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ADOPTION AND SUICIDE Adopted children are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide in adolescence as their nonadopted peers, say researchers at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the August issue of Pediatrics. Their data did not indicate whether genetics, unstable foster care or adoption itself upped the risk. But "strong family connectedness," regardless of status, decreased...
...girls who chase them, there's a routine to the club scene: if it's Thursday night, it's Else, a dim, smoky disco just outside the gates of Kadena Air Force Base; on Friday nights it's the Globe & Anchor, a vast R. and R. complex on Camp Foster with arcade games and pool tables around a pulsing dance floor; on Saturday nights it's Slum, a three-story hip-hop club on the divey back streets of Naha City. (In the wake of the June 29 incident, the club 3F has fallen off the circuit...
...LATINO LIT: We hear that the Great Books Foundation is launching a three-year project designed to foster the discussion of Latino literature. The foundation plans to support existing Latino book groups and form new ones. ?Llego la hora...
...value of the lone wolf has fallen in direct proportion to the rising complexity of doing business on a global scale. No one can create or market a product alone anymore, so interrelatedness is a necessity. To foster it, companies have shifted how they evaluate and reward people. Increasingly, they reward the pack. "We think the era of individual heroics is over," declares Kathleen Donovan, Pfizer's vice president of HR for U.S. pharmaceuticals. It ended for the drug giant as the company grew rapidly in the '90s and began taking on vastly more complicated--medically, socially and politically--diseases...
...Hope's 12 families--whose foster kids are referred by the state Department of Children and Family Services--support is key. There are weekly educational sessions for parents, a therapist on call 24 hours a day and a staff of intimately involved caseworkers and administrators. There are Hope barbecues and adoption parties. On average seniors double their required volunteer hours as crossing guards, tutors, day-care aides, baby sitters and grandparents. "And the families help each other," says resident Debbie Calhoun, a married mother of nine (only one of whom is biological). "We're all doing the same thing...