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These changes cannot be underestimated. After 70 years of benign neglect by the United States, it only makes sense that Mexico (its third largest trading partner) be involved in a deal which would ultimately be overwhelmingly beneficial. An alliance of this kind is also crucial in countering the emerging regional dynamos of the European Community as well as similar Asian groups...
After years of neglect, children's TV is once again getting close scrutiny from the Federal Government. Under a provision of the Children's Television Act of 1990, stations are required to air at least some programming that serves the "educational and informational needs" of children. The trick, of course, is figuring out what constitutes educational fare. A number of stations tried to satisfy the rules by putting a fresh coat of public-service paint on rusty old entertainment shows. Among the programs thrust under the education rubric, according to a study by the Washington-based Center for Media Education...
Rafsky: Bill, we're not dying of AIDS as much as we are dying of government neglect...
Though Beaumont never had a chance to get that child's full name and number, cases of suspected abuse or neglect are usually reported to county child- protection services. In other instances where a child needs help, phone counselors may simply stay on the line until a problem is resolved. Bruce Nelson, the hospital's quietly intense community services director, who often works the phones himself, remembers an eight-year-old girl racked with chills and fever who said she had been vomiting all day: "She was crying all the time we talked to her." He called a nurse...
...irresponsibility, are unable or unwilling to get reliable child care. In many cases, including these two, the social service agencies empowered to prevent such disasters do not react until it's too late. In Detroit the police were conducting an investigation into whether the parents should be charged with neglect or involuntary manslaughter. (See related story on page...