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...Health and Social Behavior shows that love can be hell, especially when it strikes young. Although steady romantic attachments tend to increase the health and well-being of adults, those relationships are a great source of stress for adolescents and can lead to depression, the study says. Kara Joyner, a sociologist at Cornell and co-author of the study, said, "Girls become more depressed than boys, and younger girls are the worst...
...Jackie Joyner-Kersee September...
...welfare reform; by 1999, the number was 21,000. Centers relying on those $85-a-week kids could soon be found on almost every corner of the inner city. For a few local entrepreneurs, it was a windfall. For example, Koinonia Child Care Center, run by the Rev. Roosevelt Joyner, has doubled in size since reform and today receives more than $1.7 million a year in child-care subsidies. Says Joyner: "The reforms put a lot of minority people who would not ordinarily go into business into business...
...thought it would be a little more confrontational," said Will S. Joyner, head of Public Affairs at the Divinity School and Editor of the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. "But they were fairly good at talking with one another. They had a similar tone and used the same references...
...Smiley, "this was high noon. If we backed down, the next time we challenged anybody, the word would be out that if you call ABC, [it] will make us shut up." The next day, with Joyner's blessing, Smiley blasted ABC for threatening to cancel the show. ABC's and CompUSA's switchboards were overwhelmed with angry phone calls from Joyner's fans. Last week Halpin appeared on Joyner's show and promised to hire a black-owned ad agency and to give a 10% discount to those who had sent in CompUSA receipts. Everyone's happy...