Word: mass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...under-the-table, all-Euro business. Strange foreigners emerging from tour buses on Mass Ave. means a non-Crimson-Key-endorsed voyage from Mem Church...to Widener...and back, with enough time for pictures...
...least of the changes in store; the biggie will hit when Radcliffe stops manufacturing all that other cool stuff with its name on it. True, Harvard regalia rules the Square, but girls and boys looking for some Radcliffe gear are not yet in trouble. The Harvard Shop on Mass. Ave stocks a Radcliffe kiddie T-shirt option, albeit somewhat hidden under piles of "Make Way for the Ducklings" shirts. The Coop offers a solid three articles of Radcliffe clothing: a gray T-shirt with red lettering, a gray sweatshirt with black and red lettering and a gray child...
...many societies face problems of youth violence; while it doesn't address the root causes of that violence, making weapons inaccessible effectively contains the damage. "Youth violence is on the rise across Europe," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But you don't have this kind of mass killing because it's hard for even the most sociopathic teenagers to get their hands on guns. The easy availability of guns is a problem that America hasn't found the means, or even the will, to contain." Adds TIME's Barry Hillenbrand, who spent many years in the London...
...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...
...second postwar phenomenon that may contribute to this American trend is suburbia -- mass shootings by high schoolers appear to be confined to mostly white, suburban schools, rather than the inner city communities more commonly plagued by gun violence. "Violence in minority neighborhoods and schools tends to be gang- and drug-related," says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera. "In suburbia, though, it appears to be influenced by intense alienation and 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...