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...recurs throughout the series and lives to the age of 366. With their poetic, often meandering dialogue, the plays typically start slow (anyone who says his eyes have never drooped in the first act of an August Wilson play probably isn't being honest), but build to thrilling, sometimes violent, often otherworldly, climaxes. And although the last one, Gem of the Ocean, almost didn't make it to Broadway (after an investor pulled out, producer Carol Shorenstein Hays, who had backed Fences, put in $1 million to save it), they have drawn black theatergoers in droves to a street that...
...Police and youth counselors blame a familiar list of social forces for the trend, including the pressures of Korea's competitive school system, a lack of supervision by working parents, and the ready availability of violent video games and Internet pornography. Kids copy bad behavior out of curiosity, particularly when they can hide behind a group identity, says police juvenile-crime expert Kang Dae Il. Says Kim Yang Young Hee, a counselor at the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, a Seoul-based NGO: "Kids think sexual violence is a game...
...taken advantage of the offer so far. That's a start. But experts are worried that hardened gang members won't be caught, partly because their victims are often too scared to turn them in and partly because some schools are more interested in avoiding bad publicity than exposing violent kids. Just ask Song. Her assailants were never punished, although they have to check in regularly with a supervisor. "I hope they forget I exist," says Song. "I'm still afraid." Fear of violence should not be part of any high school curriculum...
...fact that aspirations for poverty alleviation and environmental protection are often antithetical. Added to this, the toll from disasters, natural and man-made, is in many cases catastrophic, and the situation is getting worse, not better. Unanticipated variability in climate—droughts, floods, and violent storms—pose problems for those least equipped to cope, a problem not confined to Africa but one experienced increasingly in many different parts of the world...
...truly an innocent,” Procopio said. “She was a victim who really posed no threat to these men or to anybody. It was just [the defendants’] violent egos. They were going to prove to her friends that they don’t cross them, and they were going to prove that by killing...