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...Kara Jaye-Anne Otter, 12, had been on the antidepressant Paxil for seven months when she committed suicide. "I was told the worst side effects would be flulike symptoms," recalls her mother, Shannon Baker. "But after three weeks she had begun to cop an attitude. Her grades started falling. Then she didn't care what she looked like, and she was fighting with everybody." Baker says her daughter developed rashes and dark circles under her eyes and had trouble sleeping. Then, on June 7, 2001, Kara pinned a note to her chest reading, "By the time you find...
...upset with the sound system,” a headband and sweatshirt-clad Alexandra S. Epstein ’07 said of roommate first-year Kara E. Furman’s performance of Whitney Houston’s “Queen of the Night.” “I thought it was unfair...
...still an orange ball low on the horizon, and the air is cool under the oak trees at the Austin Lone Star RV Resort. The birds are chirping merrily, but Kara Cox, 19, is oblivious to the unfolding beauty of the day. She's inside her Gulf Stream trailer, still in her pajamas, a week's worth of clothes on the floor, playing in the 3-D virtual world of EverQuest via a wireless connection to the Web. "She's on it four hours a day," says husband Jesse, 22, with an indulgent laugh--and with no exaggeration...
...fact, wi-fi in an RV park tends to attract more users than the pool. When Kara and Jesse Cox moved from wireless Waxahachie, Texas, to Austin so Jesse could finish his last semester at the University of Texas, the first thing they did after pulling up in their 28-ft. mobile home was hook up the electricity and charge the computer (which Jesse, a physics major, built himself). EverQuest came even before the water connection. "Our lives are on that computer," admits Jesse. "Being young, we have to have our Internet." Although he kids Kara about her gaming addiction...
...winds down at the Lone Star, steaks go on the grill, the wine bottles come out, and everybody has logged off. Well, almost everybody. Carol Norton was up late researching mortgage rates. And Jesse and Kara? The door to their rig was closed, but the sounds of battle were undeniable. Yup, says Jesse with an embarrassed laugh. "We were playing EverQuest...