Instead, the beds will be made and the hamburgers fried by 40 inner-city boys from 15 to 18 years old who are serving 90-day sentences for nonviolent crimes.

Think of all the inner-city girls who have babies, and all the inner-city boys who are dead.

Recruiting friends and family as camp counselors, Duke believed that fresh air mixed with discipline and mutual respect would help discover these inner-city boys' talents and potential.

Lots of poor inner-city boys search for male role models.

Mr. Shearer created the comic strip "Quincy," about an inner-city boy.

About 7,500 inner-city boys and girls 6 to 16 will stay with families in 326 Friendly Town communities in 13 eastern states and Canada.

"Lots of inner-city black boys live in a world with few men around," Dr. Poussaint said.

The program essentially raised the performance of inner-city boys to the level of inner-city girls.

Desperate over the wasted lives of its young black men, Detroit is about to open the nation's first public schools for inner-city boys, unless a court challenge blocks them.

But crack did to him what it had to thousands of inner-city boys.