Word: adriano
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Next door, 14-year-old Jaime Adriano is waiting, too. He was only two months old when his mother abandoned him, overwhelmed by the prospect of raising an Amerasian child on her own. Jaime lives with a foster family, sleeping in a coffin-sized bedroom where he keeps his hip-hop clothes and prized hair gel. Neighbors whisper that his foster father beats him, but there is nowhere for the 14-year-old boy to go. School is out for the former honor-roll student: his foster father recently lost his job and Jaime's $10 tuition was the first...
...mind. "I think I can do lots of things and do them well," she says. "But what's important to me is having financial independence from my parents and a good lifestyle - which simply means being able to go out and enjoy myself and be with my friends." Adriano Rossi, an Italian who works as a banker in London, says that many friends who left Italy to pursue international careers eventually want to move back "because of quality of life, family and a generally more comfortable lifestyle." He's among them. "What is an evening in Trastevere worth?" he asks...