Word: neighborhood
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Dormitory residents are required to sign anagreement not to display banners outside thebuilding or face disciplinary action. Universityofficials have argued that the policy is necessaryto avoid conflict with neighborhood residents...
Some members of the community may object to a plan which provides housing for the homeless within the University neighborhood. However, judging from the outcry over last year's removal of homeless men from Leverett House heating grates, there seems to be a real sensitivity for the plight of the homeless. Given that the presence of the Lutheran Church shelter seems to be tolerable, it is likely that such a transitional living center would be an innocuous, and even welcome, addition to the neighborhood...
Talbott's team at the University of Pittsburgh found that of 51 Allegheny County, Pa., female heart-attack victims over 50, twelve had never given birth. In contrast, only two of 47 healthy women over 50 and from the same neighborhood were not biological mothers. In women 50 or younger, childlessness appeared to be unrelated to the risk of sudden death...
Drugs have produced an alternative economy that can provide high wages and self-esteem to young men who cannot earn either in the mainstream. With the lack of role models in the ghetto, successful neighborhood drug dealers often become heroes to inner-city kids. "The males in the community who are law abiding and decent have less and less respect," says Anderson. "Today you find the hustlers out there taking time for young people." Many residents of Chicago's South Side last week grieved over the assassination of 49-year-old Willie ("Flukey") Stokes, a flamboyant drug dealer who enjoyed...
...black America's impoverished youth, however, cannot be solved simply by more Government spending. Black leaders are becoming increasingly outspoken about the need to confront the problem within the community. In cities around the country, programs run by such groups as the Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P. and by neighborhood activists are seeking to promote job training, education and stable families. "We have to get these young males to understand the responsibilities that go along with fathering a child," says Mary Frances Berry, a veteran civil rights leader. "We have to make that the issue to highlight in the black...