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...principal Pat Voss, superintendent Bill Gussner and their staffs were not only candid but encouraged others to be so too. They were understandably protective of their adolescent charges, but as it turned out, so were we. Atlanta correspondent Tim Roche, a veteran of school-violence stories in Conyers, Ga., and Pearl, Miss., was once again struck by how unguarded kids can be. Like the rest of us, he found himself "often protecting them from themselves" as he sifted through his notes...
...prepare for the Senior Games, Mulkey sprints daily along the streets of Marietta, Ga., outside Atlanta, and pole vaults an average of three times a week. He then downs a breakfast that would turn a health faddist ashen: scrambled eggs, sausage and biscuits and two hotcakes at a local fast-food spot. Vitamins B and C are the only supplements he takes...
About 60% of the samples the Innocence Project sends out for testing come back in their clients' favor. At that point, many prosecutors quickly concede and free the inmate. Earlier this year, the Innocence Project produced DNA showing that Calvin Johnson Jr. was innocent of a Clayton County, Ga., rape he had been convicted of in 1983. In June, the same district attorney who originally sent Johnson away persuaded a judge to free...
Eventually Bryan came upon the Gardens of Towne Lake in Woodstock, Ga., a landscaped complex where about two dozen seniors live in their own apartments and have round-the-clock staff members to help with daily tasks such as dressing and bathing. There are regular social events. There's a beauty shop. "I love living here," she says. "I got out that first day to learn names...
...recent years, schools have tried to create a new environment of conspicuous order and security. What school administrators, parents and students worry about most are potential copycat gun crimes, especially after it was revealed last week that T.J. Solomon, 15, accused of shooting six classmates last May in Conyers, Ga., had referred to the Littleton, Colo., shootings in a note left under his bed. And last week's armed assault on a suburban day-care center in Los Angeles only heightened the sense that every place is vulnerable...