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...young man, Johnson realized that taking risks was the only way to rise above the crowd, especially for a black. In 1939, while still an office boy at Chicago's Supreme Life Insurance Co., he pawned his mother's furniture for $500 and sent letters to 20,000 of the company's customers, inviting them to subscribe to a proposed magazine called Negro Digest. About 3,000 people sent in $2 each, and Johnson was on his way. Negro Digest lasted only twelve years, but a second Johnson magazine, Ebony, quickly became the journal of black America. Packed with news...
...situation, adolescents frequently wait too long even to consider having an abortion. The gravity of such a decision often eludes them. "I was going to have an abortion, but I spent the money on clothes," confesses Sonya Lyde, 18, of Chicago, now the mother of a seven-month-old boy...
...Angeles, who gave birth last May: "I thought I might want to have a baby," she says. "I was thinking more in the future, but things happen." Or Derdra Jones of Chicago, who gave birth at 15: "Part of me wanted to get pregnant," she confesses. "I liked the boy a lot, and he used to say he wanted a baby." Or Marquel, 17, of Hawthorne, Calif.: "I had birth control pills in my drawer. I just didn't take them," she says. "My life was getting boring. I wanted a baby...
Today, Sichuan is a national showplace for the policies of its homegrown boy. In a field where dozens of commune workers once listlessly toiled, a family now energetically tills the land. Villages whose fortunes once depended entirely upon crops now boast small plants that make products such as shoes, radios and billiard balls. Free markets enliven every town's main street, attracting peddlers from all around who bring their wares by bicycle. (What can be tied up and carried on two wheels would have amazed even Ripley: live pigs and goats and 20-ft.-long bamboo poles...
Babies born into this world do not necessarily die for lack of skilled medical care. The technology employed to keep newborns alive is formidable, even frightening. In the intensive-care nursery at nearby Wyler Children's Hospital, a part of the University of Chicago, an unnamed 2-1b. boy, born in the sixth month of pregnancy, is sustained with the help of something called a radiant warmer bed, plus a phototherapy unit, an infant ventilator, three volumetric infusion pumps, a transcutaneous oxygen monitor and a cardiac-respiratory monitor...