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...school shooter with one of the longest sentences, Ramsey has encountered some of the harder edges of prison life. He spent six months in solitary confinement after beating a fellow inmate with a sock packed with batteries when the prisoner reneged on a gambling debt of four candy bars. Ramsey has heard that an uncle of the student he killed is in the same prison and that the man "wants to do a bunch of different things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Voices From The Cell | 5/20/2001 | See Source »

...those who bought homes - or other large investments - into this wind will be obligated to follow through and buy all the other stuff. But there are a lot of other people who are worried about their jobs, or dissatisfied with them, and, really, who couldn't stand to sock a little money away in these turbulent times? Unless inflation hits hard, Greenspan, again, has little excuse not to take another stab at getting this economy back to a nice canter by the end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment is Up, and the Markets Don't Know What to Think | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

Elizabeth Catherine Bush was no Charles Andrew Williams. She didn't shoplift booze or boast of pulling a Columbine. Bush was a quiet eighth-grader who attended Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa., a cozy Roman Catholic school that holds spaghetti suppers and sock hops. A stickler for safety, Bush lectured the school bus driver for speeding through railroad crossings. She tacked posters of Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. to her bedroom walls and affixed pictures of the Columbine victims to the bulletin board over her desk. Her parents say she wanted to be a human-rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Williamsport: Girlhoods Interrupted | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Nine-year-old: A sock has veins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chores, Anyone? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...first four issues of "Sock Monkey" have been collected as a trade paperback. The collection and the individual issues can be purchased at superior comic book stores, but call first. Tony Millionaire also has a collection of his weekly series, "Maakies," available at better book stores and comic shops, as well as a website: www.maakies.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Millionaire's Sock Monkey Offers Strange Comfort | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

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