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...good book can take something that seemed impenetrable and make such elegant sense of it that readers wonder why they never saw order in all that chaos before. Malcolm Gladwell did it for snap decision making. Jared Diamond did it for the rise of civilizations. Now Lynne O'Donnell, with High Tea in Mosul, does it for sniper fire and kidnapping threats. Four years into the war in Iraq, she captures with stark simplicity what it's like to live with ceaseless fear and violence...
...everything from panda porn (films of the animals mating) to Viagra (the drug didn't work) in their attempts to get the notoriously sex-averse animals to make whoopee. Last year, with 34 panda cubs born, was the best ever for China's artificial breeding program. But environmentalists now wonder how necessary the breeding is. Back in 1975, with the pandas near extinction, China set aside 10 nature reserves for the bears, covering almost 2.5 million acres. That move, plus years of global publicity for the panda's plight, has helped China's wild panda population grow to a stable...
...Seung-Hui, Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were "martyrs." In a video Cho sent to NBC on Monday, the day he shot 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech before taking his own life, Cho glorified Klebold and Harris, leaving many to wonder if Cho was mimicking the attack at the Littleton, Colo., high school, which occurred eight years ago Friday...
...bedroom apartment, although there are relatives nearby. Watching television coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, he saw Craig Scott, Rachel's brother, on TV talking about Columbine. The Virginia massacre stirred up painful memories. "It's horrible, obviously; it's overwhelming," he says. "It makes me wonder why things like that happen...
...funny to be 22 and to realize that the bullies that made fun of you in the seventh grade might have been on to something, that maybe a lot of the stuff you did was actually hilarious,” says Rich. “I wonder how old I’ll have to be before I can start laughing at the humiliations of college,” he says. “Probably another 10 years. And, finally, when I’m 50, I’ll be able to write about my disastrous first marriage...