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Lawyers and self-styled adoption consultants -- many of them people who have successfully adopted -- encourage would-be parents to do their own legwork. Classified sections of newspapers are loaded with often highly personal ads detailing a couple's medical history and inviting pregnant women to call collect anytime. In her book Beating the Adoption Game, clinical psychologist Cynthia Martin offers tips: "Contact physical-education teachers, who frequently are the first to realize a young girl is pregnant; contact the school nurse to find out if anyone has morning sickness. Never talk to the principal, who may not want to know...
Charles L. Smith Jr. '50 and Lois Smith donated the gift that established the collection, Wu added. "We feel we have a duty to collect and preserve these kind of primary materials as a witness to history for posterity," he said...
...candidates needed to collect 25 signatures by yesterday to be nominated. Next month house committees will hold a series of two elections to determine the eight winners...
...School spokesperson Steven R. Singer said the program was "phased-in," beginning with can and bottle collection last year. Since then, the K-School has placed large crimson bins next to copy machines and in hallways to collect white paper. An in-house food vendor also stopped using styrofoam products this summer after student petitions...
...Nevada. The two agencies can, in the words of Carl Zeitz, a former member of the casino-control commission, fairly claim to have "legitimized the industry" in New Jersey. But with all its attention focused on the Mob, the state let eight years pass before establishing a mechanism to collect revenues for the rebuilding of Atlantic City. "The biggest mistake I ever made was not creating some kind of regional state authority at the time," says Byrne...