Assessing the Harlem Children's Zone

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At age three, children can enter the lottery for one of the Promise Academies, the charter schools established by the Harlem Children's Zone. If admitted to a Promise Academy, the child enters the …. The Zone has programs to strengthen and support …
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Lower legal age may lead to adult binge drinking

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“It wasn't just that lower minimum drinking ages had a negative impact on people when they were young,” explains first author Andrew D. Plunk, a postdoctoral research fellow in psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “Even …
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Letter, 3/8: Media not only factor

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As stated by Dr. Brandon S. Centerwall, "Every violent act is the result of an array of forces coming together — poverty, crime, alcohol and drug abuse, stress — of which childhood exposure to television is just one." There is something mentally …
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