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Adams is not the only parent who has been forced to make this wrenching choice. Though the exact number of children affected is unknown, scores of families in at least 26 states have had to cede legal guardianship--that is, give up the authority to make decisions concerning their child's residence and care--in order to qualify for services. This often involves removal from the home, either to a facility or to the custody of a trained foster family where the child receives intensive care somewhere in the community. Child advocates estimate that 1 in 5 families with mentally...
Indeed, to the injury of cutting the tie between parent and child, many state foster-care systems add the insult of making no distinction between children who have been given up in order to qualify for mental-health care and those who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect. Some systems may even require parents of emotionally ill kids to declare that they are neglecting or abandoning their child--an admission that may get them listed in a state registry, available for background checks to potential employers...
Americans tend to treat ancient rituals like new cars, customizing them for convenience, then trading them in when something more exciting comes along. But that isn't the way belly dancing is seen by people like Don Gold, president of StudioWorks, a Thousand Oaks, Calif., video distributor whose parent company gave the world Tae-Bo. Gold just signed a deal with belly-dance instructor Dolphina, who teaches in Los Angeles, to distribute her Goddess Workout Fitness Video series because "we think we're ahead of the curve of a new revolution." It's possible that the practice will become classic...
...Morgan vice president at 25 and led a major Spanish bank into Latin America 10 years later. Now chairwoman of Banesto, Spain's third largest commercial bank, Botin, 42, will soon run a public company. By the end of the year, Banesto's parent, Santander Central Hispano (SCH), plans to sell shares representing 10% of Banesto to raise about $600 million. Botin's next step? Probably to the helm of SCH, Spain's largest bank. Her father Emilio Botin is the current chairman...
Canandaigua's parent, Constellation (which distributes Corona beer in the U.S. in partnership with Grupo Modelo), has also been on the acquisition trail. In 1999 it acquired Franciscan Estates in Napa, whose bottles sell for $20 and up. Franciscan added Ravenswood and Simi to its higher-end collection last year. Together they sold 2 million cases for $140 million in 2001. More acquisitions are likely for the Franciscan group and Canandaigua. "We will look around the world," says Constellation's CEO, Richard Sands. "An Australian acquisition, maybe, or Italian or Spanish...