Word: carolina
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Studies of latchkey kids conducted by family sociologist Hyman Rodman of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro suggest that they are not measurably worse off than other kids, at least in terms of self-esteem and behavior in school. But Thomas Long, a Bethesda, Maryland, child psychologist who has also studied such children, believes they are emotionally vulnerable. They tend to fall into two groups, he says: those who see themselves as independent and capable, and those who see their situation as one of rejection and abandonment. Many children, he says, find that being alone is "frightening, initially, then...
While schools like North Carolina and Michigan rule the national scene, other, lesser powers dominate their own conferences or regions...
...sent a couple of people to Rensselaerville, New York, and sent our arborist to North Carolina for an arborists conference," Haley said...
...THEY WERE KICKING HIM AND PUNCHING HIM, MAKing comments like 'Fag, you should die! Tell Bill Clinton about this!' " So reported an observer of the alleged bashing by three young Marines based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, of gay male Crae Pridgen, the latest victim of antihomosexual violence in the wake of the Clinton Administration's endorsement of gay membership in the military...
Some of the protests have been successful. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, a leading mental-health advocate, persuaded one North Carolina company to pull ads featuring cans of peanuts in straitjackets promoting a product line called Certifiably Nuts. One of her annual mental-health-policy symposiums at Emory University's Carter Center was devoted entirely to stigma issues. "We are all concerned about stigma," she says. "It holds back progress in the whole field...