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...Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a non-profit that studies and provides education on adoption, examined national statistics and studies on transracial adoptions - those in which adoptive parents and adopted children are of different races - in the U.S. over the past two decades. In its report, "Finding Families for African American Children," the institute argues that race should be a factor in adoption placement, and that agencies should be allowed to screen non-black families who want to adopt black children - for their ability to teach self-esteem and defense against racism, and for their level of interaction with other...
...would also undercut Obama's core message of change and his promise of a new brand of politics. However, advisers say that in the interest of unifying the party, there may well be a good argument for tapping one of the Clintons' high-profile supporters, such as Indiana Senator Evan Bayh or Ohio governor Ted Strickland...
...receiving up to 28 injections for 14 diseases, more than double the number of shots required in the 1970s. "There is no doubt in my mind that my child's first cause of autism is the mercury in vaccines," says Ginny DeLeo, a New York science teacher whose son Evan, born in 1993, was developing normally until he was a year old. The day the boy received his fourth dose of Hib vaccine, DeLeo had to rush him to the hospital with tremors and a 104 deg F (40 deg C) fever, which later led to seizures. Evan recovered...
...after the first five minutes the guys regrouped and really started controlling the game. I felt like coming out of the half we had some momentum.”But the lead would not last long. Despite opening the third stanza with sharp play from tri-captain and goalie Evan O’Donnell—who took over goalkeeping duties from junior starter Joe Pike, who sustained a broken thumb the preceeding week—and a crafty goal from Gibbons, the Big Green would go on to overwhelm the home team. After the Crimson had a score nullified...
...follow. This is an especially pressing concern, as “Sweeney Todd” takes great pleasure in manipulating its audience’s desire to know what happens next. In the second act, everything stops for nearly ten, excruciatingly funny minutes as Mrs. Lovett and the Beadle (Evan Ross of the Boston Conservatory), sing ballads and traditional songs at a harmonium. And for every audacious plot twist (and there are dozens), there is an almost-revelation or not-quite-coincidence that dissolves at the last possible moment.These little moments of narrative sadism are not without their own kind...