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Even after they give birth to drug-impaired children, many mothers go right on smoking crack. Melinda East, a former crack addict now in treatment in Long Beach, Calif., supported her habit as an often barefoot street prostitute. Her first baby was born with "the shakes," she says, but that did not turn her away from crack. She remembers selling milk and Pampers back to the grocery store for drug money...
...mark Earth Day last week, four women and two men stood on a hilltop outside Mount Horeb, Wis., literally praying to Mother Earth. "Sacred Earth Power, bring healing to planet Earth," intoned barefoot Selena Fox, priestess of Circle Sanctuary. Worshipers responded with a crescendo chant, "Clean soil. Clean soil," then pledged to do a variety of ecological good deeds and joined in a hug. Similar nature worship was part of Earth Day festivals from Boston, where the Goddess Gospel singers performed on the waterfront, to Berkeley, where devotees drummed and sang for a crowd...
...fleeing Kurds are barefoot peasants as well as prosperous city dwellers and farmers who have tried to escape with their cars, trucks and tractors. A white Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera joins the line, along with a brand-new Massey- Ferguson harvesting combine. Iranian soldiers drive up the road, throwing bread to the Kurds and starting a frantic scramble that sends more than one person rolling down a steep embankment. When the crowd parts, old men patiently pick the crumbs out of rocks and mud, their only margin of survival. Whenever the refugees discover a reporter in their midst, they crowd around...
...energetic high school principal from San Antonio. At first Hettler thought he had just a mild case of diabetes. He required no medication to control the excess blood sugar caused by the disease; instead, he watched his diet as carefully as he could. Then, two summers ago, Hettler strolled barefoot across some sun-scorched pavement and blistered his feet. Ominously, the blisters on his right foot refused to heal. A few months later the foot was so badly infected that it had to be amputated. Shortly before Christmas, Hettler, 47, suffered a paralyzing stroke. The infection and the stroke were...
...scruffier young free spirits spent their whole summer hanging aroundAu Bon Pain and the "T Pit." Barefoot, clad in thecastoffs of many cultures, these modern-day HuckFinns have made Mass Ave their Mississippi...