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Help goes beyond the roadside visits. Staff members encourage, even beg their clients to come in for counseling and proper medical treatment. They try to get them IDs, welfare, Medicaid, food stamps, equivalency diplomas and jobs, and arrange for their entry into shelters and drug-detoxification programs. "No one has talked to them about AIDS or hygiene," says Russo. "It is not that they are not educable. It is just that no one gives a damn." Because of Street Beat's efforts, a number of the youngsters are reconciled with their families, back in school or holding jobs...
...ensure that food gets to the people who need it. Says one: "We would like to handle the distribution ourselves." As far as some Soviets are concerned, that would be just fine. As Victor Shinkaretsky, a Russian Deputy, put it last week, "As long as we are forced to beg for a foreign piece of bread with butter, let's invite in those who not only know how to produce but also how to distribute...
...what's a string theorist to do? Rather than beg their respective governments to fund a particle accelerator stretching to the edge of the universe, physicists have taken a different tack--looking backwards in time...
...foxes hold their weddings, and they take a terrible vengeance on those who spy on their secret ceremonies. Of course, the boy must see this woodland spectacle (wonderfully realized by masked dancers) and is himself seen. His mother then tells him that if he hopes to live, he must beg the creatures' forgiveness. The episode closes with the child in search of the rainbow, under which the animals are said to live...
...involved in politics," said Aslam Beg. "We are not going to get involved...