Word: carreras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crushed young people's hope for life's rewards. Hundreds of thousands of students drop out of high school. Many young girls find their only source of self-esteem in motherhood. "We can pierce the disillusionment a lot of kids have by providing clear, concrete incentives," says Michael Carrera, an adolescent-sexuality expert in New York City. "Maybe our means wouldn't have to be so dramatic if this were the 1940s or 1950s. But this is the 1990s, and we have to be daring...
...abstinence-based curriculums are on the market; one of the largest, Sex Respect, is used in about 2,000 schools around the country. What Sex Respect does not include is standard information about birth control, which prompts some critics to charge that purely abstinence-based programs are inadequate. Michael Carrera, who eight years ago founded a highly successful % teen-pregnancy-prevent ion program in Harlem, deplores the "ungenerous, unforgiving" nature of some abstinence programs. "The way you make a safe, responsible abstinent decision is if you're informed, not if you're dumb." Carrera attributes the success of his program...
...magazine gave the Trabi honorary top billing in its 1989 test results, praising the car's "respect for the people who must live with it." A Trabi graced the centerfold of Autobild's "Best Autos of 1989" edition. The Frankfurter Allgemeine-Zeitung even compared the Trabant with the Porsche Carrera. Both, said the paper kindly, are "useful as getaway cars," but the Trabi has twice the Carrera's trunk space...