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...freaked out for two seconds, then everyone took out their cell phone,” said Enrique Nava ’12. Though the electrical fire was quickly subdued, the power remained out until around 2:30 a.m., creating problems with safety services including ID-card access, the emergency blue light system, and emergency alarms. Students were asked to leave the dorms for the night, and were allowed back after the power came back on. Around 9 p.m., Adams House residents were informed of the situation by e-mail and word-of-mouth. But it took the University longer...
...social work at Yeshiva University, examines five case studies from 1974 to 1999--spending most of his time on 1999's Columbine massacre--hoping to figure out what drives young perpetrators to mass murder. Unfortunately, the motives are as varied as they are tragic: while Fast faults easy access to powerful firearms as a constant factor, sexual abuse, mental illness, broken homes and social isolation have all played a part in one rampage or another. Fast regards school shootings as "acts of terrorism without an ideological core" and believes that trying to predict them is largely futile. Most warning signs...
...Teen Suicides A sharp increase in the teen-suicide rate in 2004 was largely sustained in 2005, according to a new study. Some worry that warnings of a link between antidepressants and youth suicide is actually fueling the trend by dissuading at-risk teens from taking medication. Alcohol, access to guns and suicides among teenage U.S. troops were also cited as possible factors in the spike...
...still heavy on the blunderbuss--blasting the body with harsh chemotherapy and radiation that take a huge toll on healthy as well as diseased tissue. Nor has the national health-care system done a great job of prevention and early detection. Worst of all, many people don't have access to care. Overall, the death rate from cancer dropped just 5% from 1950 to 2005, the latest available data. During the same period of time, deaths from heart disease dropped...
...sold for a discounted price. "The reasoning is that people in other countries can't afford the higher prices," said Swarthout, "so this is a way to provide them with the same quality of education as we get in America." But just as the Internet has enabled illegal access to music and movies, so too has it opened the international book market - especially to the hands of college students. International textbooks are available on major bookselling websites including Amazon, eBay and Half.com. It's legal for students to buy them for personal use, but illegal for anyone to resell them...