Word: adopters
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...addition to taking individual cases, Scheck and Neufeld are lobbying for more systemic change. They want other states to adopt laws like New York's, creating a right to post-conviction DNA testing and requiring the state to pay if the inmate can't afford the $3,000 to $5,000 cost. They also want laws requiring prosecutors to keep DNA evidence at least as long as a defendant remains in jail. Now prosecutors are generally free to throw away biological evidence when they want...
...Carolina, gave the Greenville civic activist $200,000 of private money left over from his inaugural and asked her to help make the state's new work requirements for welfare recipients stick. Van Riper's mission: to persuade every church, synagogue and private civic group in the state to adopt one welfare family and guide it toward independence...
...volunteers are also watching other preconceptions crumble. As white churches work with black families and black churches adopt whites, suspicions float away. "I've been in government for 25 years," says Leon Love, deputy director of community services for the state, "and no program I've seen has done as much for race relations as this one has. We didn't go into this with that goal--but these relationships develop based on people, not color. People get to know people, and then it's hard to hate a friend...
...decision to pick up the latest profile of Brad and Jennifer before, say, sitting down with the latest from Alice Munro is for many of us one fraught with precious little hesitation. That said, however, the last summer of the millennium seems to be just the wrong moment to adopt a gloomy attitude toward the literary form championed by the likes of Sherwood Anderson and John Cheever, Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie...
Skeptics of the report?s racial implications maintain that it?s just a fact of life that the better-off ? whites in general being wealthier than minorities ? adopt new technology sooner. When the socioeconomic gap narrows, the Internet gap will narrow with it, they say. But the study clearly show that it?s not just about money: Among those in the $15,000-$35,000 income group, more than a third of white households are online, while among minorities that portion drops to one fifth. Results like that were catnip for Bill Clinton on Thursday as he wound...