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Since June 1, Union Summer activists have fanned out to 20 cities. Paid a stipend of $210 a week, they are given free housing: an East Boston, Massachusetts, convent; a Chicago youth hostel; a Beaufort, South Carolina, trailer park. They are joining protesting sewage-plant workers in Denver; demonstrating against unfair labor practices on riverboat casinos in St. Louis, Missouri; pressuring a Washington department store to stop buying suits made in sweatshops; offering legal advice to strawberry pickers in Watsonville, California. They are picketing beach hotels in Hilton Head, South Carolina; knocking on doors in Boston to organize hospital workers...
...come to life, both in the rare, thrilling clips and in interviews with film veterans, still vital, still proud. Simon Feldman, the Russian techno-wizard who worked on Napoleon, was 103 when Brownlow found him. Feldman caresses photos from the film as if they held the secret of eternal youth...
...while, Dimitry was propelled by a single disappointment from his youth. As a teen on Romania's junior national gymnastics team, he had seen his dreams destroyed when a teacher called his mother and firmly suggested that Dimitry must choose: gymnastics or school. Forced to abandon the sport he loved, Dimitry says, "I made myself a commitment that I'd like my first child to be a gymnast." While courting Camelia, he shared his plan. "I said, 'It'll be a big commitment. It's gotta be a different country. But we have no money, so we may just drink...
...institutions and even homelessness. Yet today I hold a doctorate and work for a major philanthropic foundation. If children's advocates and policymakers don't know what to do for children, I do: provide them with connectedness, continuity, dignity and opportunity. These four powerful factors can nurture children and youth by giving them meaningful and caring relationships with adults, a positive legacy, respect and the possibility for a life filled with potential. These principles should be the international standard for making decisions for all children and adults. No longer should we expect children to navigate without a map, steer without...
JOSEPH FEMIANI, 57; MCMURRAY, PENNSYLVANIA; electric-company owner Abused as a boy, he vowed to make a difference one day. In 1992 he developed the Watchful Shepherd, a home-monitoring device for victims of child abuse. The push of a button puts kids in direct touch with youth counselors and summons police to the scene. In the past 2 1/2 years, WS has protected more than 200 children in his state. There are now plans for global expansion. Says Femiani: "The children are no longer alone...