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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consultant who speaks to coaches and athletes about using their status to be role models, and the peer-counselor program, in which senior leaders can help identify students in need of support. At Columbine's opening-day rally in August, DeAngelis urged all students "who don't feel part of the Columbine family" to come to his office and let him know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Victims: Never Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Victims: Never Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...found a way out, by going undercover and taking part in a 17-month probe that has exposed a shameful side of New York City's public school system. A special investigator, Edward Stancik, alleges that two principals and 50 other educators at 32 elementary and middle schools helped students cheat on standardized tests. Some hinted broadly at correct answers while students were taking the test; others used the scrap-paper method to avoid the multiple erasures that often indicate cheating; a few even changed answers after their students turned in the exams. The motive is not hard to discern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Teachers Cheat | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...growing number of people know the difference. Since 1990, tea sales have more than doubled, to $4 billion a year in the U.S., owing in part to the burgeoning interest in finer teas. Classy restaurants are shedding cheap tea bags for menus of luxe loose-leaf varieties. Tea houses across the country, like San Francisco's Tea & Co., Boston's Tealuxe and Washington's Teaism, are packing in sippers. Even the high church of coffee, Starbucks, is prominently displaying this year's big acquisition: Tazo Teas. Ellen Lii, the owner of Ten Ren Tea in New York City's Chinatown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea Time Once Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Enthusiasts say part of the attraction is tea's Zen appeal and calming effect; others point to its communal nature. "I love tea's social aspect," says Helen Kim, 24, a Stanford graduate student who throws monthly tea parties. "It's fun to introduce people to different types and send them home with samples." Tea is a connoisseur's delight. Just as the grape produces a profusion of wines, the Camellia sinesis plant yields many variations dependent on region, temperature, time of year and part of the plant plucked. Indeed, a tasting--or cupping, in tea parlance--reveals a kaleidoscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea Time Once Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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