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65 Parks’s and neighbors’ cautions: James Bennet, “Sadness and Anger After a Legend Is Mugged,” New York Times, 1 September 1994, p. A16. Other quotes from Donna Britt, “Parks Once Again Becomes a Symbol,” Washington Post, 2 September 1994, p. C1.

66 John Ritter, “For Some Elderly, Fear Darkens Golden Years,” USA Today, 17 November 1994, p. A7.

67 Timothy Egan, “Old, Ailing and Finally a Burden Abandoned,” New York Times, 26 March 1992, p. A1; “Granny Dumping by the Thousands,” New York Times, 29 March 1992, p. E16. Another example of the coverage: J. Madeleine Nash, “When Love Is Exhausted,” Time, 6 April 1992, p. 24.

68 Leslie Bennetts, “Apparent Dumping,” Columbia Journalism Review (September-October 1992): 15-17; Associated Press, “Woman convicted in father dumping,” New York Times, 4 December 1992, p. A24.

69 ABC, “20/20,” 20 January 1995.

70 “Malnutrition Hits Many Elderly,” New York Times, 3 July 1995, p. 28.

Chapter Three

1 Ira Berkow, “An Athlete Dies Young, but by His Own Hand,” New York Times, 1 October 1995, pp. 20, 24.

2 Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Prescription Error Claims Dad’s Angel’,” Washington Post, 31 October 1994, pp. A1, 11.

3 Ibid., p. 14; Berkow, “Athlete Dies Young.”

4 Hunger statistics based on reports from the Institute for Food and Development Policy, Oakland, CA, and the Urban Institute, Washington, DC.

5 On the estimation and relative significance of adolescent suicide see Kirk Astroth, “Beyond Ephebiphobia: Problem Adults or Problem Youths?” Phi Delta Kappan75 (January 1994): 411-14; Mike Males and Kim Smith, “Teen Suicide and Changing Cause of Death Certification,” Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 21 (1991): 245-59; John McIntosh, “Older Americans: The Next Suicide Epidemic?” Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior22(1992): 322-32.

6 Statistics: David Shaffer, “Advances in Youth Suicide Research Update,” article distributed by the American Suicide Foundation, 1995; Kim Painter, “Suicide Among Young Teens Increases 120%,” USA Today, 21 April 1995, p. 2D. Local upturns: Brian MacQuarrie, “Best Friends in Life, Mysteries in Death,” Boston Globe, 5 April 1998, p. B1; ABC, “Good Morning America” (story on suicides in Michigan), 22 October 1997. L.A.: Mike Males, “State’s Teenage Suicide Rate Declines,” Los Angeles Times, 14 December 1997, p. M1; Elizabeth Gleick, “Suicide’s Shadow,” Time, 22 July 1996, pp. 39—42.

7 Firearm Suicide in the U.S., report by the Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence, Washington, DC, May 1995, pp. 14-15.

8 Shaffer, “Advances in Youth Suicide”; Christina Del Valle, “The Specter of Teen Suicide,” Newsday, 8 November 1997, p. B1; “Youth with Runaway, Throwaway and Homeless Experiences,” report by the Dept. of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, 1995; Janice Arenofsky, “Teen Suicide,” Current Health 24 (1997): 16-18. See also Jan Neeleman, Simon Wessely, and Michael Wadsworth, “Predictors of Suicide, Accidental Death, and Premature Natural Death in a General-Population Birth Cohort,” Lancet 351 (1998): 93—97.

9 Berkow, “Athlete Dies Young.”

10 USA Today, “Special Report,” 15 April 1995, pp. A1—3, 8; Doug Sword, “Many Indiana Teens Are Gambling,” Indianapolis Star, 11 July 1998, p. C1; Art Levine, “Playing the Adolescent Odds,” U.S. News & World Report, 18 June 1990, p. 51; ABC News, “World News Sunday,” 12 March 1995. See also Ricardo Chavira, “The Rise of Teenage Gambling,” Time, 25 February 1991, p. 78.

11 David Holmstrom, “Teenage Gambling Addiction Grows,” Christian Science Monitor, 8 December 1992, p. 1; Howard Shaffer, Richard LaBrie, et al., “Pathological Gambling Among Adolescents,” Journal of Gambling Studies 10 (1995): 339-62; Ken Winters, Randy Stinchfield, and Jayne Fulkerson, “Patterns and Characteristics of Adolescent Gambling,” Journal of Gambling Studies 9 (1993): 371-86; Eric Griffen, Kenneth Sandler, and Cynthia Lees, “Multiple Addictions Among Dually Diagnosed Adolescents,” Journal of Adolescent Chemical Dependency 2 (1992): 35-44; Mark Griffiths, “Factors in Problem Adolescent Fruit