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...Jones, the hospital's chief of obstetrics and gynecology. "The idea of a three-month outpatient program is a joke," he says. "I want money for a house where these women can live for a year." Donna Carson, founder of the Atlanta program, agrees: "A lot of mothers will abandon their babies after they get home because their life isn't working. They need long-term support...
Surya Bonaly, 20, is the purist's bane and the crowd's darling. This tiny French girl leaps with abandon, spins her own way, often at a scary tilt, and in between pumps her way around the rink. But within the past 15 months she has decided to add some discipline to her act. Her stroking is smoother, her program better paced. She is talented enough to execute difficult moves correctly and zany enough not to lose her wit and vitality if she chooses...
Neither Allen nor Lanning is hinting that parents should abandon the common- sense rules of parental vigilance. For the especially worried, New York State clearinghouse on missing children manager James Stanco suggests knowing exactly, rather than approximately, what your children are wearing in the event you must describe them, and introducing a family password to prevent their walking away with a bogus relative. But, cautions James Fox, dean of Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice, "we should not make them panicky and make them lose their childhood. You don't want them to think that everyone they meet...
...short, A Community Carol, Dickens transposed to the ghetto, is daring but definitely not disrespectful. In a season when most regional theaters abandon creative integrity for a gold-digging, anodyne version of A Christmas Carol replete with chestnuts (in both senses) but not a lot of consciousness raising, the adaptation now playing at Washington's Arena Stage is a welcome alternative. Much of it is slapstick, too many of its gags come from easy TV references, and its worn-on-the-sleeve liberalism can play fast and loose with facts: Scrooge is condemned for not ponying up a ludicrously understated...
...Protestant paramilitary units, dedicated to keeping Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, have become increasingly active. In the past two years, they killed more people in Northern Ireland than did the I.R.A. Says Peter Robinson, a hard-line Unionist politician: "If they believe that the British are about to abandon them, you can expect more violence...