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That won't help the millions of people living in countries polluted by mines. Angola is one such nation, and Jo Fox, a Red Cross official based in South Africa, recently returned from Angola with graphic memories of the damage mines can do. "You see a woman working in the fields," she says, "trying to hoe her crops, and she has no legs. She is up to her waist...
...Jo Anne E. Kovacev, director of Cambridge's Parent to Parent program, focuses on helping disadvantaged residents and immigrants...
...room CCII (make that 202) of Martin Luther King Latin Grammar Middle School in Kansas City, Missouri, Ms. Dickerson's rhetoric students are engaged in a public-speaking contest. Sixth-grader Jo Ann Carter, dressed in the school uniform of white blouse and plaid skirt, has chosen a speech by the school's eponym: "If something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect," she declaims forcefully, "the whole world is doomed...
...Jo Ann's mother Catherine Carter looks on approvingly. Jo Ann has earned all A's except for a B in phys ed, and her mother's got the report cards in her pocketbook to prove it. "I was lucky to get her into this school," says Carter, a medical secretary. King, a one-story brick building in a ramshackle area well east of Troost Avenue--Kansas City's approximate racial dividing line--offers an enriched program of classical language and related subjects such as rhetoric. "Well, not lucky--I lied. She didn't get in the first time...
DIANA NAPPER, 38; WEXFORD, PA.; housewife and mother Her best friend, Carol Jo Weiss Friedman, had a vision that Napper would create something to make people more aware of breast cancer. So Napper designed the crystal-and-pearl Glimmer of Hope pin in memory of Friedman, who died of the disease in 1990. Almost 2,000 pins have been sold, raising nearly $24,000 for research. The proceeds will go to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Napper says the pin represents a bond among women: "Even those of us who don't have breast cancer are afraid...