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...came to picket today is that the impression is being created that education is going on and that everything is terrific," said Cathy M. Larkin, an art teacher. "They're using the Harvard name to imply that high quality education is going...
...default. Already this year, derivatives have produced a bitter legacy: such disparate groups as the State of Florida, the University of Minnesota and a Shoshone Indian tribe have reported financial hits from these risky securities. "I think there will be more ((crises)) coming through the pipeline," asserts Dick Larkin, who heads the public-finance division at Standard & Poor's. All this means that, for the short run at least, many local governments may have to offer higher returns to nervous investors to persuade them to keep buying bonds...
Dreaming of the day when life and love would be "a quite unlosable game," Philip Larkin wrote, "Sexual intercourse began/in nineteen sixty-three/(Which was rather late for me)/Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Bestle's first I.P." Sadly, 1963 was too late for Lawrence as well...
Runaways. Some are missing, their earnest young portraits splashed across flyers distributed by desperate parents. Many aren't missed at all. Most youths simply exchange one hell for another. Says Roger Hernandez, outreach coordinator for the Larkin Street Youth Center in San Francisco: "You can literally watch them age, week by week." And die. Living on the streets and on society's margins, runaways are the most vulnerable to the pestilences that kill America's teens: alcoholism, drugs, AIDS, homicide. About 20% of new cases of AIDS are among young adults in their 20s. Given the virus' latency period, that...
...Angeles Free Clinic, former runaways are employed to work the streets, offering help, defusing tensions and trying to rescue the newcomers. "You can tell them by their clean shoes and backpacks and that scared look on their faces," says an outreach worker named Seven. In San Francisco, the Larkin Street Youth Center served 2,000 teenagers last year, 80% of them from out of town. Once the youths are lured in the door by free food, a friendly atmosphere and a no-questions-asked policy, counselors try to find them shelters, drug treatment and job training. More than...