Word: pennsylvania
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...class action expected to be decided this spring, lawyers are asking the court to require due-process protections before a child can be committed to a mental institution by his parents. The case was brought on behalf of five minors who were placed by their parents in a Pennsylvania mental institution for truancy, drug use, sexual misbehavior and other reasons. Their attorney insisted that the children should not have been committed simply on the say so of their parents, and demanded various precommitment safeguards, including a hearing. But state officials worry that such procedures could deprive parents of the right...
...Federal Communications Commission (FCC) judge last week revoked the operating license of the University of Pennsylvania's FM radio station because of obscenity violations...
...begin with, the vast coal deposits that Schlesinger is talking about are not located in the already developed, deep mines of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Instead, they are found in thick seams near the surface in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, where they are most economically recoverable by landscape-scarring strip mining. Some of the coal lies beneath federal land that has been set aside for recreational purposes, and the Sierra Club and other conservationist groups have been making it difficult to open that acreage to coal mining. Other Western environmentalists also are appalled. "It's an effort...
...where children worked. "I have seen their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game, where the odds are all against them," he wrote later. The veracity with which his lens recorded the pinched, pale, grimy faces of breaker boys in a Pennsylvania coal mine, or the raw-fingered, oyster-shucking children of New England, or the wan cotton-mill girls against their enveloping perspectives of white bobbins, has not been equaled since...
During the school year Fayer lived in Pennsylvania, attending the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr. But during vacations and summers, she returned to Puerto Rico to do her heavy training under the club coach's direction. She swam a total of 13,000-14,000 yards in those "two-a-day" training sessions...