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Even without the risk of being squealed on, many young girls are embarrassed about going to a public clinic. "I chickened out," confesses Debra Stinnett, 18. "I just never went back to Planned Parenthood for the pills." She now has a one-year-old daughter. Studies show that, on the average, teens wait twelve months after first becoming sexually active before they seek contraception. By then it is often too late. "When you're young," says Kim Adalid, 19, of Lawndale, Calif, a wise old mother of two, "all you think about is the weekend...
...South is being accepted at all social levels--and working-class couples like the one played by Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry in the 2001 movie Monster's Ball have become more common. "That's the most potent development," says University of Alabama family-studies professor Nick Stinnett, "because it means a far wider portion of society now has a personal stake in doing away with the racial barriers that still exist here...
...success is to fire the old management, slash the staff and pinch pennies. Once he became president of Curtis in May 1970, SerVaas went to work on Holiday. He shrank it to newsmagazine size, cut its frequency from twelve to nine issues a year, booted out Editor Caskie Stinnett, slashed the staff by two-thirds and started promoting tours. Beurt's wife Cory became executive editor of both Holiday and the Post. Transformed into a middle-class book geared to mass travel, Holiday has suffered in quality, but not on the balance sheet. Thanks...
...ERRA carries on in Washington, partly because Malcolm West, the public relations hero of Out of the Red, is the only man in the bureau who actually knows and rather relishes the fact that there is nothing left to administer. When his comic invention flags, Author. Stinnett pads with ferocious puns ranging from descriptions of lustful pals ("a wolf in cheap clothing") to abstract art ("a merry old mobile...
...onetime paper-proliferator and information-spreader for the War Production Board, Humorist Caskie Stinnett, 47, knows his subject but does not really know what to do with it. The trouble is that bureaucracy all but defies satire-because it is satire. The facts are funnier than any imaginable fiction...