Trio from Newark’s mean streets live out pact, become doctors 

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, July 17, 2002
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As friends and family fell to violence and AIDS, three boys struggling to survive the mean streets of their inner-city neighborhood of Newark, N.J., made a pact: stay out of jail, stay in school and become doctors.Their lives were chaotic. They were poor, had shaky school opportunities, few role models. But they drove each other ...