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That ticking sound you hear is my biological clock. My God, people are getting married! Should I be looking at ring catalogs other than Josten's? Should I start think of what china pattern I should register at Macy...
...light of the earlier suicides, Amber's and Alicia's deaths hit San Pedro High particularly hard. Cyndy Lum, a psychiatric social worker who was part of the crisis-intervention team, describes the scene the first few days after the suicides hit the 6 o'clock news as "a large-scale psychiatric disaster." Students clustered in hallways weeping; classes sat numb and silent; teachers broke down at an after-school meeting. Says math teacher Crosby: "It was the roughest teaching day I've ever had." Because teenagers--impulsive and susceptible to fashion in all things--are considered particularly vulnerable...
...buying their own devices. Quark International, a New York-based manufacturer, has seen its sales of nannycams triple during the past few years. The Counter Spy Shop in Manhattan sells about a dozen a month, including teddy bears at $649 each, as well as those in the form of clock radios, eyeglasses and gym bags. One customer spent $12,000 there to modify his home computer so he could observe the house from his office terminal...
There are two seconds left on the game clock, and college football's national championship is on the line. Nervous fans watching on television across the country hold their breath as the kicker readies himself for a 55-yd. field-goal attempt. They look over his shoulder as he peers between the goalposts, deep into the recesses of...a Ruffles potato-chip...
...honeybees has clearly exacerbated the pollination crisis, but the bees' demise has also served to focus attention on the potential of "native" (as opposed to imported) pollinators. "We need to remember that tens of thousands of other species have been out there all along, working shifts around the clock," says Pollinators co-author Nabhan, director of science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum...