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There will be a memorial service held today for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) who died...
...other instruments of "crony capitalism," says Courtis, but are still managing to claw back toward growth by a simple strategy: "You crush domestic demand, you crush your currency, so imports collapse and everything goes to the export sector." A year ago, he explains, Korea had zero foreign exchange reserves; today it has $48 billion, equal to 12% of GNP. Thailand's are at 11% of GNP. But this strategy depends crucially on boosting exports to developed countries, particularly the U.S., which will hang on choices made in Washington and New York City...
Cindy now lives in Oregon, where voters last fall approved a two-sentence initiative called Measure 58. If it goes into effect, it will radically change traditional adoption law by allowing adoptees the unfettered right to see their birth certificate when they turn 21. Today those papers are sealed. But since the biological mother's name appears on a birth certificate, the law would mean adoptees like Cindy's daughter could easily find Mom's real name--and perhaps track her down. A group of birth mothers has sued Oregon, arguing that state statutes promise them confidentiality and that breaking...
...adoption laws written in another era. Before the late '60s, states thought they were doing birth mothers a favor by confining their identities to dusty registrars' books. At the time, only "bad" girls got pregnant out of wedlock, and they were cloistered with fake names until they gave birth. Today, of course, that attitude seems quaintly outmoded. What's more, we have become sensitized to the rights of adoptees, who as they grow up want to know what everyone else already knows: who they are. "We are besieged by ghosts," says Helen Hill, a sculptor, sheep farmer and newborn political...
...National Institutes of Health agreed. Indeed, the NIH believes so strongly in the value of placebo surgeries that it has begun rejecting experiments from university researchers that do not employ them. Today placebo trials are being mounted for a variety of procedures, from knee surgery to the treatment of pain in cancer...