both the innocent and the guilty, and continued his work on radar at Columbia. He did, however, travel to the Los Alamos sporadically to offer advice as a visiting consultant, as did Einstein. North-central New Mexico is today as green as any artificially irrigated desert in the world, but during World War II it was home to columbines, gentians, ponderosa, aspens, indifferent porcupines, tender marmot, determined badger, and fearless skunk. Ruth Marshak: “Behind us lay the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, at sunset bathed in changing waves of colors—scarlets and lavenders. Below was the desert with its flatness broken by majestic palisades that seemed like the ruined cathedrals and palaces of some old, great, vanished race.

The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today
by Thomas E. Ricks
Published 14 Oct 2012

when one Vietnamese sniper: Charles Krohn, The Lost Battalion of Tet: Breakout of the 2/12th Cavalry at Hue (Pocket Star, 2008), 149. saw a battalion commander call in air strikes: Michael Lee Lanning and Dan Cragg, Inside the VC and the NVA: The Real Story of North Vietnam’s Armed Forces (Fawcett Columbine, 1992), 221. On one day alone: George MacGarrigle, Taking the Offensive: October 1966 to October 1967 (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1998), 56. “With one salvo” . . . “they could not control”: Stuart Herrington, e-mail message to author, November 21, 2011; see also Stuart Herrington, Silence Was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the Villages (Ballantine, 1987), 43.

Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees
by Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon
Published 2 Mar 2010

Then they told him to get an intermediary lawyer, which he did. The class action lawsuit, Howard J. Vogel v. Valero Energy, was filed in San Antonio on August 20, 1991. Vogel recruited Gary Lozow, his fraternity brother at Indiana University, to be his go-between. Lozow was practicing criminal law in Denver. (He would later represent the family of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold.) Like Paul Selzer, Lozow had never represented members of a class action securities claim. Two months from filing the lawsuit, Bershad sent Lozow a retainer agreement, promising to pay him 14 percent of its Valero fee, should it earn a jury award or settlement. Two months later, the case settled for nearly $20 million.

1491
by Charles C. Mann
Published 8 Aug 2005

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (1988). Wauchope, R. 1962. Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents: Myth and Method in the Study of the American Indians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Weatherford, J. 1988. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Fawcett Columbine. Weber, K. T. 2001. “Historic Bison Populations: A GIS Estimate.” Proceedings of the 2001 Intermountain GIS Users’ Conference. Online at http://giscenter.isu.edu/Research/Projects/BisonPaper.pdf. Webster, D. 2002. The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse. New York: Thames and Hudson.

Frommer's England 2011: With Wales
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Published 2 Jan 2010

Menu items are straightforward and unpretentious, but fresh and flavorful, served in a bistro-style setting. Some of the best items are likely to include baked saddle of monkfish with a fresh crab risotto, filet of wild sea bass with stir-fried noodles, or sautéed filets of red mullet with tiger prawns in a light basil-and-white-wine sauce, a specialty. Columbine Restaurant 7 Hall Bank. & 01298/78752. www.buxtononline.net/columbine. Reservations recommended. Main courses £11–£15. MC, V. May–Oct Mon–Sat 7–10pm; Nov–Apr Wed–Mon 7–10pm. SEEING THE SIGHTS Water from nine thermal wells is no longer available for spa treatments, but you can visit the 9.3-hectare (23-acre) Pavilion Gardens, St.

The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885
by Pierre Berton
Published 1 Jan 1971

For the future tourists, swaying down this dramatic slope from the vantage point of an observation car in what was shortly to become Glacier National Park, the experience would be electrifying – the awesome cedars rising like great pillars from the thick beds of ferns, the mountainsides sprinkled with wild columbine and pigeonberry, the glittering ice-fields, the sword points of the mountain peaks, the cataracts pouring off the cliffs as airily as wood-smoke, and the shining track coiling through the dark cuts and over the slender bridges on its journey to the Columbia. This was the same trail, bestrewn with devil’s club and skunk cabbage, that Major Rogers and his nephew Albert had toiled up on their voyage of discovery in 1881, that Fleming and Grant, badly lacerated from thorns, had managed to negotiate in 1883, and that a hungry Van Horne had struggled over in 1884.

Vegetable Literacy
by Deborah Madison
Published 19 Mar 2013

Its not that they don’t taste good—they do, and pickled bulbils are lovely—but they are very tiny and need peeling, which means lots of time during the busy part of the summer. I appreciate them more for their green-onion-like stalks earlier in the season. They are not from Egypt, despite their name, but they do walk, moving along in the garden as they drop their little bulbs. I started with one plant that was stuck in with some columbines and now I have many—very many. (Note the word proliferum embedded in their species name.) They march along, forming vertical green colonies. They’ve also cropped up here and there through my own carelessness while carrying spent flower arrangements to the compost and losing a bulb or two along the way.

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin
Published 23 Dec 2008

Boone Pickens, "The Restructuring of the Domestic Oil and Gas Industry," in Yergin and Kates-Garnick, Reshaping of the Oil Industry, pp. 60-61. [7] Interviews with Jesus Silva Herzog and Patrick Connolly ("eating our lunch"); Fausto Alzati, "Oil and Debt: Mexico's Double Challenge," Cambridge Energy Research Associates Report, June 1987; Philip L. Zweig, Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1986), pp. 198-99 (Gucci loafers); William Greider, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (New York: Touchstone, 1989), pp. 518-25 ("bank to beat"), 628-31; Mark Singer, Funny Money (New York: Knopf, 1985). [8] Wall Street Journal, September 15, 1983, p. 1; December 5, 1983, p. 60; April 19, 1984, p. 1; Interviews with Richard Bray and P.

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Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army, Center of Military History, 1968. Zimmermann, Erich W. Conservation in the Production of Petroleum: A Study in Industrial Control. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. Zweig, Philip L. Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1985. Data Sources American Petroleum Institute. Basic Petroleum Data Book. ---------. Petroleum Facts and Figures: Centennial Edition, 1959. New York: API, 1959. Arthur Andersen & Co. and Cambridge Energy Research Associates. World Oil Trends. ---------. Natural Gas Trends. ---------.

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
by Timothy Ferriss
Published 6 Dec 2016

(doc), Planet Earth (doc), Jiro Dreams of Sushi (doc) Palmer, Amanda: Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory (doc), Happy (doc), One More Time with Feeling (doc) Patrick, Rhonda: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (doc), Planet Earth (doc) Paul, Caroline: Maidentrip (doc) Polanco, Martin: The Crash Reel (doc), Waste Land (doc), Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (doc) Poliquin, Charles: The Last Samurai, Gladiator, The Imitation Game, 22 Bullets. Also: The History Channel and documentaries from National Geographic, and Tarantino movies Potts, Rolf: Grizzly Man (doc) Reece, Gabby: Food Inc. (doc), Roger and Me (doc), Bowling for Columbine (doc), Crumb (doc) Richman, Jessica: The Edge Robbins, Tony: Inside Job (doc) Rogen, Seth: Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Adaptation, The Princess Bride, Fawlty Towers (TV), Kids in the Hall (TV), Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV), Second City Television (TV) Rose, Kevin: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Inglourious Basterds, Food Inc.

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist
by Alex Zevin
Published 12 Nov 2019

In 1996 the paper came out for gay marriage, inflaming the religious right, though its reasons had little to do with romantic love: ‘single people were more likely to fall into the arms of the welfare state’, and marriage was a ‘great social stabiliser of men’.37 It repeatedly called for stricter gun laws, especially after the Columbine shooting in 1999, earning it the ire of America’s second amendment enthusiasts.38 Even ‘hard’ drugs ought to be legalized, it explained in 2001, with reference to the US, where one in four prisoners was locked up for minor drug offences. Had not John Stuart Mill written: ‘Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign’?

Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Published 23 Sep 2013

For many children, real life pales in comparison to the excitement of the movies and computer games, and it becomes harder and harder, even for the moviemakers, to maintain their viewers’ interest unless they make the images more graphic and more violent with each new release. This pervasive diet of violence for American children must be having effects on their psyches. It is certainly having its effects in the society—witness the epidemic of bullying in our schools, and the horrifying litany of mass killings in schools and public places. Just think of Columbine, Aurora, Tucson, and Milwaukee, the latter three within a few years of each other, and the latter two within a few weeks. And then came the massacre of children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. There are already far too many reports of adolescents and young adults killing other people, some after seeing movies that they used as inspiration, as if real life were just an extension of the movies in their own minds, and as if other people’s lives and fear and pain were of no value or consequence.

1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
by Patricia Schultz
Published 13 May 2007

MOUNTAIN ARTS CENTER: Prestonsburg. Tel 888-622-2787 or 606-886-9125; www.macarts.com. An Unchanged Corner of the Appalachians CUMBERLAND GAP & DANIEL BOONE COUNTRY Kentucky Springtime is sublime in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The winding path to Pinnacle Overlook is awash in wildflowers—colorful columbine, bloodroot, and trillium. No less glorious are the second and third weeks of October, when the hazy mountainsides are ablaze in scarlet and gold foliage. And then there are all the months in between. Cumberland Gap, at 20,000 acres, is one of the largest national historic parks in America, part of an expanse of land in southeastern Kentucky near the Virginia and Tennessee borders, loosely known as Daniel Boone country.

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The legendary 40-mile Pearl Pass that crests at 12,700 feet is only for the experienced and confident. Crested Butte is home to the Mountain Biking Hall of Fame and hosts the original Fat Tire Week in late June. Hiking, climbing, horseback riding, rafting, kayaking, and fishing are other summer options, and the unrivaled display of columbine and Indian paintbrush has earned the town the title “Wildflower Capital of Colorado” and spawned a special festival held in their honor every July. Crested Butte’s Maroon Avenue is home to lots of lively and quaint establishments. Once the snow starts falling, things really take off. Free shuttles run the 3 miles from town to the Crested Butte Mountain Resort and some of the steepest lift-served terrain in North America, with a separate trail guide for double-black-diamond runs.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker
Published 13 Feb 2018

Because “terrorism” is an elastic category, the trend lines look different depending on whether a dataset includes civil war crimes, multiple murders (which include robberies or mafia hits in which several victims are shot), or suicidal rampages in which the killer ranted about some political grievance beforehand. (The Global Terrorism Database, for example, includes the 1999 Columbine school massacre but not the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre.) Also, mass killings are media-driven spectacles, in which coverage inspires copycats, so they can yo-yo up and down as one event inspires another until the novelty wears off for a while.7 In the United States, the number of “active shooter incidents” (public rampage killings with guns) has wobbled with an upward trend since 2000, though the number of “mass murders” (four or more deaths in an incident) shows no systematic change (if anything, it shows a slight decline) from 1976 to 2011.8 The per capita death rate from “terrorism incidents” is shown in figure 13-1, together with the messy trends for Western Europe and the world.

How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 1997

Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Brown, D. E. 1991. Human universals. New York: McGraw-Hill. Brown, R. 1985. Social psychology: The second edition. New York: Free Press. Brown, R., & Kulik, J. 1977. Flashbulb memories. Cognition, 5, 73–99. Brownmiller, S. 1975. Against our will: Men, women, and rape. New York: Fawcett Columbine. Bruce, V. 1988. Recognizing faces. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. Bülthoff, H. H., & Edelman, S. 1992. Psychophysical support for a two-dimensional view interpolation theory of object recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 89, 60–64. Buss, D. M. 1992a. Mate preference mechanisms: Consequences for partner choice and intrasexual competition.

Wanderers: A Novel
by Chuck Wendig
Published 1 Jul 2019

It wasn’t the prettiest stone, but Shana found it captivating just the same: The strata of colors were flecked with bits of shiny pyrite, and they glimmered when you moved your head this way and that. Someone, and here Shana recognized Nessie’s script even as a carving, had etched a name into the stone: CHARLIE STEWART, RIP. The stone sat surrounded by flowers: purple columbines, white laurel, a few devil-red Indian paintbrushes. “Did you do this?” Shana asked. “You did.” “Yeah.” “When? I…I don’t understand. It just happened.” Nessie did this thing with her face, an old thing that Shana had forgotten about—but now, seeing this expression, she wanted to die for it, she’d missed it so bad.

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
by Wade Davis
Published 27 Sep 2011

Howard-Bury, like others before him, found Phari to be a miserable place, a windswept hovel built on its own waste with mud streets as open sewers and only the frozen air of morning to offer a respite from the all-pervading stench of human waste. But beyond Phari, the white summit of Chomolhari brightened the sky, and his track carried him up a marshy valley between grassy hills and then across the Kambu La, a 16,000-foot pass that led to a deep, narrow valley literally colored blue with wildflowers, gentians and bluebells, columbine, monkshood, and forget-me-nots. Farther up the valley he came upon a series of nine sacred springs, all sulfur, in one of which bathed a high lama, surrounded by his attendants. They welcomed him warmly, with butter tea and a plate of English biscuits. More food followed, minced mutton and diced vegetables, eggs and macaroni, which Howard-Bury, to the delight of all, attempted to eat with a pair of chopsticks.

Southwest USA Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Fahrenheit Coffee Roasters COFFEE SHOP (201 W Grand Ave; 7am-5pm Mon-Sat, 7am-2pm Sun; ) Surrounded by the aroma of fresh roasted beans, this espresso house also serves slices of homemade pie and breakfast burritos to go. Arborena WINE BAR (970-533-1381; 114 W Grand Ave; 4-9pm Mon, Thu-Sat) A welcome alternative to another brewery, in this stylish art gallery you can sip wines by the glass, accompanied by cheese plates, baguettes and salads. Thursday is Girls’ Night Out – women save a dollar on drinks. Columbine Bar BAR (970-533-7397; 123 W Grand Ave; 10am-2am) This smoky old saloon, established in 1903, is one of Colorado’s oldest continuously operating bars. Join locals shooting pool over pints of ice-cold local brews. Mancos Valley Distillery DISTILLERY (www.mancosvalleydistillery.com; 116 N Main St; hours vary) If you’re interested in tasting something really local, make your way to this alleyway where artisan distiller Ian James crafts delicate rum (and chocolate).

The Rough Guide to Ireland
by Clements, Paul
Published 2 Jun 2015

Pre-eminent for the scale, variety and colour of its decoration, the Book of Kells probably originated at the monastery on Iona off the west coast of Scotland, which had been founded around 561 by the great Irish scholar, bard and ruler St Colmcille (St Columba in English). After a Viking raid in 806 the Columbines moved to the monastery of Kells in County Meath, which in its turn was raided four times between 920 and 1019. Although they looted the book’s cumdach or metal shrine cover, the pagan Norsemen did not value the book itself, however, and despite spending some time buried underground and losing thirty folios, it survived at Kells up to the seventeenth century when it was taken to Dublin for safekeeping during the Cromwellian Wars.

The Rough Guide to England
by Rough Guides
Published 29 Mar 2018

. £75 Roseleigh 19 Broad Walk, SK17 6JR 01298 24904, roseleighhotel.co.uk; map. This classic, three-storey gritstone Victorian townhouse, overlooking Pavilion Gardens, is an excellent place to stay. The trim public rooms are decorated in attractive Victorian style, and the en-suite bedrooms are well appointed. Family-run and competitively priced. £75 Eating Columbine 7 Hall Bank, SK17 6EW 01298 78752, columbinerestaurant.co.uk; map. The menu at this small and intimate restaurant, right in the centre of Buxton, is short but imaginative; main courses, such as saddle of monkfish with crab risotto, average £17. Pre-theatre dinners, from about 5pm, can be reserved in advance.

California
by Sara Benson
Published 15 Oct 2010

Tree-marked trails connect with those in the Giant Sequoia National Monument and the 50 miles of groomed terrain maintained by the private Montecito Lake Resort ( 559-565-3388, 800-227-9900; www.mslodge.com; 8000 Generals Hwy; day pass incl lunch $30). Equipment rentals are available at Grant Grove Village, the Wuksachi Lodge and the Montecito Lake Resort. There are also snow-play areas near Columbine and Big Stump in the Grant Grove region, and at the Wolverton Picnic Area & Parking Lot. In winter, cross-country skiers with reservations can stay in one of the 10 bunks at Pear Lake Ski Hut ( 559-565-3759; www.sequoiahistory.org; dm $26; mid-Dec–Apr), a 1940-era pine-and-granite building run by the Sequoia Natural History Association.

Frommer's California 2007
by Harry Basch , Mark Hiss , Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole
Published 6 Dec 2006

Rental equipment (including snowshoes) and lessons are available at the Grant Grove Market. For more information on cross-country skiing, sledding, or snowshoeing at Grant Grove, call the visitor center at & 559/565-4307; for Wolverton, call & 559/565-3435. Kids can sled and play in the snow-play areas near Wolverton and at Big Stump, Columbine, and Azalea in Grant Grove. The Sequoia Natural History Association operates the Pear Lake Ski Hut for snowshoers and cross-country skiers, which can accommodate up to 10 people. Use of the facility is by lottery. For further information, call & 559/565-3759. WHITE-WATER BOATING The Kaweah and Upper Kings rivers in the parks are not open to boating (neither kayaks nor inflatable rafts), but several companies run trips just outside the parks.

England
by David Else
Published 14 Oct 2010

Art Cafe ( 01298-23114; sandwiches & snacks £3-7; 9.30am-5pm Apr-Sep, to 3pm Oct-Mar) Housed on the 2nd floor of the Pavilion, with beautiful views over the gardens, this little spot is a great place to enjoy a coffee and some homemade cakes while perusing the works by local artists that are splashed across the walls. Columbine Restaurant ( 01298-78752; Hall Bank; mains £11-13; dinner 7-10pm Mon & Wed-Sat) Perched on the slope leading down to the Crescent, this excellent understated restaurant is top choice among Buxtonites in the know. It delivers large portions of excellent local produce including some good vegetarian choices.

Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole , Harry Basch , Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert
Published 2 Jan 2009

Rental equipment (including snowshoes) and lessons are available at the Grant Grove Market. For more information on cross-country skiing, sledding, or snowshoeing at Grant Grove, call the visitor center at & 559/565-4307; for Wolverton, call & 559/ 565-3435. Kids can sled and play in the sno w-play ar eas near Wolverton and at B ig Stump, Columbine, and Azalea in Grant Grove. The Sequoia Natural History Association operates the Pear Lake Ski Hut for snowshoers and cr oss-country skiers, which can accommodate up to 10 people. U se of the facility is by lottery. For further information, call & 559/565-3759. WHITE-WATER BOATING The Kaweah and Upper Kings rivers in the parks are not open to boating (neither kayaks nor inflatable rafts), but several companies run trips just outside the par ks.

France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)
by Nicola Williams
Published 14 Oct 2010

Larch trees, mountain and arolla pines, rhododendrons and junipers stud shrubby subalpine zones between 1500m and 2000m; and a brilliant riot of spring and summertime wildflowers carpet grassy meadows above the tree line in the alpine zone (up to 3000m). Alpine blooms include the single golden-yellow flower of the arnica, which has long been used in herbal and homeopathic bruise-relieving remedies; the flame-coloured fire lily, which flowers from December until May; and the hardy Alpine columbine, with its delicate blue petals. The protected ‘queen of the Alps’ (aka the Alpine eryngo) bears an uncanny resemblance to a purple thistle but is, in fact, a member of the parsley family (to which the carrot also belongs); you will find it on grassy ledges. The rare twinflower only grows in the Parc National de la Vanoise.

Lonely Planet France
by Lonely Planet Publications
Published 31 Mar 2013

Larch trees, mountain and arolla pines, rhododendrons and junipers stud shrubby subalpine zones between 1500m and 2000m; and a brilliant riot of spring and summertime wildflowers carpets grassy meadows above the treeline in the alpine zone (up to 3000m). Alpine blooms include the single golden-yellow flower of the arnica, which has long been used in herbal and homeopathic bruise-relieving remedies; the flame-coloured fire lily; and the hardy Alpine columbine, with its delicate blue petals. The protected ‘queen of the Alps’ (aka the Alpine eryngo) bears an uncanny resemblance to a purple thistle but is, in fact, a member of the parsley family (to which the carrot also belongs). The rare twinflower only grows in the Parc National de la Vanoise. Of France’s 150 orchids, the black vanilla orchid is one to look out for – its small red-brown flowers exude a sweet vanilla fragrance.

Great Britain
by David Else and Fionn Davenport
Published 2 Jan 2007

Old Hall Hotel ( 01298-22841; www.oldhallhotelbuxton.co.uk; the Square; s/d incl breakfast £65/100 wi-fi) There is a tale to go with every creak of the floorboards at this genial, history-soaked establishment, supposedly the oldest hotel in England. Mary, Queen of Scots, was held here from 1576 to 1578, and the wood-panelled corridors and rooms are as well appointed and as elegant as they must have been in her day. Eating & Drinking Columbine Restaurant ( 01298-78752; Hall Bank; mains £11-13; 7-10pm Mon & Wed-Sat) Perched on the slope leading down to the Crescent, this excellent understated restaurant is top choice among Buxtonites in the know. It delivers large portions of excellent local produce including some good vegetarian choices.