Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been put up for adoption. When they met, Gayle found a depressed high school dropout who had given up four out-of- wedlock children. The sister regarded the middle-class Beckstead with obvious envy. Beckstead recalls, "Her anger was, 'How come I was kept, and you were given away?' She saw the advantages of my life...
...radar surveillance balloon that the Customs Service has tethered nearby and plans to fly at an altitude of 14,000 ft. One of six in a planned network along the Mexican border, the helium-filled aerostat can spot suspected drug-smuggling planes up to 200 miles away, then flash data to authorities who will try to intercept the aircraft...
...birth mothers that open adoption has spawned. Without proper counseling, such arrangements can end grievously. As soon as the transaction is legally binding, charges Los Angeles author and adoption consultant Reuben Pannor, too many adoptive couples leave the birth mother high and dry. They change phone numbers, move away or otherwise discourage further contact. "Until an adoption is finalized, the birth mother is treated royally and seductively," he says. "Then the contact is abruptly broken...
...Evanses, Nicole and their new daughter Rebecca are just beginning to work out some answers -- a process that is not without pain. Nicole admits she felt "a tearing away" when the Evanses went home from the hospital with the baby; she paid her first visit the very next day. "It's been hard for us to hear the true sadness in Nicole's voice," admits Jan, "when we have felt so much joy." More than once Nicole has had to battle the urge to pick up Rebecca and run, particularly when Jan went out shopping and left them alone together...
...risk of heart disease. He argues, however, that diet modification cannot do much to lower cholesterol, that reducing blood levels of the suspect substance has not been proved to prolong life and that cholesterol-lowering drugs may carry more risks than benefits. Moore's readers are likely to come away totally bewildered about what to believe and whose advice to follow...