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...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 black people. The authors' recommendations reflect the findings that transracial adoptees...
...past when asked about his health, McCain has said that he expects his performance on the stump to determine how much his age becomes a factor in the coming contest, where he is likely to be matched against Barack Obama, who at 46 is young enough to be McCain's son. (Obama has planned his own medical release for next week...
...McCain's personal physician, Eckstein, said he hoped that the standard would be even more generous. "Age," he said, "should not be a limiting factor in this...
...signs of autism days after receiving the MMR vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella. While Wakefield and his co-authors were careful not to suggest that these cases proved a connection between vaccines and autism, they did imply, provocatively, that exposure to the measles virus could be a contributing factor to the children's autism. Wakefield later went on to speculate that virus from the vaccine led to inflammation in the gut that affected the brain development of the children...
...Waiting Game Your article mentions the trials and tribulations that many high school seniors go through just to get accepted into a prestigious institution [May 12]. As the parent of a 12-year-old, I have to ask: what are we teaching our children? Networking is an important factor in life, but shouldn't education be the main focus? As a first-generation immigrant to the U.S. who proudly serves in the military, I have obtained several degrees (soon to include the Ph.D. I am currently working on) from several institutions. Though these academic centers...