Word: street
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returned to the U.S. The daughter of a factory worker, she had taken up violin in fourth grade at her public school. "It should be an inalienable right for every child to have music education," she insists. To remedy what Jefferson overlooked, she moved to East 118th Street and brought the sound of strings to three public schools...
...frenzied reaction to his first tour with the E Street Band in more than a decade proves that the powerful bond Springsteen has forged with his fans during the past quarter-century has only intensified. He has no record in the Top 30, and his biggest hit, Born in the U.S.A., is approaching its 15th birthday. Yet when tickets went on sale for the 15 shows that begin next week at New Jersey's Continental Arena, fans snapped up the 300,000 seats in just 13 hours...
...movie, it's R-rated, but even with a nude scene, Titanic gets a PG-13. That's ludicrous. Walk through the halls of any high school, and you will hear worse profanity and more sexually explicit conversations than in most R-rated movies. Walk across the street from the school, and you will often observe violence and drug use. The effect of seeing violence or hearing sexually explicit talk should not be pinned on Hollywood. It starts with parents. The kids copy the parents, and other youngsters copy those kids. Maybe we should start rating our homes and schools...
...parents often worry about their kids being overscheduled with sports and not having enough free time, many inner-city families say they would love to have such problems. When kids pour out of school each day in scores of lower-income urban communities, all that awaits them is the street--no soccer, baseball or ice skating. They just hang out, while their parents pray that dead-end afternoons won't lead to sex or drugs or violence. "Most teenage pregnancies happen between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," says Les Franklin, founder of the Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth...
...Club on Mill St. HUPD received a complaint that nude sunbathers on the roof were throwing cans onto the street. Units were dispatched, and did not find any nude sunbathers. Club members told police that the cans blew off the building because of wind...