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...victims' families). Tom and Sue Klebold, he told me, turn out to be loving and involved parents. It's not that they didn't work hard at knowing their son. Rather, he deceived them about who he actually was. Garbarino considers the Klebolds an extreme case of a common phenomenon, where children grow adept at hiding their vulnerabilities and dark secrets, while at the same time being exposed to influences that can translate their adolescent violent fantasies into reality...
That's why adrenaline junkies are turning in their sailboards. "Kiteboarding is a worldwide phenomenon," says John Bryja, editor of SBC Kiteboard magazine. In Europe, where windsurfing is big, Germany, Holland and France dominate the market--brothers Dominique and Bruno Legaigoux invented the style of kite most kiteboarders now use. Kites are also taking off in the Middle East and Japan...
...What obdurate force the creature possessed. He actually seemed to be dragging the boat. Moby-Dick! I hauled and reeled, under the sardonic eye of the cormorants - hauled and reeled...and mentally I had this 55-inch (at least) phenomenon iced down and on the way to the taxidermist down the road... when, after a moment or two of struggle, it began to dawn on me that my titan underwater was oddly immobile, conducting his side of the war from a fixed location. This disconcerted me. I was moving. The boat was moving. The brute, however, remained (as I could...
BARCELONA—Everyone complains about the McDonald’s, but what I noticed most was the music. American music is everywhere in Europe. More than just youth culture tuning into rap and boy-bands, the phenomenon greets you in cafés, clothing stores, and train stations...
...Kokujo (girls who like black men) paint their skin cocoa, weave their hair in cornrows, dress like Destiny's Child?all the better to attract the prime catch, the black military man. The phenomenon has already become a pop-culture staple, propelling hip-hop acts like Dragon Ash to Japanese platinum success and launching the career of best-selling novelist Amy Yamada, whose memoirish Bedroom Eyes detailed a Japanese woman's sexual exploits with black servicemen...