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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...singers like Alicia Keys and Norah Jones. Sacramento is ahead of the curve; 2 of every 10 babies born here are multiracial. When those babies grow up and start marrying--a national survey shows more than 90% of today's teens approve of interracial marriage--the numbers will climb even higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacramento: Where Everyone's a Minority | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...Europe's recent disasters, however, was unrelated to the storms that so devastated Central Europe. Tourist settlements near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were hit Aug. 8 by tornados and flash floods that destroyed 424 houses and killed 59 people. The death toll there is expected to climb as rescuers get to cars washed away by the floods or crushed by falling trees and buildings. --Reported by Uwe Gunther, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/ Berlin, Jan Stojaspal/Prague and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Besieged And Deluged | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...culture different from their own means parents must make deliberate choices of the sort birth families seldom have to think about. A veteran adoptive father of several children of different races describes the experience as a "roller coaster of exaggerated parenting." Experts have several recommendations for parents who willingly climb aboard that roller coaster to smooth out the ride for the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Bicultural Kids | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...although officially a top American diplomat in Kabul says the U.S. military is no longer cooperating with Zadran). "Al-Qaeda is hunkered down waiting for an opening," says another diplomat in Kabul, "and a defection from a regional warlord could provide the cover that would allow these guys to climb out of their holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Your Friend's Enemy Be Your Friend? | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...singers like Alicia Keys and Norah Jones. Sacramento is ahead of the curve; 2 of every 10 babies born here are multiracial. When those babies grow up and start marrying-a national survey shows more than 90% of today's teens approve of interracial marriage-the numbers will climb even higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to America's Most Diverse City | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

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