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...majority of the nation's wealth is held by a dozen or so gigantic interlocking conglomerates called chaebols. The huge firms employ most of the adult working population and own most of the banks, which during a decade of superheated growth lent far too much money back to their parent companies for risky investments all over the world. As those projects faltered, so did the banks. And as overseas lenders tried to recoup their investments, Korea's currency and foreign reserves began to deflate...
...already told his co-stars of his intentions, Seinfeld and his managers, Howard West and George Shapiro, gathered in New York City the Sunday before Christmas for a final hearing with Robert Wright, president and CEO of NBC, and Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of General Electric, NBC's parent company. The discussion lasted two hours at Wright's Central Park West apartment. "What made me want to come back," Seinfeld says, "was how much they believed in me. That was the sum and substance of our meetings. Because they know that's all I care about, the quality...
...allowed such adoptions in the past, according to the A.C.L.U.'s Michael Adams, the point man on the New Jersey case. And according to a 1996 report by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay legal-rights group, courts in 21 states have approved so-called second-parent adoptions, or adoptions by the partners of individuals who have given birth to or who have already adopted a child. (This was the lengthy double-adoption procedure that Holden and Galluccio rejected.) Courts in Colorado and Wisconsin have disallowed such adoptions; New Hampshire and Florida prohibit any adoptions by gays...
Some critics may question the policy of using science and technology to aid reproduction [SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 1]. To the parent hoping for a child, these new methods may represent God, as your article so clearly points out. But by utilizing such enhanced methods of fertility, we are going against the very basic principles of evolution. If the aim of evolution is to screen out unfit genes from a population and aid the perpetuation of superior genes, artificially induced fertility may bring with it a multitude of unforeseen repercussions. Regardless of how tempting reproductive therapy is, we won't know...
...that it is a clean and well-lighted place. The industry's mantra has been "Patience! Technological refinements will soon be able to protect everyone's interests." This is why the summit opened with demos of various programs that can block out unwanted Websites and E-mail or provide parents with a log of what their kid has been doing on the computer. "This has sometimes seemed more like a trade show than a summit," complained Barry Steinhardt of the A.C.L.U. But that was precisely the p.r. message that the summit's organizers--including America Online, AT&T and this...