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| | CNN In-Depth Specials - Are U.S. Schools Safe? |
 | | tudents at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, used the term "new normal" when discussing their state of mind in the wake of the hellish violence that shattered their lives on April 20, 1999. |
 | | It was one of the bloodiest episodes in U.S. history, and one of a dozen shootings in schools from Bethel, Alaska, to Conyers, Georgia, during an 18-month period. |
 | | In America's worst instance of school violence yet, two teenagers in April 1999 opened fire on classmates and teachers in their suburban Denver school, killing 15 people including themselves. |
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