Word: plan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials after the rally said they plan on writing a response to the student demands in the next few days...
Sift through teen movies of the past 10 years, and you could create a hindsight game plan for Littleton. Peruse Heathers (1989), in which a charming sociopath engineers the death of jocks and princesses. Study carefully, as one of the Columbine murderers reportedly did, Natural Born Killers (1994), in which two crazy kids cut a carnage swath through the Southwest as the media ferociously dog their trail. Sample The Basketball Diaries (1995), in which druggy high schooler Leonardo DiCaprio daydreams of strutting into his homeroom in a long black coat and gunning down his hated teacher and half the kids...
...social advocates are woolly-headed. The awkwardly named group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids counts eight crime survivors and more than a dozen police chiefs on its advisory board, including former New York City police commissioner William Bratton. The Washington-based group's four-point plan is touchingly well meaning: 1) give kids something to do after school; 2) make sure young children have access to quality child care; 3) help schools identify troubled kids early and provide counseling for them; 4) prevent child abuse...
...NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook ($499). And Rocket's main competitor, SoftBook Press, is now selling its notebook-size device for $299--if you agree to buy $19.95 worth of books monthly for two years. Given the slim library currently available for the SoftBook (fewer than 139 titles), the purchase plan could be a gamble...
...foreign-born children is to include the customs, language and history of their birth land as part of the family tradition. While Katz waited to be allowed to take Lena home, she toured the girl's native village and took pictures to show her later. Families might also plan a trip to the child's birth country--or take advantage of summer camps sprouting up for multiracial families, at which kids are given the chance to learn more about their culture and experience life as a majority. "It's a very emotional experience," says Gail Walton, director of one such...