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...culture, has measured as little as 5 in. (13 cm) of rainfall in a year. And despite occasional monsoons, Southern California is so chronically arid that it couldn't sustain a third of its current population without sucking billions of liters a day out of Lake Mead, the distant Colorado River reservoir formed by Hoover...
Would any of this have helped at Columbine, where patrolmen waited outside the school for later-arriving SWAT teams rather than barging inside to confront the gunmen? Colorado Governor Bill Owens told TIME that he thinks those slow and deliberate tactics were probably inappropriate and will be assessed by his Columbine Review Commission. But most departments aren't waiting for more studies--rapid deployment is the order...
...Colorado resident Michael T. Wahl '03, for example, says he will never forget turning on the television to "horrific" images of SWAT teams and a student trying to crawl out of a second-story window...
...from Colorado and I would not be at all interested if it wasn't for Columbine," he says. "I'm not proud of that fact...
...champagne with celebrities while my older brother complained that our family was rapidly losing its intellectual edge and we needed to sharpen our minds in a cultural environment. So my weary parents opted for the middle-ground: a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Be it Montana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, South Carolina or Virginia, we'd shack up in the woods and spend our days horseback riding, cow tipping, mini-golfing, go-cart riding or apple-picking. I, of course, was beside myself. Though I could barely form complete sentences, I do remember launching into diatribes: "Where are the five...