Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During a three-month investigation, TIME talked to scores of young men who had hoped to exchange their sweat and talent on the basketball court for an education and a better life. Some, like Tom Scates, got their degrees and found jobs. But for many the promise of an education was a sham. They were betrayed by the good intentions of others, by institutional self-interest and by their own blind love of the game. Equally victimized are the colleges and universities that participate in an educational travesty -- a farce that devalues every degree and denigrates the mission of higher...
...third grade. His mother worked in a grocery and tended bar. On the $4,000 she made, she raised a family of six. But Fred had a way with the basketball and a vision of his own. "By traveling with basketball," he says, "I saw there was a better life, and I aspired for that better life...
Today Fred has made it to a better life. He graduated from Georgetown with a sociology degree in 1984. While working for Xerox as a marketing representative, he became active in real estate investment, calling upon several of his sports contacts. He is now taking courses at Georgetown law school. "On paper, I guess I'm a millionaire," he says...
...easy for Fred at Georgetown, but he was determined to make it. "If you come into a school, you may not be on an academic par with the general population of the school, but if you as an individual can sit there and learn something and better yourself, that's an education," he says. Stroking the lapel of a well-cut gray suit, Fred reflects on his rise from the ghetto to the good life. "I always ask my mother, 'If I hadn't played basketball, what would have happened?' " he says. "Ninety percent of the people I grew...
...Lyons: Dr. Jean-Louis Touraine, an immunologist at Edouard-Herriot Hospital, and Dr. Daniel Raudrant, an obstetrician at Hotel Dieu Hospital. The doctors wanted to treat David while he was still in his mother's womb because they thought if the procedure was done early, it would have better odds of succeeding. They took 7 cc of liquid, containing about 16 million immune cells from the liver and thymus of two aborted fetuses, and injected the material into David's umbilical cord. After he was born, David received an injection of more cells. Blood tests indicate that the transplanted cells...