Word: isolationism
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Experts on bicultural adoptions have learned such lessons from years of experience. Susan Soon-keum Cox, 50, who works for Holt International, the oldest overseas-adoption agency in the U.S. and the organization that arranged her own adoption from South Korea in 1956, learned them firsthand. She was adopted by...
There are certain unbreakable laws to the survival story. Take an unlikely character, pluck him out of the anesthetized womb of daily life and toss him into a harsh environment. Test his physical endurance through hardship and privation, his will to live through isolation. And if at all possible, throw...
Yann Martel's inspired novel Life of Pi is at its core a record of survival?and quite a record it is. Martel's protagonist, a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel, not only endures 227 days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but does so while...
Enhanced well-being is no small benefit of a shared-living arrangement. Social isolation is a major issue for older people, especially widows and widowers who suddenly lose their social support. "What we're really talking about when we speak about aging and housing," says McNickle, "is long-term care...
Yet flag-waving Schröder is both shortsighted and disingenuous. By dashing out in front without coordinating with Paris and London, he will more likely reap self-isolation than influence over U.S. decision making. Nor is his calculated play with the fires of nationalism completely honest. Since Sept. 11...