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...Brad Pitt: the next decade may prove to be a difficult one. As the world's most famous adoptive parents, the actors may be alarmed to hear that a new study shows being adopted approximately doubles the odds of an adolescent being diagnosed with a behavior or emotional problem. Furthermore, the findings open up the question of what's behind that increased risk - adoptive parents or genetics...
...study's findings, Keyes is quick to stress that there is nothing in them that should discourage parents from adopting. "Males are likelier to have behavior issues," she says. "But no one is overly concerned about having boys." Still, Keyes advises adoptive parents to be on the lookout for problem behaviors and to rely on the network of mental health providers they built up when applying to adopt their children in the first place. "All adolescents struggle with finding their identity," she says, before adding, "It makes sense adopted children would struggle more than most...
...Alex Tew, the creator of the One Million Dollar Homepage, said, he has had many stupid ideas. He put them all out there, and one just happened to become popular. Matt Haughey, the creator of Metafilter, said that “If [there’s] a problem, someone’s gonna want to solve it.” Ben Huh, the owner of “icanhascheezburger.com,” a propagator of the LOLcatz phenomenon, presented a hopeful vision for the future: that the Internet will be a conduit for more reality. “I hope...
...that's not even taking into account the impediments stopping progress on the Chinese side. First there is the problem of rhetoric: the more Beijing vilifies the Dalai Lama personally ("jackal in monk's robes" for example, or a man with a "human face but the heart of a beast"), the harder it will be to do an about-face and convince the Chinese people that he's actually somebody China can do business with...
...Obama's approach to the problem appears to be to empahsize his mainstream views and shore up his credibility through other associations. Endorsements from people like former Hillary Clinton supporter and onetime Democratic chairman Joe Andrew "can help you stop the damage from this kind of affair," says Keeter. Maybe. But at least repairing damaged credibility is possible; healing the country's racial divide is a lot more difficult...