Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hospital, and half of those who do are debilitated. Such low-weight babies, who make up only 3% of the 300,000 preemies born each year, would seem to be a bad cost-benefit risk. But Alan Fleischman, director of neonatology at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, notes that 20 years ago, only 10% of infants born weighing under 3 lbs. survived. The rate today is 90%. "Health-care alliances will come together and question these treatments, and the treatments for adults with terminal illnesses. But it's important for them to have some flexibility...
...women's cross-country teams travelled to the wilds of the Bronx for the Fordham Invitational on Saturday and--beating modern conventional urban wisdom--survived...
Some educators believe teenagers' reading these lurid thrillers, as opposed to playing Nintendo or watching Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, is a good thing. Viviane Lampach, a librarian at a Bronx high school in New York City, notes that her young patrons check out new paperback novels in this genre and never return them: "You hope to wean them from horror to something deeper and more meaningful." Roderick McGillis, a professor of English at the University of Calgary and author of a book on children's literature, takes a darker view: "What disturbs me is that we're developing...
...turn toward heroin is coupled with a sharp recognition among youthful abusers of the dangers of crack. Anthony M., 13, who is detoxifying from a marijuana habit at the Daytop Village Bronx Outreach Center in New York City, estimates that 20 or so of his 200 classmates use heroin or other drugs, but among them, only one goes in for crack. "That kid wanted others to do it too," he says, "but the other kids were like, 'Nah,' because some of the kids, their parents had died because of crack...
...20th reunion for the Bronx High School of Science, he recalls, "I was considered to be the greatest success story there...