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Jessica's troubles began 40 hours after she was born in a hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was then that her mother Cara, 28 and unwed at the time, waived her parental rights and put the infant up for adoption. Cara identified the father as her boyfriend at the time, Scott, who also consented to the adoption. Elated, the DeBoers, who had arranged weeks earlier to adopt the child, drove all the way from Ann Arbor to claim their new baby. Soon after returning home, they received a letter from Cara that read, "I know you will treasure...
...produces lustrous mini-campuses in the most fortunate suburbs, scuffed and gloomy warehouses in the ghettos and maximum insecurity almost everywhere. Poorer districts are so desperate that 41 states have faced lawsuits challenging the statewide school finance formula, all with the goal of getting courts to compel legislatures to adopt a more equitable sharing of tax revenues. Under court pressure, Kentucky has developed a package of taxes to help fund education. In May Texas voters will be asked to approve a redistribution of property taxes...
Yeltsin did not dissolve the Congress or the Supreme Soviet, but pronounced illegal any legislation they might adopt in contravention of his special-rule decrees. Since his opponents will no doubt fight back, the weeks until April 25 may well decide Russia's fate for years to come. (See related story on page...
...when there are 37 million Americans with no health insurance and no access to simple, effective care. Every so often, the case of an anencephalic baby who is to be taken off life support gets publicity. This inevitably occasions the grotesque spectacle of right-to-life zealots trying to adopt the baby to prove that it is worth millions of dollars to treat such a hopeless case. To them, I say this: offer to pay for the care, too. They should save their abundant crocodile tears for the less glamorous, but all-too-common case of an uninsured youngster...
...continuing progress toward democracy in South Africa has prompted many shareholder proponents to stop requesting U.S. companies to end direct or non-equity ties with South Africa," the report says. "In place of these proposals, many proponents are now requesting that companies adopt policies of non-expansion in South Africa until an interim government is in place...