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...bustling entryway of the Dunlevy Milbank Center in the middle of Harlem. His narrow face bore a trusting smile that masked a dogged purpose. He was trying to teach a course on human sexuality for neighborhood parents, and often nobody came. But he kept showing up. Michael Carrera, professor and prophet, understood that as a white man and an outsider he needed the parents' support if he wanted to come to their community to help their kids. "Involving parents is a show of respect," he declares. "It says they are valuable, their kids are valuable, their family is valuable." After...
...Carrera holds the Thomas Hunter Chair of Health Sciences at Hunter College. But it is some 50 blocks uptown, in Harlem neighborhoods, where nearly 1 out of every 4 babies is born to a teenage mother, that Carrera's teaching is put to its sternest test in the Family Life Education and Adolescent Sexuality Program, which he created. Pregnancy-prevention courses, Carrera argues, are generally too narrow in focus to succeed. His approach is holistic, born of a simple premise: Give young people a sense of their own promise, and they will not be as likely to disrupt their lives...
...this simple premise is difficult to execute. "To move kids from fatalism to industriousness," says Carrera, "the intervention needs to be complex and longstanding." After those initial months of intense scrutiny and understandable suspicion, Carrera managed to assemble 22 girls and boys, ranging in age from 13 to 16, and a smaller group of parents for courses on family life and sex education. "The kids are riddled with mythology about these things. There is a real need to inform," he says. Before long, the youngsters were not only learning but also receiving a range of support services from adults...
Noriega also took aim at the country's increasingly belligerent students. Early last Wednesday, several hundred students at the University of Panama protested the death of Eduardo Enrique Carrera, 24, a classmate who had been killed by police fire three days earlier. Though the military said Carrera was shot after scuffling with police, relatives claimed that the boy was slain after he shouted, "Down with Noriega!" Riot squads, known as the Dobermans, dispersed the demonstrators with tear gas and bird shot. Classes were suspended for the rest of the week...
...student organizations that are pushing for Noriega's removal. Even the example made of Diaz Herrera, who faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of sedition, has failed to subdue the Crusade's passion. Three days after Diaz Herrera's arrest, members of the opposition attended Carrera's funeral dressed in white, their symbolic color of protest, and passed out mimeographed statements...