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...steady economic growth, Filipinos see few opportunities at home. Isabel Pedrosa, who lives in a village near Mabini and whose 20-year-old son has been immobile since birth with severe cerebral palsy, says her family's state health insurance covers some bills but not all of them. Her husband is a construction worker in Qatar. "If not," she says, "we wouldn't be eating three times...
...ceilings and a grassy yard out front. Sitting on the couch next to his mom, Magnus lets out a wheeze of concentration, his chubby thumbs flying on a video game, while Diaz wonders aloud whether she should move to Rome, where she can earn more money and join her husband who already works there. When Magnus first overheard her saying that her work permit had been approved, he asked, "If you leave, who will I eat ice cream with on the lawn?" The innocent question haunts her. "Simple, but ..." She finishes the sentence by miming a knife jabbing into...
...Through adoption, my husband and I have a multicultural family. I hope our two Latino angels will someday grasp fully the message that, as Obama said, "In America, all things are possible." God is in His Heaven, a Democrat is in the White House, and all is right with our world. Teresa Little Smith, Clinton, Connecticut...
...Ruth eschewed boyfriends from her husband's death until her own in 2000. There were no male role models in her children's family life. "Mum was the only person who had any influence on John whatsoever," says Cave. Their mother ran a tight ship and hated being lied to. If she ever suspected dishonesty, she would chase the culprit through the house wielding a slipper...
...event, it's too late for Johanna Staples, a kindergarten teacher whose husband Dennis, a popular disc jockey in Toledo, Ohio, died of a reaction to tainted heparin in January, a day shy of his 60th birthday. She says she's still afraid. "There are so many variables in how we receive our drugs that it's amazing there hasn't been a worse problem. Now look at all these kids sick in China because of tainted milk. Sometimes I get in a sheer panic thinking about...