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...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 report struggling to fit in with their peers, their communities and even with their own families. The study also says that minority children adopted by white parents are likely to express a desire to be white, and black transracial adoptees have higher rates of behavioral problems than Asian or Native American children adopted transracially...
...maybe she'll have three malnourished kids instead of one," says Lemukol. In his graphs of annual patient data for the center, he has a column labeled "escaped": some mothers, with other hungry children at home, just walk out, pulling their kids out of treatment before they're medically fit to leave...
...breakthrough with Fit came when the developers decided to add motion sensors to each corner of the balance board and change its original square shape to a rectangle. This allowed them to add balance tests inspired by Seitai--a Japanese healing therapy that focuses on posture--and let the board double as a snowboard for use in the slalom, one of Wii Fit's coolest minigames...
...veritable Walt Disney of video games, Miyamoto can afford to upset the creative balance. He admits that devising Fit was a lot less fun than playing it. "There tends to be a lot of nervousness about working on a product like this. Video games have a lot of expectations, and developers tend to have stress to meet those," he told me. Miyamoto draws from his personal life to create new games. His love of dogs led to the virtual-pet title Nintendogs, and his gardening hobby grew into the carrot-shaped Pikmin in the eponymous GameCube...
...With Fit, though, Miyamoto is showing that even the mundane can be a source of entertainment: "When people look back at Wii Fit, they won't look at it in comparison to Mario but as unique interactive entertainment that really introduced the masses to what that can be. While there is appeal in creating living, breathing fantasy worlds, I also see the experience of interacting with your reality in a way that you normally can't as a great source of entertainment." He is now working on a music game. It's due later this year, even if it takes...