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...It’s the place where these cultures are mixing and coming up with new combina-tions, and students like the sense of dynamism.”Carrasco says three factors may be driving Harvard students to travel to Latin America: the extensive resources and contacts provided by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS); a greater media focus on Latin America and a “new orientation of American history, focusing more on north-south rather than east-west” that cause students to explore their own roots; and the rich cultural and intellectual...
...Americans adopt about 120,000 children each year, and the vast majority grows up happy and healthy. Yet researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that a small minority of those kids - about 14 percent - are diagnosed with a behavioral disorder or have contact with a mental health professional as adolescents, or about twice the odds that non-adopted teens face. "Despite the popularity of adoption, there is persistent concern that adopted children may be at a heightened risk for mental health or adjustment problems," the study's authors write in a report released Monday...
...margin stayed constant through the third 500 meters, but Northeastern made things interesting with a flurry in the final 500 to regain contact with the Harvard crew. The Huskies sprinted early to take back some seats from the Crimson, but Harvard cruised through to a comfortable five-to-six seat...
Palfrey ran her operation - which covered the Washington D.C., Baltimore and northern Virginia area - by telephone from her home in California. Clients would contact her, often in response to advertisements in Washington newspapers and magazines, and she would set them up with women. According to court testimony, Palfrey would sometimes even contact clients for after-action reports to determine whether her employees were doing their job correctly and enthusiastically...
...reenactment of the fateful night. But Williams-Thomas says the likelihood of that happening "is very slim," mainly because the McCanns distrust the police now. "Relations between the McCanns and the police have broken down completely." The couple confirmed to the BBC that they now have no direct contact with the investigators...