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...year hired Norris to make six movies, is pleased by the lack of artistic ambition. "That is a great advantage," Pearce says, "because he's not out there wanting to do Shakespeare." Rather than Richard II, the next Norris movie will be Invasion U.S.A. now filming in Fort Pierce, Fla. In it, the country is invaded by seaborne terrorists...
...many high schools, some students manage to sneak away for a few beers during lunch period. "Teenage drinking is definitely the biggest problem we now have in our schools," says Peggy Sapp, executive director of Informed Families of Dade County, Fla. "It's not just the idea of going out to have a drink. Now they are going out to get drunk." Linda Baron, a Miami drug-abuse specialist, says, "Sometimes we wonder which comes first: poor grades, poor relationships with families and low self-esteem, or teenage drinking problems...
...minds of many youngsters, bars are still where the action is. "For the unattached, the singles who are still looking, there are few viable alternatives to pubs," says Roger Dunham, a sociologist at the University of Miami, Fla. "Even though there is a general trend toward temperance, there is something about a pub--the drinking, the relaxation...
...connections to find them. Even geography has become a barrier. Reason: inner-city neighborhoods offer relatively few openings compared with the suburbs, where jobs have been sprouting like dandelions. Frustration has caused a lot of minority youngsters to quit looking. Says Marcia Saunders, director of the Dade County, Fla., affirmative action program: "There's a tremendous number of kids with no hope in the job market. And in this community, drugs are claiming a lot of them. It's just a horror...
...Bronx in 1982. The theft is one of several holdups in the past few years for the once impregnable security- and cash-transfer company. Only one day after the New York stickup, two masked men with revolvers filched $106,000 from a Wells Fargo guard in Miami Lakes, Fla...