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...years, Kelly Kiser-Mostrom and her husband Ken Mostrom of Lincoln, Neb., had been relying on an established local agency to find a healthy baby to adopt. They had gone through the adoption gauntlet once before, with their first daughter, so they knew how long it could take. But they were getting impatient to "complete our family," as Kelly puts it. So they used their new computer to expand their search, browsing through online adoption sites. In April 1998, one of the sites referred them to Sonya Furlow and her Tender Hearts Adoption Facilitation Services, located in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empty Crib | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...doubts the dominant presence of O'Neal on the court, but why must everyone adopt a policy of selective vision? What about his inflated salary, obscenely palatial home and the fact that he is an unwed father twice over? Do we really want to lionize a man who, for all his laudable qualities, also exemplifies excess and social irresponsibility? LISA AND JOSHUA VELTMAN Columbus, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 10, 2000 | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

Still, Piot saw some signs of hope. Uganda, the first African country to adopt a nationwide prevention program stressing safe sex with condoms, has seen its HIV-infection rate among teenage girls drop from almost 5% in 1990 to 1.5% today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffer the Children | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

Part innocent, part impresario and a natural motivator on a par with the slickest infomercial guru, Pregracke has big plans. His Adopt a Mississippi Mile Program hopes to do for the father of waters what similar land-based efforts have done for the nation's highways. Once the program is on its feet, he's heading east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The New Huck | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...more about the genes first. As an added fillip, Venter cross-checked his results by sequencing the genes in both directions, achieving a level of accuracy that so impressed his initially skeptical rivals that British sequencers, along with labs funded by NIH and DOE, later announced they too would adopt this strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race Is Over | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

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