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His aunt was a pioneer of the then-new kindergarten movement, and his education was completed at the Ethical Culture School, which prized the rounding effects of training in practical skills, including--impressively for the time--photography, taught by the great Lewis Hine.
This idea surfaced briefly and spectacularly in 1990, when the Philadelphia Inquirer suggested in an editorial that perhaps some welfare mothers should be "offered an increased benefit" if they would agree to practice effective birth control--specifically, to use the then-new Norplant contraceptive, which prevents pregnancy for five years after being implanted under the skin of the upper arm.