Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author writes about his schooling and young adulthood in Britain, about his love for Bombay and about the death of his father. He explores the roots ! of his Muslim faith and retells some legends of the Prophet Muhammad in a whimsical and sometimes outrageous way, though taking care to offer up these sequences as dreams, or even dreams within dreams, by characters...
...would have been difficult to do justice to the Bundy story without in some way describing his grisly crimes. But on the day of his execution, did a Detroit TV station really have to rebroadcast file footage of Campbell's 1975 funeral? Last week 250 journalists, health-care professionals and members of the clergy gathered in Manhattan to explore such questions at a conference titled "Death, the Media and the Public: Needs of the Bereaved." Sponsored by the Foundation of Thanatology, a New York City-based organization devoted to studying bereavement, as well as the Dallas Morning News...
Mandela House these days is home to four mothers and their babies and three mothers-to-be. Residents receive prenatal care, drug counseling, classes in child development, personal finances and career guidance. They also share child care, housecleaning and cooking. "Mine is reality treatment," says Thomas. "I'm trying to put some order in their lives." Women are referred to Mandela House from jail, court and county protective services. The program is funded by the county, a private grant and donations...
...recent years, however, the military's lock on that market has been challenged by groups as diverse as the Red Cross, Viet Nam veterans, CARE and the Quakers. These so-called peace recruiters now turn up regularly in school classrooms and at job fairs and career days across the country. Some seek to interest students in working for such organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central...
With the Federal Government straining under the budget deficit, it is unlikely that the U.S. can afford to continue spending $382 million to provide welfare and medical care for refugees, some 75,000 of whom arrived last year. Some experts believe the burden of caring for new residents could become so heavy that slamming the door on the huddled masses seeking a better life in the U.S. may be inescapable. "In some fashion, we've got to ignore the promise of the Statue of Liberty," says Mazzoli. "The U.S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not unlimited...