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...whom a woman has had sex in the 10 months before giving birth makes some biological contribution to the fetus growing inside her. Even the woman's official husband accepts this, and any possible father is welcome to assist--discreetly--in providing care for the child. Research by anthropologist Steve Beckerman and his team suggests that the optimal number of fathers is two, with 80% of children in the Bari tribe of Venezuela who have two male providers surviving to 15, compared with 64% among those with only one. Few modern fathers would like such an arrangement, but they hardly...
Offering adoption assistance was an easy call for Steve Steinour, CEO of Citizens Financial Group and the father of two adopted children. "We knew from experience that for most Americans, adoption is an unaffordable option," he says. Citizens-- a bank based in Providence, R.I., with 25,000 employees--provides up to $21,000 in aid, a sum that helped put it at the top of the Dave Thomas Foundation's list of adoption-friendly workplaces. Though Steinour says retention is much greater among the 100 or so workers who have used the benefits, he admits that this impact is hard...
...turned Beardstown into, if not a boomtown, at least a place that investors are paying attention to. And the town is leading its pitch with the fact that it has a large Hispanic workforce, a bellwether for economic growth. "That's all I need to tell them," says Steve Twaddle, the county's director of economic development. "Businesses understand...
...tone of the racial conflict had reached a new peak the year before, when Steve Biko—the 30-year-old activist behind the “Black Consciousness” movement—was killed in police custody...
...meantime, Lohan's sway with audiences is waning, says Steve Levitt, president of Marketing Evaluations Inc./The Q Scores Company, a firm which evaluates celebrities for marketers. "This is a sad case of a young celebrity who can't get out of her own way and is losing her appeal," says Levitt. In a February 2007 study, Lohan's negative ratings among consumers were four times her positive ones. For a star most beloved by young girls, the bad girl behavior turns off parents, as well as potential business partners. "Really, who wants to take a chance?" says Levitt...