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What disturbed TIME's team most, though, was the dismal prospects facing these youngsters. Chicago Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor interviewed 30 pregnant teens and young mothers, including one named Stephanie. Says Taylor: "After Stephanie had her second baby, I wanted to bring her a present. I thought, what does she need? And I realized she didn't have anything. They have these babies because they want somebody to love. And they all echo that familiar American dream: they want to give their children more than they have had. But only a few will ever be able...
...replaced by retired City Ballet dancers, whose methods may be blander and more homogeneous. Last spring there was a public power scuffle on the school's board between the Old Guard and new benefactors. Dunning does little speculating about future problems. Wisely, she records the past and observes the present in clean prose and with the same eloquent good manners that mark a well-schooled dancer. --By Martha Duffy
...While present to some extent in a number of big U.S. cities, the mobile predators are most evident in the Los Angeles area, where police have identified no fewer than 450 gangs with more than 45,000 members. This represents a 25% rise since 1980, fed largely by the city's influx of Asians and Hispanics. Says Kelly Preseley of the Los Angeles Community Youth Gang Services Project: "It's a mobile society, and this is freeway paradise...
Private aid agencies have complained that the relief effort's organizers were far more efficient at staging rock concerts than distributing food. The pop stars now insist that they have got their charitable acts together. To process requests for aid, an advisory committee of present and former Government officials was set up last month at Georgetown University...
...million American teenagers will become pregnant, four out of five of them unmarried. Together they represent a distressing flaw in the social fabric of America. Like Angela, Michelle and Stephanie, many become pregnant in their early or mid-teens, some 30,000 of them under age 15. If present trends continue, researchers estimate, fully 40% of today's 14-year-old girls will be pregnant at least once before the age of 20. Says Sally, 17, who is struggling to raise a two-year-old son in Los Angeles: "We are children ourselves having children...