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...years, Kelly Kiser-Mostrom and her husband Ken Mostrom of Lincoln, Neb., had been relying on an established local agency to find a healthy baby to adopt. They had gone through the adoption gauntlet once before, with their first daughter, so they knew how long it could take. But they were getting impatient to "complete our family," as Kelly puts it. So they used their new computer to expand their search, browsing through online adoption sites. In April 1998, one of the sites referred them to Sonya Furlow and her Tender Hearts Adoption Facilitation Services, located in Philadelphia...
...exactly aging gracefully. They're less comfortable than minivan drivers with being married, they like driving fast, and they want their cars to bulge with muscle, bristle with aggression and make them feel sexy - a ride in which they could still imagine taking a date. And when Lincoln promotes its Navigator as an "Urban Assault Luxury Vehicle" it's tapping a deep-seated vein of anxiety: The SUV, say researchers, projects aggression, warning off the criminals that researchers insist haunt the subconscious of the SUV driver...
...give Bush a respectful reception. They got a respectful speech in return. Bush quoted Jackie Robinson and W.E.B. DuBois, played up his religion and apologized for his party's bad behavior during the 1960s-era civil-rights drive. "There's no escaping the reality that the party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln," he said in a brief 15-minute address. "That's my job, to say here's where we have fallen short and here's where we will improve...
...kudzu hills rise gently from the Delta flatlands in the west, there's a gravel track that runs through stands of scrub oak and pine to reach a dusty clearing: two single-wide trailers, a small vegetable patch, a bluetick hound sleeping in the lee of a faded green Lincoln. Music is in the air--the fierce, hypnotic boogie known as hill-country blues--because this is the headquarters of the North Mississippi Allstars...
...Gonzalez: Regis Philbin Marisleysis Gonzalez: Kathy Lee Gifford Armando Gutierrez (Family Spokesperson): Cheech Marin Greg Craig (Father's lawyer): Ed Begley Jr. Janet Reno: Bea Arthur Fidel Castro: Edward James Olmos Donato Dalyrymple: Jeff Goldblum Diane Sawyer: Cameron Diaz Bill Clinton:John Travolta Al Gore: Keanu Reeves or Abraham Lincoln...