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Toms already has orders from 300 stores, including Nordstrom, Urban Outfitters and Bloomingdale's, for 41,000 pairs from its spring and summer collections, and it will be entering Australia, Japan, Canada, Spain and France this summer. The company will introduce a line of children's shoes called Tiny Toms in May and will unveil a pair of leather shoes in the fall...
...years afterwards, he worked as an urban park ranger, a position that enabled him to conduct educational programs at schools in some of New York's better neighborhoods--and in its worst. "They were totally different," he says. "The quality of the teaching, the amount of books ... the inequities were so clear that it forced me to think about what I wanted to do with my life...
...Stone, a Yale dropout who had taught school in Saigon, volunteered for the infantry in Viet Nam. Suddenly the preppie was surrounded by guys he never would have met back in the "world." Urban blacks were importing tactics of street survival to the jungle; Southern farm boys were digging foxholes that might be their graves. You established camaraderie with your sergeant by taking a whiff of marijuana that he'd blow through a rifle barrel. And too soon you were inside the madness of frontline patrols, a captive of the heat, the exhaustion, the insects, the hatred of men whose...
...just one more example of Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, in the media. Over the past year the state-run press has been exploring the problems of Soviet society with unprecedented candor, discussing such once forbidden topics as drug abuse, prostitution and urban blight. In addition, newspapers and TV have covered the kinds of national catastrophes?an earthquake, an attempted airplane hijacking and the sinking of a Soviet submarine?that were once hushed...
Cabrini-Green was not always an urban version of hell. The project was originally intended as a way station for working-class families, both black and white, who were temporarily down on their luck. Since the first set of 55 row houses was built in 1943, however, the character of the urban poor has changed, and the 23 high-rises along Division Street have become permanent homes for generations of the black underclass. There are few intact families among the 15,000 residents of the project. Only about 150 husbands have their names on leases. Single mothers like Diana, whose...