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...Neglect of the homeless was one Reagan-Bush legacy Bill Clinton angrily promised to change. Last spring the President ordered three members of his Cabinet to study the problem and propose bold solutions. Last week they did, in a private report to the White House that concluded that the nation's homeless population may have totaled as many as 7 million in the late 1980s -- far higher than any current estimate. The report, signed by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, Health and Human Services' Donna Shalala and Veterans Affairs chief Jesse Brown, proposed spending large new sums...
...easy to neglect condom use, it is also easy to underestimate and dismiss its importance. All of us live on a campus where students do have sex; we are not trying to send mixed messages or be offensive when we distribute free condoms. We are merely trying to fulfill our role as peer counselors and educators. Suzanne Gutter '95 AIDS Education and Outreach Quentin Topping AIDS Education and Outreach Daniela Bleichmar '96 AIDS Education and Outreach Jafi A. Lipson '95 AIDS Education and Outreach Amina Runyan-Shefa '97 Contact Jeremy Faro '96 Contact Melissa Strogatz '95 Peer Contraceptive Counselors Nicole...
...attributed the causes of youth violence mainly to child-neglect, the lack of gun control and the breakdown of communal and spiritual values...
...police couldn't get what they came for, so I guess they just wanted us to grieve. The worst kind of abuse a kid can get is taking them away from their parents." Others agreed about the nightmare part. One expert called it the biggest single instance of child neglect in Chicago's past quarter-century. Seven adults were arrested: six for child negligence, a misdemeanor, and one for cruelty, a felony. Neighbors seemed to agree that Maxine Melton meant well and kept faith as the family's de facto matriarch. But not all her housemates were as strong...
Police officers searching a Chicago apartment for drugs instead found 19 children, ages 1 to 14, scattered among filthy diapers, cockroaches and food ( strewn over the floor. Seven adults were arrested; one was charged with cruelty to a child, the others with contributing to child neglect. Said police officer Patricia Warner, who made the discovery: "It's something you wish you'd never seen...