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...Phenomenon: If kids are slain, a parent is often the culprit...
...vote of one coach--someone with a vested interest in who is ranked where--could have swung Penn State's two-vote plurality into a tie. Another vote could have given Nebraska the lead. Is this any way to run a lemonade stand, much less a national phenomenon people are known to kill each other over...
...said that most hate crimes are not reported. "It is a common phenomenon for victims to blame themselves, especially if [they are] from a country without hate crime laws," she said...
While still unproved, the hypothesis is stirring a debate about an aeronautical phenomenon called wake vortex. That dry bit of technical jargon refers to the rotating, high-energy tornadoes that spiral behind and downward from the wing tips of an aircraft. Such turbulence behaves much like the wake of a ship: the heavier the vessel's displacement weight, the more violent and long lasting the disturbance. In air, as on water, if a craft trails this whirling vortex too closely, it can be buffeted brutally. For more than a decade the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents, has exhorted...
...monitor screening images of war. Previous Indian museums, says director Richard West, "felt they were doing civilization and humanity a favor by saving material of people who everybody assumed were headed for extinction. I wanted to make sure that ours did not lapse into interpreting Indians as a historical phenomenon." Himself a Southern Cheyenne, West declares: "We're here. And we like to think that we have a future...