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...June 23, exactly two weeks after he graduates from Harvard, Wheeler will ship out to Fort Jackson, S.C., for the nine weeks of the Army’s Basic Training. And then will come 14 weeks of Officer Candidate School. And then it will be time to get specific, with an Officer Basic Course...
...PETER JACKSON, Bloxham Stockbrokers analyst, following the second death of a patient taking the drug once hoped to capture the bulk of the $4 billion market for treating multiple sclerosis
Within the foster-care community, there is a growing awareness that teenagers need families too and that this need does not evaporate at 18, when kids "age out" of the foster-care system. "It's pretty sad," says Jackson, "when I get a call from a 24-year-old guy who's got no one to ask for help or advice except his former social worker, or from a young woman who is having her first baby and there are no grandparents in the picture...
Recruiters don't always have to lure strangers. In New York City, You Gotta Believe has developed a technique called mining the file. "The hard part is creating a connection to a teen, so we look for somebody who already has that connection," explains Jackson. Like sleuths on TV's Cold Case, adoption workers delve into each youth's history, trying to identify coaches, teachers or neighbors who have a relationship with the adolescent. Sometimes they discover a distant relative who wasn't regarded as a "fit parent" for a child in the past. Agencies invariably require adoption-training classes...
...Jackson believes that anything short of "unconditional commitment" condemns a young person to further trauma. "If your biological children have bouts of mental illness or get arrested for drug dealing, do you ditch them?" he asks...