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...road to the Ivy championship may be as tough as driving uptown on New York City's Fifth Avenue. But hey, if they can make it there...
Carrera holds the Thomas Hunter Chair of Health Sciences at Hunter College. But it is some 50 blocks uptown, in Harlem neighborhoods, where nearly 1 out of every 4 babies is born to a teenage mother, that Carrera's teaching is put to its sternest test in the Family Life Education and Adolescent Sexuality Program, which he created. Pregnancy-prevention courses, Carrera argues, are generally too narrow in focus to succeed. His approach is holistic, born of a simple premise: Give young people a sense of their own promise, and they will not be as likely to disrupt their lives...
...certainly not a harmless place for residents or itinerants, but neither is it the city's worst crime area. In any case, fear is no excuse for missing out on Harlem's cultural and historical bounty. Prudent visitors, black or white, can ride a tour bus or a subway uptown during the day, drive or call for a cab at night, stroll with a worthy purpose on a Sunday-go-to- meeting afternoon. They will feel as comfortable on Amateur Night, with its superefficient security staff, as they would at Carnegie Hall. They will be made as welcome...
...these and other sights of Harlem, the anxious white visitor can hop a Harlem Spirituals bus at 9 some Wednesday morning. As the bus heads uptown, a guide sketches a history of the district. A walk through Hamilton Grange and Sugar Hill precedes a stop at the Schomburg Center. And then . . . nirvana. At the Manhattan Christian Reformed Church, a storefront mission run by and for recovering addicts, the Rev. Reggie Williams spins a stirring homily: "You have the power to pray when you wanna party! The power to close your veins to dope and open your brains to hope...
...Abyssinian congregation makes every timid white sojourner feel serenely at home. At the service's end, one parishioner approached a visitor, extended his hand and said, "Thank you for joining us. Won't you come again?" It is an invitation no "foreigner" could refuse, after a trip uptown that he began in fear and skepticism and ended by believing the unbelievable. "Harlem," he says, invoking Duke Ellington, "I love you madly...