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• Foreign adoptions drop sharply in U.S.
It was replaced by Guatemala, which almost certainly will lose that status in 2009 because of a corruption-related moratorium on new adoptions imposed by U.S. officials. Figures for the 2008 fiscal year, released by the State Department on Monday ...
• Factory raided last year settles worker suit
Some of the illegal immigrants arrested in raid who will benefit from the settlement have returned to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras; others are still in the U.S. Greater Boston Legal Services is trying to locate former workers who would receive ...
• Books for those bummed about staying home
Coffee table books: National Geographic's "Sacred Places of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations" ($40) takes you from the Maya temples of Guatemala to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar to Israel's Western Wall to Mardi ...
• Warming world: Our threatened oceans
... by as much as 230 feet, wiping out island nations and inundating coastal areas where much of the world’s population lives. Reporting under water One such place is Belize, the small Central American nation that snuggles between Mexico and Guatemala on ...
• Transition: Progress on Bill's vetting?
Eight years later, Bush's nominee for secretary of labor, Linda Chavez, withdrew after she was found to have provided haven to an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. Obama's questionnaire has four questions about domestic workers." The Washington Post ...