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...Germany We shouldn't blame fast-food restaurants for making us as fat as we are, nor should the government get involved and tell us what we can or cannot eat. Common sense is the answer. Instead of driving to the nearest grocery store, take a walk. Dana Sawyer Williamsport, Pennsylvania...
...drive-through everything. But we shouldn't blame fast-food restaurants, nor should the government get involved and tell us what we cannot eat. Common sense is the answer. Instead of driving to the nearest grocery store, take a walk. America has bigger issues to worry about. DANA SAWYER Williamsport...
...awash in a sea of guns. Williams' father had eight of them. The father of Elizabeth Burns, the eighth-grader who shot a classmate in Williamsport, Pa., had 12 guns. Add to this the fact that we are a culture that has abrogated decent parenting and is addicted to violent media trash. The consequence is tragedies waiting to happen. RUTH ROSEN Santa Monica, Calif...
Elizabeth Catherine Bush was no Charles Andrew Williams. She didn't shoplift booze or boast of pulling a Columbine. Bush was a quiet eighth-grader who attended Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa., a cozy Roman Catholic school that holds spaghetti suppers and sock hops. A stickler for safety, Bush lectured the school bus driver for speeding through railroad crossings. She tacked posters of Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. to her bedroom walls and affixed pictures of the Columbine victims to the bulletin board over her desk. Her parents say she wanted to be a human-rights...
MARCH 7, 2001 Williamsport, Pa. Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, was threatened and teased mercilessly at her old school in Jersey Shore and transferred last spring to Bishop Neumann, a small Roman Catholic school. There she allegedly took her father's revolver into the cafeteria and shot Kimberly Marchese in the shoulder. WARNING SIGNS Bush was reportedly still being teased and was depressed. As she fired the gun, she allegedly said, "No one thought I would go through with this." It is unclear whether she had told anyone of her intentions...