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Part-timer Julie Cornman is the only subtraction from Coach Edie MacAusland's inaugural crew, and there's a big addition. Tania Huber, a starter two years ago at right link, returns after a year off to shore up the offense...
...sent ashore in smaller boats. Elaborate plans were laid to catch the smugglers in the act. Planes of the Customs Service were to circle overhead, shining powerful spotlights on the scene below. Patrol boats would be cruising near each of the three suspected drug transfer sites. Hidden on shore would be heavily armed local, state and federal officers...
...mile stretch of lakefront along Chicago's suburban North Shore is one of the richest areas in the nation, with family income of $60,000 a median. Teen-agers there grow up in well-manicured neighborhoods, attend first-rate colleges and flaunt the trappings of affluence; many drive around in Mercedes. Yet for such youths, there is trouble in paradise. Among local therapists, the area is known as "the suicide belt." In a 17-month period ending last summer, 28 teen-agers took their own lives. Eighteen died by gunshot, eight by hanging and two by lying down...
...last year for which figures are available, 1,871 teen-agers in that bracket killed themselves, a 20% increase in one year and a 200% increase since 1950. In affluent areas the rate of increase is higher. One cluster of ten suburbs on Chicago's North Shore now leads the state in teen-age suicides, with a 250% increase in the past decade. This is true despite various community efforts to curtail the upsurge. Among them: training programs for schoolteachers and social workers in suicide detection and prevention, seminars and discussion groups for parents and children, and 24-hour...
Television, according to one theory, leads children to expect quick answers and undermines their ability to tolerate frustration. Says Psychiatrist Mary Giffin, who treats depressed teens on the North Shore: "Programs present serious problems and solve them in half an hour. Life just doesn't work that way." Other experts blame the breakdown of the extended family, the rise of a narcissistic culture and the post-Viet Nam disillusionment with politics. "To some extent, the epidemic of adolescent suicides can be traced back to Viet Nam," says Chicago Psychiatrist Harold Visotsky. "Young people became disillusioned with the magic...