Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not often see a goal-tender who skates as well as a forward. But junior Jennifer White, the three-year starter for the Harvard women's hockey team, has always worked hard on her game and on herself...
...write about education but came back to TIME (permanently, we hope) two weeks ago. Based once more in New York City, she chases after a range of issues, including an educational system that she believes needs both some of Joe Clark's tough discipline and a lot of tender care. "After all," Simpson says, "we can't compete economically or find a cure for cancer or AIDS unless our young people -- all of them -- are given the skills...
...look like a character out of Dickens, keeps a flame burning constantly under his 20-gal. pots of rice, soup and beans. The New York City kitchen, which serves as many as 1,000 meals a day, is not his first such endeavor. Beacon, who calls himself the Fire Tender, says he has set up similar "temples" in other cities across the country...
...these people help themselves when all they think about is food?" asks the Fire Tender. "Give them food, and then they can put their heads and hands to work fighting misery." Although the city plans to evict Beacon from the vacant lot to build subsidized housing on the site, the Fire Tender does not intend to let his flame go out. His next temple, he says, will be in Spanish Harlem...
Moreover, rheumatic fever now often strikes without warning. In the past the disease followed within weeks of painful streptococcal throat infections. But the majority of recent victims have experienced only mild symptoms of strep throat, if any. Thus parents have not become alarmed until after the persistent fever and tender joints characteristic of rheumatic fever begin. "If children don't have a clinical sore throat, no one thinks of strep," says Pediatrician Ellen Wald at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a result, youngsters have gone untreated even though doctors can usually prevent rheumatic fever with penicillin. Warns Jane Schaller...