Infant Adoption

Thailand offers Bangkok elephants for adoption (Thailandnews.net)

FILE - In this May 20, 2002 file photo, a Thai mahout and his infant elephant look for foreign tourist, along Sukhumvit Road in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, After failing repeatedly to clear elephants ...

Thailand offers Bangkok elephants for adoption (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

FILE PHOTO -- A Thai mahout and his infant elephant look for foreign tourists along Sukhumvit Road in downtown Bangkok. (AP)

Thailand offers elephants for adoption (Thailandnews.net)

A Thai mahout and his infant elephant look for foreign tourist, along Sukhumvit Road in downtown Bangkok. After failing repeatedly to clear elephants from Bangkok streets, Thai authorities have come u...

Thailand offers Bangkok elephants for adoption (Boston Globe)

Elephants idling outside discos or lumbering through traffic have been part of Bangkok's colorful nightlife for nearly two decades. Now authorities want to send them back to the jungle.

Mandeville couple named Foster Parents of the Year (St. Tammany News)

When Roslyn and John Incandela moved to St. Tammany from New York eight years ago, they had already given some thought to adopting a child.

Bubbles The Chimp – Where Is He Now? (Pollstar)

Years after donning matching Western outfits with Michael Jackson and even learning how to moonwalk, The King of Pop’s famous chimpanzee Bubbles now spends his days in a Florida primate sanctuary. People magazine recently spoke to Center For Great Apes sanctuary director Patti Ragan to find out what Bubbles has been up to. Jackson’s beloved pet was born in 1983 in a biomedical laboratory and ...

Nigeria: Community Devt - Taking Nigeria to Threshold of Sustainability (AllAfrica.com)

Lagos — The issue of community involvement in development processes nationwide came at a time when a lot questions are being asked on the impact of the strong macroeconomic gains on the lives of an average Nigerian.

SHED NO TEARS FOR THIS TWISTED SICKO (New York Post)

YOU'D have thought by the media lovefest that the pope had died a tragic death after a lifetime of caring for lepers. But, no, it was the death of Michael Jackson, a drug-addled, creepy-beyond-words, accused pedophile who literally bought his...

Community Calendar (Deerfield Review)

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Experts Call For New U.S. Research Effort To Identify Which Health Care Services Work Best (Science Daily)

A new report from the Institute of Medicine recommends 100 health topics that should get priority attention and funding from a new national research effort to identify which health-care services work best.

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