Word: watsons
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...matter what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says, they could just as well have met as schoolboys. And it is more than likely that the twigs that grew into the sturdiest oaks of detective fiction were bent way back when: Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) brainy and arrogant, John Watson (Alan Cox) loyal and bumbling...
...Angeles have extended their contraceptive-counseling programs to teens who have not yet become pregnant. Crittenton purposely holds discussion groups that mix young mothers with other adolescents to reinforce the lessons on birth control. "When they see how hard it is to be a mother," says Executive Director Sharon Watson, "they don't get pregnant...
These efforts are aimed at what may be the true root of the teenage pregnancy problem: not simply lack of sex education or access to birth control but a sense of worthlessness and despair. Recounts Watson of Crittenton Center: "The girls tell me, 'Before I was pregnant, I was nothing. Now I am somebody. I'm a mother.' " As long as adolescents look in the mirror and see nobody there, they are likely to seek identity by becoming--ready or not--somebody's mother. --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Cathy Booth/New York, Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles and Elizabeth Taylor/Chicago
...bottom line is also coming under closer scrutiny at ABC's news division. Most of the layoffs so far have been in lower-echelon production jobs. Says Washington Bureau Chief George Watson: "We have not cut into the teeth of the news-gathering and producing-operation." Yet staff morale has plummeted, and some insiders claim that personnel are being spread too thin. "It will reflect in the quality of the show," predicts a staffer at ABC's newsmagazine 20/20, which lost four positions in the cutbacks. "We are already burnt out." Says a New York City-based producer...
Hopkins began her career at Radcliffe planning to major in math, but it was an introductory biology lecture by James Watson that “pretty much determined the course of my life,” she says...