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Those who are still on the streets receive a basic level of support they once lacked. The workers are hosts of a Friday lunch program in their office. There they serve pizza and soft drinks, let the kids talk about their lives, and screen Bambi or the latest Schwarzenegger video on the office VCR. To promote AIDS prevention, they distribute Knightvision, a multicolor, action- packed comic book that tells the story of teenagers who face problems similar to those dealt with by the readers. There are also well-illustrated directions on cleaning hypodermic needles and using contraceptives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City A Beacon On Lonely Street | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...small, to escape the moral insulation of prison life. The scale of the effort varies from jail to jail: throughout Pennsylvania, prisoners sponsor statewide run-a-thons that through the years have collected nearly $89,000 for various youth programs. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, inmates sell pizza in the visiting room to raise $2,500 a year for residents of a juvenile home. At Soledad and San Quentin in California, inmates sort discarded eyeglasses to give to the poor. Female minimum-security inmates at the the D.C. Correctional Complex make heavy gray- green blankets for the homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailhouse Rockefellers | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...They ate pizza and drank beer as they watched CNN's election returns on the Kennedy School of Government's large-screen television...

Author: By Christine Edwards, | Title: Political Junkies Convene At IOP | 11/7/1990 | See Source »

Find them. They have food, lots of it. At the Boston Consulting Group's meeting, for example, I had three slices of pizza, around 10 chicken fingers, three cokes bagel chips and other assorted hors d'oeurvres...

Author: By Daniel E. Mufson, | Title: Penury and June: Preparing for the Post-College Wasteland | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

...Iraq recall 36 diplomats and their families, one carload of evicted Iraqis got lost on the way to the airport; up popped the FBI agents who had been shadowing them to provide helpful directions. Later, while waiting for their flight, some restive and hungry Iraqi children were treated to pizza by attentive G-men. These were not spontaneous acts of kindness. The FBI was sending a message to Saddam that his people could not move without being monitored by Uncle Sam. Bureau officials believe this breathe-down-their-necks strategy may keep Iraq and its sympathizers from hatching terrorist plots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heavy Surveillance And Cheese | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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