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...some teens are ready to empathize with killers in novels like Crime and Punishment and The Stranger--assigned by high schools, which have greater coercive power than even Viacom does. Others are barely ready for young-adult fiction. Dexter is not The Stranger, but it's not Saw either. Decency protests, however, don't make such distinctions. Killers are killers. One slice fits...
...World Series for good luck--sat in the stands and held up hundreds of prepared block-lettered placards to tweak (JOSE CAN YOU SEE? when Jose Cardenal struck out) or praise (IT'S ALIVE! when a weak player got a hit). "I called them the way I saw them," he said...
Relying principally on the Internet, Harberg--who previously had worked as a marketing expert and real estate developer--did manage to build an energy-efficient home. He boasts that his electricity bills are regularly 50% less than those of similar homes in his neighborhood, and the entrepreneur in him saw an opportunity. Lots of people worry about global warming, not to mention the soaring costs of powering a home, but they don't know what to do about it. Working with his brother-in-law Josh Stern, Harberg helped launch what would become Current Energy, in 2005, to provide...
...Fort Knox, Cassidy spent most of his time alone in his room with his laptop computer and Xbox video game. "While he was at Fort Knox," his wife says, "he was actually getting worse." He met with his case manager weekly but saw Kearney, his psychiatrist and only regular doctor, barely once a month. Their first visit was on May 30, 2007, nearly two months after he arrived at Fort Knox. "Alert and smiles throughout the interview, is anxious," Kearney typed into Cassidy's file. "He was under fire and under constant stress and was mortared frequently." Kearney prescribed Valium...
...school curricula. “Our school system must take advantage of the creativity of teachers and principals,” he said. “There are going to be $5,000 grants available.” But committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 saw the proposal differently. “[Teachers and principals] are already totally overwhelmed,” she said. “Obviously $5,000 doesn’t buy a whole curriculum.” Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons criticized the lack of spending flexibility in the budget plan presented...