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...hopelessness and resignation felt by many underprivileged girls. In Milwaukee, Janice Anderson, a successful black businesswoman, is trying to do something about it. Anderson, 36, was inspired to act last March when she read that her hometown led the country in birthrates among black teenagers. "I sat up in bed at 2 a.m. and wrote down the name of every black professional woman I knew," she recalls. "I came up with a list of 42 names and wrote to each one, asking them to come help their sisters." Anderson's early-hour inspiration evolved into Reach for the Stars...
...public service announcement designed to combat teenage pregnancy, all three major TV networks balked. The reason: the announcement included the word contraceptives. These are the same networks that, as one ABC official put it, routinely depict intercourse to "the point of physical motion under the covers of a bed." Network officials have since relented, but the offending word has been dropped...
Grand Boulevard now houses 54,000 people, almost all of them black and poor. Most are in high-rise projects on the western edge of the neighborhood. A four-year-old living on the dismal eleventh floor of one such building recently set fire to his brother's bed. "He wanted to move," his mother explains, "and he thought that if he burned the place down, we'd move." The fire was put out quickly; there is no money to move...
...keep newborns alive is formidable, even frightening. In the intensive-care nursery at nearby Wyler Children's Hospital, a part of the University of Chicago, an unnamed 2-1b. boy, born in the sixth month of pregnancy, is sustained with the help of something called a radiant warmer bed, plus a phototherapy unit, an infant ventilator, three volumetric infusion pumps, a transcutaneous oxygen monitor and a cardiac-respiratory monitor...
...Allen had his characters at a futuristic cocktail party pass around a shiny metal sphere that when fondled produced a narcissistic ecstasy. In Tom Jones, Tom and the ribald Mrs. Waters consume a memorable dinner that is the moral equivalent, or the immoral equivalent, of a passionate night in bed. Perhaps in screenplays of the future, kisses will be blown on the wind like pheromones. The signals of passion might be changed: an ear might be nibbled, for example, or the nape of a neck nuzzled. Actual kissing may have to be handled by the special-effects department: an artful...