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Until Kip Kinkel opened fire on his schoolmates in Springfield, Ore., in May, everyone thought he was just a regular kid. A little angry, maybe, with a gruesome sense of humor. Mostly, just a boy. But even before the frantic second-guessing over the tragedy began came two books to suggest that boys being boys--or what the world tries to make of boys--may have been a big part of the problem...
...down, the wind laughing through the sparse seedlings of your new plug-a-rug--and wondered how a nowhere burg like Dalton, Ga., comes to carpet the planet. Or how a look-fast town, a highway blur, becomes the Garlic Capital (Gilroy, Calif.) or the Storm-Watching Capital (Bandon, Ore.) of the universe (or so they claim...
...love being a woman. We are courageous and emotionally wealthy," Patsy Clairmont declares. The silver-haired author of Normal Is Just a Setting on Your Dryer is framed by four overhead TV screens as she roams a circular stage of the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Ore., one of a series of speakers commanding the attention of the 12,000 women gathered there. She stops abruptly and pulls hundreds of rubber bands out of a bag, an embarrassment of riches meant to represent the psychic entanglement she has had to deal with. "This is me," she says. "All of me." Agoraphobia...
DIED. MARION CARL, 83, intrepid World War II flying ace and postwar test pilot; during a robbery of his home; in Roseburg, Ore. One of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated pilots, Carl shot down 16 Japanese planes over Guadalcanal and flew combat missions in Vietnam while in his 50s. He set an air-speed record in 1947, soon eclipsed when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier two months later...
...COOS BAY, ORE. No possession of paint, ink or chalk with intent to apply graffiti...