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...dyed purple tips," had opened gunfire in the cafeteria of a high school conducting summer school classes. Thankfully no one was hurt because the shots had been fired towards the ceiling, but my co-worker still thought the event was "fantastic." That afternoon we had already booked Gavin de Becker, a leading expert in predicting violent behavior and the author of The Gift of Fear: Survival Signs that Protect Us From Violence. The show's senior producer was overjoyed that audiences would believe that we had managed to spontaneously book De Becker during the two hour window between the shooting...
...Back - Lennon/McCartney 2. The Chain - Lindsey Buckingham/Mick Fleetwood 3. Aja - Donald Fagen/Walter Becker 4. Sleepwalk - Santo Farina/John Farina/Ann Farina 5. The Girl from Ipanema (The Lounge Lizard Song) - Jobim 6. You Belong to Me - Michael McDonald 7. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Forsey/Shiff (Simple Minds) 8. Superstitious - Stevie Wonder 9. Honky Tonk Women - Jagger/Richard 10. Free Falling - Tom Petty...
Teutonic temptress Claudia Schiffer has trumped liberation icon Nelson Mandela in the rock-paper-scissors game that decides the hosts of soccer's World Cup. Germany, whose bid to host the 2006 event was fronted by the supermodel alongside tennis ace Boris Becker and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, on Thursday knocked out South Africa's, championed by its legendary former president, by one vote. Although Sepp Blatter, president of soccer's world governing body, FIFA, had backed South Africa's bid on the grounds that it was time to give the African continent a first opportunity to host the world...
...past three months, Steve Becker, 45, an executive for an instant-messaging company, has been alternating between his bike and his Xootr for the eight-mile commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan. "It takes me an extra hour by scooter," says Becker, "but it's a great workout, it's fun, and it's a lot easier to ride through Midtown. Plus, people look at me and say, That man is having fun! I remember fun." But will they remember the scooter next Christmas...
Better that result, de Becker contends, than the more haphazard approach of a school district like Granite City, Ill., which has hand-crafted its own profiling policy. Students who exhibit certain risky behaviors--cursing, mood swings, writing about "the dark side of life"--can face expulsion or worse. In December, teachers in Granite City found a note by a student promising to "settle some scores." He was read his Miranda warning, arrested by the city police and suspended for 10 days. In the meantime, teachers investigating the matter found that the note was only the concoction, as superintendent Steve Balen...