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Massacre maker

Cover Story Sidebar | Cho Seung-Hui was a ticking time bomb

'Darkest moment'

'Darkest moment'

Cover Story | The deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history leaves a grief-stricken campus searching for answers, hope, and meaning

In this issue: "'Darkest moment'," April 28, 2007

Features

Cruel and unusual punishment
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Cruel and unusual punishment

National |  A rare glimpse into remote North Korea uncovers new stories on persecution-300 people a year killed for their faith-amid an unbending communist regime

Sex-ed for dummies
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Sex-ed for dummies

Education |  With abstinence-only programs under fire, lawmakers renew push for "comprehensive" programs that don't comprehend parental values

Slow transition
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Slow transition

Horn of Africa |  Despite recent gains, Somalis have learned that change takes time-lots of time

Witticist
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Witticist

Human Race |  Independent thinking characterized great American novelist Kurt Vonnegut

Dispatches

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Quotables

Memorable things they said

The Buzz
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The Buzz

The latest on the week's biggest news

Plane truth
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Plane truth

Further evidence of government involvement in Darfur killings comes dressed as missions of mercy

Quick Takes
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Quick Takes

Oddball occurrences

Reviews

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Give shalom a chance

Television |  TLC show offers concrete counsel for families

Gory details
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Gory details

Movies |  Pathfinder beats the audience over the head with graphic violence

Half-hearted angst
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Half-hearted angst

Movies |  Disturbia fails as a social critique of the suburbs

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Bestselling books

Notable Books |  Four hardback bestsellers reviewed by Susan Olasky

Notebook

Road less traveled
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Road less traveled

Sports |  Sixty years after Jackie Robinson's breakthrough, most black athletes shun baseball

Academic greed
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Academic greed

Money |  Perks for financial aid administrators may have left students with higher loan bills

Voices

'It's at a new level'
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'It's at a new level'

An increasing acceptance of violence is not without consequences

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Mailbag

Letters from our readers

End of the ordinary
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End of the ordinary

Exceptional days point to the truth about each and every day

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Back to the future

We have become too obsessed with ourselves, too inward-looking, too subjective, not just in our art but in our morality and in our religion

Religions of pieces
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Religions of pieces

Four questions point to basic alternatives among and within world religions

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