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...save your business. With climate change and high oil prices in the headlines, corporations everywhere are rushing to show off their green credentials. But the demand for environmentally friendly products--niche-market successes such as the Toyota Prius hybrid car notwithstanding--has yet to reach critical mass...
Hindsight blows just as strong through events like this. It's the nature of tragedy that it comes packaged in irony, sharp little stabs of coincidence that make it hurt even more: there was the Holocaust survivor who died trying to save his students from a mass murder committed on Holocaust Remembrance Day. There was the international-studies student who had seen the carnage at the Pentagon on 9/11 and wanted to be a peacemaker; he died in French class. There was the killer who signed into English class with a question mark, known by the few who knew...
...Rudd's fortes are foreign affairs, federalism and microphones. While he astutely made alliances with media executives, business people, diplomats and academics, Rudd also cultivated a mass audience among those neglected by Canberra's bubble people. Rudd talked his way into a weekly spot on the Sunrise breakfast TV show. For five years (until he and Joe Hockey, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, finally exhausted the gig last week), Rudd was exposed to, and thus became one of the few M.P.s known by, the politically disengaged: busy mothers and retirees turned off by issues-driven AM radio...
...airtime that follow an attack like the one at Virginia Tech, mass murder is an exceedingly rare crime. The rate of killings in the U.S. involving five or more victims - one generally accepted definition of a mass killing - represented less than 1% of all homicides 25 years ago, and still does today. Among kids, the overall violence figures are actually plummeting, with the number of children under 17 who commit murder falling 65% between 1993 and 2004. Mass killing, says Diane Follingstad, a professor of clinical and forensic psychology at the University of South Carolina, "is a low baserate thing...
...Common Ground on Gun Control? Witness: The Dormitory Murders How Much of Cho to Show? Viewpoint: Va. Tech's President Should Resign Echoes of Columbine Inside a Mass Murderer's Mind What Can Schools Do? The Gun Lobby's Counterattack Where Cho Bought His Deadly Weapon Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind South Korea's Collective Guilt Inside Cho Seung Hui's Dorm When a School Learns to Mourn How to Make Campuses Safer Fatal Shootings at Colleges and Schools Photos