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...HUPD received report of a fire in Baker Hall on the Harvard Business School campus. After HUPD officers and fire rescue units had been dispatched to the scene, it was discovered that there was no fire and the alarm was caused by burnt popcorn...
...morning of Tuesday, April 20, as the sun rose over Littleton, Colo., more than 14 million American teenagers punched off their alarm clocks, scarfed their breakfasts, brushed their teeth, rushed off to school...and did not kill their classmates. On that day, like other days, 40% of those teenagers--a number that has doubled in the past two years alone--logged on to the Internet. The vast majority did not encounter recipes for pipe bombs or deranged rants about white supremacy. Most were getting sports scores, downloading the most recent Britney Spears cut, chatting with friends. Some were even doing...
...alarm that sounded in Littleton should wake up all Americans to the special needs of our children. This nightmare is ours because of this hard truth: the toxic culture of guns and screen violence that kids have to navigate has been created by adults who are supposed to offer protection and guidance...
Upstairs in the science wing, science teacher Dick Will thought, "There go those chemistry people blowing things up again." But when the fire alarm rang, Will knew it was more than students at work. A group of his kids went down the hall to investigate and came back yelling and screaming, "They're shooting!" He herded his charges back to the corner of the room, shut off the lights and started turning over chairs and desks and piling them up against the doors...
...quickly, and they had the preparatory advantages of being insiders. Any of the hundreds of backpacks littering the hallways could have been booby-trapped with explosives; the choir room or the janitor's closet could have been wired to blow. With explosions filling the air with smoke and the alarm bells filling officers' ears (arriving SWAT officers tried to get an assistant principal to turn off the alarms, but she was so rattled she couldn't remember the code) caution was paramount -- and yet strategy was nearly impossible...