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...setting. What now ranks among the worst school shootings in history took place at Johann Gutenberg High School in Erfurt, a quiet 13th century cathedral town in the state of Thuringia in eastern Germany. "It's the kind of thing you expect to happen in America," said a visibly upset anchorman on German television. With its tough gun-control laws and a murder rate less than a quarter of the U.S.'s, Germany is not exactly a hotbed of random gun violence. But just as with the 1996 shooting that killed 18 in an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland...
...loved one is more likely than physical stress to trigger sudden cardiac arrest. For men, the opposite is true. What accounts for the difference? Researchers suspect that levels of adrenaline, which can cause the heart to beat abnormally fast, probably shoot up in women when they're upset and in men when they're doing the heavy lifting...
Hagan is still not entirely at ease with the idea of coming out into society. “One of the things that upset me about the process is that it encouraged making women feel like objects,” she says. “It’s like this is your training for being in the Junior League of Atlanta.” Tanner agrees in part. “For me, it was a nice party to have,” she says. “I don’t plan to live in Alabama...
With their black hats pulled low to shield the rain, the players hooted and hollered at every pitch. If they were cold, they didn’t show it. If they were upset about the earlier loss, they didn’t act like it. They were just boys at the ball field having fun, and I couldn’t help but chuckle...
With financial concerns forcing the UMass athletic department to cut women’s water polo next year, the Minutewomen played with a sense of urgency all weekend and nearly upset Hartwick in the first game of the tournament before falling in overtime...