Word: manhattanization
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...book ends with Roth and Smilesburger meeting in a Jewish deli on the West side of Manhattan. Over coffee and lox, the Mossad agent urges Roth to use his Jewish conscience to decide what part of this story to tell. Then he gives him a million dollars. And Roth is free to write his "true" story--or maybe...
...boys, researchers are finding that among parents, the fear that their son will grow up to be aggressively promiscuous is nothing compared with the fear he will turn out to be gay. Manhattan social worker Joy Fallek has seen boys who fear that they might be gay if they haven't had sex with a girl by age 16. Parents have told Miedzian that they will not let their boys watch TV's Mr. Rogers because of his gentle demeanor. "This is a major barrier to parents' raising their sons to be caring and sensitive people," she contends. "Other parents...
...prevent ion program in Harlem, deplores the "ungenerous, unforgiving" nature of some abstinence programs. "The way you make a safe, responsible abstinent decision is if you're informed, not if you're dumb." Carrera attributes the success of his program to this more comprehensive approach: in a part of Manhattan with a 50% dropout rate, 96% of Carrera's kids are still in school...
Then came the day Sabio went on vacation. That Saturday Keno called Manhattan's 207th Street station on the A-train line and, pretending to be Sabio, requested a shift. When he showed up, he signed in using Sabio's Transit Authority pass number. He received a mild admonition for wearing jeans instead of his full uniform, but, says Lieut. Robert Valentino of the New York City transit police, "he looked like a motorman and he acted like a motorman, so they gave him an assignment." Keno dutifully studied the route out to Brooklyn before the 3:58 p.m. departure...
...trip back into Manhattan went almost as well. But five stops before ending his adventure, a slight incline sent the train speeding downhill, exceeding a 20-m.p.h. speed limit. Before Keno could slow train, he went through a speeding signal and tripped an emergency brake. The train hissed to a dead stop. All he had to do was get out of the train, get onto the tracks and reset the brake. But Keno was afraid of the dark subway tunnels, the rats and exposed high-voltage lines. For a full 30 minutes he sat panicked as the conductor and Transit...