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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy availability of guns may be a necessary component of the Littleton phenomenon, but it's not a sufficient explanation. After all, firearms have been widely available for decades, but random mass shootings by high schoolers are a comparatively recent phenomenon. And in a country such as Israel, where a large proportion of the population is almost permanently armed from its teenage years, gun crime is almost negligible. A second common explanation for alienated teenagers' venting their anger in shooting sprees is the glamorization of violence in American popular culture. "Hollywood, TV and and videogames have spearheaded a cult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Massacres: An American Phenomenon | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...little piece of the puzzle," says Estelle Guzik, director of the New York Jewish Genealogical Society, who set out to trace relatives killed in the Holocaust. In one family a cousin had saved a 20-year-old invitation list to a son's bar mitzvah. An elderly invitee from Israel still lived at the same address and referred Guzik to her son, a rabbi, who provided a family tree stretching from Australia to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...Israel for a while has tried to personalize nationalism, getting rid of some Palestinian leaders. It didn't work," he said...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Debate Kosovo Media Coverage | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Bacon is a trustee of the Folger Shakespeare Library 2 Shakespeare wrote the play Julius Caesar 3 Caesar ruled Rome 4 Rome put Pontius Pilate in charge of Israel 5 Pontius Pilate had Christ crucified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Degrees of Kenneth Bacon | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Lindbergh Crosses Atlantic b) War with Japan c) Eisenhower Reluctant to Be Nominated d) President JFK Assassinated e) Man Walks on the Moon f) Stocks Plunge 508 Points g) U.S. Planes Attack Iraq h) Iraqi Missiles Hit Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Apr. 12, 1999 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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