Bad Stuff in the News: A Guide to Handling the Headlines Book

	Introduction	vi
1.	Terrorism	1
	When bombs explode and planes get hijacked and buildings blaze with fire and lots of people get hurt and die
	When angry and hateful people threaten and destroy life
	When people who say they have an important message send only a big and scary message of violence
2.	Kids Killing Kids	13
	When kids bring guns to school and shoot people for no reason
	When kids beat other kids
	When school doesn't seem safe anymore
3.	Hunger Near and Far	27
	When you see starving children who look like skeletons with big eyes
	When you see people sleeping in refrigerator boxes
	When kids have no money for lunch
	When poverty stares you right in the face
4.	The Wild Earth	39
	When you see pictures of a house floating down the street
	When you see towns crumbled up in an earthquake
	When forest fires burn trees and animals and houses for miles and miles
	When the earth looks wild, mean, and very scary
5.	Crash, Smash & Burn	47
	When you see pieces of an airplane floating in the water or scattered in a field
	When a ship sinks and people drown
	When a train goes off the tracks
	When cars crash and kill people
	When the things we build to help us end up hurting us
6.	Please Don't Hit Me	57
	When you hear about kids beaten or even killed by their own parents
	When you see wives scared of their husbands
	When adults sexually abuse children
	When home isn't the safest place for you to be
7.	The Hate That Leads to Harm	65
	When you see people hurt others because of the color of their skin or their religion or where they're from
	When people hate governments so much that they blow up buildings
	When hate is so strong, it leads people to kill
8.	Really Bad Sports	73
	When you go to see a good game but end up seeing a bad fight
	When people play to hurt and not for the love of the game
	When parents don't play by the rules of sportsmanship
	When sports are dangerous and not fun
9.	Mucking Up the Earth	81
	When dead fish float down a polluted river
	When you see oil-covered birds and otters after an oil spill
	When food you think is safe is a poison
	When clean air and clean water and clean dirt are hard to find
	When people mess with the environment
10.	Sad & Scary Addicts	89
	When you see famous people ruined by drugs
	When you see ordinary people killed by drunk drivers
	When drug dealers shoot people and get shot
	When people think that they need chemicals to be happy
11.	Sick, Dying People	99
	When little babies who didn't do anything to anybody get sick and die
	When diseases spread all over the world and kill millions of people
	When old people forget who they are
	When people have to fight their bodies to live
12.	Bad for Them, Good for You?	109
	When you see stuff on TV that upsets other people, but not you
	When your clothes or music freak out your parents
	When the bad stuff doesn't seem so bad to you
13.	Life Isn't Perfect Yet	115
	When you finally understand that life isn't perfect and that this is perfectly okay