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Armored Vehicle Collides with Bus
On Saturday morning at approximately 10a.m., an Oregon Armored transport vehicle collided with a Tri-Met bus at the
corner of N. E. Broadway and Williams St. Witnesses say the #4 Fessenden was traveling north down Williams Avenue
when the armored vehicle ran a west bound red light and smashed into the front corner o f the bus. The driver of the
armored vehicle and one passenger from the bus were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, phot «» by D avid P i e « hi .
Survey Finds Teens Troubled
(A P) — M ore teenagers are
using cocaine and regularly sm ok
ing and drinking, but an increas
ing num ber are also w earing seat
belts and refusing to ride w ith a
driver w ho’s been drinking, ac
cording to a survey released last
T hursday.
T he annual survey, conducted
by the C enters for D isease C on
trol and Prevention in schools
across the country, exam ined the
behavior o f 13,600 high school
stu d en ts.
The survey found injury and
violence-related behaviors have
fallen, but kids still regularly smoke
and drink— nearly half said they’d
consumed more than one alcoholic-
beverage more than once in the
month before the survey.
The num ber o f teenagers w ho
said they had tried cocaine within
the past 30 days rose to 9.4 per
cent, up from 5.9 percent in 1991.
A bout 4.2 percent o f students said
they had used cocaine in the past
30 days, a 59 percent increase
from 1991.
A bout 46 percent o f teenagers
said they’d had sex, dow n from 54
percent in the 1991 survey. The
percentage o f sexually active teen
agers who had used a condom
increased from 46 percent to 58
percent from 1991 to 1999, but
then rem ained there through 2001.
That points to a failure o f “ab sti
nence-only” sex-education p ro
g ram s fav o red by th e W h ite
H ouse, said Jam es W ag o n er,
president o f A dvocates for Youth,
from A4
W e’ve got to concentrate on the m a
jority. Then they could help us deal
with the rest o f them. This is what I
would do. We know the kids who are
out here try ing to make it, so I'm going
to help those w ho want help, those
who say ‘“Look, I'm at risk and with a
little help, 1 can make it”.
Y ugen: Okay.
Jordan: But w e’re takingourmoney
and building m ore prisons and jails
w hen you can give these kids a little
help! T h at’s w hat I w ould do.
Yugen: There is a correlation b e
tw een the options you spoke about
earlier, and crim inality and im prison
ment. Right?
Jordan: The cycle w e’re in right
now, we can 't win, and are doomed to
lose. And that’s because nobody is
prepared to make the tough decisions.
Look at the increase in the num ber of
federal prison beds. The thousands o f
dollars over a lifetime we spend for a
prison bed, and what we could do with
that money for 10 kids. There is a lack
o f courage in this country and those
who have the courage lack good will.
There is not a problem in this world we
can’t solve. God didn't make an incom
plete world. We know Head Start works.
So why do n 't we fund it adequately?
Fix our education system. W e’ve
walked on the moon, gone higher then
any one, gone deeper then any fish,
have the technology to do things that
our great grandparents would say is
voodoo.
Y ugen: It sounds like the problem
is rooted in a system o f governm ent
policy, econom ics and politics.
Jordan: We w ent to Afghanistan
and spent billions o f dollars on bombs
and then got hypocritical, and started
dropping food from planes. Perhaps if
we started dropping the food 10 years
ago we w ouldn't have needed to spend
billions o f dollars on bombs. Y ou’re
going to tell me we can do all these
things but can't fix the educational
system; fixxl on the table for every
hungry family, we can’t provide. Yet we
pay farmers not to farm, and people are
dying from starvation. B ut... what can 1
do as a person'.’ 1 don’t know, 1 do n 't
have the answer. H«»nestly, 1 wish I had
the answer. But 1 do know my G«»d does.
Y u g en : I actually believed the an
th e m th a t s ta te s ‘G o d B le s s e d
A m erica’. This is a special place, and
we are a special people, right?
Jordan: America is a special place.
You and 1 are tw o o f the richest people
in the world. There are people in Africa
living on one dollar a day. You and I
have food, clothes, and w e're free to go
anywhere in this city and have a strong
sense of place because we have rights.
W e have calendars, places to go and we
believe that G od... 1 don't believe people
stop to think what God has done for
them. It’s harder for younger people
then older people to think about what
God has done for them . I look at how far
God has brought me and the things I've
come through. B ut w hy do we h av e to
get old befo re beco m in g w ise? W is
dom is w ith o ld p eo p le b ecau se w e
have lived lo n g er and G od has d one
m ore for us. I’ve been here lo n g er so
I have m ore experience with G od, His
g o o d n ess, H is love. A nd th is is w hy
I h o ld on to H im b ecau se I know
th ere is n o th in g else o ut there.
Now, a Credit Union for You
a W ashington nonprofit that sup
ports both abstinence and birth-
control education for teenagers.
O ther findings from the CD C
survey:
— The num ber o f teenagers who
said they never or rarely w ore a
seat belt fell from 25.9 percent to
14.1 percent.
— T he num ber o f teenagers who
said they rode with a driver who
had been drinking fell from 39.9
percent to 30.7 percent.
— The percentage o f teenagers in
daily physical education class fell
from 4 1.6 percent in 1991 to 32.2
percent a decade later.
— The percentage o f students who
carried a w eapon decreased from
26.1 percent in 1991 to 17.4 per
cent in 2001.
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