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...County, where 40,000 children have been removed from their violent, neglectful or drug-addicted families, the pink-stucco True Way Baptist Church may well be a station on the road to salvation. Just ask Delores Mayes, 28, whose children were seized and placed in foster homes when her crack habit got out of hand. Faced with losing them for good, Mayes entered a detox program for six months but had nowhere to take them when she emerged. That is when the church, under contract to the county, stepped in: its outreach workers found her housing and furniture. She reconciled...
...family at least twice a week, eyeballing the kids for signs of neglect, offering counsel on parenting and managing the home and keeping the faith. "They helped me believe in myself," Mayes says, "to realize that anything was possible." John Jones, the children's father, had learned to smoke crack at the age of 16 from his own father and had spent years in jail after stealing to support his habit. Painfully withdrawn, he says, "I've been doing a little talking now." And planning: "I always wanted to own my own fish market, and now I want to live...
...psychology, expounded on parenting. "Who do these kids learn from?" he asked. "Their parents!" they answered in unison. "Yes," Stokes insisted. "If we as parents are screaming and hollering and disorganized, what can we expect our children to be?" The message hit home for Ozzie Williams, 56, a former crack addict who is rearing two teenage sons. Williams, now a born-again Christian, said his kids were "used to being yelled at. I learned to tone myself down." Churchworkers helped him find housing, furniture, psychiatric counseling and tutoring...
...this point only Vermont has managed to crack the national rankings, checking in at No. 6 in the country. The ECAC is no longer considered the hockey powerhouse it once was. To be fair, even the top teams have been less than super in non-conference play, but they have been hurt by the low level of competition they have been facing in the conference as well...
...mile odyssey will culminate Thursday when the Galileo spacecraft swings into orbit around Jupiter. "The accuracy of this is really amazing," says TIME's Leon Jaroff. "Scientists were able to make incredibly precise calculations to place Galileo in exactly the right place, using Venus and the Earth in a 'crack-the-whip' maneuver to boost the probe's velocity to give it sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter." Also Thursday, a smaller probe released from Galileo 147 days earlier will enter Jupiter's atmosphere. "There won't be any dramatic pictures, just a data stream," notes...