Word: westernness
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...same time, adoption experts estimate that 500 U.S. children -- most of them black or biracial -- are being placed in homes in Australia, Canada and Western Europe each year. The number could be even higher: because the U.S. has no exit-visa requirements, the Federal Government does not keep count. Moreover, while all 50 states have procedures for domestic adoptions, the Federal Government neither regulates foreigners' adoptions nor follows up to learn how the children are faring. Though a State Department official says there has been talk among his colleagues of erecting safeguards, as yet nothing has been done. Says Susan...
...Tennessee is divided into three parts. To the ordinary historian, they are eastern, middle and western. But that misses all the savor. As Nathan Longfort identifies them, the subdivisions are the Lost State of Franklin, the area in the eastern part of the state that was once part of North Carolina; Miro, once governed by Spaniards, in the center; and the Purchase, farther west. Similar distinctions apply to families. On his mother's side, Longfort is a Virginia- Tennessean, on his father's, a Carolina-Tennessean. You can tell the difference by whether a person refers to a cabinet...
Russia, facing a mounting outcry to keep its weapons-grade plutonium under tighter control, said it had arrested smugglers on its own soil. Police said they had detained three men Aug.12 in Kaliningrad, a western outpost on the Polish border, after they tried to sell a 132-pound container of the radioactive material for $1 million. The would-be buyers included Poles, Germans and Russians. The disclosure of the six-day-old arrests gave Moscow brief cover as officials from Germany, the U.S. and other Western countries demanded cooperation on tracking smugglers and securing nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, persistent Russian...
Mother Nature continued to take her toll on the other side of the country as well, as 26 major fires continue to burn across seven Western states. But at least one fire, in central California, was deliberately set by arsonists. The quick-moving wildfire has already engulfed 41,000 acres and 20 homes, and threatens 600 other structures...
...group of Bosnian Serbs broke into a U.N. compound and stole heavy weapons that were placed under U.N. control in February. The Bosnian Serbs' raid came one day after Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic cut economic and political ties to punish the Bosnian Serbs for their third rejection of a Western-brokered peace settlement. Although he has been their primary sponsor in the 28-month war, Milosevic appears to be fearful that continuing to support the Bosnian Serbs would lead to tightened trade sanctions against Serbia, thus weakening his grip on power...