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Those who focus as much on responsibilities as on rights note that "when people adopt children, the agencies that help them must think about the well-being of the child," says Erik Parens, a research associate at the Hastings Center--and that includes the couple's capacity to function as parents. It would be hard for a woman with such a medical history to adopt. But the reproduction business is virtually unregulated and profit driven, with the ethics improvised at best. "There is a need for general oversight," argues Parens, "instead of the free-for-all we now have...
...Thailand, Buddhist temples often adopt a certain constituency?teachers, sailors, doctors?and become its spiritual sanctuary. Wat Bang Phra, an hour's drive west of Bangkok, has taken in nakleng?hit men, gang members, ex-cons, professional hoods, the kind of people you wouldn't normally go to temple with...
...dead. Sharon vowed he would not lead Israel into "all-out war," but many Israelis believe they are already in one. "The crisis is beginning to look chronic," says Nachman Ben-Yehuda, dean of sociology and anthropology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "And when people have chronic illness they adopt certain ways of thinking: despair, anger, frustration...
...ways, the College has turned its back on the sophomore class. The most for which we can ask is a modicum of sympathy from the other classes. Well then, juniors, before you leave your parents for the library or the liquor store this weekend, consider first asking them to adopt an orphaned sophomore for the evening. The kindness might be appreciated more than you would care to remember...
Harvard’s janitors drove a hard bargain. Last spring, Harvard’s unions rallied around the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in its push to get the University to adopt a living wage of $10.25 per hour. When negotiations concluded late last night, the janitors got even more—a starting wage of $11.35, which will increase to $13.50 in October, 2005. We are happy to see the negotiations conclude with workers obtaining a living wage, at least for now. These new wages give due respect to the important work done by Harvard?...