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...always been working-class and industrial rather than an upper-crust residential neighborhood," says Erika S. Bruner, assistant director of the commission...
MARIA LA BAJA: Preying on Victims Colombians are heartsick over the plight of nine-year-old Erika Delgado, the sole survivor of a plane crash that took the lives of 51 people, including her mother, father and younger brother, outside Cartagena on Jan. 11. Suffering from fractures and pneumonia, the grief-stricken child has begun to recall the painful details of the accident. Probably pushed from the plane by her mother after it struck the ground and split apart, she landed in a bed of algae and water lilies. Then, according to Erika, someone approached, ignored her cries for help...
...says. "It's easier to take out your aggression on a neighbor, your spouse or your children. And driving fast or carelessly makes people feel powerful." Those most at risk for early death are, in most countries, the ones least likely to seek or get medical treatment. Says Dr. Erika Saska, an internist at Budapest's St. Emeric's Hospital: "The people for whom prevention would be useful are too busy to leave work and have their blood pressure taken." One of the few who did is Marika Toth, 40 and out of work, who sits smoking in the courtyard...
...their worst, however, rewards could backfire by ending up fostering an atmosphere in which people refuse to do anything for free. Erika Taylor, 18, took advantage of an Ohio welfare program that pays teen mothers a bonus of $62 a month if they attend school regularly until graduation, but she concedes that "people I know are just after the extra money." Perhaps that is why the program also includes tough penalties for slackers. Mothers who skip school or drop out find their welfare checks reduced $62 a month. Over the past few years, as the Ohio program has proved...
...know the story of how the Clampett clan, after discovering oil in the middle of their Ozark swamp, signs a billion dollar deal and moves to Beverly Hills. Jed Clampett, played by Jim Varney of dubious "Ernest Goes to Camp" fame, decides his daughter, Elly May (Erika Eleniak), who spends her spare time wrestling bears, needs some refinement. So he takes her, Cousin Jethro, and Grannie to Beverly Hills to find a wife who will be a mother to Elly May. Oh, the daring...