Word: mix
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While there is nothing illegal or insidious about these adoptions, some experts regard the phenomenon with a mix of incredulity and alarm. "It's bizarre," says Joe Kroll, executive director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children in St. Paul, Minnesota. "We have families of all races who want to adopt children. Why are we going to other countries?" There are two main reasons: some lawyers and agencies find it easier and less time consuming to place black and biracial babies overseas, and some birth parents actually want their infants placed abroad...
...curiosity satisfied, we headed back under the Pavilion and waited for the Allman Brothers to take the stage. The crowd at this point had become an interesting mix of teenagers, twenty-somethings and tattooed, leather-clad bikers...
Others are more eager to mix traditional religion with digital transmission: the Jewish orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch sect eagerly provides translations of theological works (gopher site: lubavitch.chabad. org/1) over the Net. Cyberspace's devoted may also download the King James Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Koran and bits from the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Catholic University site offers a database with lyrics to the millennium's most popular -- and currently chart-topping -- Gregorian chants (http://gopher://vmsgopher.cua.edu...
...movie comes across as somewhat of a weird mix. it's based on a French film, supposedly radically rewritten by Cameron a la "Three Men and a Baby." But that's not quite...
Cameron generally manages to create a fairly good gender and ethnic mix without being painfully obvious. But there isn't much of that here...