Word: coulds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report the news in the days following the shootings, we felt there were questions that still needed to be answered. So six weeks ago, we sent a team back to Littleton, Colo., to investigate what actually motivated the killers and find out what they were really like. What could we learn about how to spot--and deal with--the demons that can lurk inside the souls of seemingly average kids? What was the community doing to heal its wounds and prevent such shootings in the future...
Indeed, it would be nice if we could always avoid showing evil people on our covers. "It's not our tendency to sensationalize crime or do covers on the crime of the week," says editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine. "Sometimes, however, a shocking picture--of a wartime execution, a brutality, a kid with a gun--along with an analysis of the tale behind it serves to focus our eyes on things we would prefer to ignore but instead should try to understand. I think it is worth the pain if it forces us to confront the issues of guns...
...choirs and ads with Santa flying down a hill on a Norelco razor. But a couple of years ago, I had a midnight epiphany at Wal-Mart. Weighed down by sporting equipment and plastic toys, I realized that I had bought more gifts than anyone on my list could want or need and that it wasn't good for their spirits--or mine...
...Salvation Army welcomes donations into its seasonal kettles, but it also values volunteers. Two hours of your family's time ringing bells beside a red kettle could be the most rewarding trip to the mall you've ever made. If you don't know which charities are active in your area, check out the website run by the AOL Foundation at helping.org Type in your zip code and your interests, and some of the 630,000 charities in the database will pop up. Volunteering arrangements and dollar donations can be made online. Similar sites are charitableway.com and allcharities.com Shop through...
...water buffalo sent by a cousin. Actually, the beast was donated in our family's name through the Heifer Project International heiferproject.org to a village in the Philippines. That year, after Christmas dinner, we had fun naming our animal, imagining what it looked like, and wondering whether we could get one for our village in upstate New York. The Wal-Mart epiphany and my cousin's generosity had taken us far: the Year of the Water Buffalo stands out as the Christmas when my family finally managed to give as good...