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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47815)	2/16/2005 5:31:42 AM
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The Baby Trade Summary: The international adoption trade is booming, as more families in the West adopt more babies from developing countries. But it has spawned a sordid black market as well, in which children are bought or abducted and sold. The best way to stop the trafficking is not to ban adoptions from countries that tolerate corrupt rings, but to strengthen the underdeveloped multilateral legal regime that regulates adoptions around the planet. Ethan B. Kapstein From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2003

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47815)	2/17/2005 1:31:12 AM
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Today in history-February 17: 1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President of the United States, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 presidential election. 1854 - Britain recognized the independence of the Orange Free State in the present-day Free State Province, South Africa. 1895 - The ballet Swan Lake was first performed at full length with music by Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 1959 - Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud-cover distribution. 1979 - About 120,000 troops of the People's Liberation Army of China crossed into northern Vietnam, starting the Sino-Vietnamese War.