Word: metallism
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McLendon had a senior lecturer run a lab for students in his seminar, "The Galvanization of Biology: Metal Ions and Life," and the freshman seminar program paid for the lecturer's time...
...adolescent rock bands later, he and his friends started a heavy metal group called It's Alive. The lessons at his music-focused high school couldn't compete with visions of a rock star future, so he dropped out to concentrate on the band. It's Alive was the rare act that actually got a record deal, from the Cheiron label run by producer Denniz PoP. The deal would be the band's end and Martin's big break...
Stevens, however, thinks he knows what finally unleashed Andy. "He was pushed to the edge," he says. "Listen to In the End, track eight on Linkin Park's CD. That was the song that inspired Andy." The metal hip-hop hybrid screams alienated angst: "In spite of the way you were mocking me/ Acting like I was part of your property/ Remembering all the times you fought with me/ I'm surprised...
...begun in American high schools: as a tiny number of disaffected kids stockpiles guns and home-made bombs to mimic Columbine's Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (or at least threaten to), communities are investing millions of dollars to bring armed cops--er, "resource officers"--to campus, along with metal detectors and security cameras...
...part because they have seen the survivors of school massacres weeping after the slaughter, many kids are helping to stop the shooting before it starts by sharing information about troubled peers. "The best metal detector is the student," says Ronald Stephens of the National School Safety Center. That's because in more than 75% of school-violence incidents, the attacker had told someone first, according to a post-Columbine study by the Secret Service that applied its threat-assessment techniques to school safety...