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...foster care, his family disintegrated. He very rarely sees his birth mother or his brother Frankie. His father is dead. Homer, at 20, is a father himself, of an infant girl, and he says he's worried about keeping his own family together. He hopes to get his GED and maybe even graduate from a community college. But technically, he was a ward of the state until he turned 21 last week, when he was released. With so many bad things behind him, Homer says, there is only one good thing about his long trip through foster care: "Getting...
...entire child-welfare system," says Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. And what happens, asks Rachel Oesterle, an expert with Aid to the Adoption of Special Children, when a foster adoption fails--an incidence that can run as high as 12%? Does the government get its money back from the states? A report for Wexler's coalition says, "States get to keep the money even if an adoption fails. In fact, if they place the same child again, they collect another bounty." Says Wexler: "The bounty is paid when the adoption is finalized, so there...
Russia's VLADIMIR KRAMNIK knocked off former mentor GARRY KASPAROV in a stunning upset last week to become the new world champion of chess. Kasparov opened with the "Ruy Lopez," to which Kramnik responded with the impregnable "Berlin Defense," and so on. You get the idea. The important thing is that the new champ, who took home a cool $1.33 million, goes by the handle Supernerd. "He doesn't get involved in politics or business or journalism as Kasparov does," noted chess commentator Danny King. "He does nothing but chess." Kramnik, 25, gave up smoking and lost...
...impaled Trojans were carted off the battlefield on comfy stretchers. Leave the bodies on the field--play over them. At least consider employing primitive on-field-treatment modalities. The home team's tight end is writhing in pain with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Lose the leg and get him back in that huddle. Imagine the excitement when the miked referee signals with a hacking, amputating motion, "It's comin...
...driver is backing up slowly, so as not to scare the deer away before he can get a clear shot. What he doesn't know, the poor sap, is that the deer are not real. They're robodeer. Yes. Robotic deer. Who can compete with American ingenuity? Malette just had a funeral for a buck that took so many bullets in the line of duty --more than 100 in seven years--they called him Sluggo...