Mattel unveils disabled dolls to teach kids of possibilities
Mattel announced a seven doll line with disabilities aimed at boosting self image for disabled children and reducing prejudice in able bodied children. The line features Hal the ski instructor and companions with various disabilities, selling for 44.95 each and supporting a new nonprofit, For Challenged Kids By Mattel Inc, via mail order and donations.
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Andy Lam
Manhattan
Mattel Inc
Hal
Mattel
New York
Spencer Boise
Coleco Industries Inc
Paul Valentine
Standard & Poor’s Corp
For Challenged Kids
Triumph St
Commerce
Calif
Drug use rates among arrestees higher than expected
A two year National Institute of Justice study found 56 percent of arrestees tested in New York City and Washington DC used illegal drugs in the prior 24 to 48 hours, with PCP most common in DC and cocaine in NYC. The study also linked post release drug use to higher re arrest risk before trials.
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Washington
New York City
National Institute of Justice
Research Agency
Justice Department
District of Columbia
New York
Stewart
Bonner boards train for home to exile in Gorky
Yelena Bonner left Moscow on an overnight train to the closed city of Gorky to reunite with her husband Andrei Sakharov in enforced exile. She said she felt better after medical treatment and hoped Sakharov would meet her at the station if permitted.
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Moscow
Yelena Bonner
Gorky
Andrei Sakharov
Bonner
Yaroslavsky
West
Sakharov
KGB
Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
New Jobs Trend Predicts Growth in 30 Metro Areas
A private study by the National Planning Association predicts nearly 26 million new U S jobs by 2000, with more than 12 million in 30 metropolitan areas led by Los Angeles and Boston. The report notes continued growth in the South and West and increasing gains in Northeastern industrial centers. It lists 30 areas including Los Angeles Boston Anaheim San Jose Phoenix Washington Houston Chicago Dallas Atlanta San Diego Tampa Philadelphia New York San Francisco Denver Minneapolis Detroit Nassau Suffolk New Jersey Orlando Fort Lauderdale Miami Oakland Seattle Baltimore Middlesex Riverside West Palm Beach Newark and Hartford.
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Washington
California
Massachusetts
National Planning Association
Los Angeles
Boston
Carlton N. Strong
Planning Association
The
Commerce Department
Bureau of Economic Analysis
New York
Houston
Anaheim
Calif
San Jose
Phoenix
Ariz
Strong
Long Island
New Jersey
Anaheim-Santa Ana
Chicago
Dallas
Atlanta
San Diego
Tampa, Fla
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Denver
Minneapolis
Detroit
Nassau-Suffolk
N.Y
Orlando
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Susan Anderson
Anderson
Hal O’leary
Winter Park
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
James K. Stewart
Institute
Dad
Robert Bruce
Armstrong Big & Tall Men’s Shop
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