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...destiny. That's true for climate change too; even if New York meets its laudable CO2-reduction goals, that alone will do little to stop global warming. But the city is ensuring that it will be ready for a warmer world. The Bloomberg administration began by creating a homegrown version of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Those scientists reported that by the end of the century, annual mean temperatures in New York City could increase 7.5ºF (13.6ºC), with sea levels rising as much as 55 in. (140 cm), depending on how fast polar ice melts. "Coastal...
...fired--ownership of the story of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was being fiercely contested. Were they natural-born killers? Or were they victims themselves--of bullying, of bad parenting, of mental illness? Were they sent by the devil, as some local Evangelical preachers argued? The killers had a version of their story too, which they told in the journals and videos they left behind. They believed they were two living gods trapped in a world of zombies. (See TIME's 1999 cover story about Columbine...
...nightmare unfolded, students were calling local news stations, which then fed their panicked stories back into classrooms via TVs in real time, creating a feedback loop that distorted their experience of the event even as it was happening. Maybe the most surprising thing to come out of Cullen's version is how quickly it all happened. What felt like an all-day ordeal lasted only 49 minutes before the shooters ended their lives. All the murders happened in the first 16. (See the top 10 non-fiction books...
...original version of this story contained a misspelled proper name...
CLARIFICATION: The original version of the April 2 article "Gen Ed Creators Admit Doubts" bore the headline "Gen Ed Creators Raise Doubts." In fact, because the Gen Ed planners quoted in the article stated their doubts in response to questions posed by The Crimson, "admit" is the more accurate reflection of the way in which the concerns were voiced. "Raise" suggested a more active mode of communication, and has therefore been amended...