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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Melissa Ludtke. A former kid herself (in Amherst, Mass., in the 1950s), she wondered what it was like to grow up in a world vastly different from the one she knew as a youngster. Ludtke located the five marvelous children whose lives form the centerpiece of the stories and spent a total of four months living with them. "My interest in children's issues began with a teenage-pregnancy story that I helped report in 1985," she relates. "The experience convinced me that for all the work of sociologists, psychiatrists and researchers, children are best able to articulate what makes...
...Worker Haziine Eytina is arrested by FBI agents. Her real identity, authorities say, is Linda Grinage, 39. She is charged with air piracy, an offense that carries a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. After receiving an anonymous tip in 1987 that Eytina was the fugitive skyjacker, authorities spent a year piecing together bits of evidence and | comparing Grinage's handwriting samples with welfare applications that Eytina had filled out in Albany. Grinage and her husband evidently returned to the U.S. in 1971. That year, Austin was killed by police as he tried to rob a New York City...
...with most fitness fads, the biking boom has given birth to all manner of gadgetry and fashion trends. Bikers spent $700 million on clothes and accessories last year, a 17% increase over the year before. "Ten years ago, you saw cycling clothing as a pair of lumpy wool shorts and a wool jersey," says Steve Ready of the National Bicycle Dealers Association in Costa Mesa, Calif. "You could have any color you wanted, as long as it was black." Now, he says, the sport is more "visual." Bikes come in fashion colors -- lilac mist, rosebloom, aquamarine -- with bright jerseys...
Virginia Thornburgh, the coordinator of programs for persons with disabilities at the Office of Human Resources, who has spent more than 20 years working on disability issues, termed the program as a "cutting-edge movement in disability concerns...
...similarities between Bush and Thornburgh will also help the Republicans play up the ideological differences between Bentsen and Dukakis on the Democratic ticket. Bush has spent much of his time criticizing Dukakis as weak on crime. Thornburgh's record as a hard-nosed crime buster when he was governor of Pennsylvania and as the head of the criminal division of the Justice Department will help to show the Democrats as weak on crime...