Word: dropouts
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...eighth-grade parochial school dropout from South Boston said Saturday she had been addicted to heroin for eight years and was rejected three times previously for long-term methadone treatment...
...mother, the committee pronounced itself "not favorably disposed to the use of surrogate mothers for nonmedical reasons." But the members declined to issue an across-the-board condemnation. And they deplored the absence of reliable data from which to draw conclusions. Mary Beth Whitehead is a high school dropout who married at 16. Is that typical of surrogate mothers? Are they more likely % to be exploited or fulfilled, altruistic or driven by dark motives...
...introduced to so many things through him," she recalls, "like liquor and drugs and stuff." Today she lives with her mother in a suburb of Chicago and supports her two-year-old twins and an infant on a monthly welfare check. She no longer sees Jeffrey, an unemployed dropout. "I didn't love him," she says. "Why did I go with him?" she asks...
...Harley-Davidsons when they decided to make just one more, for the money. "We saw it as a western, only on motorcycles," says Hopper. "We were the strangers in town, the outlaws." With Easy Rider, which Hopper directed, these cocaine-sniffing, drug-dealing outsiders became the symbols of the dropout counterculture of the '60s. Made for less than $500,000, the picture went on to gross more than $40 million. (Hopper and Fonda are now planning Easy Rider II, set in postapocalypse America...
Government sponsored reading programs such as Adult Basic Education while well-intentioned, currently have dropout rates as high as 40 percent, he said...