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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...America are lucky compared to the people in Africa and Kenya. A project in you know Chicago is a luxury apartment in Kenya. What do you do about it? You send money. You take pictures. You try to create some awareness you know that's about it. Maybe adopt some kids. I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Questions with Chris Rock | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet Angelina's Boy: Pax Thien Jolie | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...pollution comes from local sources. Cleaning up our road transport, shipping and power generation will make an enormous difference. Otherwise, there will be a toll on public health, and taxpayers will end up paying for rising medical costs. The government's first step, long overdue, is to adopt the World Health Organization's global air-quality guidelines and make them the bar for Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agenda for the Future | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Attack of the Left-Wing Weepie | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...snubbing of Latin America than Mexico does. So while Bush rightly considers the free market-minded Calderon his "anti-Chavez" in the region, Calderon knew he could score points with Mexicans who voted against him by publicly chastising Bush this week on matters like Washington's nagging failure to adopt immigration reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing Reality in Latin America | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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