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...while violence in pop culture may also contribute to the school shooting phenomenon, it's an insufficient explanation. "Japanese kids are raised on a diet of enormous violence in everything from TV cartoons to video games, and yet a school shooting is almost unthinkable there," says Hillenbrand. "Curbs on access to weapons -- even knives -- limit the extent to which Japanese teenagers can take out their aggression on others...
...white, suburban schools, rather than the inner city communities more commonly plagued by gun violence. "Violence in minority neighborhoods and schools tends to be gang- and drug-related," says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera. "In suburbia, though, it appears to be influenced by intense alienation and isolation, combined with easy access to guns and a culture that teaches kids, in everything from movies to foreign policy, that violence is a valid means of resolving problems." The isolation of the latchkey kid is even more intense in the suburbs. "When Mom and Dad aren't home much and the extended family...
Both a greater acceptance of educated women in society and the unusual circumstances of history required Radcliffe to continuously redefine its role. Radcliffe students gained full access to Harvard's opportunities, and the college they left behind added research institutes to give itself new aims...
...hundred and twenty years after it was founded to give women access to a Harvard education and after more than a year of speculation over its fate, Radcliffe College is no more. Radcliffe and Harvard announced yesterday that Radcliffe will relinquish its independence--and college title--and become the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study under the Harvard umbrella. Female students will no longer be admitted to Radcliffe College; instead they will join their male colleagues in direct admission to Harvard College. The Radcliffe seal on women's diplomas may well be a thing of the past come the graduation...
...have access to some really fine people in this industry, because Barnes & Noble has affiliations with other schools," he says...