1994 6.14 Sergey Bubka (UKR) Sestriere 1995 6.03 Okkert Brits (RSA) Cologne 1996 6.02 Sergey Bubka (UKR) Atlanta, Georgia 1997 6.05 Sergey Bubka (UKR) Fukuoka 1998 6.01 Jeff Hartwig (USA) Uniondale 1999 6.05 Maxim Tarasov (RUS) Athens 2000 6.03 Jeff Hartwig (USA) Jonesboro 2001 6.05 Dmitriy Markov (AUS) Edmonton Jeff Hartwig (USA) 2002 5.90 Athens Tim Lobinger (GER) 2003 5.95 Romain Mesnil (FRA) Castres 2004 6.01 Tim Mack (USA) Monaco 2005 6.00 Paul Burgess (AUS) Perth 2006 6.00 Brad Walker (USA) Jockgrim 2007 5
MONKEY ME, MONKEY DO lie. Malfunctioning Copier Five minutes before the start of school on May 20, 1999, 15-year-old Thomas ("TJ") Solomon opened fire on his classmates, shooting six of them before he was stopped by a heroic teacher. In struggling to comprehend the underlying causes, we must recognize the effect on him of the publicity surrounding a year-long string of similar inCidents-first in Jonesboro, Arkansas, then in Springfield Oregon, then in Littleton, Colorado, and then, just two days earlier, in Taber, Alberta. As one of his friends declared in response to the question of why distraught students were suddenly turning murderous at school, "Kids like TJ are seeing it and hearing it all the time now. like the new way out for them" (Cohen , 1999). ing up in small town or suburban America. By these accounts, the stressors of u.s.