Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peter Schumann, 34, a German sculptor and choreographer who came to the U.S. seven years ago and organized the Bread and Puppet Theater. Schumann and his fellow actors perform mostly in New York City slums where, since receiving a grant two years ago, they run workshops in which ghetto children can make puppets. Before each performance, the company tears fresh loaves of pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows are for good and against evil," insists...
...prevent the birth of malformed children, many doctors all over the U.S. perform abortions on women who contract German measles early in pregnancy. Yet such operations are still considered criminal acts, except in a few states (Colorado, North Carolina and Maryland). Three years ago, a few California doctors challenged their own state's restrictive abortion law by publicly announcing that they had aborted German-measles victims.* Now, a California superior court has handed down a ruling that contradicts the California law and challenges similar laws in other states as well. Not only do many doctors regard such abortions...
...Children with this disorder are distinguished from ordinary bratty youngsters, who may have one or two of the symptoms, by the fact that their behavior is disturbed in five or six different aspects. There is no single, simple explanation for what ails them, or even a generally accepted medical label for it. Martin elects to call it the hyperkinetic (excessively mobile) syndrome...
Victims, he says, have been described as brain-injured or brain-damaged, or as having an organic brain defect resulting in unsocialized, aggressive behavior. It is likely, most psychiatrists agree, that these children have suffered (perhaps in the womb or at birth) a minute brain abnormality that impairs their social behavior. But they are not mentally retarded; their intelligence is usually average or above...
Most of the ordinary tranquilizing drugs make these children worse by inducing depression. Methylphenidate is classed as an antidepressant and mild stimulant. "It may seem paradoxical to be giving a stimulant to already overactive, restless children and expect them to calm down," says Martin, "but that is exactly what happens. It is fascinating and exciting to watch a child who awakes mean and irritable. Within 15 to 30 minutes after taking methylphenidate he becomes calm and cooperative and is able to sustain concentration for four hours...