Word: tennesses
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...spades. The faithful were ready to love Faust before they ever heard his wonderfully hoarse voice, more like Andy Devine's than Dan's, and impressions of Faust were hardly damaged by the news that he had been whistling the Notre Dame fight song since the age of ten. Besides, despite a devoutness at Moeller High that extended to leading sideline "Hail Marys," he had shown no qualms about grinding his Crusaders' boots into overmatched opponents' necks...
...money together," she frets. "I have to think ahead." Indeed she must. In three weeks this tenth-grader with her hair in braids is going to have a baby. "I have to stop doing all the childish things I've done before," she gravely resolves. "I used to think, ten years from now I'll be 24. Now I think, I'll be 24, and my child will be ten...
...rest is brief. Above the babble of the actors' voices comes a piercing wail. Larissa, her three-week-old daughter, is hungry. In an adjacent bedroom, Joey, l l/2 years old and recovering from the flu, starts to stir. Stephanie, who is an American Indian and one of ten children herself, first became pregnant at 15. It was an "accident," she explains. So too was her second baby. "I'm always tired," she laments, "and I can't eat." Before Joey's birth, before she dropped out of school, Stephanie dreamed of being a stewardess. Now her aspirations are more...
...earlier than they are in the U.S., and they are exposed to even more explicit television. However, the Swedish National Board of Education has provided curriculum guidelines that ensure that, starting at age seven, every child in the country receives a thorough grounding in reproductive biology and by age ten or twelve has been introduced to the various types of contraceptives. "Teachers are expected to deal with the subject whenever it becomes relevant, irrespective of the subject they are teaching," says Annika Strandell, the board's specialist in sex education. "The idea is to dedramatize and demystify sex so that...
...planning services. One-third of the women who seek such services at federally funded clinics are teenagers. In 1983 the Administration further attempted to control teenage access to contraceptives by issuing what quickly became known as the "squeal rule." The regulation required federally funded clinics to notify parents within ten days of prescribing contraceptives to minors. However, the squeal rule was squelched in the courts on the ground that it would have increased unwanted pregnancies and abortions...