Editorial: Rethinking teens sex education and birth control
The editorial argues against banning contraceptives for teens and favors comprehensive sex education and preventive family planning. It cites Planned Parenthood data showing teen pregnancies and abortion rates and urges realistic education through schools churches and home to reduce outcomes.
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Tion
Alan Guttmacher Institute
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
America
New York
McCook area eyes multi county push to attract doctors
regional group in southwest Nebraska and northwest Kansas plans a six to nine county collaboration to recruit six to eight physicians across common specialties. they will survey area needs, consult hospitals and insurers, and compare incentives such as a $50 000 bank credit program seen in coffeyville kansas to lure practitioners. the effort aims to overcome local rivalries and build a central clinic model.
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Nebraska
Kansas
Emporia reforms end social promotion improve test scores
The Emporia Virginia school system under Sam A. Owen abandoned social promotion, cutting back held backs from 1300 to 695 over three years. Seventh grade scores rose above national averages in reading and math while discipline and morale improved. External observers from Piqua and Pinellas County visited to study the results.
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Emporia
Sam A. Owen
Greensville County
Sam Owen
Owen
Piqua
Ohio
Pinellas County
Fla
Public Mind Letters Assess WCS Home and Global Power Debate
Reader letters discuss the Women in Community Service home for wayward girls, praising its strict structure under Lucy Nevels and arguing for its role in reform. The piece also surveys Western Eastern power tensions, citing Pericles, Thucydides, and modern NATO debates on security and human rights.
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Lincoln Journal
Women In Community Service
WCS
Lucy Nevels
Nevels
Omaha
Nebraska Psychiatric Institute
Geneva
Texas
Dale J. Hatch
Lincoln
C. L. Sulzberger
Pericles
Sparta
Thucydides
Karl Marx
Carter lacks coherent strategy amid administration gaps
Reports from White House aides, a Carter campaign chair, and foreign observers warn of a missing sense of strategy and policy coordination in the Carter administration. The issue shows as fragmented reforms, conflicting aims on energy, tax and human rights, and a drift from ideals to hands-on crisis management, threatening long-term achievement.
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White House
Carter
Jimmy Carter
Cuba
Vietnam
Washington Post Company
Newsroom ethics in a price gouging world
When hospital costs surge and hospitals demand payment before discharge the pressure on families grows. Big firms secure lower water rates via high usage while reporters chase trauma scenes or sensational images. The American dream shifts as inequality widens.
Parallels Between Presidents Carter Kennedy and Wilson
The essay compares Jimmy Carter to John F Kennedy in charm and style while drawing an eerie link to Woodrow Wilson. It notes Wilson’s idealism and moral foreign policy, shared faith in a personal pipeline to God, and places Carter among such blood-brother pairings across presidential history.
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Max Lerner
Noah
Lincoln
Jimmy Carter
John F Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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Paul Greenberg
NATO
Marx
Robert Close
Johannes Steinhoff
Kremlin
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New York Times Service
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