Word: felted
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This is not to say the humiliation Harris and Klebold felt was not a cause. Because they were steeped in violence and drained of mercy, they could accomplish everything at once: payback to those who hurt them, and glory, the creation of a cult, for all those who have suffered and been cast out. They wanted movies made of their story, which they had carefully laced with "a lot of foreshadowing and dramatic irony," as Harris put it. There was that poem he wrote, imagining himself as a bullet. "Directors will be fighting over this story," Klebold said...
...brother's friends. Except for his parents, Klebold says, his extended family treated him like the runt of the litter. "You made me what I am," he said. "You added to the rage." As far back as the Foothills Day Care center, he hated the "stuck-up" kids he felt hated him. "Being shy didn't help," he admits. "I'm going to kill you all. You've been giving us s___ for years...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the transplant, Yeager finally felt justified medically in pronouncing Keone cured. "The cord blood cells are now fully operational, making all healthy blood cells in Keone," he says. Equally important, there was no sign of sickle cells and no need for more transfusions. That, of course, was a coup for the doctors, who believe their widely watched experiment could benefit other severely ill sickle-cell kids who can't find matching donors for conventional transplants. Indeed, Yeager believes using umbilical cells could increase the number of successful transplants...
...Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and another in northern Georgia was cited when seven of his special-ed students scored a perfect 600 on the language portion of the test. Dan Erling, a respected sixth-grade math instructor in Atlanta, left the profession in disgust over what he felt was rampant cheating. He estimates that as many as 15% of his incoming students had inflated test scores because of improper help from teachers, such as telling students to "sit next to the smart kid" during testing. Last year 40 cases of educator cheating were brought before Georgia's standards commission...
Although we worked hard last April to 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...