Word: carreras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That night, I met Marcelo Carrera, a mediocre player from Argentina who scored the winning goal for the Strikers. While he struggled to answer the questions of other reporters in English, I began to talk to him in Spanish. He was delighted. I was estatic...
Thanks to unusually passionate praise from car-buff magazines, the Miata is by far the most talked-about new auto on the market. Road & Track named it one of the five best cars in the world, along with the Ferrari Testarossa, the Porsche 911 Carrera, the Corvette ZR-1 and the Mercedes-Benz 300E, chichi chariots all. Not the least of the Miata's attributes is its base price: just $13,800, or about $600 less than the average new-car price that U.S. consumers are currently paying. At the moment, however, the Miata is so popular that some dealers...
...about 225 kids and 75 parents are participating in Carrera's three Harlem-based programs. Carrera's track record is impressive. In four years only two girls have become pregnant and, as far as the counselors can tell from their intimate weekly individual discussions with the kids, only one boy has fathered a child. "This is not a value-free program," he explains. "We have a message that delaying sexual activity is good. We are taking a stand." This year the Childrens Aid Society is establishing the Stern National Training Center for Family Life Education in Manhattan, where Carrera will...
Since his initial success at the Milbank Center, Carrera has expanded his program to include two other community centers in Harlem, one of which is in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. Carrera receives financial support from New York City's Childrens Aid Society and devotes many hours each week to fund raising from private as well as public sources. The cost for each teenager is about $1,500 a year, and the paid staff members are all indigenous to the community. "Most adolescent pregnancy programs are headed by white female social workers," says Cary Dixon, a 48-year-old black...
...role model, particularly for the many boys who don't have fathers at home. "When I grew up, families were there to teach kids that there are certain boundaries," he recalls. "Now there is no discipline in their lives. Kids' lives are like basketball played without lines." He believes Carrera's approach holds promise. "By keeping these kids on a clear education track, by having them understand the importance of delaying pregnancy and by including parents, Mike is doing what others aren't," he says...