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...something wrong with a country when a kid can get a gun so easily and shoot that gun into the face of another kid, like my child," says Mauser. "Unfortunately it looks like it's going to take a lot more of these tragedies for real change to occur...
...September a Columbine student expressed to victim parent Bob Curnow what many of her peers were feeling. "I just want everything to get back to normal," she said. Curnow told her: "I understand what you're feeling. But you need to know that normal, before April 20, will never occur to you again. You need to redefine what normal is with this event as part of your life." And so it is with everyone in this community, and maybe in the nation too. We suffer through tragedies, we grieve, and we try to learn...
Atrial fibrillation occurs when the smaller two chambers of the heart (the atria) contract faster than the two larger ones (the ventricles), causing an erratic but still viable flow of blood. "We don't know all the causes of atrial fibrillation," says Dr. Mel Scheinman, a professor of cardiology at the University of California at San Francisco, who is not involved in Bradley's care. "High blood pressure or coronary-artery disease may predispose patients to develop [the condition]." Other cases, like Bradley's, apparently, occur for no obvious reason...
Diseases like malaria and yellow fever, which almost never occur in the U.S., are everyday occurrences in many underdeveloped countries where, because of poverty, standards of sanitation and public health are lacking...
Russia has denied reports of the botched tank raid, accusing Western news agencies of fabricating a deliberate propaganda effort. "Now everyone's waiting for the video, because the Chechens usually record these things," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "After Moscow's denials, a video showing the ambush did occur could prove embarrassing to Russia's generals." It would prove even more embarrassing to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has built his political reputation almost exclusively on the Chechnya campaign. "The plan may have been for Putin to fly down and raise the Russian flag over Grozny...