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...wise, say experts, to review the decision with a transracial-adoption specialist or to get hold of information like Pact's "Insider's Guide to Transracial Adoption," which tracks the stages of interracial adoption and explains how racial identity differs over time and between races. The 420-page manual poses some self-probing questions: Are you the retiring type, or do you naturally like to stand out? Do you need groups, or are you fine with independence? If your "hard wire" traits lean toward the demure, then family life in a constant spotlight may not be a good idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: Multi-Colored Families | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...Premise An update of Robert Wise's 1963 classic, The Haunting of Hill House, based on the novel of the same title by Shirley Jackson. A professor brings three people to the frightening and neurotic Hill House in order to conduct a psychological experiment. But apparently, Hill House has its own psychological problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

Radcliffe may hope to use its new clout as an Institute to convince alumnae anddonors that the move is a wise one, a task Antonsaid Pembroke is still finding challenging...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Colleges Reflect on Merger | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

Harvard concludes its Ancient Eight schedule Wednesday at Dartmouth in an attempt to cap a perfect league season. The game doesn't matter standings-wise, because all the other Ivy teams have at least two losses...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Wins Fifth Straight Ivy Title | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...northern Andes, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are home to at least one-fifth of the world's biodiversity, including perhaps 60,000 species of plants, endangered by development and poorly studied. The garden has been cooperating with these nations to help them work out their own plans for the wise use of resources. Raven is volubly opposed to anything that smacks of American big-footedness in these endeavors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart And Flowers | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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