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After policemen arrested three employees of a Bronx day care center on child-molesting charges, shouting parents milled angrily in front of the center. Thirty of the 135 children at the center had told investigators that they had been sexually abused. No sooner had the city-funded facility reopened last week than it was revealed that four other Bronx institutions were under investigation for similar reasons. Criticism centered on New York City's mammoth agency, the Human Resources Administration, which oversees 385 day care programs. The long-controversial HRA had been under a shadow since last May, when...
While Lewis may try to exceed 29 ft., El Khouri hopes to reach 25 ft. "Lewis will be too tough in the 100 meters and the long jump," says Gus Young, a Jamaican who lives in The Bronx and runs for North Carolina State, "and he'll have to be kept jumping a while to lose the 200. But we can beat him and the U.S. in the relay." Gus sounds absolutely convinced...
...Hell is a city much like London," Shelley once wrote. "A populous and smoky city. . ./Small justice shown, and still less pity." The London that impressed him in 1819 as a metropolitan inferno had just over 1 million inhabitants, hardly more than today's Bronx. Yet though London has swollen tenfold since then, it has been overtaken by still faster-growing hells: not only Mexico City but Cairo, Calcutta, Shanghai and others. By the end of the century, according to the U.N., at least 22 cities will have populations of more than 10 million, and 60 will have more...
...like the pressure. It's too much like modeling." 5, 38, 42, 18, 17, 1. No, it can't be. Check it again. It is. Clutching the New York State lottery ticket, Venero Pagano, 63, ran into the bedroom of his modest two-story Bronx home and woke his sleeping wife, "You're never going to believe this. I think we're millionaires." She did not believe it either. But 5, 38, 42, 18, 17, 1-a combination Pagano put together by chance, using a phone number on a passing taxi-won him a $20 million...
...HISPANICS GIANT is awakening" shouts Congressman Robert Garcia (D.N.Y.), either as a threat to obstinate colleagues in the House or as a rousing call to arms to Hispanic constituents in the South Bronx. The statement carries more truth than the metaphoric hyperbole suggests. And never has that been so vividly demonstrated as in this year's debate of a sweeping immigration reform bill...