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...could cause serious harm and death doesn't mean that society needs to treat the six-year-old in the same way it would a 20-year-old. We understand that children are more vulnerable." He also notes that with more aggressive kids, provocation becomes paramount. The boy who killed Kayla may have felt humiliated--by her, by everything--which became a justification for any act. Astor cautions, though, that culpability is just one piece of the problem. If we do not create a place and a structure for children as a whole, he says, "we'll see groups...
...this incident will end as too many child killings have ended in recent years--with mournful speeches and eulogies and civic burial mounds made up of heart-shaped balloons, poems, and stuffed animals staring blankly into space. At least that is how it will end for Kayla. For the boy, who can tell? The state will probably take custody of him, his brother and five-year-old sister. It is possible that an enlightened environment somewhere will produce a wholly different child, and just as possible that the wounds go too deep and that he will emerge into adulthood knowing...
...Florence Seguin, 73, of Williamsburg, Va., shrugged off her physician's recommendation that she undergo a colonoscopy, a procedure in which a doctor inserts a flexible lighted tube into the colon to look for abnormal growths. A former nun and the adoptive mother of a 13-year-old boy, Seguin knew that one of her brothers had died of colon cancer, but it wasn't until she saw an article about Couric and Monahan that she stopped procrastinating. Fortunately, the tumor that her doctors found was still small enough to be surgically removed. Says Seguin: "I don't know...
...brief, miserable moment, Michael Douglas, the novelist-professor hero of the new movie Wonder Boys, has it all. His wife has left him. His girlfriend, the chancellor of his university, who is married to his department chairman, is pregnant with Douglas' child. His second, never-to-be-finished novel has thickened to page 2,611, single-spaced. His gay editor is in town, hungry both for the new book and for Douglas' best student, a boy who has gunned down the department chairman's dog, who bit Douglas on the leg. The wound has become infected. Douglas limps through...
NAME: Noel Gallagher AGE: 32 OCCUPATION: Petulant British pop star BEST PUNCH: Oasis guitarist denied reports he was friendly with Williams, dismissing the former boy band member as a "fat dancer...