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...sponsored by A T & T who form the core of the relay) and 3,500 local torchbearers who have raised or donated $3,000 for the privilege of carrying the flame for one kilometer (five-eighths of a mile). The money that is raised goes to athletic programs for youth clubs and the Special Olympics. "I think it's all right," drawled D.L. Morton, 80, of Tioga, Texas. "Patriotism. You hardly see it any more...
...case, far more than lower pay will be needed to create jobs for black teenagers. For example, though a recent tax credit cut the wage costs of firms that hire disadvantaged youths in the summer to just 50? an hour, few companies took advantage of it when it was introduced last year. "Employers just don't want those kids in their plants," says the Urban Institute's Bendick. Concurs a Government economist: "To attack the problem of black-youth unemployment as simply a job problem and only worry about the minimum wage is not the solution...
Fourteen-year-old Gregory Martin was arrested in New York City in 1977 for robbing another youth of his jacket and sneakers. A family-court judge ordered Martin held under New York's preventive-detention law. That meant the teenager was being confined not to ensure his appearance at trial but because he was regarded as a serious risk to commit new crimes while waiting for his case to come up. Martin and his attorney filed a class action on behalf of all children in preventive-detention in New York State, and won in two federal courts. Last week...
Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio. One by one in this century the scourges of youth have fallen before the marvel of vaccines. But there has been no similar victory against the last of childhood's common infectious diseases: chickenpox, or as it is known medically, varicella. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the virus-caused illness strikes about 3 million youngsters each year, approximately as many children as there are babies born...
...hailing figure on Park Avenue, but he never gets in. Patrons new to Kathy Gallagher's, a chic Los Angeles eatery, request tables far from the cigar chomper who seems to be a fixture in the place. In Boca Raton, Fla., vacationers have called police because a youth has loitered too long staring...