PRINTABLE PAGE ‘Porcelain Deliveries’ a Crisis as Teens Seek to Hide Pregnancies By Shana Gruskin, Staff WriterOriginally published in the Sun-Sentinel, April 16, 2001 They’re called porcelain deliveries. They’re the babies born to panicky teenagers who, alone and suffering acute…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Private Schools Receive Less Stringent Background Checks By Michael Giusti, Staff WriterOriginally published in The Daytona Beach News-Journal, June 3, 2001 Area Catholic schools receive far less comprehensive background checks on volunteers and teachers than public schools, a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Five Charged In Overseas Kiddie Porn Ring U.S. Web Site Allegedly Served as Gateway By David NoackOriginally published at APBnews.com, April 14, 2000 DALLAS (APBnews.com) — A Texas couple’s Web site served as a gateway to a world…
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PRINTABLE PAGE She ‘Felt Like a Prisoner’ By Joe Calderone and Thomas ZambitoOriginally published by the Daily News, June 11, 2001 An 80-year-old woman says a Brooklyn nursing home held her against her will and denied her repeated requests to…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Stepfather Gets Life For Rapes By John S. Hausman, Chronicle Staff WriterOriginally published in the Muskegon Chronicle, September 4, 2001 Walter Neal Jr. will be nearly 80 before his first chance at freedom. Neal is the Muskegon man…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Kids Tell of Camp Beatings Say they were kicked, punched By Michael Chow for The Arizona RepublicOriginally published in The Arizona Republic, July 4, 2001 They say they were kicked, beaten, deprived of water and forced to swallow…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Death Penalty For Juveniles Under Scrutiny Texas is scheduled to execute the third person in four months for a crime committed under age 18. By Kris Axtman, Staff writerOriginally published in The Christian Science Monitor, August 27, 2002…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Bright Light Treats Depression During Pregnancy Without Drugs By Laurie Barclay, M.D.Originally published by MedscapeWire, April 25, 2002 NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) — Because antidepressant use during pregnancy is controversial, there have been few treatment options for the 5%…
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PRINTABLE PAGE California Justices Look at Medicinal Pot Rules By Mike McKeeOriginally published in The Recorder, June 5, 2002 After being arrested for possession and cultivation of marijuana in 1997, Myron Carlyle Mower, who smokes pot to ease the pain…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Closing Clinic Doors By Bob HerbertOriginally published in The New York Times, May 21, 2001 In an era of trillion-dollar tax cuts at the federal level, and proposals to spend hundreds of millions of state and local dollars…