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What happened? To House Speaker Thomas Foley, the answer was simple: Americans love a tax cut -- any kind of tax cut -- and the legislators reflected that feeling. Democrats contended, correctly, that 80% of the benefits from the capital-gains slash would go to people making more than $100,000 a year, 60% to those with incomes over $200,000. No matter, says Foley. Tell an ordinary taxpayer that he will reap $10 from a measure that will save the likes of Donald Trump an average of $25,000 a year, and the taxpayer will reply, "Fine. Give...
...start counting again by 1991. The best estimate -- from the National Committee for Adoption in Washington -- is that there were more than 60,000 adoptions by * nonrelatives in 1986. The figure would be much higher were it not for a great and tragic irony: while adoptive parents will literally go to the ends of the earth to find healthy white, or perhaps Asian, infants, thousands of other American youngsters who are older or black or handicapped go begging for homes. In 1986 the nation's foster-care system harbored at least 36,000 of these adoptable "special-needs" children. Some...
...Ulicks, like so many couples, have had to look elsewhere. Some go to countries where local custom discourages adoption. In the past, South Korea was the prime source; in the '80s alone, more than 40,000 Korean children have been brought to the U.S. But in recent years Koreans have begun to question the propriety of shipping so many infants abroad. The government has stepped up its promotion of birth control and urged Korean families to adopt. Last year the number of children coming to the U.S. fell 18%, and prospective parents must find other channels...
...parents who have set their hearts on white American infants and been endlessly wait-listed or rejected by the agencies, the other choice is to go private. At the hub of so-called independent adoptions, meaning placements outside the agencies, are the ranks of lawyers, who usually charge from $1,500 to $4,000 for their legal work. They typically steer couples through a tangle of laws that vary wildly from state to state...
None of Moore's arguments, however, disprove the basic contention that high- cholesterol diets are potentially hazardous. The evidence against cholesterol is stronger than he implies. If his readers go back to pouring on the gravy and spreading the butter, then the book will have done them a disservice...