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Those intent on recovering their past often start by contacting one of the voluntary registries set up by 22 states to match adoptees with birth parents who are looking for them. The most successful effort is the International Soundex Reunion Registry in Carson City, Nev., a private, nonprofit center that since 1975 has matched more than 2,200 people...
...between having a baby . . . and getting a baby. So much has changed in U.S. society in the past generation -- legal abortion, the growing acceptance of single motherhood, new concerns about infertility -- that people looking to become parents face a most intricate enterprise. Possessing a scarce resource, birth mothers can often dictate their terms; operating in a 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...
Lawyers and self-styled adoption consultants -- many of them people who have successfully adopted -- encourage would-be parents to do their own legwork. Classified sections of newspapers are loaded with often highly personal ads detailing a couple's medical history and inviting pregnant women to call collect anytime. In her book Beating the Adoption Game, clinical psychologist Cynthia Martin offers tips: "Contact physical-education teachers, who frequently are the first to realize a young girl is pregnant; contact the school nurse to find out if anyone has morning sickness. Never talk to the principal, who may not want to know...
...MISERABLES. Tours often look tatty compared with the Broadway originals, but that's far from true of the glistening and passionate company now installed in Detroit. Notable among a solid cast are J. Mark McVey as Jean Valjean and the locally recruited children...
...harmful because it contributes to the accumulation of fatty deposits that block arteries, but large amounts of HDL are thought to be beneficial because they seem to help clean the blood vessels. Moore correctly points out that many routine cholesterol checks may be misleading, since the tests often do not distinguish between LDL and HDL levels, and those that do may be inaccurate...