Word: abelson
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...School in New Jersey, some students use condoms as the status birth control of choice -- much the way teenagers in the '50s did. "Some youngsters are better able to deal with the realities than adults who came out of the '70s and who enjoyed freedom so long," says Gerri Abelson, coordinator of the AIDS curricula in New York City public schools...
...addition to Commentator Alan Abelson, who is editor of the business publication Barron's Weekly, NBC has Reporters Jensen, a New York Times alumnus, and Irving R. Levine, a longtime correspondent in Moscow and Rome who pioneered the beat starting in 1971. Levine is sometimes regarded by critics as behind the times, perhaps because he rarely uses flashy graphics. He urges an administrative change, already undertaken at rival ABC, that would, he says, greatly improve coverage: designation of a pool of specialized producers (ABC has five) to work on economics. Says Levine: "Not having to initiate a new person...
...convey a full sense of the nation or the world. The Journal's foreign coverage is surprisingly skimpy for all those foreign bureaus. Some journalists say that it lumbers after news, instead of sprinting. "Considering the size of the staff," says Barren's Managing Editor Alan Abelson, "they should have more scoops, discover more stories." The paper also sometimes runs lightly edited corporate press releases on its inside pages. Some close readers detect a drop-off in the quality of its trademark front-page features. "They're letting some writing get into the paper that doesn...