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...there are millions or even hundreds of thousands of gay parents, why do they seem so invisible? Mostly because they fear harassment and want to shield their children from turmoil. Who are these people, and how are their children faring? In the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Sandra Russo and Robin Young are rearing Cade, 13, and Ry, 11, their respective biological daughters via artificial insemination. The children's nurturing home life and studied imperviousness to teasing have turned around their peers. Says Ry: "After a while they get it. Some kids are a little slow...
That may prove easier for Israelis, who at least adhere to democracy, than for the contentious, fractured Palestinians. The P.L.O. has long been strife- ridden, and the news of the secretly negotiated agreement only added to its turmoil. Arafat was harshly chastised for letting the preliminary agreement postpone for five years the all-important resolution of the fate of Israeli settlements, the future of Jerusalem, and Palestinian sovereignty over the occupied territories. In Damascus radical Palestinian leader Ahmad Jibril warned Arafat that he was risking assassination if he went ahead...
...long-distance service, and it closely follows U S West's $2.5 billion investment in media conglomerate Time Warner. Although the merger is praised by consumer groups because it could lead to lower phone rates and innovative products, many analysts predict that it will ring up even more industry turmoil as it reduces the boundaries separating long-distance and local telephone service. It will also bring AT&T into close competition with local telephone carriers, including the seven former Bell System companies, collectively known as the Baby Bells...
Smith has sexual and material lures thrown at him from all sides, but far more troubling is the temptation to just give up in the face of an ingenious and seemingly unbeatable foe. Snipes portrays Smith's turmoil, confusion and anger in a manner which is constantly believable and consistently sympathetic...
Business news is not very good these days. Though the U.S. is technically in its 28th straight month of growth, big airlines are struggling, the computer industry is in the midst of a protracted shakeout, and drugmakers are in turmoil. Last week even Procter & Gamble, the nation's leading household- and personal-products company, announced it will close 30 plants and eliminate 13,000 jobs in an effort to meet the prices of discount and private-label competitors. In times like these, they used to say that a sneeze by the American economy gave Detroit a bout...