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...past month there have been two cases of children killing children: the school slaying in Arkansas, where two 14-year-old boys shot their classmates because they were bitter about romantic rejection, and the most recent case of Andrew Wurst in north-west Pennsylvania. Wurst, a 14-year-old middle school student, walked into the eighth-grade graduation dance, shot and killed a chaperoning science teacher and wounded three others. He is currently being charged as an adult, with criminal homicide, three counts each of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment and numerous gun and drug charges...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, | Title: Complicit In Crime | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...admit that these murders were heinous. The excuses the children gave for their behavior show an utter lack of sensitivity and compassion. The two Arkansas boy were angry because some girls in their class didn't want to go out with them, and Wurst claimed he just wanted to "shake things...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, | Title: Complicit In Crime | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...European culture, feeling obliged to humble themselves before centuries of grand symphonic and literary traditions. In fact, French TV offers great disvalue for money: by eight o'clock, most shows or dramas display people in varied states of undress, with customary "humorous" complications. Germans enjoy nothing more than a wurst, a few beers, and an evening of hearty bottom slapping. And as for the Belgians. Well, what else can you do in Belgium...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: Endpaper | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...newly opened border post. But the transfer bogged down in government red tape, and the van sits idle in a garage in the West. Still, the offer led to discussions among the fire fighters. Within two weeks the fire departments met over steins of beer and plates of wurst for professional talk. At present they are working out disaster plans and communications problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Came From the People. | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

WURSTFEST. You can link up with more than 100,000 sausage devotees at this Texas-size eaterama. For ten days, New Braunfels, Texas, rolls out the best of the wurst, as well as yodelers, dancers and polka players with down-home names like Oma and the Oompahs. Nov. 3 through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 6, 1989 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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