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...recreational use to its potential in other areas. For example, could the movement and motion described as part of the gaming experience be incorporated into a program of rehabilitation therapy for people recovering from illness or injury? Could that be used as part of a strengthening program for older adults? If Nintendo is looking for new markets, perhaps its engineers and developers should meet with some physical-therapy experts and explore the possibilities. Kim Enders Muscoda, Wisconsin, U.S. Nintendo believes that nongamers do not play video games because they are "really hard" and the "learning curve is steep...
...continue typically until age 18 and average about $500 a month. In addition, the federal tax credit for adopting has more than doubled, from $5,000 in 2001 to $10,630 in 2005. And both national and state websites like adoptuskids.org and cominghomekansas.org have launched online photo galleries of older kids available for adoption...
...because they fail to get adopted by the time they turn 18 are especially at risk for homelessness, unemployment and incarceration. "When you grow up in foster care, you just don't get the skills it takes to develop a successful adulthood," says Brenda McCreight, author of Parenting Your Older Adopted Child...
Such feelings of abandonment by the birth family are common among older adopted kids and can make it hard for them to trust any adult. "That your mom, the person who is supposed to be there for you no matter what in life, is the first person who actually wasn't there for you--that can be very painful," says Barry Chaffkin, a co-founder of the New York City-- based adoption-services agency Changing the World One Child at a Time...
...Lord Dalhousie, one of the Governors-General of India, observed that while a "member of the Civil Service in England is a clerk, a member of the Civil Service in India may be a proconsul." After passing an entrance exam in England when they were no older than 19 (the age limit, introduced in the late 1870s, was eventually raised to 23), ICS officers were soon shipped off to India's far-flung provinces to be part of what Prime Minister David Lloyd George called "the steel frame" that held the Raj together. The ICS officer was one part taxman...