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Crack Cocaine Babies Aren't Doomed To Failure, Studies Find |
 | | When crack cocaine first flooded the streets of urban America in the mid-1980s and with arrival of the first wave of crack babies soon after, doctors noticed unsettling things about the newborns. |
 | | Crack would affect their heart, lungs and nervous system; it would affect their cognitive abilities and ability to empathize, thus producing ruthless predators; it would reduce them to genetic inferiors, forever burdens on society. |
 | | The reliability of some of the studies showing crack babies to be no different from their peers is being called into question by these scholars because children are tested in small rooms with no distractions -- a far cry from the crowded, rowdy classrooms they enter in school. |
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