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...Hollywood star completed adoption procedures for Pax, a 3-year-old Vietnamese boy, in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday morning after picking him up from the orphanage she and Pitt visited during a trip last November. Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt. Her new son joins 5-year-old brother Maddox, adopted from Cambodia, sister Zahara, age 2, from Ethiopia; and baby Shiloh, the couple's biological daughter who was born in Namibia last...
...know that it stands for Global System for Mobile communications, but the E.U.'s decision in 1987 to adopt a common standard for digital mobile telephony gave both the telecoms and handset manufacturers like Ericsson and Nokia the security of knowing that there was a huge single market for their products. The consequence: a whole new appreciation for the virtues of the opposable thumb...
...satisfied with children and family as your sole occupation? Have you secretly wished you could apply your higher education degree(s) in an innovative way, to benefit the non-profit sector, or social justice, or domestic education? Will you think of yourself as complete without children? Would you adopt children? What if you decide marriage is not for you? What kind of doctor, lawyer, or businesswoman do you intend to be? Or is there a different job that would get you out of bed with joy every morning...
...goes Harvard, so goes the nation—at least if the US Surgeon General has his way. A report issued this week by the Surgeon General lists a number of recommendations that colleges should adopt to curb underage drinking, but Harvard already has many of the programs in place. The report called on schools to limit alcohol sales at sporting events, educate students on the effects of alcohol, forge community partnerships, and encourage alcohol-free social events. Harvard, unlike many other colleges, currently has programs and alcohol policies in place that incorporate the suggested strategies, according to Director...
...Clark, a member of the Crimson Key Society and the Hasty Pudding Club, founded an after-school tutoring program with Wilkis, and Clark taught the language arts. She began to adopt a literary bent, concentrating in English...