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...bleak Chicago community called Grand Boulevard, this sort of thing happens all the time. "For children to die is part of the life-style," says Linda Edwards, a social worker who counsels high-risk mothers in the area. In the U.S. as a whole, roughly one baby in 100 will die before its first birthday. In Grand Boulevard, one in every 38 dies, and there are streets where the rate is closer...
...then called Grand Boulevard, became a popular carriage route. It is still lined with great stone houses--most now disused or broken up into grimy cubicles--characterized by bow fronts, Greek columns, turreted towers, bay windows with pilasters, and beveled-glass fanlights. "The potential is so wonderful," a social worker remarks, driving down the boulevard, now called Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. She is talking about the architecture. The splendid ostentation of these buildings makes their present inhabitants look somehow unfeathered...
...urge to cuddle does not arise naturally here. "When I first saw these babies," says Virginia Spear, a social worker in the intensive-care nursery, "all I could think of is that they looked like an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry--all the fetuses in the jars. Some of them aren't much more than fetuses. But then I saw a mother whose baby weighed 1 1b. 5 oz. She was a typical teenager, liked to have a good time, dance, listen to rock music. What she did with that baby was a revelation. I like...
...Some of them forget that they've had a baby," a social worker says. "They pick up their life at home," leaving a marginal baby in the hospital's care. Some literally do not have bus fare to visit. Nurses tend to get frustrated and move on quickly. "Why don't these parents love their babies?" one asked when she quit recently...
...what eventually happens to People Express, it has changed the airline industry forever. Burr, Lorenzo and other discounters proved that there was a huge untapped market for low-cost air travel. They have met the needs of millions of Americans. Says Venice Gorman, 31, a New York City hospital worker who flew on People to see her parents in Norfolk: "Before People Express, I used to stay home and call my relatives on the phone. Now I can visit in person...