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Colleges have also fallen in love with the event. Campus crash-courses in swing and salsa are well attended nationwide. Some schools, like Brigham Young University, offer ballroom dancing scholarships to particularly promising high school prospects...
Concern over gun violence has been building even as the number of Americans killed by guns has fallen--down almost 20% from 1993 to 1998. Among children too gun deaths have fallen, tumbling 28% from a peak in 1994 to 1997, when 4,223 kids died by gunshot. But highly publicized shootings like those at Columbine have changed perceptions. A recent TIME/Discovery Channel poll showed that 70% of parents feel violence in schools has increased. What's more, Americans no longer see gun threats against kids as a problem confined to inner cities. While violent crime has fallen sharply...
TIME Daily: How did you manage to get into Freetown after the city had mostly fallen to the rebels...
...king (a wrestler) is up and running at appropriate moments. One hysterical sequence involves the drag queen (who puts most formal-goers to shame with her swanky leggy machinations on stage) requesting that the town's lost and found office search for her boss' missing penis, which had fallen off the previous night when s/he was watching a wrestling match. Never actually mentioning the lost object by name, the lost and found description becomes a search "for an object that is soft, but can get hard, and is of tremendous importance...
These complaints have not fallen on deaf ears. On April 28 several universities affiliated with the WRC announced their intentions to open dialogue with apparel producers, indicating the organization's pragmatic desire to effect change through discourse while maintaining its principled stance that giving apparel producers a greater say does not entail giving them a seat on the administrative board. However, since the Nike events transpired, the FLA has merely taken another opportunity to demonstrate its corporate servitude and resistance to change, reiterating on April 26 that it could not commit to a policy of full disclosure and independent monitoring...