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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talks about the struggle between good and evil, and invokes Jesus Christ's parable of the sower to explain how media violence subverts children. In New Hampshire, Gore compared the alienation of Cain--the first murderer--with the forces that drove two teenagers to commit the same sin in Colorado. He mused to a Washington Post columnist that society has finally reached "the end of a 400-year period of allergy to faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking a Leap of Faith | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...entire pile. At first they were too slow, and although Susan's teacher didn't say too slow for what, nobody needed to ask. The second time, Susan reports proudly, "we got it down to 20 seconds." She adds, "It made me feel more comfortable if something like the Colorado shooting would happen at my school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Surge Of Teen Spirit | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...impact reinforced last week by the shooting in Conyers, Ga., has also transfixed her school's Campus Life faith group, led by her older brother Devon. As a result, Susan has reached a personal decision, one based on the example of her new hero, a Christian victim of the Colorado massacre named Cassie Bernall. "If there was a shooter in my school," declares the 12-year-old gravely, "I'd volunteer to sacrifice my life. I'd say, 'Don't shoot my friends; shoot me,' because I know where I'll go when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Surge Of Teen Spirit | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...Teran's school group and several dozen others, describes a surge of youths volunteering to be "missionaries" in their schools. The Rev. Billy Epperhart, who officiated at four funerals in Littleton, has received calls from friends around the U.S. reporting a spread of the religious fervor so obvious among Colorado teens since the shootings. If their stories are correct, he says, America's evangelical youth are experiencing a genuine "spiritual revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Surge Of Teen Spirit | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...have grown up with the Internet, so I know firsthand what the dangers are and what the pleasures can be. Those who say violent games are the reason for the Colorado high school shootings must not have played the games all that much. I have played every 3-D shoot-'em-up there is. The games don't desensitize people. If adults try to limit what kids do on the Internet, they are limiting information that can help them later in life. DAVID GREGORY, 15 Boulder Creek, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1999 | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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