Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowded marketplace, adoptive parents must be ingenious and relentless in their search and accommodating in their negotiations. As middlemen, the old-fashioned agencies must now compete with newfangled lawyers and adoption consultants. Sometimes, as with Nicole, the groundwork is laid by an organization with a radical new approach known as "cooperative adoption." Most of the participants have a standard, emphatic defense for the various practices they promote: we are doing what is best for the child. With all that proclaimed selflessness, how can there still be so many problems...
Across town, researchers at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center are conducting cautious, federally approved Phase 1 toxicity trials with minute dosages of GLQ223, as Compound Q is officially known. But for Barnett, a 37-year-old former radio sales manager, as for thousands of others afflicted with AIDS, precious time is running out. Barnett wants to know if Compound Q works in larger therapeutic doses. He wants to know now. "My options are death and doing this," he says...
They have known almost nothing but war. For a generation men have fought over the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat, the colonial palaces of Phnom Penh, and the rich rice paddies along the Mekong River, leaving more than a million Cambodians dead and their land in ruins. But at long last the shell-shocked country had something to cheer. Cambodians crowded the streets last week to hail the withdrawal of the last of the 200,000 Vietnamese troops who had occupied their country for nearly eleven years. Across the eastern border in Viet Nam, there was also celebration. Senior officials...
...that Khmer Rouge strength and ability are overrated. But the view from the border, where most of the troops are based, is far less sanguine. "The Khmer Rouge are in this fight to the end," says a guerrilla- warfare expert in Thailand. Observes an international relief worker: "They are known as a clean and disciplined movement, not corrupt like the others...
...York City this week. Nor should they be, since such things cannot be exposed to the risk of travel. We can be abundantly grateful for what we have: the first Velazquez exhibition ever held in the U.S., comprising more than a third of his total known output, including such great works of his maturity as the Prado's portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares on horseback and Queen Mariana and early ones like The Waterseller of Seville, painted when he was around 20, from London's Wellington Museum...