Word: annelies
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Robby DeBoer contracted an infection on her honeymoon, had a hysterectomy and so cannot have children of her own. She heard about Cara through a friend in Iowa and began negotiating to adopt the baby. After Jessica was born on Feb. 8, 1991, Robby and her mother drove from Ann Arbor to Iowa through a fierce snowstorm to see the child and set the proceedings in motion. They got signed parental-rights releases from both Cara and Scott, and the DeBoers' joy was complete. They were now Jessica's legal custodians, and in six more months, the adoption would...
...still has not met Dan -- but she did meet her new grandmothers, when they appeared unexpectedly in Ann Arbor last month. They watched Jessica play, they bathed her. "They were nice," Roberta recalls, and she told Jessica to call them Grandma. As they were leaving, Roberta recalls, Cara's mother thanked her and said, "Take good care of our baby." "I said, 'Well, don't you think we've done a pretty good job in the last 2 1/2 years?' She just looked at me real funny and turned and walked away. It literally tore me to a million pieces...
Florence J. Lin of the University of California at Berkeley (applied math); Catherine Magill-Solc of Harvard (molecular embryology); Patricia Cleary Miller of Rockhurst College (poetry); Debra C. Minkoff of Yale University (sociology); Virginia Newes of the Eastman School of Music (musicology); Hanna Papanek of Boston University (nonfiction); Ann Patchett, an independent writer (fiction and non-fiction) and Susan Power of the University of Iowa (fiction...
Also, E. Virginia Demos of Beth Israel Hospital (psychology); Denise Dilno, an independent artist, (visual arts); Rosanne DiStefano of New York Institute of Technology (astrophysics); Robin Fleming of Boston College (medieval history); Rose F. Frisch of the School of Public Health (reproductive biology); Beth Ann Goldring of Palestinian Federation of Women's Action Committees (peace studies); Robin Kilson of MIT (history and women's studies); Modupe Labode of Iowa State University (history) and Mary Lassen of the Committee for Boston Public Housing (social policy...
Reno did win the battle to name her own pick for the crucial Criminal Division, pulling in Jo Ann Harris, 60, a distinguished former prosecutor from New York, and Doris Meissner, an immigration-reform specialist, to head the INS. And, says a close adviser, "Janet has had total veto power over everyone. But she's not going to keep score. She doesn't think in those terms, and you couldn't get her to talk in those terms." Friends say Reno has no regrets about not being part of Clinton's inner circle. As a White House aide remarked...