Cleaning Up International Adoptions
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Under pressure from both the U.S. and its own citizens, Guatemala is trying to crack down on its corrupt adoption business
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Every 100th baby born in Guatemala grows up as an adopted American, making the Central American country the richest source of adoptees in the Western Hemisphere. But U.S. ratification of an international adoption treaty is likely to choke off the supply next summer.
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Adoptive parents want benefits, and companies are listening.
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A dispute between Guatemala's new government and its independent adoption agency is threatening to delay the adoption of more than 2,500 Guatemalan children, mostly by foreign parents from the United States.
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By MITCH STACY     SARASOTA, Fla.  -- Linda Hammer has helped thousands of adoptees find birth families through her people-finding Web site, weekly radio show and newspaper column...
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Some 300 homeless dogs and cats, many left behind by owners who fled Lebanon during the Hezbollah-Israel war, will be heading to new sanctuaries in the United States for adoption, an animal rights activist said Friday.
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Emma Acebo, a 6-month-old girl who was born in Colombia, has been an American citizen since her adoptive parents brought her to New York last month.
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And eliminate the companies not worth owning in the process.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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A vexing, and rather wicked, question that every immigrant grapples with is the following: how does one strike a balance between the homeland left behind and the newly-adopted homeland? Even more fundamentally, ...
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Empty your cupboards of chemicals and harsh pes
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NEW YORK  - Tuberculosis infection is on the rise among internationally adopted children, a new study shows.
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Six tips for easing re-entry after a vacation.
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MOSCOW -- Thousands of Russian children are adopted by foreigners every year -- but few go to such high-profile homes as the leader of Germany.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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Life & style:  Kate Hilpern investigates a dramatic rise in the number of newborns up for adoption