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Doctors at Harlem Hospital studied 70 such toddlers just under age 2 and found that almost all were slow in learning to talk and that more than half had impaired motor and social skills. An inability to distinguish between mothers and strangers is another hallmark of crack-exposed youngsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack Kids: Innocent Victims | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...typical patient starts with memory problems and then deteriorates into more general confusion. A truck driver may keep delivering things to the wrong place, or a bookkeeper may not be keeping the books right anymore. Motor skills are usually retained longer, although certain patients will have difficulty early on with tasks like using a screwdriver or tying shoelaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Connections, Missing Memories: JACOB FOX | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...thirds of the children that exhibited an early tendency of shyness carried this tendency to the age of two years, showing "high motor activity to stimuli." According to Kagan, these children will be "cautious, shy and restrained...

Author: By Roger G. Kuo, | Title: Psychologist Finds Shyness Inherited, But Not Permanent | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...shortfall next year, the Governor has calmly proposed putting everything from zoos to skating rinks into private hands, firing 6,200 of 63,000 state employees, forcing the state government's entire remaining work force to take 10 days of unpaid leave before July, shutting down 18 of 37 motor-vehicle offices, closing mental-health hospitals, abolishing the board of regents and making the elderly count their homes as assets in qualifying for Medicaid nursing-home care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Pragmatism | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...bread came last summer at the faculty club at George Washington University, where Etzioni teaches; his luncheon companion was political scientist William Galston, the issues director of Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign. Sensing a shared perspective, Etzioni plied Galston with hypothetical conflicts. Are sobriety checkpoints for drivers of motor vehicles an infringement of civil liberties? What should the police be legitimately allowed to do to disrupt open-air drug markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole Greater Than Its Parts? | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

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