Word: schoolyards
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...After being hit in a schoolyard fight, Kelly Niles complained of a headache. But after an examination by the emergency room staff at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital, he was sent home by Pediatrician David Haskin. Hours later, Kelly was rushed back to the hospital, too late. Clotting blood from an artery severed by a skull fracture had put too much pressure on his brain stem. He was permanently paralyzed from the neck down and was also left mute. His IQ of 140 was not seriously affected, and he now communicates by flicking his eyes-left...
...Brooklyn, every alley has a basket and a waiting line of eager cagers. Kids strut around in Converse sneakers with weights on their ankles, trying to develop leg muscles. Adolescence is the crisis period, with fearful 13-year olds marking their height progress on the schoolyard wall each...
...Cavaliere, age ten, a carpenter's daughter in Philadelphia who three times a week gives sage counsel to the prepuberty set in the pages of the Philadelphia Bulletin. In only three weeks, "Dear Angel" has drawn more than 1,000 letters from youngsters seeking wisdom on everything from schoolyard bullying to parental restriction...
...spiraling teen-age crime, undercover agents have filtered into the schoolyard. One appeared -weirdly hooded and with a .38-cal. pistol tucked into her belt-before a congressional crime committee last week to testify on alleged drug abuse in New York City schools. She was Detective Kathleen Conlon, a petite 29-year-old who apparently looks young enough to pass for a teenager. That is just what she has done for the past three years in the city school system, in which, she told the committee, drug users and pushers operate freely. Asked what could be done about the problems...
...memory of her parents' love and her own love for them - and the knowledge that even such a trinity is insufficient in the face of suffering and death. The book ends quietly. All her ex-bridesmaids reassemble to see Laurel off. Some first-graders wave goodbye from their schoolyard...