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...adoption the answer? As a school social worker who deals with the results of our foster-care system, my response is an unequivocal yes. No child should languish in foster care year after year while parents try to get their act together. You emphasized the abuses that take place in foster homes, but many more occur in the child's own family. The whole system needs a major overhaul. And while the issue is debated, children are growing up feeling unwanted and unloved. Foster care is not the answer. Adoption is. LINDA L. GENTILE East Longmeadow, Mass...
...FAMILIES: You can try out a parent-child workshop or the drop-in gallery games, or pick up a Family Fun pack. The latter, for kids ages 2 to 6, may include puzzles, treasure hunts and artmaking activities. In the Knudsen Please Touch Room, families can dress up, act out and work on art projects every day. The museum's programs are appropriate for kids of different ages and learning styles. "We hope to encourage lifelong learning through direct experience with works of art," says Beverly Harding, manager of family and art-studio programs. www.seattleartmuseum.org...
...successful man-powered and solar-powered aircraft, earned its owner the title of Engineer of the Century from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and won him worldwide acclaim. Now at 75 he is still spewing out offbeat and innovative ideas faster than his creative team at AeroVironment can act on them. Currently in the works are projects ranging from a solar-powered, unmanned plane with a wingspan nearly as large as a football field to a pocket-size device that substitutes for a visit to the health club to a contraption that literally makes a backpacking hiker light...
...M.I.T., Ray Kurzweil acquired the nickname the Phantom because he tended to skip class to work on his inventions. His disappearing act paid off. Earlier this year President Clinton presented the native New Yorker, 52, with the National Medal of Technology--a sort of cyber-Nobel Prize. Kurzweil's eclectic career and propensity for combining science with practical--often humanitarian--applications have inspired comparisons with Thomas Edison...
...formative event of my moral-political life. Perhaps, after all, the problem is not that the election is so bizarrely close, or so messy; or even that either way it is decided, the result will seem, to exactly half of the American people, to have been an act of theft. No, the greater problem is that whichever of these two men ends in the White House, we are going to get a mediocre president. He will have a high hill to climb to persuade us otherwise...