Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...isolation, combined with easy access to guns and a culture that teaches kids, in everything from movies to foreign policy, that violence is a valid means of resolving problems." The isolation of the latchkey kid is even more intense in the suburbs. "When Mom and Dad aren't home much and the extended family of the past is gone, kids are left to the mercies of a peer culture shaped by popular culture," says TIME senior writer Richard Lacayo. "Whiplashed from 'South Park' and 'Jerry Springer' to playing Mortal Kombat on Nintendo desensitizes ordinary kids to violence, but more susceptible...
BOSTON--"Safe at home! Safe at home...
...winning the first three races of its brief six-race season. On April 3, they drove past Cornell and Penn at the Matthews Cup, held in Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. One week later they beat Dartmouth and MIT decisively in the Biglin Bowl, which took place on he home course. The next day, they journeyed to Princeton for a showdown with Rutgers, where again they prevailed by over eight seconds on the 2000-meter course...
...Students can shop for textbooks any hour of the day or night," Levy says. "You can come home from a final club at three in the morning and order books...
...reminiscent of Springfield, Ore., where a physically fragile 15-year-old named Kip Kinkel last May allegedly opened up on classmates a day after calmly murdering his parents in their home. Or West Paducah, Ky., where Michael Carneal began shooting in a crowded school hallway, killing three and wounding five others before an extraordinarily calm student walked up and told him to stop. Or the most incongruous of all, Mitchell Johnson and Drew Golden, 13 and 11 years old, baby fat still pinching at the collars of their school clothes as they laid down an exceptionally accurate line of fire...