Word: rests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point of National Coming Out Day is for people to take the next step in coming out, and for the rest of the community to provide a supportive environment for them," said Lily S. Khadjavi '90, who is coordinating today's program. "People shouldn't feel that they must be closeted because of their sexual orientation...
...youngsters now handled by the public adoption agencies of most states. Yet while there may be dozens of couples bidding for every healthy white infant, only about one-third of the approximately 36,000 available special-needs kids will be taken in any given year. Some of the rest can be found in hospitals as "boarder babies" -- left behind at birth by addicted or otherwise incapable mothers. Others are crammed into group facilities...
...keep the children tantalizingly out of reach. Designed to be a short-term arrangement ending in either adoption or the child's return to a competent parent, foster care has become a kind of indeterminate sentence. Only about half of all foster children return home; many of the rest are suspended in a legal limbo by parents who make little effort to regain their children but refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan for his or her future within 18 months should be made available for adoption...
...training and jobs. Since 1974 St. Louis County has had a program, now expanded to Kansas City, that gives high school seniors two hours of instruction each day at area work sites. About half the participating students, who this year number 100, get jobs after graduation; most of the rest go on to college. California has had a similar program since 1983 that involves some 35,000 students and former dropouts, most of whom are linked to local hospitals and doctors' offices. The purpose: to teach them health-industry vocational skills. After 1,300 students dropped out of area high...
...secede from the Yugoslav federation. Though a split is not imminent, the move was seen as insurance for the Slovenes against growing Serbian nationalism. Slovenia, which shares borders with Italy and Austria, boasts the nation's most prosperous economy. But it is dependent on raw materials from the rest of the country and, despite growing exports to the West, relies heavily on the Yugoslav market for its manufactured goods...