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COVER: In the adoption market, healthy white infants are the hot commodity, while other children get left behind
The baby chase is on. Would-be parents must be relentless and infinitely flexible. Many turn to open adoption, some allow the birth mother a continuing role in their family. Meanwhile, burgeoning numbers of children who are older, not white, or handicapped wait and wait for a family and a home.
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NATION: The spirit of "now-nowism" pushes Congress toward another politically irresistible orgy of tax cutting
The capital-gains cut will undermine tax reform and ultimately boost the deficit, but Washington cannot say no to any kind of giveback. -- There is less than meets the eye to the rash of arms-control proposals. -- In Greenfield, Iowa, a newspaper marks its centennial and a rural community worries about its future.
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WORLD: As Viet Nam's soldiers head for home and an uncertain future, Cambodia girds for a civil war
Can Prime Minister Hun Sen -- and U.S. policy -- survive a Khmer Rouge bid for power? -- As the People's Republic of China celebrates its 40th anniversary, Jiang Zemin emerges as patriarch Deng Xiaoping's heir apparent. But will he go the distance? -- In South Africa, State President F.W. de Klerk has a surprising political foe: his brother.
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INTERVIEW: Lebanon's Sheik Fadlallah talks about terrorism and hostages
He hints that releasing Iranian assets may be the key to freeing American hostages in Lebanon. But every key has a twist.
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EDUCATION: The Charlottesville summit
Out of the President's historic meeting with Governors comes an agreement to set national standards for schools. -- Some major Bush proposals -- how they're doing.
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BUSINESS: Sony buys a venerable Hollywood studio
The $3.4 billion takeover of Columbia Pictures comes amid a quickening pace of foreign investment in U.S. firms. But many of the new owners have come to grief.
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LAW: The Justices re-enter -- stage right
The court begins the new term with a conservative working majority that is not only redefining precedents but also redrawing American politics.
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VIDEO: When TV news goes Hollywood
Connie Chung launches a magazine show and re-ignites a debate about the use of journalistic re-creations. -- CBS is accused of airing fake war footage from Afghanistan.
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ART: Velazquez, master of cool objectivity
The Metropolitan Museum of Art mounts the first U.S. exhibition of work by a Spanish genius who was "as radical as reality itself."
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HEALTH: Don't go back to spreading on the butter
The national crusade to lower cholesterol has come under fire. Though some of the criticisms are valid, the evidence still supports the link between a sensible diet and a healthier heart.
1 Critics' Voices
10 Letters
18 American Ideas
85 Environment
103 Medicine
106 Press
109 Show Business
117 People
119 Essay
120 Milestones
Cover: Photograph by Bruce Plotkin