Word: aimed
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...these factors accumulate, killers in the making remain surprisingly cool, all the while strolling toward the edge. That is what makes mass murder especially chilling. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planned the Columbine assault for months, buying guns, practicing their aim, even designing their own shabby bombs that were intended to blow up the building. Cho bought the first of the two pistols he used in his killings on March 13, then bought the second just days before the murders - decorously observing the 30-day waiting period the state of Virginia requires between handgun purchases...
...cheese and crackers as members of the Spoken Word Society performed accounts published in the magazine, which features poems, first-hand accounts, and other documents which fall outside the normal boundaries of genre.With the first issue of what is hoped to be a yearly publication, the magazine staff aim to personalize normally clinical accounts of sexual assault. “Students need to read this magazine and be moved,” said the magazine’s editor, Neagheen Homaifar ’10. “There’s no way you can read this...
...consists of summer camps staffed by Harvard undergraduates and local students that aim to provide safe and constructive out-of-school activities for low-income children...
...President's "comprehensive" reform includes more than border security, and that's where conservative skepticism comes in. His proposals, unveiled to Democrats for the first time two weeks ago, aim to create not just tougher border security and tighter domestic enforcement at work sites, but also a new guest worker program and a solution for the 11-12 million illegal immigrants in the country. Though these goals are associated with a softer line on immigration, under his new plan, Bush has played to the hard-line consensus among Republicans on these issues...
...went on to say, that science could not accept: a deity who could meddle at whim in the events of his creation. "The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God," he argued. Scientists aim to uncover the immutable laws that govern reality, and in doing so they must reject the notion that divine will, or for that matter human will, plays a role that would violate this cosmic causality...