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...social programs that seem to work best are those that aim to reassert the youths' individual responsibility. "It's a cop-out to blame their problems on anything but themselves," declares Michael Major, 30, director of a youth program in Providence called Junction, which has had a better than 50% success record in getting its kids out of crime; the usual success rate is much lower. Among the many roads to self-reliance, Major
...across the gallery. The pieces do not differ significantly from each other except that in one case the conduct is curbed rather than angular, the shapes smeared in chalk rather than paint, etc. An electrician might want to take a closer look at the arrangements of the wires and junction boxes, but I don't think many others would want to bother...
Edwin D. Councill Hopewell Junction...
Reconstructing events, Yugoslav authorities were told that the DC-9 had been cleared shortly before the crash to climb to 35,000 ft. But the area around Zagreb-a key sky junction of routes to Turkey, Greece and Mediterranean resorts-is one of Europe's busiest air corridors, and the Yugoslav pilot was unaware that the British Trident was already flying at that altitude. Zagreb's air controllers may well be responsible for this fatal error. The preliminary opinion of Vjeceslav Jakovac, the Yugoslav judge heading the investigation, was that the controllers probably had incorrectly assessed the altitude...
...small independent producers are in big trouble. Says Gerald McChesney, president of Fort Vancouver Plywood Co. in Washington: "This could kill us-99% of our timber comes from the Pinchot National Forest." As for prices, predicts Lewis Krauss, partner in the Rough & Ready Timber Co. of Cave Junction, Ore.: "We could have a wood crunch as bad as the oil crunch of two years...