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...bitter about romantic rejection, and the most recent case of Andrew Wurst in north-west Pennsylvania. Wurst, a 14-year-old middle school student, walked into the eighth-grade graduation dance, shot and killed a chaperoning science teacher and wounded three others. He is currently being charged as an adult, with criminal homicide, three counts each of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment and numerous gun and drug charges...
...know which is worse: the fact that these killings have occurred, or the fact that a 14-year-old is being charged as an adult...
Visits back home and ventures away from campus show us 19 and 20 year-olds living on their own and taking care of the rent. Perhaps this realization can reminds us that a college education is a choice we have made to dedicate our adult years to study, not a mechanism we can use to remain adolescents for four more. From this understanding stems a fuller sense of purpose and a feeling that we ought to approach our studies with a degree of responsibility. Studying is not a job per se, but in many senses, it is what...
...limited number of instances in adult life, the This Paper Sucks syndrome may still be useful to its sufferers. After grades become a thing of the past, many people start using money as a litmus test for whether they have succeeded, as companies and even universities lure the "best of the best" with higher and higher salaries. Twenty years from now, perhaps we will find ourselves being evaluated for promotions or being ranked by our students or by our professional peers. But no test will await us on our first, fifth or tenth wedding anniversaries to determine whether our marriages...
...argues. "If you looked in the dresser drawers of Middle America, you'd be surprised what you'd find." Case in point: one of the videos purchased by the prosecution is Pam & Tommy Lee--Hardcore & Uncensored, which has sold more than 200,000 copies, making it the most popular adult video in history. But there was more than Pam and Tommy's honeymoon in Deters' shopping cart. "Pick up Rocco or whatever the hell that thing was, and you'll understand," Deters says. The tape, Rocco More than Ever, includes hair pulling, implied urination and a woman crawling around...