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...year-old former student of Albertville Realschule entered the school's plain, white flat-roofed building wielding a 9mm Beretta and, as a police spokesman described it, "simply opened fire". On his rampage through classrooms and corridors, the youngster, clad in black combat gear and reportedly wearing a mask, killed nine pupils, all of them aged 14 or 15, and three women teachers, and injured seven others. One of the injured students died later at a hospital. See pictures of the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy...
...glamour of Rio de Janeiro, but the city of 20 million people is a truer and smarter reflection of Brazil's bandeirante (pioneer) character. This year, work will start on the hemisphere's first bullet train, which will eventually link the two cities. High-speed rail won't mask all Brazil's flaws. But it does show, perhaps, that the country of tomorrow has a brighter future...
...heart, this is a detective story: Who killed Eddie Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a.k.a. the Comedian? The main sleuth is Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), whose shifting-inkblot mask ill conceals a violent temper and a questing spirit. Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) is not much help, preoccupied as he is with helping another superhero, Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), in a secret experiment that may save the world or put a big hole in it. Dr. M. has also paid scant heed to his girlfriend Laurie (Malin Akerman), a.k.a. Silk Spectre II, who's ready to fall into the arms of nerdy...
...says: “something inside me made me want to tear it apart.” With this in mind, the listener’s disarmed revulsion upon first hearing music so overwhelmingly naïve can be seen as a natural defense mechanism, a way to mask our own insecurities by inflicting violence on something pure. In album opener “Saddle Up,” this world of puppies and playgrounds faces an external, rather than internal, threat: a rapidly approaching adulthood full of unknowns, or, as the narrator puts...
...According to the First American CoreLogic report, the states with the highest percentage of negative-equity borrowers are the usual suspects. After Nevada (55.1%) and Michigan (40%), Arizona (31.8%), Florida (30.3%) and California (29.5%) round out the top five. Those statewide averages, though, mask a lot of local variation. One pattern: exurbs, where homes are newer and loans more likely to have been signed during the bubble years, are harder hit. For instance, in the metro area that includes Los Angeles, 23% of homeowners are faced with negative equity. Fifty miles to the east, in the area that includes Riverside...