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NATIONAL AFFAIRS Dó You Know Where Yo Jacob Inlong CALIFORNIA SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JACOB was worried about the rain. For the first half of the school year, the second grader had to hang around the playground of his school for two hours every afternoon until his folks could pick him up. His working par- ents hated leaving him without activities, but had to spend their child-care resources on Jacob's 2-year-old brother. Af- ter months on a waiting list, Jacob was admitted to one of his city's best after-school pro- grams-one inside the school, 40 yards from his playground. For a snapshot of life in the after-school hours, NEWSWEEK canvassed the country. The pictures and captions in this package illustrate the tensions working parents face-and some of the solutions they' found. Each child pictured was interviewed and photographed with a par- ent or guardian's knowledge.