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...strips. "My editors wanted me to keep all politics out," says Billingsley. "But I couldn't do that. Too much of black life is politics." Last summer he tackled the issues of drug abuse and teenage pregnancy in a series of panels in which Curtis' younger brother discovered a crack baby abandoned in a Dumpster by its 14- year-old mother. Curtis' father takes the baby to the hospital and, with Cosby-like wisdom, reminds his sons -- and the readers -- of the horrors of drug...
...intensive care for a crack baby...
...funds this year to provide health care to 27.3 million Americans. Costs are careering out of control. Medicaid pays for half of all nursing-home patients -- or 250,000 Americans -- at an average annual cost of $34,000 a person. Medicaid also looks after the 158,000 severely impaired crack babies born every year ($1.8 billion a year), the 35,000 AIDS victims who have run out of money, the poor single mothers and pregnant teens, the hardest-pressed Americans...
...because of its image as a black-run city. In addition to its city manager, its mayor (Elihu Harris), the publisher of its leading newspaper (Robert Maynard), even the director of its symphony orchestra (Michael Morgan) are all black. Investors also shy away from Oakland because of its underground crack economy. Though drive-by shootings continue, there is evidence that the crack problem is waning, a fact overlooked by the national media. News organizations blame blacks for the drug problem and ignore the participation in the drug trade of other ethnic groups, but drug dealing in Northern California and other...
Harvard will have to rely on its solid running game to crack the Quaker defense, which is second in the Ivies...