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...income for poor families - those most at risk of abandoning their children. A national anti-poverty program was launched in September. And Prime Minister Adrian Nastase told Time that a new package of child protection legislation is forthcoming, including the restoration of international adoptions, but only "as a last resort." In mid-September, the first county, Teleorman in southern Romania, closed all of its remaining large old-style institutions. "We are only about halfway there," says Silviu Calciu, adviser on strategy to the National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption. "But we are on the right track." Romania's abandoned...
...Just a short bus or taxi ride north of the city, Mondello beach provides a quick reminder that Palermo is the capital of a great resort island. After watching the sun set, sample one of the fine seafood restaurants along the promenade...
Until the moment their world came apart on Oct. 12, the surfers and club kids who flocked to the idyllic resort of Bali had little reason to believe they were in any particular danger. The U.S. had issued a general travel advisory about increased al-Qaeda activity around the globe. But the possibility that terrorists would strike Bali, a Hindu island in mostly Muslim Indonesia, seemed so remote that several officials from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta decided to spend their Columbus Day weekend there; one of them was relaxing just outside the Sari Club an hour before it blew...
...however, went badly awry when Arroyo marched out a prisoner and introduced him as Abu Pula or "Doctor Abu," a forty-something leader of the kidnap-for-ransom group Abu Sayyaf, who allegedly engineered the 2000 abduction of 11 European tourists from a Malaysian beach resort. Alas, the perp she walked wasn't Doctor Abu: he was Mark Bolkerin Gumbahale, a 21-year-old Abu Sayyaf member arrested while playing video games at an Internet cafe in a Manila suburb...
Similarly, Keylatch Mentors has had to resort to group tutoring, according to director Ari M. Shaw...