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...main terminal, next to the ticket counters. The mere thought of this makes Baumgartner's fleshy face turn red. The machines would take up space currently needed for passengers, he argues, and would add to the congestion-offering an even more inviting target for people like the L.A. shooter. Instead, Baumgartner wants the machines hidden away underground, amid the expanse of Disneyesque rail track that transports luggage from ticket counter to airplane. "I can have either machines or people in my terminal," says Baumgartner. "I can't fit both...
They missed a great one. Kidd had his third triple double of the series, becoming the first to do that in 35 years, which is especially impressive when you consider that his individual skills aren't that hot. He isn't a great shooter, yet he makes big shots and relishes big games, just like his hero Magic. Nor is he anything resembling a leaper. His great rebounding is owing to his ability to figure out where the ball is going...
...evidently had been expelled from the school in February for forging doctors' signatures on absence-excuse notes. Unlike the Columbine killers, Steinhauser was not a social outcast. "This doesn't fit into the picture I have of him," says Isabell Hartung, a former student who knew the shooter. "Everybody got on with him, and everybody liked him." Biology teacher Andreas Forster's take: "He was a very calm, reasonable...
...remarkable story of a young woman who wouldn’t forget. While Laura’s research on revenge is enlightening, the book revolves around her relationship with the shooter’s family. During her year in Jerusalem, Laura learns that the shooter, Omar Khatib, is still serving time for the attack. She manages to track down his family and, introducing herself to the Khatibs only as Laura, an American journalist covering the Middle East, begins the hugely emotional process of befriending them. She struggles to keep her composure at times, such as when a 12-year...
...Coincidentally, the country's legislature passed even more stringent gun laws just hours after the shooting occurred. Still, while it's not yet known how the Erfurt shooter acquired his weapons, the deadly incident is a reminder that many believe Germany's gun problem isn't with its laws, but with existing weaponry. "Gun ownership was very high in the former East Germany, and when the Eastern bloc collapsed, those surplus military weapons flooded the private market," says Rebecca Peters, a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, the philanthropic arm of the Soros Foundation in New York...