Word: milke
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...This isn't mass hysteria, it's frightened, unified parents," says Annette Maiorana, a Queens mother who kept her eight-year-old out of school last week. "In school, kids share their milk, they share sandwiches, they spit at each other. There's urine on the toilet seats. They chew on a pencil and give it to a friend. I have a little one ready to go to preschool, and it's frightening...
...economy back to health. The program included an 18.8% devaluation of the shekel (which beforehand was worth 1,262 to the U.S. dollar) and a three-month general wage and price freeze, along with price increases of 17% to 82% on such subsidized products as gasoline, bread and milk. At the same time, the Cabinet cut away the methods that Israelis use to protect themselves from inflation, by suspending the wage-indexing system that ties earnings to the cost of living and severely restricting further deposits in bank accounts linked to the value of the U.S. dollar. The Cabinet also...
...Haven, Conn., is concerned about American treatment of the family. "I get disgusted when I see families separated. I blame the pressure of the dollar when both mother and father have to work and leave the kids in day care. In Mexico, babies are breast-fed with the milk of life. We were poor, but we were a family...
...Moscone. Housed in space rented from the Washington Square United Methodist Church, it is administered by the city's board of education in conjunction with the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth, a private advocacy group. Board of education officials pointed out last week that Harvey Milk is only one of 38 adjunct school programs in New York. Others serve drug addicts, juvenile delinquents, pregnant teens and assorted troubled children who are unwilling, or unable, to attend general public schools...
More troubling is the early age at which the Harvey Milk students have, in effect, been publicly identified as homosexuals. Can they really be certain of their sexual orientation? "No question," says Dr. Irving Bieber, author of a study of male homosexuality, who points out that the Harvey Milk students are "self-selected." But Dr. Willard Gaylin, chief of New York's Hastings Center, disagrees: "Adolescents are in a period of confusion about sexuality. The whole idea that an adolescent knows (whether he or she is homosexual) is ludicrous...