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INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CHILDREN

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Volume 351:2369-2370 December 2, 2004 Number 23
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America's Gulag Archipelago
Norman Fost, M.D., M.P.H.

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If you were to meet Fred Boyce today, you might think he was a normal person, aside from the fact that he is better looking and more charming than most of us. He has been a successful entrepreneur for most of his adult life. He was married to — though subsequently divorced from — a woman with graduate degrees from Harvard and the University of Massachusetts. His reading interests range from Carl Sagan's Cosmos to Isaac Asimov to Somerset Maugham.

But Fred Boyce is not normal. Indeed, in some ways, he is extraordinary. At the age of eight, after years . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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The State Boys Rebellion, by Michael D'Antonio, was published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 2004.

From the Departments of Pediatrics and Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison.




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