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...speaks for itself. He worked really hard and did his own thing, and that's what I've tried to do. My publisher's different, my medium is the same, but the subject matter is different, the style is different. I try to be my own person, sink or swim, kind of on my own. Hopefully float...
Dole succeeds in containing the mirth that rises behind his eyes and tugs at the corners of his mouth. He gives an understated smile and not the Kansas yuk that helped sink the Ford-Dole ticket in 1976. He joked so much then that people did not think he was serious, as if anyone scorched by the Dust Bowl and shattered by an explosive shell in the Italian mountains in World War II could be truly frivolous...
...sitting in her parents' Louisville living room, she is the prototypical adolescent, lobbying her mother for permission to attend a rock concert, asking if she can have a pet dog and complaining she is not allowed to do anything. The weight of her new responsibilities is just beginning to sink in. "Last night I couldn't get my homework done," she laments with a toss of her blond curls. "I kept feeding him and feeding him. Whenever you lay him down, he wants to get picked up." In retrospect she admits: "Babies are a big step. I should have thought...
Needy girls who imagine that having a baby will fill the void in their lives are usually in for a rude shock. Hopes of escaping a dreary existence, of finding direction and purpose, generally sink in a sea of responsibility. With no one to watch the child, school becomes impossible, if not irrelevant. And despite the harsh lessons of experience, many remain careless or indifferent about birth control. About 15% of pregnant teens become pregnant again within one year; 30% do so within two years. "You ask, 'Why didn't you come in for the Pill?' and they...
...majority of Haitians, meanwhile, sink deeper into economic despair. Haiti's annual per capita income is $280, though for 80% of the population it is closer to $100, making Haiti the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The hard-hit Haitian tourist industry lost $30 million last year, in part because of the high incidence of AIDS in Haiti. The government's often arbitrary imposition of new taxes to fill government coffers has discouraged new investment. Emigration, a traditional relief valve for hard-pressed Haitians, has been closed off as the U.S. and others have cracked down on illegal immigrants...