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Just 10 years ago, teenage gambling did not register even a blip on the ! roster of social ills. Today gambling counselors say an average of 7% of their case loads involve teenagers. New studies indicate that teenage vulnerability to compulsive gambling hits every economic stratum and ethnic group. After surveying 2,700 high school students in four states, California psychologist Durand Jacobs concluded that students are 2 1/2 times as likely as adults to become problem gamblers. In another study, Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York, found eight times as many gambling addicts among...
Education will have to emanate from the top directed specifically toward the lower economic stratum of the community, who were never great economic beneficiaries of the advances made by the movement. The alternative is the perpetuation of an endless cycle of a selectively small percentage who are able to go on to higher education while the vast majority languishes uneducated...
Bush has touched every stratum of leadership in American society. Former Urban League president Vernon Jordan and IBM's chairman John Akers huddled with him. Country singer Crystal Gale and Alabama fishing guide Ray Scott were houseguests; Scott was sighted next morning in fatigues, appraising the South Lawn's fountains and pool. Previous Presidents have had profiles jagged with talents and flaws. Bush seems not to have those striking peaks and valleys...
...legacy of institutional racism and generations of discrimination. But during the Reagan era, the Zeitgeist shifted. Now poverty is often blamed on the poor and on the system of government support created to help them. Glenn Loury, a black Harvard professor and neoconservative, reflects this sensibility. "The bottom stratum of the black community," he writes, "has compelling problems which can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, and which force us to confront fundamental failures in black society." The problems of the ghetto, he says, "have taken on a life of their...
...likely be denounced for creating comic characters who accurately reflect familiar and self-important fixtures in New York life. At the top of the heap are "social X rays," rumpless women of a certain age who believe one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sixtyish men of this stratum are frequently accompanied by "lemon tarts," sleek, young blonds. Sherman McCoy is a decent well-bred sort, neither more nor less lustful than most confident 38-year-old males and particularly amusing when he gives facts and figures about how one can go broke in Manhattan on $1 million...