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Last year was a rebuilding season during which the team saw a limited schedule. More noteworthy, it did not participate in what had become a Classic hallmark--the spring adventure to foreign lands. Over the past few years. Harvey and his team voyaged to Puerto Rico. Gibraltar and Cuba. This year's jaunt to Northern Europe is the first one which has been student organized...
...incentive by agreeing to channel Medicaid funds toward programs designed to take the place of nursing homes. Massachusetts, California and Georgia led the way. Within four years some 275 adult day care facilities had been established. Today there are about 800 such centers in 44 states and Puerto Rico...
...tubal ligations on some ethnic groups more than others. In fact, the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse (CESA) and the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse (CARASA), two of the most active reproductive rights groups, estimate that 37 per cent of Puerto Rican women (in Puerto Rico), 25 per cent of Native American women and 20 per cent of married Black women have been sterilized, many by hysterectomy. By comparison, only 7 per cent of white women have been sterilized...
...groups also stress the problems of Third World and poor women. The Massachusetts Childbearing Alliance, working under the Reproductive Rights National Network, hopes to sponsor a slide show with Women of All Red Nations to dramatize the situation faced by Native American Women. To publicize sterilization abuse in Puerto Rico, the Latin Health Book Collective distributes the film "The Operation...
...meantime, consider the story of Ponce de León, who was in his 50s when he first heard of the Fountain of Youth. He had subdued the natives of Puerto Rico to become a secure but bored governor. Supposedly an old Indian slave told him of the magic water, one sip of which would reverse the terrible effects of age. In 1512 the old rascal put out with three ships bound for Bimini, the supposed location of the fountain. Ponce found only the Sargasso Sea, the islands called the Dry Tortugas and flying fish. Eight years later, convinced that...