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When Jennifer Wilbert of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, developed schizophrenia at 16, she began a distressing odyssey through the mental-health-care system. Overwhelmed by dangerous delusions, terror and frequent bouts of depression, she needed immediate hospitalization. That is when her parents, Rob and Joan, discovered that their insurance would pay for only 30 days of care. It was not enough. Jennifer, who is now 21, was hospitalized at first for four months. To care for her daughter with constant supervision at home, Joan Wilbert took a leave of absence from her job as a clerk at the state department of revenue...
...tell it, Whitley sounds like the hero of a Frank Capra movie. He is open-minded, impartial, considerate. In a closed society where everyone constantly scrutinizes everyone else, he merits the highest compliment: he is straight up. "With Whitley, what you see is what you get," says veteran inmate Wilbert Rideau, who edits the prison's hard- hitting magazine, the Angolite. "He's the best warden we've ever had." Whitley earns praise even from those who know he may preside over their execution. "The warden's pretty cool people," says Curtis Kyles, one of 35 inmates on death...
...both schools test far below the state average in reading, and their scores since the 220-day year began have improved only marginally. "My kids can't read the way they ought to," says Ellenese Brooks-Simms, the principal of Moton school. Brooks- Simms and her counterpart at Lockett, Wilbert Dunn, are trying to put even more emphasis on reading instruction by cutting time spent on gym, music and other activities...
...surprisingly, the most persuasive proselytizers for sustainable agriculture are those who have profited by it. Since 1981, Wilbert Blumhardt and his son Glenn have been fighting erosion on their 3,000-acre spread near Bowdle, S. Dak., by planting wheat, sunflowers, soybeans and corn in fields littered by the debris from earlier harvests. "That trash," says Wilbert, "serves an important purpose. It helps feed the soil, and it allows the water to soak in and not wash off into lakes and streams." Last year the Blumhardts' fields produced an average of 27 bu. of wheat an acre, 30% more than...
...month. Because she was raped, newspapers and TV stations have generally refrained from using her name. "If she had merely been beaten and left for dead," Elliott notes, "she would have been named." One journal that did name the jogger was the black-oriented Amsterdam News. Editor in chief Wilbert Tatum argues that the city's mainstream press is guilty of hypocrisy for guarding the identity of a well-to-do white woman while it "stigmatized" the lower-class black youths accused of raping her by naming them even before they were indicted...