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...replicate Professor Hoxby’s work.” He said that AER has granted exemptions to its policy in the past if confidentiality restrictions trump an author’s ability to release data. In those cases, Moffit said, AER asks the author to “assist other researchers in obtaining the data directly from the data provider...
University President Lawrence H. Summers, who announced Light’s appointment, also named a 15-member advisory group to assist him in selecting a new permanent dean...
Increasingly, conservative religious organizations have got into the business of aiding pregnant teenagers as a way of discouraging abortion. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority has, for example, developed a nationwide $4 million program called Save-a-Baby, run in conjunction with an adoption agency. "We agree to assist girls who are fixing to have an abortion, if they will let the baby live," says Jim Savley, the program's executive director...
Programs designed to assist teenage fathers are still relatively few, but their growing number offers hope in arresting the cycle of children producing children. Terry, who is now 21, has a 17-month-old child and is himself the child of teenage parents. After being helped by the Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project in San Francisco, he is now a counselor there. "My father was a parent when he was a teenager," Terry says firmly. "My mother and grandmother were. It didn't stop with me or with my brothers. I know it will stop with my son." --By Richard...
...feel any frustration. The complications are difficult; outside intervention increases the complexity. But I believe the Lebanese will reach agreement, and we will continue to assist Lebanon no matter how long it takes...