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Snowboarders at Harvard? As incongruous as that may sound, they do exist--and are avid enthusiasts at that. No, they don't all boast long, tangled locks, neither do they sport tattoos or rings on unspeakable body parts, but they do seek death just as much as any other boarder would...
Occasionally, on cold wintry nights, you'll find a boarder gliding down the snowy steps of Widener. Other than that, the snowboarding contingent doesn't leave many tracks of their favorite pastime...
Last November the Department of Health and Human Services, in its first such tally, reported that 22,000 "boarder babies" were deserted in 851 hospitals in 1991. Three-quarters of the infants tested positive for drugs at birth. They had no relatives, only nurses; no world beyond the ward. Some stayed in the hospitals so long they learned to walk there. Most were doomed to an early entry into America's brutal foster-care system, and in the meantime each baby's maintenance cost...
...have them in four or five rooms," says D.C. General's communications director, Linda Ivey, proudly. "Now there's only one nursery." New York City's Harlem Hospital Center reports that its daily count has plunged from 20 to three. At Grady Memorial in Atlanta, the annual total of boarder children fell from 52 in 1990 to 22 last year. The improvements reflect a courageous willingness to identify -- and tackle -- root causes. All three hospitals practice early intervention, targeting problem mothers during pregnancy. Each addresses not only motherhood but also the addictions and other tribulations that can make motherhood seem...
...adoption agencies of most states. Yet while there may be dozens of couples bidding for every healthy white infant, only about one-third of the approximately 36,000 available special-needs kids will be taken in any given year. Some of the rest can be found in hospitals as "boarder babies" -- left behind at birth by addicted or otherwise incapable mothers. Others are crammed into group facilities...