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...editors: I was disappointed and disturbed to read Kyle A. de Beausset’s comment (“Adopt a Conscience,” Oct. 31). When I was eight years old my parents adopted my sister, Kim, who was three months old at the time, from Korea. Within two years we learned that she had cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Thanks to many years of advocacy by my mom, great public school programs, and many wonderful people, Kim now has a terrific situation living in a group home in Wellesley. She works at a retail store...
...refine and question their ideas and check excess. Regardless of whether Republicans or Democrats dominate the government, when a single party gains disproportionate power, radical and unwise policies are bound to ensue. The nagging opposition’s counterarguments and criticisms can be safely ignored, allowing the majority to adopt imprudent policies without thinking them through. Nowhere else in the nation is the need for balance more urgent than in Massachusetts. If Kerry Healey is not elected as a check against the legislature, we run the risk of becoming a literal one-party state, with the objections of a handful...
...different visitors a day, according to Eastwood. This traffic forced the Web site to be taken down five or six times in the past, he said. Representing over a decade of research and collaboration among experts and practitioners, Your Disease Risk is intended to encourage people to adopt healthier lifestyles, Director of HCCP Graham A. Colditz said in a statement. “The far-reaching benefits of a healthy lifestyle become apparent as people click through the site and see that a single risk factor can impact their risk of many diseases,” he said. Continuously updated...
...Malawi, and following me around is just a gross misappropriation of attention and money. But I do think there's a certain amount of nationalism and racism thrown in there. I mean, there's a lot of Brits-reporters on the street-who've said, "Why don't you adopt a kid from Britain?" Or, "Why did you adopt a black child?" So a lot of people's hangups and 'isms' are sort of mixed into this, too. It's just kind of a cocktail for disaster in terms of media perception...
...last son to an orphanage at the age of two weeks... to a certain extent he was ready to move on with his life. Then suddenly I show up and someone from the village says 'Hey, this white woman'-he didn't know who I was-'wants to adopt your child!' And once the press got involved everyone said Oh God, now we better cross our t's and dot our i's to make sure we actually aren't jumping queues, because we're going to be scrutinized... The idea that people think I got a shortcut...