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...paper didn't have traditional journalistic virtues. Its writers and editors, many of whom had come from more respectable venues, like The New York Times and the Philadelphia (not the National) Inquirer, were past masters at the fine craft of attention-grabbing. A headline like "Bloody Statue of Mother Teresa Has PMS!" would be topped by the deck "Vatican Experts Confirm:" and explained by the pull quote "After the blood stops, she gets grumpy." Those are teasers that should be taught in J school...
...That feeling, which more and more Guatemalan mothers and adoptive mothers in the U.S. are experiencing these days, reflects the growing awareness that adoption in Guatemala is all too often a multimillion-dollar underworld trade. The nation's ill-regulated adoption business, run by private lawyers and notaries, is rife with corruption, including forged paperwork, payoffs to women who agree to hand over their children and, in some cases, newborns stolen from hospitals or mothers' arms, according to the government human rights ombudsman's office. One U.S. couple spent almost two years and $50,000 to adopt their Guatemalan daughter...
...Quivira children - their names, dates of birth and arrival at the home pinned to their crib headboards - turned out to be Esther. But "I won't give up until I find my daughter," says Escobar. "There are a lot of people who adopt children without really knowing if the mother wanted to give them up or if they were stolen. Without knowing if the mother is suffering...
...increases children's obesity risk through what's referred to as metabolic imprinting. The idea is that outside of other genetic and environmental risk factors for obesity, children appear to become metabolically imprinted, or pre-programmed, for obesity by being overfed in the womb - a direct result of the mother's high blood sugar. "As we have more people with diabetes and gestational diabetes during pregnancy I think the importance of additional risk factors for obesity increases," says Hillier. "And if there is an alteration going on to program the child for obesity I think that starts a vicious cycle...
...fires caught many Greeks on their summer holidays when they usually return to their ancestral homesteads to visit their parents and relatives. Athanassia Karta Paraskevopoulou, a 35-year-old mother of four, was among them. But last Friday, her holiday came to a tragic end while trying to flee a wildfire that thrust into her village, Artemida, in the highlands of Zaharo. Rescue teams found her burned remains in an olive grove strewn with 23 other corpses. "Her arms," said Vassilis Mitros, among the first locals at the site, "were wrapped around the bodies of her four children." Other victims...