Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just four states where legal precedent deems gay parents unfit (Arkansas, Missouri and North Dakota are the others), and even Judge Parsons granted Sharon a weekly visit, ensuring she would remain a presence in Tyler's life. Only New Hampshire and Florida categorically bar gays as adoptive parents; in the nation's capital, by contrast, local officials held a seminar this summer to instruct gays on how to adopt...
...Jersey, Vermont and half a dozen other states permit a lesbian to adopt her lover's child and become a second parent. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did so last Friday, allowing surgeons Susan Love and Helen Cooksey to adopt the five-year-old girl they have raised since birth. The child was conceived by Love via artificial insemination with sperm from a cousin of Cooksey's. Because of technicalities, the child's own mother had to adopt her for Cooksey to be made co-parent. Cases like this have led judges in several states to suggest that adoption laws...
...workers does it take to change a light bulb? Forty-three, according to a safety procedure proposed last year at the Rocky Flats nuclear- weapons plant in Colorado. Al Gore's report credits the Denver Post for disclosing the 33-step process that a plant staff member wanted to adopt for replacing the light bulb that warns workers of nuclear accidents. The proposed guidelines would require an estimated 1,087 worker hours to complete, compared to 60 hours currently...
...failed to ease the conflict between man and nature," Gorbachev argued, "it has aggravated that conflict . . . The crisis of civilization that we see today is a crisis of the naive belief in the omnipotence of humanity." He contended that the world must abandon the urge to conquer nature and adopt a "philosophy of limits" based on an understanding that technology cannot solve all problems...
...DeBoers were struck by lightning. They had done the miraculous, had found a healthy newborn to adopt, had followed all the rules, signed all the forms -- only to find that they might lose the baby. It was nearly six months before genetic tests indicated that Dan was indeed the real father; since he hadn't signed away his rights, the entire adoption proceeding was voided by an Iowa court two days after Christmas in 1991. The DeBoers were ordered to turn Jessica over...