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Engineers from the Traffic and Parking and Public Works departments are calculating the costs of each plan, said Cara Seiderman, Cambridge bicycle/pedestrian coordinator of the Community Development Department...
...would-be adoptive parents who have held and nurtured her almost since birth. Last Tuesday, the claims of blood prevailed when the Michigan Court of Appeals deferred to an earlier ruling of the Iowa Supreme Court that granted custody of the girl to her biological parents, Cara and Daniel Schmidt. Now the other couple, Roberta and Jan DeBoer, have 21 days to appeal a decision that has sent shudders throughout the nation's adoption community. Says Mary Beth Seader, vice president of the National Council for Adoption: "People don't trust the permanency of American adoption anymore...
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...
That blessing soon became a curse as Cara started to have second thoughts. Six days after the birth, she informed ex-boyfriend Daniel Schmidt that he had actually fathered the child; she had listed Scott as the father partly to avoid the embarrassment of acknowledging an ex-lover. Anguished, Schmidt promptly launched a legal battle to terminate the adoption proceedings. Backed up by blood tests proving his paternity, he blocked the adoption in Iowa courts...
...Maher led the league--and was fifth in the nation--in three-pointers, hitting 78 in 25 games. Junior Cara Frey is second in the Ivy League with 50, shooting a torrid 53.2 percent for long range...