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...shows. Just as Americans believed violent media images were partly to blame for the 1999 school massacre in Columbine, Colorado, Chinese law-enforcement specialists see a link between the recent rash of killings and the violent messages delivered by newspapers and movies. "It seems that the day after crimes appear in the media, someone will imitate it," says Kang Shuhua, director of the criminology research center at Peking University...
...other countries, similar remedies have done little to prevent sporadic school violence. Some Chinese parents appear to be taking matters into their own hands. Beijing Special Protection Security Consulting, which provides bodyguards to rich entrepreneurs, is planning later this month to expand their services to schoolchildren. They are having no problem drumming up new business, says company owner Cui Fengxian. "Our clients have been growing steadily" since the schoolyard killings began in August, he says. Bodyguards, however, can't protect kids from the violence they...
...Although overall the club does not appear to be in any immediate financial distress, Wong, 65, says that if racing revenues fall to $6.4 billion?not unrealistic at the current rate of descent?charitable contributions will have to stop. To keep that from happening, the club is calling on the government to?of course!?reduce the gambling tax. On average, 13.5% of every bet is skimmed off by the taxman. Wong, a Michigan State University engineering graduate who worked for 30 years at Ford Motor Co. before becoming jockey-club CEO in 1996, says that rate is among the highest...
...quite. One clear thread emerges: the need to tell stories about women. Nearly all the contributions focus on female characters. This alone makes the book a pleasure for both genders. Women will likely see parts of their own lives appear with a refreshing authenticity while men can enjoy a trip through the looking glass. Allison Cole, for example, turns in "Joe Blow," a creepy slice of life story about a perv who stalks a pair of roommates. Nearly every woman has some kind of scary harassment story but seeing one in comix form still comes as a shock. Another commonality...
...rebel-held areas to hold credible elections in January. The U.S. does not have enough soldiers in Iraq to crush a growing insurgency in multiple locations at the same time. But officials believe they won't actually face that challenge. As messy as the Sunni triangle and Mosul now appear, so long as the insurgency doesn't ignite a nationwide conflagration, the Pentagon believes it can contain the threat. "What we're trying to do in the short term, through the elections, is make sure that there are no no-go zones," says a senior Western diplomat in Baghdad...