Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adoption. The profound complexities of the subject were especially well understood by at least one correspondent, researcher and writer: all three have experienced adoption firsthand. Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerth, who suggested the project, is the adoptive father of Piya, 5, and Mike, 4. Already parents of a son, David, who arrived the conventional way, Willwerth and his wife Ardis chose a daughter and a second son from two different Bangkok orphanages during his assignment in Thailand. Giving a home to "waiting" children "longing for love and attention," says Willwerth, "is to witness an extraordinary miracle. They blossom before your...
...home made all the difference for Michael Mazzafro, now 17. The son of an alcoholic, drug-abusing mother, he spent six years shuttling back and forth between foster care and his mother's home. At last he was adopted by a Pennsylvania couple, but his behavior soon proved too much for them. While they made arrangements to terminate the adoption, he was stashed in a hospital for more than a year. That's where he was when Joe Mazzafro, a Philadelphia bachelor now 39, took...
...Dalai Lama, 54, was born Tenzin Gyatso. The son of a poor farmer, he was named spiritual and temporal ruler as the 14th Dalai Lama at age five, just before the Chinese army marched into Tibet. He fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule...
...pictures and the posters that last year decorated the windows of 113 Brattle St., were nowhere to be seen. "I'm sure they're safe," Joan Wallace-Benjamin reassured her son, as she explained why the familiar adornments were gone...
Lutz Gillert said he was demoted from chiefdoctor in a hospital near Magdeburg after applyingto leave five years ago and his son was rejectedwhen he tried to enter a university