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...stay alive, or for "survival sex," using their bodies to secure food, shelter, or clothing, some children were also having sex for drugs or products they might not otherwise be able to afford. Money, however, is not the primary factor at play here: According to the Penn study, while poorer children are at higher risk for exploitation, researchers encountered large groups of white, middle-class teens who?d run away from home, or were "thrown away" by their families...
...sight of the poorer, smaller neighbor proposing that the world's remaining superpower rewrite its immigration laws to give Mexicans preferential status is astounding enough. But Fox and his ambitious, visionary--and equally restless--Foreign Minister, Jorge G. Castaneda, consider immigration only a first step...
...When the bus crosses the border and pulls up on the narrow, rain-soaked street in front of the immigration office in El Carmen Frontera, Guatemala, its passengers are in a foul mood. Home is El Salvador or Honduras or Nicaragua or Guatemala itself--all disaster plagued, crime-ridden, poorer by the minute and, as far as those on the bus are concerned, best seen in the rear-view mirror. They had hoped to travel through Mexico and cross its northern border to the promised land. Instead, they're riding the Deportation Express--no change of destination allowed...
Although the World Health Organization recommends that women have three pap smears a year, many poorer countries lack the money, technology and trained clinicians required to perform the tests—as well as the infrastructure needed to track women whose tests are abnormal...
...cloud in the sky for other people" prevents them from seeking help. Solomon's tales of suffering among America's poor, where depression occurs three times as often as among the general population, were rejected by a big-circulation newsmagazine as so "implausibly horrendous it becomes comical." Yet poorer people are often transformed after they are diagnosed as depressed. Being told you are sick, he notes, is infinitely more cheering than being told you are worthless...